
Are you PREPARED to make a music video?
Create a storyboard to map how your music video will express your song, from rough sketches to detailed plans, by visualizing lyrics and translating sound into imagery.
Create a shot list to bring your storyboard to life, align with timeline, identify angles, movements, and vantage points to save filming time and keep everyone on the same page.
Phone a friend helps you tackle this project by providing creative input during storyboarding and assisting with filming, making your music video look better and more fun.
Explore 20 creative shot ideas to elevate music videos, focusing on framing musician details, unique angles, and storytelling scenes that go beyond standard performance.
Discover 15 creative motion shot ideas to make phone-based music videos cinematic. Learn panning, moving toward or away, circling, side and rear follows, and vertical sweeps to energize footage.
Discover affordable and advanced tools to stabilize phone footage for smooth motion shots, including inexpensive stabilizers and gimbals, ideal for music videos with a moving subject and cameraman.
Learn techniques for capturing smooth motion shots on your phone by walking carefully and using a rolling chair, skateboard, or bike to feed motion; stabilize in editing, noting edge trim.
Discover how slow motion adds a unique feel and pace to music videos by splicing a few clips and using phones' built-in slow motion for detailed storytelling.
Discover epic on-camera spots by matching your song’s mood, driving around your city to find them, and walking with your camera to test shots up close.
Explore imaginative filming locations from your home, city, or town to craft cool, mood-matching scenes that align with your song's storyline and keep viewers guessing.
Master lighting for your videos using natural indoor light and softening with curtains, plus ambient lamps for depth. Shoot outdoors in shade or at the golden hour for warm color.
Explore the post production process to make phone-shot footage cinematic, including importing, color adjustments, black and white, custom fonts, and cinematic black bars using a free editing tool.
Ever dreamed of having music videos for your original songs?
We have too. And like us, you probably wrote off the idea because it was either A) too expensive to hire someone or B) too complicated to do it yourself! And that's why we went on a journey of discovering what was possible to capture with a cell phone... and we were blow away by the results!
In this course we bring you into our journey and show you how to prepare for and capture high quality music videos with your phone!... along with some behind-the-scenes footage and plenty of humor!
If you want to make music videos using tools you already have, this course was made for you!