How to make a music video

Choosing a song• For making a music video, its essential to listen

to the song itself and choose the strongest song- its important to ask other people such as friends, family about what they think is a strongest song as making a music video mostly depends on the strong and if the song is strong then the promotion will be powerful.

Choosing a video equipment

• The next thing is to choose right equipment. The cameras are the main equipment otherwise there can be phones, Ipads etc however the digital camera would be essential. It doesn't’t matter what audio component device we use as the audio will be converted with pre-recorded audio of our strongest song.

Create the concept

• It depends what imagery comes through in the mind when listens to the song. And what kind of music we wants to create such as live performance music video but for narrative music video, we would have to consider doing acting, deciding people, places etc. and making a storyboard that support the storyline.

Choosing a location • Its important to stick to 1-3 location within the music video. If

the song is dark, then considering darker locations with softer lighting and if the song is happy and bright then consider brighter locations with wide open spaces. Shooting outside offer ample lighting and clouds is good source of lighting to create natural dull lighting. And if the using indoor lighting then its important to have hand-held lighting such as strong dimmers or spot lights.

Shoot the video

• Its important to experience with different cameras and angles before actually start shooting. Once ready to start then practice with the lipsing of the song beforehand and aim to 2-4 takes at least. And consider different angles shot such as close up shot, hand held shot etc.

Edit the video • After done with the shooting then it has to be edited. Its

important to learn how to edit the video and get some powerful editing software's such as final cut etc. if you like to have a free editing then you should have access to software that is free and see if its easy to use. And if you have a mac computer, you could have a access to Imovie. And also Youtube has now editing software itself.