Mia Barnes
It’s not typically individuals in the media sector get the prospect to make for a major artist, permit on your own do so as a latest graduate, but in the couple brief years since graduating from OHIO, Mia Barnes has not only worked on but directed a top rated tunes video clip and more.
A 2019 graduate of the College of Visual Interaction, Barnes was a professional images big who experienced always labored and considered she’d be doing the job behind the digital camera. Having said that, her career took an unpredicted turn that has taken her across the entire world and allowed her to discover her creativeness in other mediums.
Barnes originally created her way to Los Angeles the summer time before participating in the OHIO-in-LA system, obtaining the prospect to intern with renowned director and photographer Dave Meyers. She was fortunate to continue to keep her internship with Meyers for the duration of the OHIO-in-LA application, and even when returning to OHIO for her remaining semester. Right after graduation, the fates aligned for Barnes and a complete-time assistant place opened in his workplace, letting her to return to LA and perform in the workplace wherever she experienced invested the last yr learning.
Even though back in LA, Barnes worked for Meyers as a resourceful assistant, working on new music videos and images when finding her foot in the doorway for other work and networking with persons.
Soon after some time doing the job and discovering beneath Meyers, Barnes booked her 1st official freelance directing gig, directing a industrial for Olay.
“I sort of just fell into directing following receiving an knowledge and encounter with it performing below Dave,” Barnes claimed. “I did not go to college for movie or directing. I prepared on getting a comprehensive-time photographer, most likely shooting for journals like Paper, the Fader, Wonderland, or wherever the wind would consider me, and I certainly didn’t assume it would take me to exactly where I am right now but am truly grateful for these opportunities.”
Barnes then booked her next commercial and in December booked a professional for Samsung that took her to South Korea to shoot with the K-pop group BTS. A week just after receiving residence from South Korea, Barnes was now out directing once more, this time for a new music video clip for Grammy-nominated and Latin Grammy award winner Camila Cabello’s new solitary “Bam Bam.”
To protected the job, Barnes experienced to post a video therapy, or pitch, in which she highlighted her vision for the songs video and how it aligned with Cabello’s music and her as an artist.
“Her track was so pleasurable to me and there was so substantially vitality in it, so I desired to maintain that in head when producing my thoughts for the movie,” Barnes said. “The track was about rolling with the punches and radical positivity, so I came up with this idea where she has these nights out wherever undesirable points hold taking place to her but her response to the terrible retains acquiring much better. She usually takes these crappy times and helps make a little something great out of it and I feel her overall performance sells through the full movie that she has this optimistic electrical power.”
Despite the fact that the new music video was shot in LA, Barnes also traveled to London to shoot a showcased scene that integrated a further top rated musician of these days, Ed Sheeran.
“Directing this audio online video was such a whirlwind, particularly it being my to start with new music video clip I have ever directed,” Barnes explained. “Being able to fly to London on a whim and direct a major artist was just a desire. I’m genuinely grateful to Dave and Camila and it is nuts to feel how it all happened.”
Barnes points out that through the overall course of action of creating the notion and directing the movie, she attempted not to choose the lyrics also practically and instead focused on displaying a new side of Cabello.
“I felt like there was a concept there and a whole lot we could do visually,” Barnes claimed. “I needed to do one thing a very little a lot more raw and genuine and clearly show a relatable facet of Camila to audiences. Just since she’s this top artist who individuals have seen at her ideal, doesn’t indicate she doesn’t have lousy days like the relaxation of us. I preferred to display her at her worst and in moments in lifestyle that every person could relate to, in approaches no just one has witnessed her right before, and I assume that arrived via.”
Preferably, Barnes would like to do pictures and directing in tandem and in her totally free time continue to pursues images. Even though it was an adjustment for her to phase out from driving the digital camera, she credits her encounter in images and education from OHIO for aiding form her directing design.
“Photography bought me seriously comfy and good at speaking with expertise because most image shoots are on a scaled-down scale the place you seriously get to work just one-on-a single with your product,” Barnes mentioned. “This kind of a single-on-one particular function that I bought to do at OHIO actually aided my romantic relationship setting up, and possessing skilled studios to use in Schoonover to establish my portfolio really established me up for achievements, not to mention the wonderful faculty who supported and taught me anything I wanted to know. There is still so much I have to learn about movie but I’m grateful for my qualifications and all all those who have assisted me alongside the way.”
Barnes’ desires incorporate undertaking movie star portraits or shooting album handles wherever she can make a one of a kind and personal print or directing a Grammy-winning music video that can define a era and time.
“In the end, I would genuinely adore to develop anything, regardless of whether by means of images or directing, that captures and will help to define features of our lifestyle in this period. Some thing that strikes the zeitgeist and stands the check of time. People keep in mind the style of get the job done that strikes an emotional, timely, and common experience, and that’s what I purpose to do,” Barnes said.