Hey guys, today I've got five super easy and simple music video effects
that are super dope and all of that under five minutes.
So let's start.
For the first one you want to take the song that you're going to lip sync to and Add some time remapping to it.
Make some parts go faster, other parts slower, and perhaps even in reverse.
When you start shooting your music video you play back that song and try to lip sync with the different speeds.
For the reverse part you're going to definitely have to practice that a little bit.
In Premiere Pro you then place your shots in a timeline with the normal music track underneath.
The parts where the music was slowed down you speed back up to normal.
So if you had a music part at 200% speed that now becomes 50%.
And the same goes for the reverse part, you just reverse that again to bring it back to normal.
And that gives you a fun music video where your voice is synced to the music,
even though that some shots are time remapped.
♪ Oh, it's fine showing the smallest of things. That is what we found in you. ♪
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Effect number two, buckle up because this one is going to be very complicated.
What you want to do is take a box where you can stand on.
Place your camera on the ground and now stand with your heels on that box
so that your feet are floating above the camera.
And this creates that typical low angle effect that you see in rap videos.
Now here comes the complicated part.
In Premiere Pro you drag your clip into the timeline.
And that's it.
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Effect number three.
Film your talent in a medium shot and make sure that he keeps his head and shoulders still.
Next we're going to take another shot from a different location
but a little bit wider and you can make as many shots as you like,
just remember to always make each shot a tiny bit wider.
In Premiere place your first shot on the bottom and on top of there the second shot.
Set the top clip to 50 opacity which allows you to scale and reposition it to match with the bottom clip.
Then set it back to 100.
Then continue doing this for all the shots that you have.
And that's the reason why every following shot is a little bit wider
so that you have the room to scale up and reposition each clip.
Now once done you can add cuts on the beat or whatever you want
and that's basically it giving you seamless cuts between the different locations.
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Now not only effects or camera tricks contribute to a great music video,
I think the most important is still story and cinematography.
Which Isaiah Seret teaches in his class about crafting your vision for music videos.
This is a Skillshare class and I want to thank Skillshare for sponsoring today's episode.
Now in this class he talks about how to vision an idea and turn that into a mood board.
It's a very unique class and I can highly recommend it to anyone who's about to start on a new music video.
And the great thing about skillshare is that with an active subscription
you can watch thousands of classes on the platform including mine.
Recently, I published an advanced class for Adobe Premiere Pro, as well as a class for editing in teams
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Effect number four.
We're going to take a wide shot of a wall and I'm going to bring that into Premiere Pro.
On Storyblocks I searched for a stock photo of some graffiti.
Place your shot in the timeline and on track number three
we're going to make a white circle and animate it so that it opens up at the point where Gilles punches the wall.
Now, on this circle I'm going to apply the Roughen Edges effect.
And you can change the settings to your likings to get a more grungy edge.
Now place your graffiti shot on track 2 and apply the Track Matte effect to it.
And this allows us to select video track number 3 which holds the animated circle and use that as the mask.
Finally change the blending mode of the graffiti layer to soft light to make it part of the wall and that's it.
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And this brings us to the last music video effect
which is also going to be practical.
What you want to do is set up two or more lights around your subject and you want to have these lights as much
as possible from the sides.
Now if you don't have film lights
you can also use anything else available like some standing lights from the living room.
As we play back this song ask some friends to turn the lights on and off to a specific beat.
And the faster you can do this the better the result will look.
You know at one point we even just randomly flicked the lights and it turned out pretty cool.
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I hope that you've learned something new today guys.
Big thanks to Skillshare for the support.
Thank you for watching and as always
stay creative!
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