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Updates 12-01-2018

My Dear Followers,

I don’t know why and I’ve received no explanation from Google, my original Update Google Group has suddenly disappeared. I’ve had to re-start a new group.

I found out on October 4th, Google had removed my Group once again.

I’ve decided to post my updates once a month on Tumblr! I hope this will work out well for all who wish to keep up with the new additions to my website!

Here are the latest uploads to my website!

Hopefully, the next newsletter will be displayed January 1st, 2019.

To All Members:

A Reminder – If something isn’t working, please, don’t be shy; let me know so I can fix it!

Daddy’s webpage links

For those wishing to explore, here are the all the links to Daddyshere Website Pages!

http://www.daddyshere.com/daddyshere-webpages.html

Currently there are now 228 artists, as well as 115 3D, render artists, whose works are on display at my website!

There are also two pages of “Assorted Artists”, whose works I have in limited numbers as well as “Assorted 3D Artists”, along with the “Gay Poser Artists” group and Unknown Poser Artists.

If you haven’t gone to the “Assorted Artists” pages, you should check them out! There are many good art pieces I’m sure you’ll like! See the links below!

However, for those who are unfamiliar with my pages, you’ll find several erotic, gay, art works by many other artists at these pages, including my own work.

http://www.daddyshere.com/assorted-artists.html (8 or less samples of other artists’ works. Names are in alphabetical order)

http://www.daddyshere.com/assorted-artists-2.html (8 or less samples of other artists’ works. Names are in alphabetical order.)

http://www.daddyshere.com/gayart.html

http://www.daddyshere.com/gay-artists-list.html

http://www.daddyshere.com/gay-artist-samples.html (A sample of each artist’s work.)

http://www.daddyshere.com/gay-artist-samples_02.html (A sample of each artist’s work.)

http://www.daddyshere.com/gay-poser-artists-list.html

http://www.daddyshere.com/a-p-a.html (8 or less samples of other render artists’ works. Names are in alphabetical order)

http://www.daddyshere.com/a-p-a_02.html (8 or less samples of other render artists’ works. Names are in alphabetical order)

http://www.daddyshere.com/poser3d.html (A sample of each artist’s work.)

http://www.daddyshere.com/u-p-a.htm (Unknown Render Artists list.)

http://www.daddyshere.com/myart.html (Artwork by Mickey “Daddy” Ray)

As you’ve probably noticed, Daddy has been very busy with a new project in creating transparencies of all the artists listed at my website.

I have added two pages of transparent gifs of 207 artists currently at my website and will continue to create more as new artists are added.

You can find the transparency links on all the pages listed above, and here are the direct links as well! I hope you enjoy!!

http://www.daddyshere.com/gay-artist-samples.html

http://www.daddyshere.com/gay-artist-samples_02.html

*BTW: Just to clarify, “New Art or New Renders” does not, necessarily, mean the art is new from the artist, but that the images have been newly added or updated to the artists’ pages at my site.

Daddy’s Other Webpage Links

If you haven’t checked out all of Daddy’s Special Pix, there are many sensuous photos to be seen in all the other series available to browse through.

http://www.daddyshere.com/daddy's-men-and-boyz.html

http://www.daddyshere.com/daddys-and-sons.html

http://www.daddyshere.com/daddys-pix.html

http://www.daddyshere.com/chrisw.html (Daddy’s #1 ‘Son’. This goes back several years. Chris is bisexual and is now married to a terrific gal whom I got to meet two years ago.)

Do You Enjoy Erotic, Gay fiction? Check out these pages!

http://www.daddyshere.com/daddys-and-sons-erotic-fiction.html

http://www.daddyshere.com/stories.html

http://www.daddyshere.com/sox-stories.html

Are you a creative writer of erotic, gay stories? Want to submit a story? Click on the link below!

http://www.daddyshere.com/submitstories.html

Artwork

(The links below lead to artworks which are primarily gay friendly. Some are erotic in nature, others are paintings and portraits of men in various media and positions. While many of the artists are openly gay, some are not but they have created artwork well worth seeing!)

UNKNOWN ARTISTS – I could really use your help in identifying the artists on this page. Some look very familiar to me, but with over 170 artists on my list, it’s hard to remember them all and their individual styles. Perhaps, in looking over the page, you’ll see images you recognize and maybe even have a signed copy and/or a larger version.

http://www.daddyshere.com/unknown-artists.html

If you do see an image you recognize and know who the artist is, please write to me ([email protected]) and let me know. I would love to give these works their identity and the give the artists the credit for their work. To view the page, just click on the bold, underlined link above. – Thank you!

NEW ART!

*Asterisks denote artwork for which I have created transparencies. Enjoy!

New art by Aenaluck, *“Halloween 2018”, *“Servaney’s Erotic Dream Again”, *“Audec Working Hard in the Rain”

http://www.daddyshere.com/aenaluck-2018.html

New art by DAD, *“The Snake 1 - 3”

http://www.daddyshere.com/dad.html

New art by DatingDick, “Black Friday”, *“Veteran’s Day”, **“Adam’s Ugly Sweater 1 & 2”, *“Bernard’s Ugly Sweater”, *“Dick’s Ugly Sweater”, *“Santa’s Lap”

http://www.daddyshere.com/datingdick-2018.html

New art by Greg Fox II, “Bed and Breakfast “500 - 502”

http://www.daddyshere.com/greg-fox-02.html

New art by Gregoire, *“Halloween Trick”

http://www.daddyshere.com/assorted-artists.html

New art by Mitchell, *“Brick Arrives at the Clinic”, “Brick Undresses”, “Brick Waits for the Doctor”

www.daddyshere.com/mitchell's-brick-and-the-mad-scientists.html

New art by Otokonobo (Bo), *“Big Dick Daddy”

http://www.daddyshere.com/otokonobo.html

New art by Silverjow, *“Hunk of the Week #82”, “Black Panther”, *“Hunk of the Week #83”, *“Smokie Dokie”, “Nathan Callum”, *“Sakura Strolls 1 - 3”, *“Hunk of the Week #84”, *“Summer Breeze”, *“Hunk of the Week #85”, “Trevor Signorino”, *“Capricorn”

http://www.daddyshere.com/silverjow-2018.html

New art by Zane Nox, *“Happy Halloween”, “Angel Ganev” *“Taking Photo #9”, “Alex Cohen”, “Neon Hunk”

http://www.daddyshere.com/zane-nox.html

NEW 3D RENDER ART

Asterisks denote renders for which I have created transparencies. Enjoy!

