Total Newbie Producing Music Instructional Video

[dorono]

Hello all,

I'm looking to start a website with instructional videos for musicians. In the past, I've done a good amount of audio recording and a tiny bit of video with my basic FlipCam and iMovie.

However, I'd like these 30-60min videos to look professional, ideally with 2 cameras, but am at a total loss as far as first steps. I'm not sure if I should hire out a videographer, or if I should just rent some equipment and find a video-savvy friend to help me run the equipment (since by myself I haven't a clue).

Ideally, I'd love to spend about $1000 on the video, but I realize that this might be unrealistic.

Does anyone have any ideas as far as where to begin and how much I could expect to spend? (I'm probably not giving you nearly enough info)

Thanks so much!

Doron

[Cornucopia]

Ok doctor-in-training, are you trying to apply a topical ointment for poison ivy, trying to fix a broken arm, or trying to do emergency brain surgery?

Iow, what level of quality, professionalism and complexity are you expecting? Topic? Program length? Audience? Time constraints? Other equipment?

Scott

[Hoser Rob]

30 to 60 minutes sounds too long to me.

[dorono]

Hello there,

Basically, I am looking to do something like what you see here:
http://truefire.com/tftv/index.html?channel=jump-start-acoustic&videofile=mp4:guitar-j...rgjsag01-intro.

The audience would be musicians viewing the video over the net. As for other equipment, unfortunately, I don't know that first thing about what equipment I'd need besides a good camera and professional lighting, possibly some mics if the camera's mic is not sufficient.

As for 30-60 minutes being too long, I can tell you that there are many instructional videos that last that long. I would be breaking the video into as many short chapters as possible, but I personally don't see a problem with a 30-60 minute video as long as it consists of useful and compelling content, no?

Thanks guys!

Doron

[Hoser Rob]

I know many instructional guitar videos that long, but I don't know of any on the web. No one plays through a whole dvd at one time, and I just don't think it'd work streamed. Breaking it up into smaller parts would be a lot better.

[dorono]

Yep, if you go to the link I included im my last post, you can see that the video is broken into many small micro-videos. But to get all of those micro-videos, you need the raw footage which can be between 30-60 mins in my experience. Does that make sense, or am I missing something?