A music video: an expensive investment or do it yourself?
Music videos can be created live at concerts. Multiple cameras film while the sound engineer records the sound. These are often quite complex and expensive productions that most bands can hardly afford.
Band members or friends of the band ask themselves: We also have cameras to make the music video easier and cheaper! Why not just the sound of the cameras? After all, the cameras have built in very good microphones!
And this is exactly where amateurs who want to create their first music video experience a bitter disappointment: when they look at the recordings, the sound is, to put it politely, unusable. Above all, the musicians involved will resist publishing the material. Why?
The camera is placed in such a way that the musicians can be seen clearly. And the microphones on the cameras record everything that comes to them. Also the background noise. While the music played by the band arrives dull and lifeless at the cameras' microphones.
With several cameras, each one sounds different. Clearly, each captures a different position in the room.
It's just as unsatisfying when the cameraman or camerawoman walks past the band with the camera, takes close-ups... Nice as a souvenir for the band members. Unusable for publishing.
The sound changes with every movement of the camera. The background noise is annoying. And flutter echoes do the rest.
Are you therefore dependent on expensive productions for your band's music videos? For many years I've dabbled in making music videos for the bands I've played in over the decades. And learned in the process.
In my tutorials you will always get tips and hints on how to make good videos of your band with your own equipment.
Here you see us as a country duo. Plain and simple in one acre. Is it possible to capture good sound this way? Or do you proceed here completely differently?
