After defining the format of your clip, comes the choice of its graphic style. How are you going to process the image? Will you move towards a natural processing, a more graphical one or a mixture of both styles?

The control of different plans will be really useful to you for your music video productions. You have to consider all these plans as a toolbox that you are going to use for transmitting an emotion.

Music video world has naturally inherited a large part of cinema classification. However, the goal and the format of a music video is radically different than from a movie, and a number of aspects remain to be named and identified…

Central discipline in the conception of special effects, the compositing is a fundamental stage in music video production. Among the largest compositing software, we can list the most popular After Effects, but also Motion, Flame, Fusion, Nuke….

You should be aware of such dangerous titles that pretend to give you a ultimate flawless creation method, the good tip, the good recipe, a system like some would say that would allow you for sure to make a perfect video…

While some are considering that video editing is a basic step of music video production, others give it more consideration, and don´t shrink from conferring it status of art.

There was a time when choosing a camera was an issue that did not even arise because the camera was an inaccessible device for professionals. Fortunately, technological developments, accessibility and new needs have spawned various cameras ranges.

Creating cameras is not easy because there are always outsiders who come to distort pins but I’ll still try to isolate groups to clarify the offer available on the market.

The angles of view are very important when directing a music video because they provide extra and prime information about the emotion of the scene and the character’s condition. There are three fundamental angles of view characterized by the angle of attack from which the video is shot, but we must remember that no matter the angle of view, the character often position themselves differently in front of the camera (facing the camera, three quarter front, side, three quarter back, back…).

How to make a music video ? In this video series, I detail different levels of knowledge to be integrated in the music video making . I’m not going into specific details but I offers a good overall vision to create a music video.