Publishing pre-recorded music videos in the last few years has become more affordable and is a great way to keep profile with your fans when live performance opportunities are limited.
Affordable and effective audio capture is normally achieved with a computer and audio interface. Great video can be captured with a modest smartphone. Earlier units in this pathway have explored how to set up your equipment to make these audio recordings.
To create an asynchronous performance you will need to ask individual members of your ensemble or band to record themselves remotely and then submit their audio and video to someone who can act as video editor/compiler. In order to ensure that each individual member’s contribution is in time with everyone else’s, you will need to provide them with a ‘guide track’ of some sort to play along to. This could either be a skeletal audio guide track (like a traditional click track) or a ‘finished version’ of the music that you have prepared and which they can play along to.
If you want to capture video of the actual performance of each musician performing, then the guide track should be played by the musician in a headphone mix with the audio and video being captured by a microphone and their mobile phone (or camera). If your musician has already submitted their audio, and the final performance already exists as a piece of audio, then the musician will be able to capture a video of themselves miming along to the track (make sure they are still wearing headphones when they do this so you don’t capture the sound of the track playing in the background of their recording).
Once all the parts have been captured, then the editor can use video editing software such as iMovie or Movie Maker (for Windows) to compile the final video together.
When shooting video, make sure you think about the ‘frame rate’. Generally, the higher the frame rate the better. Try and ensure that all the musicians involved record at the same frame rate. Information on how to set the frame rate in an iPhone can be found here and information on how to set up other phones can be found here.
The final video edit could take a ‘traditional’ approach with transitions between shots from each of your musician’s videos or could be a split screen approach as seen in many examples online.
Remember, Interface:Response has a team of mentors available to help you with all aspects of your work in this and related areas. Mentoring support is available free of charge within the UK.
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