Who's made their own music video...?

thomasross20

As per title. 

Tips? 

Link?

PolarityMan

Also intersected in this especially required budget

thomasross20

Seen this?

https://rotorvideos.com/

thomasross20

I have my own camera, obviously have the songs....

Just need to choose the "best" song, figure out a theme and get shooting. 

Or use a web program like the one linked for ease of use

thomasross20

I think I'll end up just shooting my own and edit it in Lightworks to go along with one of my songs. 

mellowsun

Did about 7 years ago as a collaboration with a professional film production company who were just starting out at the time. They directed and shot it all in 2 days. Looking at it now, parts of it are a bit David Brent 'If you Don't Know me by Now', but the film quality was excellent.

What the heck, here's the link

It was hard work filming it, with lots of takes.

mrleon83

I made this 

using an iPhone 5 + final cut x

 basically we mimed to a studio track (mixed by someone that really didn't know what they were doing, but thats another story) from a number of different angles its really easy.. but if you need any pointers let me know

for the record this is the first 'guerilla' video I made, prior to this I was in a professional one, main thing is lighting then its just editing it together  

thomasross20

Guys, will check these out when I can

thomasross20

Guys those are great. 

mellowsun it's definitely pretty pro!!! Wow... I was thinking mine might be night-shots of a city sort of thing (going by the feeling of the track I have) but yet to find a theme. Your theme was clear. 

And that was great, mrleon! I did think the fades last a bit long with two images clashing at times but maybe that was the effect you were going for? How long did it take you to do? 

EricTheWeary

It's bugging me that I can't remember his user name but the chap from Cowboys Rhos Botwnog (might be the right spelling) had some lovely videos, just of the band miming variety but on Welsh hillsides and the like and I think on a budget it's location, location, location which might be a hillside but might be the right looking alleyway. One of the Vintage Trouble videos was shot on iPhones, although professional editing and some super models in the film probably helped but the point, I think, is that it needn't take a huge budget.

redrighthand

For my old band I found a suitably themed copyright -free film and edited it into something fitting:

Deijavoo

3 smartphones, a dslr and final cut. Was gonna edit it myself but a student who works for our singer offered to do that for us. We paid him a bottle of rum, should have maybe got him to film them in hindsight.

 

 

 

Luminous

I make my own videos, I use a zoom Q3 HD ( great sound )  and an iphone 5s and iphone 3s ( old phone , kept for this and programming the istomp pedal .I only have one tripod and use mic stands and gaffa tape , you can get a selfie stick for musch cheapness and it will give you a tripod mount for a phone.

The key is planning and lighting, for my live album stuff I was planning to record it all at a gig and couldnt get enough time to get the footage of a standard I wanted so I set up my live rig in my living room ( space and light ) and did it as a gig straight to 2 track. The camera's were placed after various test shots.

I use Sony movie maker ( a cut down vegas ) to do the edits, its a bit slow and clunky but costs less than £20 so I can't really complain.

DVD video soft free studio is an absolute neccesity for cutting down file sizes and its free, Also make you spend the time getting the synchronisation correct it will save you a lot of grief later.

thermionic

EricTheWeary said:

It's bugging me that I can't remember his user name but the chap from Cowboys Rhos Botwnog (might be the right spelling) had some lovely videos, just of the band miming variety but on Welsh hillsides and the like and I think on a budget it's location, location, location which might be a hillside but might be the right looking alleyway. One of the Vintage Trouble videos was shot on iPhones, although professional editing and some super models in the film probably helped but the point, I think, is that it needn't take a huge budget.

It would have been Ramirez? Here's some Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog:

I think those were a professional production for a TV programme though.

I made a very lo-fi one for one of my tracks, but I think it suits the music:

viz

Is @timmysoft still here? He had that amazing one of a bloke who wanted to punch another bloke.

viz

This:

thomasross20

Haha  

Right, need to get some ideas. My song is 5mins long so .... going to be a long video...

PolarityMan

Deijavoo said:

 

Dude I know a little friction in a band can help with creativity but if you guys cant even get in a room together to shoot a video I dont know how you can hold it together

DulcetJones

This is a rough one I shot with my digital camera and edited with Magix video editor just to get the song some exposure.  There's also some public domain video mixed in at a few points.  There's lots of PD footage online.  

https://youtu.be/ar_k455DKLg

thomasross20

That's pretty freaky - certainly has an atmosphere!!