Emil Nava

WHO IS EMIL NAVA?



Emil Nava is part of OB management, which is an agency for directors of music videos. Their main aims are to nurture talent, work with production companies, work with record labels and match the right director to the right artist.





Emil Nava began as a runner for film production companies. He's worked for Bink Productions and then free lanced for OB Productions.

Even though it seems Emil sprung up out of no where in 2014, we identify that it was the clumination of many years as an AD and then a director in the UK.

Emil Tells us abit about himself in an interview where he states..

"I always really wanted to be in music. My whole family is involved in film. My dad was an actor, my mom was an actress. I've got four brothers, all directors. Another one of my brothers is an art director now.  

I left school when I was sixteen and trained as a chef, because I always knew if I was going to be in this industry, it would be good to have a fall back. So I was a chef for a couple of years. Then, just before I turned eighteen I went and worked on my first video set. I just loved it. I came from the kitchen, so being a runner PA was was very easy because it wasn't scrubbing potatoes or peeling mussels and stuff like that. I never went to college or Uni, I always thought that doing it was the best way of learning it. 

After being a PA, I became a video assist, so I was always at the monitor, always listening to the director's conversations, and the AD's and the camera men and I was constantly trying to learn. Every time I left the set I was like, "OK, that's how they did that."

Then, when I was about nineteen, I got lucky. A friend of mine was a director and I was like, "Oh, you should let me first AD for you." He co-directed something with this big video director in England called Phil Griffin, and we really got along, so I started being his AD. I did all the videos from the Amy Winehouse Rehab album with him."

CAREER

In addition to Emil making music videos, he has now began a career in commercials. They have high budget values. However Emil says their are pros and cons of commercials rather than Music videos. The pros are that the higher budget the more he will get paid and the more profit he will make. However Emil says the cons are that this restricts him from being creative and broadcasting his skills as adverts aren't very long.

In 2014 he began shooting for independant labels that had budgets of £5,000-£10,000.
However Emil's top present expensive videos are from the likes of Jesse J and Calvin Harris. He has even directed music videos for Ed Sheeran, TI ft Chris Brown, Jennifer Lopez and Alesso.


Emils top tips
-Use a lot of close up and extreme close ups
-Do not film the whole video in a medium/long shot
An example he compared this to is Sinead O'Connor- 'Nothing Compares 2 U'

HOW HAS EMIL NAVA TRANSFORMED?

Emil's first budget music video was for the band Kid British - 'Our House'.
It had a budget of 20,000 and was shot in Manchester in a whole day. The video took 2-3 days to edit and 10 days pre production. The cast featured the local people/neighbours.

He then went on to film Jesse J- 'Do It Like A Dude' which had a budget of £25,000
As well as Calvin Harris - 'How Deep Is Your Love'






One of his older videos when he became a directer and Ed Sheerans First music video.


He is now in America shooting top budget music videos for the likes of TI ft Chris Brown and Jennifer Lopez.