A note to people making videos

Minor rant here:

The bad-ass-rock-music-playing-over-otherwise-silent-truck-video thing is tired and annoying.

There are some that are done really well, with appropriate music fading in and out at appropriate times to fill in the gaps between interesting bits of audio. Those are really good.

But there are also lot of crappy ones where it's like they're trying to make the vid cooler than it is with blaring music that the picture just doesn't live up to and it comes off as kinda sad.

I think my real problem is just with the inappropriate music... If you're making an Ultimate Fighting Championship clip video where people are getting punched in the face repeatedly, blood is flying, and people are getting thrown into stuff - THAT can have Powerman 5000 in the background.

Most Xterra videos rank more at the blues/pop level of excitement, though. Know what I mean?

i agree...and id rather hear the actaully audio from the vid anyways.

this topic isn't headed into the wrong direction is it???

I didn't know Steven Spielberg drove an Xterra!!! :rolleyes:

I can't help thinking that I'm one of the 'bad ass rock music' guys that Kaiser is talking about.

My 7 year-old daughter is my co-pilot & most of the time the audio is just lame. In between the unintelligible chirping of the FRS you've got random conversation & laughter punctuated by various oohs, ahhs & whoas. Aside from the occasional "Oh God we're gonna die!" moment, there just isn't anything interesting to hear.

Of course anything involving "Hey y'all, watch this!" or "Here, hold my beer." would be left as is.

I'll agree that most wheeling deserves somewhat mellow music. My first video (Edward's Park) was basically dirt road & a minor hill climb so I chose Anthrax' 'Black Lodge' for the driving part & Johnny Cash's cover of 'Rusty Cage' for the slower hill climb. Seemed appropriate at the time.

This latest video (Hassayampa) was mostly high-speed wash running so I chose 'angry' music for the soundtrack. Incidentally, the same type of music I was listening to that day. Coming down from the mine the focus got knocked out of whack or you would've heard me cranking 'Back in Black' which happened to be on the radio at the time.

I was going to go for a 'techno' vibe (Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Dirty Vegas), but I didn’t have enough of the right tracks to fill the video.

I guess I won't be using Drownig Pool's 'Bodies' any time soon.

I sure hope I'm not!
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I think there are a ton of amateur mistakes in the typical videos...the music having no relation to the action, the action not having any, um, action, the camera angles making the steep hill climb look like flat ground, leaving in boring banter, etc...

I think its because they're more like taking snap shots than photojournalism...the snap shot version of the music video if you will...

If this were a movie making forum...I'm sure the off roaders in THAT forum would be complaining about the lack of realistic off road scenarios, despite the inspiring sound tracks and cinamatography, etc...

Me too? I asked for an honest critique, got nothing. So go ahead.....
Its strictly music.....
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MGJ

I enjoy taking music from movie scores for the vids that I've made. Most of the music from these vids are from Spy Game. Haven't made any in a while though.

Bachelor Run 2006 - WARNING... over 40min long and almost 100MB

Shiloh Ridge