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Lately I've been looking for a good place for free music to use commercially on my YouTube
Channel. If you want to make money off of videos with music in them, you need a commercial license for the music. Normally you have to pay a lot of money for these licenses. I found a free site where it's easy to find music with free commercial licenses.
The way to find the free commercially licensed music is simple. First, find the column with search at the top. Second, click sound (it's under everything) Third, go down to filter results. Go to the third item and click "to use commercially" Fourth, search for what you want using the big search bar.
Conclusion
I hope this helps! If you have a better site please share it in the comments. If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the comments, or on twitter @creativevideo12
Using a shot list becomes easy over time, and it makes your production day(s) much easier and simpler. I use a shot lists instead of story boards, but you can chose to do both, just a story board, or just a shot list. To use a shot list you must have two things. First, you need a shot list template. Second you need to know how to write. I'm pretty sure you can all manage this.
How to use a Basic shot list
The information you need to add to your shot list varies. The key things you want to add to your basic shot list are the shot numbers, shot type/ angle (e.g wide portrait, close portrait....etc), and action. You could use the image next to this paragraph for a basic shot list.
How to use a more inclusive shot list
If you want a more inclusive shot list use this one. For the more inclusive shot list you'll want. Your scene #, shot #, whether it's interior or exterior, shot type, location of the shot, description of the shot, and then any additional comments.
Tips
The shot list right here is the one that I use. However, I don't always fill in all of the blanks.
It's a good idea to have a folder to put your shot lists into. It's nice to have some sort of divider in between your different videos, and then also have each videos shot lists in order of the days of shooting. Remember that when your writing your shot list you want to put the shots in the order you'll shoot, not the order that you'll see in the final edit.
Conclusion
I hope this helps! If you have a better shot list, or any other tips please leave them in the comment section or ask me on twitter @creativevideo12.
Alright, online classes are really starting to take off. Many more families are able to homeschool because of this. Many college students are able to hold a full time job close to home, and also study as full time students. Now there is a place to take free online classes for filmmaking.
Filmmaking site
The name of the site is called coursera. Here is a list of their free classes.
Enhance your views is a website that allows you to earn credits to use on their site. I would only advise using it when your first starting out, and trying to get traffic to whichever medium your interested in.
How?
You can make credits by just simply letting it run in your browser. If your planning on using it for a YouTube video. Don't have the video monetized. You might get banned. Like I said earlier, I wouldn't use this all the time, just in the very beginning to gain traction.
Conclusion
Enhance your views is a great site for gaining traction in your area, or areas. If you have a better site please share.
The site is called beatpick. It has a ton of different songs. You can narrow down your results, and get a list of songs that will fit to your video perfectly.
Tricks
Now to downloads the songs for free there is a trick. First you have to find the song you want. Then add it to your beatlist.
After you have all of the songs your going to want, click the "license" icon in your beatlist. Once you've gotten to the licensing page click on "try before you license." Now fill out the form. You only have to give a real email. The rest of the information is irrelevant.
Other Way
The other way to get free music is to click on "Show only songs for free non commercial use" It's above the songs titles to the right. Then when you have all the songs you want click license. Once your to the licensing page click on "non commercial projects" Do what it asks, and there are your songs.
Conclusion
I hope this site helps you as much as it's helped me. If you have a better site to get music from please share.
A question that gets asked a lot is, "How to make a good YouTube video?" The answer to that question can vary a lot depending on the type of videos your making. However, there are some key components that remain the same across the board.
Equipment
The two biggest components in making a good video are video and audio. Now don't get me wrong, you DO NOT need a $800 camera, or a $300 dollar microphone to make a good video. What you do need is a camera that shoots decent quality video, and depending on the type of videos your making, you either need a microphone, other than the one on your camera, or clear sounding music to overlay the video. It is nice if you have good lighting, but that's another topic.
Software
Another thing you need is an editing software. There are many free ones out there. My favorites are, Windows Movie maker for a Windows operating system, Kdenlive for an Ubuntu operating system, and iMovie for a Mac running system. The one I use the most is by far Kdenlive, because it does a lot of things that Windows movie Maker and iMovie can't do.
You might also need an audio editor. I have found that Audacity works best for all running systems. It's easy to use, has a lot of great features like autotune, and it works great.
Content
Now that we have all of the equipment and software that we need, it's time to discuss content. The content in your video needs to be entertaining if it's going to be good. You can't make a very good video by filming a cup on the table.
To make interesting content you need to figure out the audience your trying to reach. A guy looking for video game commentary is not going to be interested in a makeup tutorial. In the same way a girl looking for a makeup tutorial is not going to be interested in a video game commentary.
So after you discover what your interested in making, let's say you chose to make a vlog. When people are watching a vlog they want to watch someone with an interesting personality tell an interesting story. They don't want to listen to a monotone person tell a story about their boring life. Do you see what I'm trying to say?
In the same way if your making short films, you need to tell a good story, not a boring story. When your making short films it's not just about a good story. You could have the greatest story ever, but if you don't execute the shooting and editing part, it could turn into a big blob of bad.
Recap
So for a recap we see that we need a few things to make a good video. We need a good camera, and a good microphone. We need an editing software for video, and sometimes for audio. But most importantly, we need a story that gets people interested.
Challenge
Tell me in the comments if you think this video failed. If it did fail, then tell me how it failed.
