Making my first Music Video
So, I was making a song for Halloween. Although I was busy with other tasks this Fall, I realized that, as a (sometimes) musician, I should release a single soon. So I decided that a good time to probably do so was for Halloween, my first event-based single.
It took a short while to produce and create lyrics for, though it was mostly a freestyle because I was a little bit too lazy to go through and do the whole lyric process. The production was mostly done through Garageband. I was able to use some of their built in loops, as well as some of their MIDI instruments to create some of my own custom loops with notes that I put in. This culminated with my single, Sweet Holloween.
I guess to continue with the typo titles (like my last album Magenta Grapvines), I decided to put a small typo on the second word. I feel like this was a solid release; I am planning for a medium-release around Christmas, and just released my debut album in August. So dropping a single around halloween was not too bad, not super clumped.
This song was met with some positive and mixed reception, which is completely understandable. Though I enjoyed using a photo editor to create my custom artwork which was fun as well. Then my friend messaged me and asked me if I would do a music video. I was not too sure.
Well the thing is, I have thought about music videos a lot, throughout my last 2 years of being a musician. Though I am short-staffed and don’t have the best equipment, as well as COVID-19 stuff going on. I also was not too sure how to script everything out.
I decided to do just lip sync while doing random actions, some outdoors since we had very small pumpkins outside. Some indoor stuff as well. So I just filmed myself with my phone (pretty good 1080p quality), and did a bunch of takes of me doing fall and halloween activities, which was pretty fun.
Overall, after the clips were taken, I took to iMovie to edit. Of course, after all my content creation and video editing stuff I have done this past summer, I am still too stubborn to purchase or download a more legit video editing/creation software. Something like a free nice one, or Final Cut, or Premiere would be the nicest. But I was too lazy unfortunately.
Overall, it was cool to edit. iMovie allowed me to edit some filter settings and adjust colour and tone for most of my scenes which was fun. I was also able to use some transition effects.
Overall, the plot was a bit weird, basically the whole sequence was me in a dream. But overall, I enjoyed the final outcome. The music video had the whole song in it, some funny loops and scenes, and the hard work I put into production and songwriting paid off, as it could be fully visualized in the video. My lip sync could improve a bit, but overall, this was super fun! I had great success creating my first ever music video.
Hopefully I will make more for future singles! Can’t wait for the possibility of a snow/winter/Christmas one! Also to note, I probably will not be creating music videos of older songs, since I think that phase of my career (in terms of those songs) are way past me, so creating videos for those will not seem fit. Hopefully for future singles, and some nicer songs in mixtapes and albums will have accompanying music videos!