Research

Research Techniques for adding lots of text to a video

One of the main issues in added text to a music video is that there is a focus issue. You are not able to read text and listen to the lyrics very easily at the same time. When words are added to music videos, these are normally only the lyrics of the sung words only. If words are put on the screen, other than the lyrics, they need to be short easy-to-read sentences in the way of a slogan.

Another challenge is how to put words on a screen in an artistic and interesting way. A good example is shown in the YouTube video below:

Tom Waits - Come On Up to the House

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GugzLSbOQE

This next video is an animated collage making text as part of the fabric to the video rather than something that is added on.

Audioslave - Original Fire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1mexmK6bDY