Here is a selection of my music videos, each an example of a different type of work I have undertaken. If you want to see more of each example, visit Playlists of Music Videos. For a wider selection of my work, visit my YouTube Channel or for more select picks visit Music Video Work Completed.
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Elizabeth Cornish “The End” (Studio filmed to Playback) |
Performance-based Music Video I chose this as a good example of the simplest form of making a music video; one camera and a finished mix of a song for the performer to mime to. This is a ‘single camera production’, to playback. A single camera filmed repeated playbacks of the song. For each take, the camera took up a new position or framing or both. |
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Free Control “Strawman” (Studio filmed to Playback) |
Performance-based Music Video A companion selection to “The End”: an example of a simple multi-camera production. Four manned cameras filmed a single take of a band miming to playback. The camera operators re-framed while filming to create a variety shot farming. (This was the same studio where the song was recorded and mixed. And during post-production, compositing allowed me to add Orson Welles, sampled in the song.) |
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Warldorf “Smash The Glass” (Still Ill Studios) (Live Performance Music Video) |
Live Studio Performance Video This is a multi-camera shoot, but with a band performing live. The cameras were a combination of operated and (mainly) static cameras. More cameras were used than for the filming of “Strawman”; the lack of operated cameras was compensated by having more static cameras in different static positions. |
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Flying Kangaroo Alliance “Hit The Wall” (Studio & Location filmed) |
Performance/Narrative-based Music Video This is a combination of single camera and multi-camera production. There was a day of single camera filming for the staged dramatic moments, and then a day in a studio for the multi-camera filming to playback. The two different days of footage was then be combined in editing. (A second music video, using just the performance footage was made to accompany this music video.) |
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The Drum Academy “Paul³@Rehearsal” (Live Composited Footage) |
Composited Footage Music Video This is an example of fx using compositing, but without resorting to a green screen. Drummer Paul Cole laid down three drumming tracks, each new track improvising with the last. The footage and audio was combined to create the finished video. For the footage, this usually meant taking footage of three performances from a camera in the same position and compositing them to create a single shot. |
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FKA “Be Myself” (Studio filmed, using a Green Screen) |
Green Screen Music Video This is an example of using a green screen for filming and then compositing that footage. Various elements are created separately, usually filming band members against a green screen, but also using photography, image editing software and additional location footage. The green-screen footage, simple virtual sets, and additional footage of crowds or smoke, are then combined in post-production. |
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Free Control “The Balloon” (Mixed Live/Studio/Film Footage) |
Mixed Footage Music Video This is a music video completed using footage from various different sources; footage filmed by me, band members, fans of the band, the band’s own back-projection videos used for live shows and the film “Apocalypse Now” from which a sample of an actress’ dialogue was sampled in the song. A good example of combining a disparate range of footage into a finished music video. |
If you want to see more of each example, visit Playlists of Music Videos. If you want explanations for how these videos were filmed and edited, look through the section Work in Progress. For a wider selection of my work, visit my YouTube Channel.