Music Video

This video goes over the fundamental principles of filming a music video. It gives a great overview of the different pieces and how to think about creating a music video. The video goes over:

• 0;00 Equipment

  • 0:34 Which camera to use

  • 1:00 Which lens to use

  • 1:30 Lighting

  • 1:57 playback

• 2:27 Creative Thought Process

  • 3:00 choosing a genre

  • 3:45 Budget

  • 4:30 Listen to artist’s ideas

• 5:00 3 scenes/filming coverage

  • 6:19 example

  • 6:50 second example

• B-roll/ Coverage 9;06

  • 10:20 camera movement

  • 11:10 camera placement

This is a detailed music video guide for zero budget and zero planning. This video is great for learning the details of how to film a music video from start to finish. The music video tips that the video goes over are:

• 2:26 General Tip 1: What to look for in a location

• 3:39 General Tip 2: Lighting

• 4:56 General Tip 3: forget the fill

• 5:50 Camera Tip 1: movement Pull and pull out

• 6:05 Camera tip 2: Shoot handheld

• 6:20 Camera tip 3: Shoot Parallax

• 8:30 The rest of the video is an example of shooting a music video with the following tips as principle

This is a logistical guide that is a hybrid of the two videos above but in a written guide format. It goes over what type of shots to take, what equipment to use and other artistic elements.

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