How to make your own music video

These are some tips I found useful in the book called "How To Make Your Own Music Video" by Ed Gaskell. 

Remember:
-camerawork to create an atmosphere/mood/sexiness
-moving into an artist's space (=exciting for the audience).
-make up can make the artist look more attractive, or should I say 'perfect'.
-the clothes can be out-dated, but need to fit the style of the artist and still make them look attractive. careful not to go exaggerate with this ! 




 L Y R I C S + M U S I C 
I've learned that sometimes it's easy to go with the lyrics. "The script is written for you". But sometimes the lyrics are a bunch of artist's feelings, that no one including the artist understands, so in that case it's good to go with the actual music and the beat, so sad and slow song= depressing video (joking), use of longer shots to fit into the mood. Upbeat songs=party, everyone being amazingly happy. 


The music video helps the audience to give more insight into the artist. What do they want to represent? Who are then? How are they feeling? What's their life like? 
(good example:

...being tired of fame? paparazzi? problems the artist is dealing with?) 


The Book's TIP :
"think about the ideas you want to show before making the video" , soooo.... what do you want to represent? what to show? what feeling, mood, problem?


The big mistake that many videos do are showing the lyrics LITERALLY. Music is art, so lyrics are art too, and it might require a bit of 'reading between the lines'. So example of this is:

...so, they're showing she literally can "use her legs".


S C H E D U L E
This is a first key to good organisation, which makes everything go smoothly for everyone, especially the cast who probably don't want to be dealing with 'what shot are we gonna have now?' 
example:

+ THE STORYBOARD !!!!! 
which according to everyone in the filming industry; you should not leave without. And it's true. I know it now, it makes you see your ideas more realistically. So you might have an amazing idea, and know what you'll do but when it comes to filming you're stuck because it might be impossible to do. That's why storyboard really makes you question yourself 'can we really do it? Yes? Ok, how?' and then you know. 


2nd thing is when it comes to filming you're not spending ages to figure out what to do on the set, which makes you really tired so you don't put as much effort into your work. (last year's mistake. DO NOT repeat)


So, tomorrow we're filming our scene in the art room. I'm excited, hopefully everything will go right. We've got our storyboard, list of props, make up, mise en scene and costume so I don't think we should have anything to worry about.