Song#2 All on this farm - Final Product

Yosh! Here's the last part of the 5 part series for song #2. Let's get started!

1. Idea Stage
2. Composing and Arranging Stage
3. Recording Stage
4. Mastering Stage aka apply-some-magic-time
5. Final Product

Here's the intro blog on everything you need to know here :)

Soundcloud upload

All done, I uploaded it to my soundcloud down below:

Filming the Music Video

This round, I incorporated the scenes around my hometown Penang as imagery for the MV. My initial idea was having a static subject with background that changes with the music. The subject is none other than GF's toy sheep/lamb :)

I used my trusty 3y/o Canon Ixus camera to record Full HD (1980x1080p) the scenes where the subject was filmed. Occasionally the scenes had little movement, so I had to swap it out for others which are more dynamic. It took my and my unknowing girlfriend a whole day driving around the island to get the shot. We covered from Balik Pulau, San Nen Goat farm, Teluk Bahang dam, Armenian Street and many others (try guessing them from the MV!)

To process it, this time I went back to Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2016 for the editing and arrangement of the videos.I added a little title screen with a TV blur from Jarle's Presets 2.0 and some manual jiggling for the harmonica part. I used a stock picture of two men playing the harmonica which was really funny, because the other guy in the rear was looking at the harmonica dude so intently - like 'WTF are you doing' kind of stare.

The stock picture

The jiggling

Also, Handbrake was used to compress the final video for upload. I made a mistake with the conversion and ended up with a 300Mb 3minute MV to upload in Full HD (FYI it took a whole night of uploading on my broadband speed :( )

Final Product

With that said, here's the MV in full glory for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!

PS. Well well, my gf loved it again! Score 2 for song #2!!😄

Song#1 Missing Piece - Final Product

Good morning! Here's the last part of the 5 part series. Let's get it going!

1. Idea Stage
2. Composing and Arranging Stage
3. Recording Stage
4. Mastering Stage
5. Final Product

Here's the intro blog on everything you need to know here :)

Soundcloud upload

With the audio completed, I uploaded it to my Soundcloud account in full glory, where you can listen in relative HD below

Preparing the Music Video

To prepare the music video for this song for upload on my Youtube account, I used my trusty Adobe After Effects CC.

What I had in mind was to create some sort of music visualiser spectrum, like those you see in iTunes. After some searching online, I came across this great resource video teaching exactly that:

I went for the simplest animation as possible with pink/maroon lines for the spectrum and the song title in the middle. I added my profile picture in the corner so that I could create Youtube annontations for viewers to click-to-subscribe later (though it was unnecessary with the latest 'end-card' tool)

The only problem with the rendered output from After Effects is that the file is a freaking 19.4GB large!! Lucky the freeware gods has graced us with Handbrake, a video utility which I used to compress the file into a manageable 18.1MB. Here's how I did it:

1. Previously, I've saved a settings profile specifically for Youtube uploads as in this picture below.
   
   

   

   Youtube settings profile

2. Here are my settings for that
   
   
3.  Be sure to click 'add audio tracks' or else your video won't have any
   

Final Product

Without further ado, let me present to you the final music video!

 PS. My gf loved it! Score one for song #1!!😄

Sheet music free DL here
https://www.4shared.com/office/7kmSWVy9ba/Missing_Piece.html