five tips on how to make better music videos coming up
what's up everyone my name is Cracka Lack welcome back to crackalacktv
today's video we're in lansing michigan i'm shooting a music video for rt
bankroll the name of the song is "D.L.B."
i'm gonna bring you guys along for behind the scenes of my process shooting
the music video from start to finish and i'm also gonna go over five tips on
how to make better music videos so stay tuned welcome to the video if
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oh i wasn't recording
you wanted the car to be kind of like this right have you seen the Lil baby
uh 42 dug we paid they actually ran their cars into each
other because they were skirting them down the road
all right you guys for tip one is going to be planning in advance what i do
with my music videos is i listen to the song maybe a week in advance two weeks
in advance sometimes even a month in advance i'm
just writing on ideas things that i'm picturing cool
concepts cool ideas things i want to try out in the music video
write down the different scenes that you want to do certain shots having a plan
before you show up to the music video things are going to go a lot more
smooth and usually with me when i'm stressed out or kind of like oh man
struggling at a video shoot it's usually because i didn't do my homework and
playing in advance so i'm kind of just trying to run and gun on the spot
that can work in a lot of cases i'm not gonna lie probably
75% of my music videos are last minute run and gun
but uh i usually still have some sort of general concept or an idea in my mind
that i want to do for the videos just like this one i know
being the artist we talked about showing the car driving around doing some crazy
ignorant we're gonna do a scene at the studio we're gonna do a scene with
some girls in front of the car and i had a few other ideas like that was
enough to be like okay yup we're good to go here's the date here's the time for
the music video and uh i'll figure out the rest once we
get there so yeah
playing in advance that's where i can see you guys faces out the window
and stuff like that so we can do both okay for the first
time i'm gonna put the drone up in the air
we're in this big open parking lot should be good to go shouldn't be uh any
car accidents safety first i got a dji mavic air it's
like eight hundred dollars it's pretty good
i give it like a seven and a half out of ten sometimes it just loses
connection when you go a little farther away where it'll lag
holy crap this lag freaking work love this lag
still gets the job done to get that aerial shot
ah i am god
all right i just got the first performance shot i used the gimbal i was
at about 16 millimeters so real wide and i was filming at 60 frames per
second so that way i could do some speed ramps in there
i know you guys been waiting for a speed ramp tutorial it's going to be coming
soon just make sure you subscribe so you're
notified when that drops i do the really wide 16 gimbal shot and do
speed rants that's something that i like to do in most all
of my music videos as long as it fits if it's like country or r b
then you know that don't work but like with hip hop and rap
stay back close to the car
all right you guys tip two is gonna be get a variety of different angles
what i'm about to be doing now is i'm going to get some close-up shots real
tight on the face i'm gonna get some real wide shots where
you can see everything that's going on the scenery also if you have a gimbal
switch it up and get some gimbal shots that are real steady and smooth and then
also get some shaky handheld shots just always make sure you
get a good variety of shots whether it's handheld
gimbal close-up wide change your lens have variety
another way to add variety is playing with your frame rates so far
most of the performance shots that i've done today i'm filming in 60 frames per
second so that way i had the freedom to do some slow motion from the performance
shots you know like as you see they're real height moving around
that looked really good in slo-mo so i was killing two birds with one stone
filming in 60 frames per second there's certain times where like let's say you
were gonna get a tight shot like this of the rapper
wrapping the words more of a close-up shot that doesn't really look cool when
you slow it down so i would film that in like a 24 frames
per second and always remember the end product is is going to be 24 frames per
second all right you guys you're ready
all right tip three for making better music videos is adding b-roll
b-roll is anything that's not a performance shot so so far throughout
the music video every scene that we did i also changed my settings real quick so
i could film in either 60 frames per second or 120 frames per second so i was
getting some slow-mo shots sometimes you can show scenery to
show people where you're at you can tell a story with the b-roll
with rap music videos it's lots of like all right this time don't say any of the
words just vibe move your hands do stuff like that and
when you put it in slow motion it looks really dope get
b-roll throughout the music video every time you go to a new scene
get your performance shots and then change your settings change the frame
rate somebody can get some
there you b-roll
you were drinking this during the video all right
all right it's all right yeah all right everyone tip four on how to make better
music videos is changing locations so for example
this song that i'm shooting music video to today is about three minutes long i
think it's about two verses i would say at bare minimum do at
least one location one scene per verse if the song is two verses
definitely get two different spots the change in scenery doesn't have to be too
crazy one could be inside the other scene could be outside right here with
this building there's orange bricks on the other side it's white bricks you
know you can just change the background something simple
like that what we got going on right here is now we're outside
with the models and the artists and the two models got the car he changed his
clothes another tip is make sure your artist brings a change of clothes
it's okay to have one outfit and one main scene if the song is short of maybe
like a freestyle video a two minute or under song that's okay
but for most actual full-length songs they're gonna
be two to three minutes sometimes four minutes
you want to continue to change your location change the scenery up keep
people interested right that's where having a variety
helps you out a lot
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last but not least the fifth and final the most important tip
is knowing your camera settings a lot of things go back to the fundamentals if
you think of sports it's like defense wins games defense wins championships
it's kind of off topic but uh just knowing the simple fundamentals man i
know some people that have grade 3 000 4 000 worth of equipment and their
videos still look like and it's because they don't know the
fundamentals the camera settings like the shots are out of focus they're over
exposing their images so know your camera settings i have a
full length tutorial on my channel camera settings for shooting music
videos i'm gonna put a link to that in the description as well shout out to
the artist in today's behind the scene music video rt bankroll i'm gonna put a
link on the screen right here and in the
description and the pinned comment to check out what the full-length music
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