When adding music to your video, you practically put your finger right on the mood key of your viewer. The music in your video can also add even more tension, excitement, calm, fear and other emotions in the frame.
All people react differently to one or another tune, but there is something you can absolutely rely on when you add music to a video. Here are some specific emotions that music (backing track) can enhance:
Voltage . Music with the intense nature of the sound itself creates tension or dissonance, depending on what you want to emphasize. Creating tension or dissonance puts the listener in a state of excitement. Music that goes from melody to knock, rattle and dissonance will create a sense of tension (or even anger) in the viewer. Sounds and rhythms can also create tension in the frame, especially when hard and abrasive sounds appear for a short and jerky time.
Calm . Music that has little or no dissonance can be characterized as soothing and harmonious. Combine a simple harmonious melody with slow or even lazy, steady notes, and you will get an unmistakable recipe that can calm even a wild beast. Soft notes will cover the viewer with a wave of comfort and warmth. Follow the stress, from soft to vibrant music, and vice versa.
The excitement . Your heart receives exciting and energetic emotions when playing fast and rhythmic music. Action by action, chase and sport scenes will allow you to get the most out of fast-paced and energetic music. Add driving notes to your video, and you will raise the emotions of the audience several times.
Anticipation (Pending) . This type of music seems to be an unanswered question, and can cause a great expectation from the viewer. Like tension, anticipation often moves toward the unknown. The notes rising higher sharpen the sense of expectation and anticipation of your viewer, making him feel more and more emotions.
Fear or a sense of danger . Menacing low notes served as a great prelude in the movie Jaws, and this is a great example of music that triggers powerful emotions. This musical motive was simple and frightening at the same time. Low notes are not the only method to convey a sense of danger and fear, but high notes that soar like fog in the air can also perfectly transmit excitement.
It should be noted that the use of "wrong" music in the scene can allow you to emotionally affect the viewer. Contrasting peaceful, calming music during a bloody and military scene can make it even more dramatic and unrealistically terrible. Do not be afraid to break the rules, because it happens that the “wrong musical composition” is best suited at the moment.
Music sources
Now you’ve learned about the real power of music and how it can enhance the emotions of your video. There are several places where you can find music for your video or presentation.
If you had an idea to post your video in open sources or on media resources (youtube, vimeo, etc.), then the rules for using (license agreement) music change. If you want to sell your video or show it publicly, then you should avoid using tracks on a CD until you ensure that you have the proper rights to use your music line. To do this, you must contact the music publisher and the musicians. You will need to pay a small license fee for the track that you used in your video.
Today, a computer can easily turn into a small music studio, so creating your own music is becoming easier and easier. A few years ago you would need to have a special music keyboard or synthesizer connected to a PC, and today almost all modern and even inexpensive sound cards have a MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) synthesizer.
If you do not have any musical talents or time, then you probably know those who know how to do it professionally. Try to find
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If you need simple instrumental music in the background, then your camcorder and local musicians can help. Find artists who live in your city who can play exactly the music you need and ask them to play for your video.
Meet them in a quiet place with a minimal amount of echo and place your microphone 3 meters away from them (if it is not loud enough, come a little closer). After recording a song, be sure to listen to it in the headphones. Let your musicians listen to the recording so that they can understand how and what they should play, louder or quieter. And write them down again. You will get the best result if you work with acoustic instruments, an external microphone of good quality and a special recorder for sound.
There are several other aspects that you should pay attention to when overlaying audio on a video. When you make music at home, do not forget that the quality makes a tangible difference. After all, if you yourself make or record music for yourself, then all the same, emotions and quality of performance are the most important aspect. Keep in mind that your audience will feel better the emotion that you wanted to convey to them if you play on a simple harmonica than on an instrument for tens of thousands of dollars.
Keep track of the volume level of your music. You can get so carried away with music that you forget that in your video there is, for example, an important dialogue of two people that your audience was waiting to hear. Music should enhance the action of the video and accompany the dialogue, but not suppress it. Remember two important facts when you adjust the volume level of a musical series: firstly, you probably know this dialogue so well that you will hear it even when the sound is muted, but your viewers will most likely not be satisfied if they even watch each scene 300 times with dialogue. Secondly, everyone has a natural tendency to lay music at a higher volume than video, but you always make music quieter than the sound of the clip itself.
When in your video the right music plays at the right time, then there is some indescribable magic. Your viewers will not just watch the video, they will feel it and live every second in it.