Split Screen Music Videos?

[Rocco Rocco]

No kidding…. Looks it ;o) He has a great voice. I like the style of the film on the right; looks like it’d be interesting on its own.

[Trent Whittington]

Hey fellow COW’s, thanks for your links and ideas, it has really helped 🙂

Below is a video of what we are going to do for our music video.

WARNING: BAD ACTING!

SPLIT SCREEN TEST FIXED from Trent Whittington on Vimeo.

Also I was wondering if you had any tips/tricks on keeping continuity? Or how we could make it more interesting???

Trent Whittington – Currently studying Associate Degree in Digital Television

iMac – 24inch 3.06Ghz, FC STUDIO 2, Adobe Production Premium CS4.
Asus eee – 8.9inch 1.6Ghz 1Gb Ram, Windows XP

[Rory Brennan]

Maybe not the best example, but I’ve always loved this. Very easy to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO3X13WA1a4

Rory Brennan
Editor
New York City

[Mike Cohen]

While not a music video, check out Timecode from director Mike Figgis. He shot the 90 minute movie using 4 synced digibeta camcorders. It’s all one take and the 4 cameras follow different action that eventually converges. They had to do several takes, since one screw-up and all is lost.

A better use of split screen, especially if you are doing this with one actor, is to do the poor man’s version of Kylie’s video. One locked down shot per scene, and have the actor do his thing in different vertical slices of the scene, then crop each take on a separate layer to make it look like all one scene. Sync is the challenge – you will have to record and play back a lot on set, and do not touch the camera.

Good luck.

Mike Cohen