Directing Low-Cost Music Videos
A course by Juanma Carrillo
, Audiovisual Producer
How to produce and film a professional video with few resources
- Best seller Spanish with subtitles in English
- 95% positive reviews (321)
- 7661 students

How to produce and film a professional video with few resources
- 95% positive reviews (321)
- 7661 students
- 19 lessons (3h 24m)
- 33 additional resources (11 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish
- Spanish, English, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Polish, Dutch
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
Juanma Carrillo has created ads for international brands and clients such as the Community of Madrid and the FIRE!! cinema festival in Barcelona. However, it's in music videos that he finds the freedom he seeks to convey everything that inspires him. Good examples of this include the trilogy of video clips Premeditación, Nocturnidad y Alevosía that he directed for La Bien Querida and Ataraxia, which he directed for La Casa Azul.
To make a video clip, you must think in images while considering the tempo, rhythm, and lyrics of a song. What's more, you often need to adapt to budget constraints and tight deadlines. In this course, Juanma teaches you the entire process of creating low-cost music videos from beginning to end, including storyboard creation, pre-production, filming, and editing.

What will you learn in this online course?
Course table of contents
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U1U1. Introduction
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U2U2. Lights...
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U3U3. Camera...
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U4U4. Action!
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FPFP Final project
Begin by learning about Juanma's work and trajectory in the audiovisual world. He also tells you about his influences and the professionals he admires.
Next, he talks about the importance of visual documentation, revealing some of the sources of inspiration he uses to create dossiers to present to clients before creating a video.
Juanma shows you what materials are needed to carry out this type of project.
During the pre-production phase, he talks about the importance of good casting, location scouting, and how to translate all the specifications into a technical script based on references, which can help you to create the call sheet.
Once on set, Juanma reveals some shooting and lighting tricks and shares important information on directing actors for your video clip.
As for post-production, learn how to do the editing, color retouching, and project export to present it to a client.

What is this course's project?
Choose a song that you like and make a music video clip for it on a small budget but with incredible results.
Projects by course students
Who is this online course for?
Directors, editors, photographers, creators, and anyone interested in the world of music and cinema who wants to explore new forms of audiovisual production.
Requirements and materials
Although Juanma will show you the entire process for making a video clip, basic knowledge of photography and editing is recommended.
Regarding materials, you will need a video camera, a computer with an editing program installed, and the song that you want to illustrate with images.

Reviews

A course by Juanma Carrillo
Juanma studied audiovisual production in Madrid and Paris and worked for some time in the French music industry. His photographs have been published together with those of artists such as Nan Goldin, Sophie Calle, and Wolfang Tillmans. His audiovisual work moves between avant-garde cinema and video art, the latter being a discipline for which he has been awarded internationally for pieces such as This Leak, Cuerpos deshonrados, and Nineteen forty one.
His work appears in various documentaries and publications and has been featured at festivals around the world. He has also formed part of international juries at many film festivals and teaches masterclasses at various universities.
His passion for music has led him to the world of video clips, where his trilogy for La Bien Querida has been praised and awarded by critics and the public as has his piece Born Heroes, commended by David Bowie himself. Since 2012, he has been the image director for the international film festival FIRE!! in Barcelona, and between 2015 and 2017 he directed the theater company La joven compañía in Madrid. He currently runs his own advertising agency CSTUDIO between Madrid and Reykjavik.
Content
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U1
Introduction
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Presentation
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Influences I
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Influences II
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U2
Lights...
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Get inspired
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Visual documentation
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Technical and human team
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Casting
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Locations
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Technical script
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Filming plan
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U3
Camera...
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Set of filming I: behind the cameras
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Set of shooting II: lighting and fx
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Set of shooting III: the actors
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Filming
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U4
Action!
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Assembly I
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Assembly II
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Assembly III
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Color and postproduction
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Export the project
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FP
Final project
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Making low cost music videos
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Domestika's courses are online classes that provide you with the tools and skills you need to complete a specific project. Every step of the project combines video lessons with complementary instructional material, so you can learn by doing. Domestika's courses also allow you to share your own projects with the teacher and with other students, creating a dynamic course community.
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ry.mucino
Muy práctico y útil para desarrollar mis ideas, suficiente información y muy buenos recursos adicionales
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slourenco13
It is an interesting course. I recommend it a lot.
holaclarisse
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countrycat
Recomanable per qui necessita conèixer com començar a fer videoclips de forma més seriosa. Dóna eines per poder espavilar-te. Es centra més en la planificació i rodatge que no pas en la feina a Premiere, però també ho tracta una mica. Jo estic content d'haver-lo fet, el recomano.
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jesusmastrabajo
buen curso con muchos datos e informacion
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