high budget

$500,000 budget



Gwen Stefani - Make me like You - 13,839,913 views

This music video is of high budget firstly because of the location. It has an expensive, sci-fi kind of setting, and also considering the fact that there was more than a few of the similar kind of setting, this was going to cost the artist a lot of money. A lot of props and costume were used in this video. For example, the flashy jackets that the artists had to wear, the make-up (and bearing in mind, the make-up artists)

Another thing that might have caused this music video to be costly is the camera, and possibly, the camera equipment as well. The video consisted of different shots, which would have required different equipment, but such angles that would have cost particularly a lot more is the drone shot.

One other thing that would have caused the video to be very costly is the editing of the video. Editing suites would have had to be booked, and also the video consists of a lot of high quality editing and animation.

$4,000,000 budget



This music video has a high budget because it consists of expensive locations, especially as the locations vary, so they're going to have to pay for a large number of expensive settings. Also, props such as cars were included inside the video, and also a number of motorcycles later on in the video, which was going to cost the artist a lot of money. The video also included costuming and masks of the artist. Also, another thing that would make the video very costly is that the artist had to hire talents, and in this video, there is a very large number of talents hired, considering the fact that as the artist went from one setting to another, there would be a different group of dancers. Relating to the talent, the artist would have had to spend a lot of money on choreography, rehearsing all the dance moves over and over again, etc.

Another thing that would have caused this music video to be very costly is the use of various camera equipment. In the video, a variety of camera equipment was used. Not only this, more than one camera was used, meaning that this was a multi cam video shoot, which would resulted with the artist paying for more than one camera.

Conclusion:
The first music video reached around 54 million views, and the second music video reached around 13 million views. Both music videos had a lot of money being spent of them. One thing this research proves is that videos that have a lot of money being spent on the visuals attracts a lot of views.