Choosing the right music for your video
Background music plays a wicked important role in your video. It’s a powerful way to drive the video forward and create emotion around your message. However, choosing the right track for your video can get tricky. video service Toronto, small video production
Music influences feelings
How do you want your audience to feel when they watch your video? Should they be excited about your new product launch? Warm and fuzzy from your customer testimonial? On the verge of laughing from your candid in-office culture clip? All of these feelings have styles of music that will help evoke a specific emotion. video service toronto
Background music needs to stay in the background
In a lot of cases, good background music is the music that you didn’t even notice. If someone’s talking on screen, music shouldn’t get in the way. Songs should be avoided, or used with caution, that have sonic elements. These elements (frequencies) compete with the human voice from the video. When blending the audio from the video with the background music track, audio levels are to be adjusted and if needed certain frequencies should be equalized.
Music adds style
Picking an appropriate musical genre for your video is more about avoiding bad choices than anything else. Consider your target audience, as well as the nature of your video. For example, reggae would be ideal for a Jamaican rum company, or perhaps for a Caribbean resort, but probably wouldn’t work well for an accounting firm.
Using popular songs in your videos most likely violates copyright laws
Not to mention they won’t be popular for very long. Better choices are using music from royalty free music library or music in public domain.
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