How I Make Fiddle Music Videos (Behind the Scenes in 2020) | Katy Adelson

Here is a behind-the-scenes video that shows how I made my music videos in 2020! I often get comments asking how I make my music videos, or whether or not I have a crew helping me -- I currently make all of my videos by myself. I hope that I'll someday be able to get some help, but at this point, hiring help would be too expensive.

I had filmed many little clips as I created all of my videos this year hoping that I could release vlogs alongside the music videos. It ended up being way too much to edit while also trying to release music videos once a month, so I stored the vlog footage on a portable hard drive. I decided to try to stitch together clips from all of my music videos into a behind-the-scenes video. Hopefully this will help answer a few questions regarding the process I use to make videos.

The video references music videos by my video creation process rather than chronologically. First is filming the footage alongside a set tempo, and the second step is fine-tuning the audio tracks. Ideally, I'd have those steps reversed and only film once I have a solid track created, but I pretty much drop everything I'm working on and film if a weekend pops up with nice weather (especially in winter; it's surprisingly difficult to get nice "warmish" weather in the mountains on a weekend in the winter).

I gloss over a lot of the tiny details behind editing backing tracks and actual videos. If people like these kind of "behind the scenes" videos, I could make more videos about music/video creation. People seem have liked the little behind-the-scenes clips at the end of my music videos that I had started to add.

I think the biggest thing I struggle with is taking a thought I have in my head and accurately bringing it into the "real world." It's so easy to think of neat things, and so easy to imagine magical music, but so hard to dig them out of my head and bring them to life. I now think it's extremely important to "practice creating stuff," just like it's important to practice a sport, or an instrument. I'm still pretty far from bringing my ideas to life the way I imagine them, but I'm slowly getting better at it. Maybe

It was kind of weird watching my energy level over time as I edited this video. I was so happy and excited at the beginning of the year, and pretty drained at the end. 2020 was rough. Hopefully 2021 will be better!

I apologize that my stomach was growling for the entire voice-over/discussion part. I was really

Thank you for watching, stay safe, and I hope you have a good rest of the week! =)

~ Katy

Music: Moonrise - by Reed Mathis:

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Software and equipment used:

Full list of all my basic violin equipment:


Violin gear:
Violin: 1899 Ernst Kreusler “Copy of Antonius Stradivarius” violin from Germany
Bow: CodaBow Luma
Strings: Evah Pirazzi Violin Strings (with a ball E)
Rosin: Salchow Rosin
Shoulder Rest: Bonmusica Shoulder Rest

Software used (for Macintosh):
Logic Pro for attempted sound mixing
Final Cut Pro for video editing
for the ending cards

Plugins for sound effects (I have A LOT to learn in this department!):
East West plugins – Goliath Virtual Instrument, Stormdrum II
Best Service Forest Kingdom II by Eduardo Tarilonte (See: )

Camera:
Canon 70D + 18-135 mm kit lens
Sony RX100 V
DJI Spark

Microphone for audio recording:
Blue Woodpecker
Zoom H1 Handy Recorder