Music Libraries for YouTubes or Tribute Videos
We’re taking our every once in a while look at music libraries for Tribute Video producers and documentarians. They all have strengths and weaknesses, from diversity of selection to economy of pricing. Let’s start. Envato Elements Envato Elements is an “all you can eat” plan for royalty free music, video, photos and illustrations. It’s catalog […]
ABC Royalty Free Library: Pay What You Want Special
The Quick Guide to Making Your Family Tribute Video
Here’s a bullet by bullet overview of the tasks at hand when editing family tribute videos. The goal is to go for the audiences’s heart, and these pointers should help. Collect materials. These includes pictures, video, misc, interviews if you plan them. Import materials into your computer and video editing program. Select your first piece […]
Funeral Songs and Music
What’s appropriate as a funeral song? This is a tricky question. If you’ve created a tribute video for the deceased in the past, you might be apt to use that video as is, but sections of it may be too raucous for the settings. Since many tribute videos are music and pictures primarily, a solution […]
How Often Should I Change the Music in My Video?
1When I feel Like It? 2When the previous music runs out? 3When the subject or mood changes? The answer is (3), WHEN THE SUBJECT OR MOOD CHANGES. What we’re describing is most appropriate for longer-length videos, where multiple concepts or subjects are being deployed. It’s bad enough that YouTube videos of almost ANY length uses […]
Video Producers: Be RELENTLESS!
Storytelling: Still in Style
It’s still the way of the world: Young beats old, new triumphs over the status quo. I know. I was young once, and part of a generation that was taught to not trust anyone over thirty. Okay, 40 MAY be the new 30. but the attitudes still prevail, and moreover, we live in a world […]
Five Films I Saw at the New Canaan Playhouse That Changed Me Forever
For more than a decade (1960’s), my Aunt Virginia Lee ran the Prudential Theatre in New Canaan, Connecticut, called the New Canaan Playhouse. My father’s family lived in Norwalk, Connecticut, and New Canaan back then was about a half-hour ride down a two lane highway. I, my brother and my sister alternated taking “vacations” with the […]
How to Write a Video Script, Or “Words Only When Necessary”
At some point in your communications career, you will be faced with writing a video script. It comes with the territory. How you respond to this distraught pleasure will say a lot about you and your understanding of visual media. What makes writing an a-v script hard is not knowing how easy it can be. By […]
The Guide to Public Domain (Free) Footage for Tribute Videos
Let’s say you are doing a tribute video to celebrate your parent’s anniversary. You’ve got pictures, a bit of home video or film and appropriate music. But you’d like to add some production elements that enhance the story. That’s where public domain footage enters the picture. What is “Public Domain”? Item in the public domain […]