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Making the Video is an MTV show, consisting of half-hour episodes, which chronicles the process of filming various music videos. Usually the director outlines the concept of the video (or treatment) and the show often includes light-hearted and humorous moments. It always concludes with a premiere of the finished video. The show premiered on July 11, 1999 and new episodes still air to this day.

MTV2 has a similar show entitled [Name of Band/Artist] Makes a Video that has featured artists such as 50 Cent, Fall Out Boy, Dashboard Confessional, Evanescence, and Mos Def among others.

Previous Making the Video Episodes

SEASON 1

SEASON 2

SEASON 3

SEASON 4

SEASON 5

SEASON 6

SEASON 7

SEASON 8

SEASON 9

SEASON 10

SEASON 11

SEASON 12

SEASON 13

SEASON 14

Previous ...Makes a Video Episodes

Criticism

Criticism has been brought heavily upon some episodes of Making the Video. Recently, when +44 had announced their special world premiere of their video "When Your Heart Stops Beating", the program was never aired, and instead replaced with AFI. Angels & Airwaves had a similar case with their premiere of "Do It for Me Now".

Also, on the episode of Ice Cube's "Go To Church", featuring Lil Jon, after the video was introduced, the left side of the screen shows tour dates for Pearl Jam for the first 15 seconds, thus blocking the video.

Trivia

  • The credits for Making The Video episodes shows those similar to what they often show on MTV. ...Makes a Video credits contain a yellow bar on the bottom left of the screen giving only the title and artist name, and on the most rare of occasions, the video director. If a video contains too many of, or a not very famous, guest appearance, it usually may not display who it features. In fact sometimes, it may not even display an info bar at all at times.
  • Christina Aguilera has had the making of more videos chronicled than any other artist with ten (though four of those were as a featured artist). Britney Spears and Jennifer Lopez hold the record for lead credit videos featured with eight.
  • Artists who have had videos for both Making The Video and ...Makes a Video include Fall Out Boy, 50 Cent, T.I., R. Kelly, and Twista, among others. For instance, Twista's "Hope" was on Making The Video, and "Hit The Floor" was a ...Makes a Video episode. 50 Cent's "Window Shopper" and "Candy Shop" were Making The Video episodes, and "Outta Control Remix" appeared on ...Makes a Video.
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