How to Light Music Videos | 3 Cinematic Ways to Shoot Contrast
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- čas přidán 1. 06. 2024
- Visual interest can mean a lot of things - color contrast, volumetric lighting, practical lighting, color-mixing, etc. and as a cinematographer, nothing allows you to play with more fun visual and creative elements all at once than the music video. Today, DP/Host Kevin Reyes walks through the visual interest that make sense for the story we're trying to tell with our video. We want to utilize color contrast to get the warm and cool look to highlight the juxtaposition of a warm inviting atmosphere inside an abandoned warehouse, which involves playing up the color of the moonlight. Not only that, but we're introducing haze with the intention of seeing hard beams. And finally, we're mixing in some production design that contrasts with the setting we're in - which inherently gives us visual interest with the color palette of the piece.
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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro/Concept
1:14 - Working with an Artist
2:02 - Production Design
3:21 - Lighting
5:28 - Breakdown #1
6:20 - Breakdown #2
6:33 - Final Scene
7:38 - That's a Wrap!
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Looks great! One thing, its often missed by non musicians, is the guitar/instrument itself. This is overlooked in photoshoots and music videos all the time and it pulls some of us out of the story. But renting a higher end instrument to match with the look is just that extra cherry on top. Plus us musicians appreciate seeing $$$ guitars.
I agree with that but as a musician, it has to be the guitar model the song was recorded on, otherwise it won’t work. You can’t have a Strat in the video but a Les Paul recording. 👍🏾
@@benugdsen75 I'm saying more like a Fender in place of a Squire strat. A reliced or vintage Gibson would've done this justice.
@@Holtenstein nah it wasn't Les Paul it was a Tunnui Nucci guitar
Isn't vanity a sin?
This is definitely the direction this channel should be heading, top class!
Thank you!! Always love to hear your feedback
This is free lighting master class. Thanks and appreciate Aputure team educate me for lighting concepts
You're absolutely welcome!
FANTASTIC! Thank you for producing this.
This is a dream to have so many people helping with a music video haha. The dream the dream....
Love the lighting and tutorial on explaining this. Looks so good
Thank you!!
real knowledge in a real set. it's 9 minutes but so much value in here
Right?! Let us know if there's anything you'd want us to include in these episodes
Wow, great set up...🙌🙌🙌
This gives me lots of ideas 💡
Thanks for the excellent free content. I just released my first video, using Aputure lights with a Sony FX3 and it was so nice to be able to control them with Sidus link 🙏🏼
Guitar solo! Epic! :)
Yesss!!
Great job and info
Such a great series, thank you for taking the time to really create a beautiful tutorial! Would love to see some lighting techniques used in the film industry (similar to the twinkling ones in the cabin in Interstellar during emergency scene, etc) which are peculiar but achievable with a smaller budget & creativity.
Thank you! We'll definitely explore those types of scenes soon ;)
I love the video edit for this piece. Especially, when Kevin sprinkled Cine-bae all over the set. lol Watching this video got me excited for my Nova 600 coming in June. #FingersCrossed
Cine-bae all over! Excited for you :)
OMG!😱 What video was this? Team Aputure, continue on that line. Please!
I loved it and it was very practical.
I have several Aputure and Deity. I love.
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Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it!!
Thanks for another great video! Love the series! I was wondering, the fade out from the lights set to 3200k was so smooth! Was that just programmed in Sidus Link? Or was that using something else?
It was! We used Magic Program within Sidus Link, and timed the take perfectly at one minute at the same time the artist finished the piece.
One thing I always wonder when looking at your tutorials: what color temperature is the camera set to? You use a 5600K light source as well as 3200K, so how do you decide what you set the camera to in order to achieve the right look?
When mixing color temperatures like what we're doing, we usually set our camera to 4300K to pronounce both light sources. Color grading will help boost the look that you're going for.
@@aputurelighting Thanks a lot!
At 5:12 you mention that you keep the warmth of the key light by having the camera WB set to 5600K. Wouldn't that take that blue hint away from the ones outside that are set to 5600K. Thanks!
Good catch, we ended up playing around with the WB and saturation of the window lights in color grading to achieve the effect you're seeing. If you want to do it all in-camera, setting your WB to around 4300K would be the way to go.
@@aputurelighting Thanks! Yes, that seems like a sweet spot between those sources.
What's the little mini baby arm/cardellini rig on the dana for? Just to secure the rig onto the dolly a little bit better than just the tripod head alone? 🤔
Unfortunately we didn't have the right ball mount for dana dolly with our tripod so we had to find another way to keep the camera upright on the dana... 😅
When using fog or haze... How to you prevent the fire alarms from going off at the venue you are shooting at? Asking for a friend. :/
Good question! The easiest solution is to take a plastic cup to cover the fire alarms and tape it to the ceiling.
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what diffusion filter did you guys used?
1/4 Black Pro Mist! Helps take the edge off without creating such a soft image.
@@aputurelighting thanks!
Yall dope but you're doing a lot here. Where are we realistically going to get all those lights? Can we get some thing for the regular low budget folks?
The Nova was too hot and killed the natural vibe.
i wanna know what dolly you used ?
For the gag at the beginning we were using the Matthews Doorway Dolly!
It feels to be the light on the person was little less, his skin tone felt a little off, but i liked the guitar playing it was emotional.
4:50 this is not real haze machine. Maybe is a fazer because haze is already thin and stay for long time in a room. Or i know it wrong?
How do I win some free aputure lights? I'm attempting to build my set up. But some of these are out of my price range.
I like how the thumbnail is just the same picture but color graded.
And then it was swapped to an actual before still.. still in log.
RED Komodo or RED Raptor ?
RED Komodo!
Looks awesome but who can afford all this gear …let alone the man power you had …3 1200s outside …that’s 10k right there
As a solo man myself. It definitely seems impossible when first looking at it lol. But I think just trying your best at figuring out the location, planning, rental fees, and all the pre-production stuff. It kind of makes for a fun project. A bit tedious trying to work around the budget, well hell yeah but I think this just makes us better filmmakers. I don't know how the hell I'm going to match the power of the 3 1200s lol but I its definitely going to be an interesting challenge
You're right, we definitely.had a budget for this and could've done it for cheaper if we rented the lights, thrifted and returned the furniture, and shot with a cheaper camera. It's definitely possible with less, just depends on what you're willing to sacrifice.
A scratchy record started to play two seconds before the needle was dropped.
Was this shot in Canada? Masks stuck.
such a big crew of professionals and a lot of equipment, and then such a worse result in the end... continuity issues and the whole "story" itself. I'm sorry I have to be honest, the video is just bad
Still wearing masks! Wake up! 🤣