Music Video Director - Robby Starbuck

Robby Starbuck


Robby Starbuck is an American Music video director from Los Angeles, California. In 2010 he was named to OC METRO's Top 40 under 40.

Artists that have worked and been directed by Robby Starbuck include: The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Yellowcard, Escape The Fate, Smashing Pumpkins, Jeffree Star and Asking Alexandria.


Starbuck owns his own production company "RSM" He is also signed there as well. In 2011 Robby was nominated in two categories for the "Much Music Video Awards" (MMVA) for his work directing Metric "Stadium Love". In 2011 Robby's video for OTEP "Fists Fall" won an online poll for best video with a message on "MTV.com" for the VMA's.The first Music Video shot on the RED Epic Camera was directed by Starbuck for The Smashing Pumpkins. On February 27th, 2012 it was announced that his company RSM expanded to representing 15 directors including himself.

Below are a few videos that Starbuck has directed and are very influentual in rock/metal music today.

Asking Alexandria - "A Prophecy"

Escape The Fate - "Gorgeous Nightmare"

Falling In Reverse - "The Drug In Me Is You"

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Below is Robby Starbuck's filmography which will give a very good indecation of what type of artists he works with.

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Year	Artist	Song Title
in production	Black Veil Brides	"untitled DVD" (DVD) Unreleased
2008	Dance Gavin Dance	Me & Zoloft Get Along Just Fine
2008	A Skylit Drive	This Isn't the End
2008	A Static Lullaby	Toxic
2008	A Skylit Drive	I'm Not A Thief, I'm A Treasure Hunter
2008	Breathe Carolina	Diamonds
2008	A Skylit Drive	Knights of the Round
2009	Broadway feat. Craig Owens	The Same Thing We Do Everyday Pinky
2009	And Then There Were None	Reinventing Robert Cohn
2009	Silverstein	Vices
2009	Millionaires	Just Got Paid Let's Get Laid
2009	Quietdrive	Jessica
2009	Asking Alexandria	The Final Episode
2009	Agraceful	The Great I Am
2009	And Then There Were None	Thank The Watchmaker
2009	Impending Doom	More Than Conquerors
2010	Living Sacrifice	Rules Of Engagement
2010	KillMatriarch	Monotone
2010	Silverstein	Decade (DVD)
2010	Jonny Craig	Children of Divorce
2010	Jonny Craig	I Still Feel Her Part III
2010	Millionaires	Stay The Night
2010	Pierce the Veil	Caraphernelia
2010	Mother/Father	Order
2010	Metric	Stadium Love
2010	August Burns Red	Mariana's Trench
2010	Asking Alexandria	A Prophecy
2010	A Skylit Drive	Let Go Of the Wires (DVD)
2010	Chiodos	Illuminaudio album teasers
2010	I See Stars	What This Means To Me
2010	BOTDF	Believe
2010	Silverstein	American Dream
2010	Fight Fair	Pop Rocks
2010	Jamie's Elsewhere	Giants Among Common Men
2010	The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus	Choke
2010	The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus	Don't Hate
2010	The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus	Hell or Highwater
2010	The Dangerous Summer	Where I Want To Be
2010	Quietdrive	Way Out
2010	Seasons After	Cry Little Sister
2011	Times of Grace	Strength in Numbers
2011	Falling In Reverse	The Drug In Me Is You
2011	Ian Carey feat Snoop Dogg	Last Night
2011	Escape The Fate	Gorgeous Nightmare
2011	Millionaires	Party Like A Millionaire
2011	Smashing Pumpkins	Owata
2011	Silverstein	The Artist
2011	The Sounds	Something To Die For
2011	The Sounds	Dance With The Devil
2012	Jon Mclaughlin	Summer Is Over (feat. Sara Bareilles
2012	Blessed By A Broken Heart	Forever & Rockin All Night
2012	Demon Hunter	My Destiny
2012	Machine Gun Kelly	See My Tears
2012	Jeffree Star	Prom Night!

Prelim Task

Final Preliminary Task



For our preliminary task we were all put into groups made by our teacher. I was in a group with Ebony and Charlotte. Once we got started on working on our preliminary task, we all had different ideas that we put into it which also came out in the final edit. For example, one of the ideas either Ebony or Charlotte had was to do the cheesy spin around the camera cutting between the two people as if they were holding hands and spinning around with eachother. With this idea we had Charlotte and Ebony do this by both of them sitting on either end of a double seated spinny chair at a park near the college/school and when one films the other holds onto either side of the camera and they both spin together to make it look like they are holding hands and spinning with eachother. This is in the video at: 1:54 until 2:03 cutting between the two of them during that shot, reverse shot. One of the ideas i had for the video was that during the chorus, we should have signs either saying what the lyrics are or what they represent. So during the chorus at: 0:44 until 0:50 and also at 1:07 until 1:14 we had signs with a pig onit representing the "Babe" and words saying "I", "Got" and "You" so that during the chorus it would say "Babe, i got you babe" in time with the lyrics of the song. One thing that we decided on as a group was costume and that it would be that all of us would have a dark bottom half on and a light top half of clothing, so i wore a Grey jumper and dark jeans, Ebony wore black tights and shorts with a light blue top on and Charlotte wore Black Leggings with a light blue top on aswell.

30 Second Clip

Artist: Asking Alexandria
Song: Closure
Album: Reckless & Relentless
Director: "Thunder Down Country"