Slo-Mo for hip hop videos

the answer is......whatever speed looks cool to you. I will give a cool idea though.....if you shoot 48fps and playback the audio track at double speed having the singers/artists lipsync to the double speed audio, when you play the video back at 24 fps you will have that cool slow motion singing effect. Although, I don't have any examples of this on my website, I have done this trick many times and it looks great
have fun....
Eric

www.spitfirefilms.com
 
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Eric, that is a very great tip!!! I appreciate it. Another question tho if you dont mind, whats the most common setting tho? that would look good if you wanted the subject to walk thru the club.
 
Chris Le said:
whats the most common setting tho? that would look good if you wanted the subject to walk thru the club.
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There is no "most common setting". Grab your camera and shoot someone walking. Try a few different frame rates and see what looks "cool" to you.
 
if the place is packed with hotties and the music is pumpin' then the slower the better, but as OZDUC mentioned....if you like it then it is the correct frame rate.
my idea with frame rates are that the idea or scenario should dictate the mood. sometimes I would should ultra slo motion (no on video, but film) then other times if I want to get the feeling of real life but just take the edge off then maybe shoot 30fps or 32 fps it is just enough slow things down but not make it look manipulated.
Eric
 
if you shoot 60 fps then be sure to speed up the audio playbackt the appropriate percentage for the slow motion singing/lipsync. I use 48fps since it is easy to speed up the track in any audio program or even FCP 100%
Eric
 
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