I noticed that many songs have 'lyric videos' which go along with the main video. These are extremely simple videos that allow people to watch without any music video sound distractions, and also help to learn the lyrics. When people know the lyrics to a song it's more likely to get stuck in their heads and they will then be more likely to purchase the song.
I did some research and found some information on music videos from Wikipedia:
The lyric videos usually have some sort of connection to the music videos, but rarely feature the artist and I could find no examples of any with lip syncing. Many of the videos use stock videos, as they are made before the music videos are shot.
I decided to make one, using free public domain archive footage to go along with my music video. The archive footage I used was all from the mid 20th century, and focused on female gender rolls and how they changed during this time, I searched through 6,909 videos from the Prelinger Archives to find the appropriate ones. I thought it was interesting how I could edit the videos to look as though they were shot for the song itself.
To create the effect of the lyrics, I wrote them all on pieces of white paper with blue felt tip pen. I then played the song and filmed each piece of paper with the lyrics on them and edited them to all show at the right time. I created the backing video from the hours of footage I'd downloaded, and finally merged the two together using both key framed 16 point garbage mattes and an an inverse chroma key on the blue, and then inverted the colour of the text to be orange, as there was a lot of blue in the footage I had used for the background video, and the orange would stand out, while going well with the video (as according to the colour wheel they are opposites, and therefore work well together).
I did some research and found some information on music videos from Wikipedia:
The lyric videos usually have some sort of connection to the music videos, but rarely feature the artist and I could find no examples of any with lip syncing. Many of the videos use stock videos, as they are made before the music videos are shot.
I decided to make one, using free public domain archive footage to go along with my music video. The archive footage I used was all from the mid 20th century, and focused on female gender rolls and how they changed during this time, I searched through 6,909 videos from the Prelinger Archives to find the appropriate ones. I thought it was interesting how I could edit the videos to look as though they were shot for the song itself.
To create the effect of the lyrics, I wrote them all on pieces of white paper with blue felt tip pen. I then played the song and filmed each piece of paper with the lyrics on them and edited them to all show at the right time. I created the backing video from the hours of footage I'd downloaded, and finally merged the two together using both key framed 16 point garbage mattes and an an inverse chroma key on the blue, and then inverted the colour of the text to be orange, as there was a lot of blue in the footage I had used for the background video, and the orange would stand out, while going well with the video (as according to the colour wheel they are opposites, and therefore work well together).
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