Watch me compose?

[c3h4ohcooh3]

Hey everyone,

So I'm a composer, and I had an idea recently that I want to run by everyone here. If I, or any composer for that matter, were to post time-lapse videos of them doing their composing on Youtube, do you think they attract much attention or get many views?

Allow me to explain my idea further. Basically the composer would use a screen recording program, like Fraps, to record him writing a piece in his DAW from start to finish. Then the footage would be sped up and the audio removed. After that, he would record a commentary track in which he might talk about the piece, music in general, play clips or ideas that he had along the way, or he could even just treat the commentary like a vlog. And of course at the end of the video the completed piece would played.

The idea stems from a few different types of videos that I've watched on Youtube. There are "Let's Play" videos where people record themselves playing a video/computer game while commentating; and there are speed-painting videos where artists record themselves drawing something into Photoshop and speed up the footage. I enjoy both of these types of videos, and I thought it might be cool if I could turn composing into more of a visual art by drawing inspiration from them.

Also, this was the cheapest way I could think of to make anything resembling a "music video." It's still not free, though. I'd like to get your opinions on the feasibility of this idea before I start considering spending the ~$200 I expect it will cost to get the materials I need to give this a shot.

[midimachine]

it'd be more interesting to lock yourself in a room with a microphone for like 24 hours making a song and record a time lapse of your time in there

but still not very interesting

[jarrydn]

sounds thrilling

...zzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Back-From-Purgatory]

Curious...

What's the point of having a video of you creating a song... when you disable the audio? Kind of eliminates the appeal of watching someone create a song if you can't hear what they're doing.

These kinds of videos work with painting/drawing because the art form is purely visual in nature... And "Lets Play" videos aren't sped up.

You'd be better off doing a live stream of you creating a song... But you won't get any views from doing so unless you create some awesome music and have a fairly large following already. No one wants to watch an amateur that nobody has ever heard of create a song (Not saying you are... well, I wouldn't know, but my point still stands), even if there is audio.

[ShiningFaith]

At 11/29/11 03:04 AM, Back-From-Purgatory wrote: Curious...

What's the point of having a video of you creating a song... when you disable the audio? Kind of eliminates the appeal of watching someone create a song if you can't hear what they're doing.

These kinds of videos work with painting/drawing because the art form is purely visual in nature... And "Lets Play" videos aren't sped up.

You'd be better off doing a live stream of you creating a song... But you won't get any views from doing so unless you create some awesome music and have a fairly large following already. No one wants to watch an amateur that nobody has ever heard of create a song (Not saying you are... well, I wouldn't know, but my point still stands), even if there is audio.

This...

Unless you put some time and energy into it to make it a really smooth video, like...time lapse the boring parts and resume normal speeds (with audio) for the informative parts etc...but yeah, still not interesting. It's like watching a chess game :(

[FaeryTaleAdventurer]

I had an idea very close to this, but it was based on bloopers.

[Atlas]

I'd watch it if maybe you played a good song or if you played the finished song and it was good.

[Thegluestickman]

Wouldn't there be a high chance of theft? I mean if someone knew exactly how you made a song and watched you put notes in, they could take it for themselves.

[midimachine]

If someone steals the song for themself then they probably deserve the credit more for being able to make out every note and effect/instrument parameter in a three to five minute time-lapse video of someone dicking around in a DAW :V

[jarrydn]

At 12/1/11 06:10 PM, midimachine wrote: If someone steals the song for themself then they probably deserve the credit more for being able to make out every note and effect/instrument parameter in a three to five minute time-lapse video of someone dicking around in a DAW :V

someone with more time than myself could turn it into the worst lossy compression method ever.