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Five Simple Tips For Making Your Vid GOOD
1. Choose a song with a beat.
2. Edit to a beat. Not necessarily the beat. Not necessarily every beat. But when you cut? Make sure it's to a beat.
3. Don't leave in the original edits - make your own cuts. If you simply have to leave in an original cut... make sure it cuts to a beat.
3a. Also, while you're off leaving in original cuts? Don't have more than one in a row. Like, you need to be editing clips together, not scenes. If I want to watch the show, I'll just watch it. If you just have the show playing on behind the music, I'll get bored. (Unless you're like, um, making your point by fucking around like that or something.)
4. You might be using the song you are because of the lyrics, but lyrics tend to work best when they're enhancing (not being the basis for) the story you're creating with the visuals. And, yet again, power and flow is created through a close affinity between the music and the visual - which isn't necessarily going to be a conscious thing. What I mean is, don't let the lyrics/vocals overwhelm the beat when you're tying it all together.
5. On the same token: Literalism with lyrics is funny. Atmosphere is moving. Instead of focusing on the literal lyrics, focus on the general 'theme' or 'mood' of your song (and subsequently, the vid). Choose your juxtaposition of clips to tell the story (i.e. communicate the theme/mood), don't rely on the visuals interpreting the vocals literally if you're looking to make a 'serious' vid. Self-conscious humour is always good for funny vids, though.
2. Edit to a beat. Not necessarily the beat. Not necessarily every beat. But when you cut? Make sure it's to a beat.
3. Don't leave in the original edits - make your own cuts. If you simply have to leave in an original cut... make sure it cuts to a beat.
3a. Also, while you're off leaving in original cuts? Don't have more than one in a row. Like, you need to be editing clips together, not scenes. If I want to watch the show, I'll just watch it. If you just have the show playing on behind the music, I'll get bored. (Unless you're like, um, making your point by fucking around like that or something.)
4. You might be using the song you are because of the lyrics, but lyrics tend to work best when they're enhancing (not being the basis for) the story you're creating with the visuals. And, yet again, power and flow is created through a close affinity between the music and the visual - which isn't necessarily going to be a conscious thing. What I mean is, don't let the lyrics/vocals overwhelm the beat when you're tying it all together.
5. On the same token: Literalism with lyrics is funny. Atmosphere is moving. Instead of focusing on the literal lyrics, focus on the general 'theme' or 'mood' of your song (and subsequently, the vid). Choose your juxtaposition of clips to tell the story (i.e. communicate the theme/mood), don't rely on the visuals interpreting the vocals literally if you're looking to make a 'serious' vid. Self-conscious humour is always good for funny vids, though.