5 Key Points to Help Make a Low-Budget Video / VYCLONE Iphone APP

In todays social media world, the video seems to be the optimum format for getting your music across. As much as we like to listen to music, the art of discovery is often helped with a video.

With all the low budget tech out there, it is now within everybodies reach to create a video. I succesfully filmed a band at a live gig recently with just two iphones just to see how it would work, and it didn't turn out too bad! 

So if you fancy giving it a go, there are a few simple things you need get right before you embark on your first video production.

Peter Gavin has put together a list of 5 key points that will help you create your first video in a post that i found on evolver FM.

He says you need to consider these things..

1. It takes 2 (cameras) to make a thing go right

2. Lighting is the more important than your camera

3. Audio quality can make or break your video

4. You already own editing software

5. Resize your videos without losing quality

He goes into depth in the full article that you can read here. Which also has more leads/links to more info that will guide you through to making your first video.

VYCLONE Iphone APP

Another interesting way to create a video is to use a useful app that has just appeared on the Web.

Vyclone is a new free iPhone app which allows you to include and remix your own video footage with the ones of your friends recording the same event.

Vyclone synchronizes and edits everyone's clips to create one movie with all the angles cut together.

Sounds awesome, you just make sure you get a few friends to install the app at your gig and get them filming, all the pain of syncing is taken away so you can just use the best shots!

For more info go here

Go on give it a go... it's not as difficult to make a video as you think!

Links

http://evolver.fm/2012/08/17/5-ways-to-make-a-low-budget-video/

http://vyclone.com/

 

 

 

The Guide to making social video that gets shared

If you're a regular reader, you'll have noticed that the posts have dropped off dramatically since I took up a job at a major management firm - read a bit more about that here - as I simply don't have the same time to pick up on great tips.

As promised, normal service will resume as and when Steve gets on board and I find that extra bit of time to keep this up!

One thing I have had confirmed from the first month back in the mainstream music business is that there really is a level playing field for the DIY musician and what we and the other musician advice bloggers tell musicians is EXACTLY the same stuff that big music marketing agencies charge labels and globally succesful artists loads of money to do.

So, what we're telling you is what works!

Anyway, here's the tip that I've come across today.

This free eBook is called the 'Social Video Blueprint' and it explains what makes a video likely to be shared and therefore likely to get more likes, views and comments.

It's written for brands rather than musicians and some of the specifics don't apply. In fact, there's a lot of general theory in the first two-thirds of the book, but read it all and in the last third you'll find loads of good solid tips and advice that will help you make videos that are more likely to get views.

For musicians part of the message is that you can make a video that seemingly has little to do with your music (as well as making lyric videos, music videos, backstage and live videos etc) and let your music soundtrack be part of the video. If both are good, you can direct some of the viewers on to your music elsewhere.

There's plenty of specific ideas on what type of content works in that context.

In fact, when you sign up for 'Social Video Blueprint' you'll also get 'Video 101', a basic short overview of video marketing that is also extremely worthwhile.

Go and get them here and see what you can learn to apply to your videos.