how to easily shoot a movie style music video with
a story line tutorial vlog behind the scenes coming up
i almost got hit by a bus in philly
what's going on everyone today i'm here in philadelphia pennsylvania for those
of you that don't know i'm from lansing michigan it's about nine hours away from me
i have an idea i'm a [ __ ] daylight high wattage lightbulb they're bright all right you guys so how
to shoot a movie style storyline music video i'm gonna talk about three different topics all right
so first is the script storyboard treatment when you listen to the song think about in the intro
when the song first comes on what are people seeing what's happening then go to the end of
the song and think about okay what just happened when you watch a movie there's there's some sort
of intro there's context you you see what's going on then there's some sort of climax oh
something happens i'm on the edge of my seat and then there's an ending so on this journey there's
a certain emotion that you want to show that's what you want to keep in mind with writing out
your script your treatment doing your storyboard most of the time i do this myself but with this
music video i got lucky shout out to mj the artist he did the entire script himself
i mean to be honest what we're doing right now is just putting it together like these are the
ideas and so now let's like organize the ideas to actually have like a step one step two step three
that makes the most sense act today what we're gonna do is now the script doesn't have to be
super into detail it can just be like in this case on the intro the song
show us walking away from the hospital holding hands like we left the doctor's
appointment Philly car driving by time lapse type of thing
show us getting in the car show us dancing smiling listening to music recalculating my brain
move your your thumb it's flying at each other that's good they're driving i'm gonna get a
close support street light going from red to green then i want to get a turn motion or something like
that and i'm gonna get a shot of just a random car driving kind of like show car like them her face
that was close i almost got hit by a bus in philly clickbait three
two one let's do one more just in case all right then he turns light turns green three
two one let's try from this angle one time three two one
and then the accident happens before the scene starts got it right our job is once
we actually show up to do it that's when we use our expertise like okay i'm gonna use this lens
and get this shot now i'm gonna use this lens and get a a gimbal shot i'm gonna use this lens and
go handheld i'm gonna get a close-up of this close up of that i don't usually write down all of those
which would be like the shot list but yeah just just have a general idea write down your ideas
the different shots that you want to get sometimes we get lucky and the artist has some good ideas
other times you know that's something that we got to do however i do feel upfront in the beginning
you got to have that conversation with the artist because the artist is always going to be way more
tied to the song than us you know they sat there for hours listening to the beat over and over and
over again they wrote down all the lyrics while they were writing the lyrics they probably had the
music video in their head already then they went recorded the song listen to it over and over then
they finally hit you up to shoot the music video so we're just now hearing the song and they've
heard it ten thousand times already the music video they wanted to do some flashbacks where
the females gonna be going through the phone and seeing the memory of them here on this day then
the first thing i thought it was like well how she gonna find the picture hasn't happened yet
so what we're doing is we're here filming the flashback memory and then i'm making sure that
they actually take a selfie together so that way later on when we film her going through
her phone she'll be looking at this picture and then that's where i would insert this footage
getting some scenery b-roll for their date scene it's that gino's was like a landmark
around here got a basketball court around here so i want to show some of the scenery some of
the environment and then it'll cut back and forth between this and then them on their day
now the second thing we're talking about is scenes that's pretty much why you're shooting the music
video it's putting the script into action being vocal be a director on set talk to the artist make
sure that their facial expressions match the mood that you want to show in that scene right there
right now
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you'll start using two but you're getting just one if you got to do it multiple takes
that's what you're there to do sometimes in movies it'll be a 15 second part and
they might spend two to three hours just doing it over and over again three two one
three two one here two one
all right third thing we'll talk about is setting and that's not to be confused like the actual
camera settings but creating the setting for the environment so with this music video the
artist he's dressed in all black in the story that we're telling he dies in a car accident so
with it showing him performing the song we wanted to be very cinematic so first off if you want to
know how to shoot more cinematic music videos check out the tutorial that i already have on
my channel i'll put a link to that in the description but one of the main things with
like cinematic style is the lighting so we had two cool rgb lights that were very inexpensive about
100 120 dollars yeah we just put one on each side of his face so we had the shadows got real close
low aperture i think it was a 1.8 he just got a real tight shot of his face did a a little bit
farther out shot of him performing where you could see his hands moving it was r b singing type song
we had to get one jump out there all right bye christmas i'm gonna be in decent shape at least
220. what are you right now two seven i'm about to cut up lose ten pounds two months so it happens to
the best of us my memory card got full so always keep an extra memory card like in your wallet we
filled the memory card yesterday in new york pulled out the spare filled that up so we had
to go get a third memory card that's the update so you said i'll be on my knees my natural position
nothing ever happens just by chance just remember that our job is to paint the picture
the visual picture of the song that they made
all right you guys two bonus tips one major plug and shout out is storyblocks.com
storyblocks is a website that you can go to and download stock footage and also sound effects but
i use story blocks for four different scenes in this video one was i needed a close-up of a red
light turning green i needed a ambulance driving down the street and then like a pov looking up at
doctors inside of a hospital and then also like a heart rate monitor and i was able to get all
four of those clips from storyblocks.com and then the next tip is using sound i actually
just went to youtube and searched car crash sound effect heart rate monitor sound effect
woman crying sound effect ambulance sound effects so you know i just put the sound effects with the
video footage and was able to pull off the look that i needed without actually being able to film
it myself with the camera what up world how y'all doing mj here shout out to cracka lack cracka lack
tv i gotta say this this opportunity to work with him was was magical he's a hell of a videographer
and producer and just a stand-up guy man him and the whole team man it was a it was a pleasure to
work with him and i can't wait to do it again man plenty more plenty more sorry right hey y'all be
on the lookout for smile okay i'm gonna put a link in the description so that way you guys can see
the final product what the music video actually looks like i'm gonna put a link in the description
on the end screen and i'm gonna pin the comment to the link and uh go check it out
show some love let them know that you came from this video right here Cracka Lack tv yeah man