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5 Key Tips for Making a Classical Music Video
1 : Choose the piece, but film the moment
No matter how famous you are as a classical performer, you’re not going to rival Beethoven for recognition.The first step in getting views is knowing what your audience will click on.
2 : Set the scene & shoot it lean
We’ve found filming performers is more about what viewers don’t see than what they do.
3: Keep it real
It’s incredible how astute people are when they are watching video.
4: Tell a Story
We know the “Where?” and the “When?” from point 1. But what about the “Why?”
5: Get intimate
We all know what a person, sitting at a piano, playing, swaying backwards and forwards looks like.
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How the Films of Hayao Miyazaki Work Their Animated Magic
An Introduction to Jean-Luc Godard’s Innovative Filmmaking Through Five Video Essays
Even though Jean-Luc Godard turned 86 this past Saturday, cinema scholar David Bordwell would no doubt still call him “the youngest filmmaker at work today” — as he did just two years ago, in an essay on Godard’s most recent picture Goodbye to Language. Over his more than 65-year-long career, which began in film criticism and arguably never left it, the man who directed the likes of Breathless, Alphaville, and Weekend in his very first decade of filmmaking has kept his work intellectually and aesthetically innovative when most movies seem resigned, and even content, to explore the same trampled patch of cinema’s creative space over and over again.
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How Stanley Kubrick Made His Masterpieces: An Introduction to His Obsessive Approach to Filmmaking
How Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai Perfected the Cinematic Action Scene
How To Use Film Titles Creatively