Mike Clum on his film background and Boogie doc
by Silvestre: Ethan Klein
Mike Clum told Ethan Klein about his path into film: he dropped out of college in 2011 to make music videos, then moved into commercials and corporate work, eventually building a corporate video production company he's grown for 15 years. He started the Boogie documentary out of boredom, wanting something fun, and it ended up taking nine months because he kept adding layers. That led to the EDP project, which went bigger with more production and more people. He mentioned being inspired by Vice and originally planning mini-docs to build a brand, but the projects became massive.
Transcript (en)
Do you have a background in film? Yeah, so I dropped out of college and started doing music videos in 2011. And then I started doing commercials and corporate videos and built a corporate video production company. Doing ads and TV commercials and basically documentaries for companies and such. And I grew that over the last 15 years. and, you know, I was a little bored one day, you know, and just figured I'd, you know, make something for fun. It's a huge project, though. Yeah. These are massive projects. Yeah. You know, I started the Boogie one. The reason I did five, or, like, I was filming all these documentaries, because I was kind of thinking, all right, I'll put out these sort of mini-docs, and, you know, maybe they get a few hundred thousand views, but you sort of build a brand. I was looking a lot at, like, what Vice had done. And when I did the boogie doc, it just, I don't know, my personality, I just kind of add layers and layers to things. And I couldn't make it sort of simple and just kept filming and kept filming. And that one took nine months. And then when that came out, I'm like, hey, what would happen if you went even bigger with something, you know, more production, more, you know, kind of people involved, whatever. And that was the EDP project.
