【Egg Hunting】#6

Tips For Staffing The Music Video Shooting:

• Find your crew. Depending on the scale of your production, you may be able to rely solely on yourself and your actors, or you may need to create large a crew for the video.
• Find the right acting talent. Make a list of all the characters in your video.

Tips For Lights, Camera And Action:

• Set the stage.
• Set the camera. You may want to shoot part of your video on a tripod, for static scenes.
• Get your actors in place. If they’re in the scene as the camera rolls, have them take their marks. If they come into the scene as it plays, have them at their entrance point.
• Cue up the music. Have Sound locate the proper point in the song, and give it a good lead-in time so people can “get in sync” with the music.
• Have all your lighting people in position, and all powered lights on.
• The videographer presses the record button and starts shooting the scene.
• You know the drill here—on “Action!”, the actors come out and do the scene.
• Repeat for all the scenes in your video. You may end up with multiple takes, multiple angles, great takes, and awful takes. This is where the fun begins.