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I produced this music video this year.
What grafician said, make a plan. Listen to the music and figure out a concept that fits the sound. If you're not struck with an idea, maybe you shouldn't do it. Im sure this means a lot to your friend and he'll figure something else out if you can't.
For instance if you have no budget you could have dude get you one of those table top tripods from Amazon and you can set up a still life of flowers and fruit and do a time loose of it decaying and just use your phone to capture that for different periods of time (leave the tripod and still life set up). You can add some sort of distortion effect once you string that all out that gains momentum over time or to the beat, or both. Cut in a bunch of cool, gross macro shots and have it build in intensity toward the end. Add art house movie style subtitles of the lyrics at the bottom. Bam, its a music video, visualizer, lyrics video. BTW lyrics videos are pretty successful so I'd recommend that approach. Even if the video sucks, interested parties still want to hear the music and read the lyrics.
Get creative! If you're going to do it you might as well make a good peice of work. I had never touched premiere or after effects when I made this:
And after that experience I had a shitload of useful skills that help me realize work today.- shellie bro you're a pro, thanks for your input, hope canoe might learn something from thisgrafician
- that stop motion video it also turns out someone here made mini furniture for fun so I got to barrow a bunch for the apartment sce bc I shared my concept here.shellie
- I learned early that being friends to producers might get you a long way in your career if you're some type of visual artist lol
But you'll b "always on call"grafician - shellie, big ass thumbs up! I really like the vibe of that video, and those small things what make it interesting :D my fav is between 1:15-1:23sted
- Shellie great work but how did you create the stop motion cutout effects without using After Effects or Premiere.Ramanisky2
- *i was referring to the first one :Dsted
- @Ramanisky2 with flash? hahaasted
- Great work Shellie!PhanLo
- I did do some of that post work in flash lol and then figured out I could have saved myself a lot of headache halfway through with AE. *facepalm*shellie
- So obviously you used different software to get the desired elements ... what did you put all the elements together in for the final cut, what app?? Curious :)Ramanisky2
- I did use premiere to put all of the layers together. for the cut out peices once I edited it, frame rate reduced and then printed frame by frameshellie
- so once it got to shooting the cut outs the edit was locked and easy to manipulate. not a lot of fancy editing.shellie
- some flash generated movies with alpha for the 2d animations on top but I made the light bulb over the head part in after effects for the first time.shellie
- I basically did tutorials to get through every single effect I needed to pull off. the first time I opened that part of the adobe suite.shellie
- plus Adobe didn't allow you to import raw files or I didn't know how to yet so there were a lot of pages sequence imports from photoshop.shellie
- *png sequences in photoshop. I did some animations literally frame by frame animation in photoshop like you would a gifshellie
- but hey, it got the job done and discovered better approaches on the way. it was my 1st music video & I've made several since. its gotten easier every timeshellie
- Ah cool, that makes more sense
thanks Shellie. You did a solid job for someone who had to figure it out on the fly.Ramanisky2