how to shoot cinematic music videos three tips
also stay to the end for one bonus tip welcome to the video
what's up everyone my name is Cracka Lack welcome back to Cracka Lack tv
today's video we're in indianapolis indiana about to shoot a cinematic music
video for the artist right here B-Lils the phone tutorial guy
for the music video we need some candles so we're here at buyers about to buy
a bunch of candles i'll show you guys what we put together and also give you
guys some tips on how to shoot more cinematic music videos and some behind
the scenes of me actually shooting the music video
welcome to the video
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hey video purposes so you can hear what i'm
saying i'm all about saving money being cheap right this is what a dollar fifty
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about fifteen advantages do you know that okay
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messing stuff up
watch what they do though you said twenty two dollars twenty two dollars
well spent watch this at my uh my first music video
you good
just the hood and this ain't the hood we're like this we're like
yeah we're standing right on the line
if you're holding yourself up then you can't do the handshake
i just had to stay right
all right for the here scene dollar 59 candles we got about 10 of them right
here and i got a 55 millimeter i'm filming that 1.8
tight close-up shot
like you did earlier but we just did this that's one scene
yeah man we're just whipped this together
Alright tip one for how to shoot a cinematic music video
is lighting and adding shadows for example
right now we have all the lights on and i'll show you what this looks like so we
love it right there you see how this looks
now this does look clean and everything but how much more cinematic and epic
does this look when you turn off all the lights
now you see more shadows and it makes it more
dramatic and intense and the only lights we have is from these candles
right here even if we didn't have candles and we just had the light on
over there that way the light is kind of on that
side of his face he's got a shadow on one side light on the other side
it makes him worry cinematic say crack come on tenth y'all want me to bring any
prostitutes
my first music video what we're gonna do we're gonna blow our all the candles
except for one turn off the lights again and i'm gonna get a slow-mo
shot real close like the end of the video
is life all right let's try it three two one
i don't know what i don't know what y'all be doing videos
let us know in the comments if you can understand what he just said
we're doing some good stuff guys yeah that was one thing that was really
good yeah all right you guys for tip two
using low aperture basically if if you're looking for
a lens that's good in low light you want a lens that
has a low aperture so for example right now i'm using a 55 millimeter and it can
go down to a 1.8 so the lower the aperture the more
shallow the depth of field for example if i was to stick my finger out or you
see them pictures where just this is in focus and then my face
is blurry or if someone's downtown they're standing
there and all the lights behind them are all
big and blurry and broken up that's when you shoot at a low aperture one of my
lens can only go down to an f4 and that's not
really doesn't really give you that shallow
depth of field so for that cinematic look
use the lens that can go down to like a 1.8 sometimes this can even go down to
like 1.4 i'm doing a tight shot i'm gonna film at
1.8 malik to continue using tip number one with lights and shadows he's got the
light going off the wall this side of his face
is kind of lit up there's definitely some shadows
shadows add to the mood yeah i'll show you guys what it looks like
shooting a good music video it does take two to tango is that what they're saying
takes two to tango and we be tangling
having an artist that that knows how to like work the camera
and look cool it makes our job as videographers a whole lot
easier because it could be very different he could not know
what to do he could look really awkward and weird and
no matter how good you are at doing what you do with the camera
our job is to make them look as good as possible by them
naturally looking good it just makes it easier for us directors remember to be
vocal and like speak try to make them feel as
comfortable as they can to give you the energy that you need for
the shots that you're getting earlier we're at this uh kids event
filming there and they had some animals and they had some goats
what'd you say y'all need an extra goat you had to be there yeah
right
shout out to malik for making this like i was just gonna have the regular lamp
on and then he said wait maybe you can squeeze the light that we have
up in here and then what we're gonna do i can't actually reach this
oh you're making me nervous i'll do it so malik
is gonna reach up here and move this and it's gonna be swinging above him and
he's gonna do a performance shot right here
everything that i've come so far has been real
tight close-up shots and then it's going to be real wide i'm going to be filming
at 16 millimeter and i'm going to actually use my gimbal so i have a dji
ronin-m stabilizer and i'm going to also be
filming at 60 frames per second that way while i'm editing it i can slow mo some
of the parts do my Cracka Lack speed ramping stuff that i
like to do but i've done it in about every one of your videos yo that's like
yo look stay tuned for tip number three and
also a bonus tip you got to go down here you know how
just so that way it is moving
so we did candle scene window scene standing on the right flying scene
now we're going to sit on the couch chain this is gonna be the fourth and
final scene the third tip is to use close-up
shots when you film wide it just reminds me of
uh like your phone a cell phone video when someone pulls it out and they're
just recording someone you know where you see everything that's going on above
them below them wire doesn't give you that cinematic
look now when you get close up and it's real tight shots makes
it look more cinematic so for most of this music video i was filming at 55
millimeters which is pretty fucking close tight shots like this
helps a lot with the cinematic look
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you're gonna try not to blink and be looking into the soul of the camera
yeah he's gonna do that like walk around
he did it hey there we go yeah good good good
all right all right you guys the bonus tip is to add slow motion whenever you
see slow motion and you include the previous
three tips it's gonna look super epic and cinematic
so what i've been doing throughout this video is
after every scene of getting a performance shot i also got some b-roll
of slow motion you don't know how to film slow motion i have a tutorial on
the channel three tips on how to film better b-roll actually check that out
i'll put a link on the screen and in the description all
right you guys to check out the full-length cinematic music video i'm
gonna put a link on the screen also in the description and in the
comments below let me know in the comments which tip was your favorite
i'll see you guys next video cracka lack tv we out