New renders by Alexavier19, “Intergalactic Porn”, *“Sunbathing” “Special Training”, *“Titans”, *“Jock Pussy”

http://www.daddyshere.com/alexavier.html

New renders by 5200north, “Tyler at the Motel Balcony”, *“Bobby”, “Bobby in a Bathtub”

http://www.daddyshere.com/a-p-a.html

New renders by Botguy, “Don’t Stop ‘Till You Drop”

http://www.daddyshere.com/botguy-2018.html

New renders by Brake (Jon), “Half Time”, *“Release”, “Play Ball”

http://www.daddyshere.com/jon-brake-2018.html

New renders by Butchsl, *“Catching the Breath”, *“The Car Park”, *“The Peacekeeper”

http://www.daddyshere.com/butchsl-2018-2.html

New renders by Alan Davis, “Frat Dorm Fuck”, *“Young Rugby Players”

http://www.daddyshere.com/alan-davis-2018-2.html

New renders by Homoeros, *****“Lockerroom 1 - 6”, *“Jay, the Bodyguard 1 & 2”, **“Chad – Young Bodybuilder 1 & 2”, ********“The Bodyguard 021 – 038”, “Blacksmith *001, 006, 009, *010, *012, *016”, ****“Last Chance Gas Station 1 – 7”

http://www.daddyshere.com/homoeros-2018-6.html

Javier, Michael, *"Fallout: Let’s Explore", “Fallout: Get ‘Em”

http://www.daddyshere.com/javiermicheal-2018.html

New renders by Jepe, *“Bedding #4”, *“Bedding #5”, *“Bedding #6”, *“Bedding #7”, *“Bedding #8”, *“Bedding #9”, *“Bedding #10”, *“Forest Drive 1, 2 & 3”, **“Fata Morgana 1 – 3”, *“Rain Will Fall 1 -3”, *“City College”, *“College Ways”, *“College Shower”, *“Legacy Tye 1 – 3”, *“The End of the Track 1 & 2”

http://www.daddyshere.com/jepe-2018-2.html

New renders by Kamion, ***“I Am Den 22 - 27”

http://www.daddyshere.com/kamion-2016-2018.html

New renders by Kevizz, *“Happy Halloween”, “Robin”, *“Naughty Santa”, *“Strip Poker Club”, *“Spartan”

http://www.daddyshere.com/kevizz-2018-3.html

New renders by Lundquist, *“Field Runner”, “Boxing Promotion”

http://www.daddyshere.com/lundquist-2018.html

New Renders by Mack22, “Hey! This is a Non-Smoking Room!”, *“Anytime! Anywhere!”

http://www.daddyshere.com/mack22-2018.html

New Renders by Marco (Aztec), *“Jason”, *“Autumn”, “Naked Marine”, *“Atlas”, “Atlas animated gif”, “Well Used”, *“In the Thrall of Mr. Mind”

http://www.daddyshere.com/marco-aztec-2017-2018.html

New Renders by Sean Martin, “Where Are We Again?”, *“Anything Needs Plowing?”, *“Wanna See What’s in the Mancave?”, *“Falling into a Depressive State”, *“Nyah, Nyah, Nyah, Nyah, Nyah, Nyah!”, *“Appearances”, *“A Bit of Warmth”, *“The Way We Were”, *“The Boxer”

http://www.daddyshere.com/sean-martin-2018.html

New Renders by McPhee, (Rusty), *“Champion of the Northern Realm”, “Sweet Dreams, Sweet Prince”, *“Lunch Break”, “Hans Loves Big, Black Dicks”, *“Greedy”

http://www.daddyshere.com/mcphee-2018.html

New renders by Nemper, *****“The Next Day – pages 119 - 139 ”

http://www.daddyshere.com/the-next-day-I.html

New renders by Nemper, *“New Socks”, *“Doom”

http://www.daddyshere.com/nemper-2018.html

New renders by Oztangles, *“Chillin’”

http://www.daddyshere.com/oztangles-2018.html

New Renders by Radar Rad Dude, *“Assumed He Was Alone in His Room”, *“My Grandma Is My Pimp”

http://www.daddyshere.com/radar_rad-dude-2018.html

New renders by Roco, “Can't A Guy Get Any Privacy These Days!”, “Devon Portrait”, “Selfie”, “Rusty”, “Centaur at Waterfall”

http://www.daddyshere.com/roco-2018.html

New renders by Sagitarian71, *“Twins of the 70’s”, *“Jodete��

http://www.daddyshere.com/sagitarian71-2018.html

New renders by Thorvan, “Kevin's Beautiful Butt”, “Juan's Statue”, “I Am Proud of Who I Am”, “Nathan Stands Proudly”, “Bhodan Dances”, “Eriodan Poses in Blue Light”, “Happy Fucking Halloween”, “The Look of Curiosity

Aio - The King's Guard”, “Cjhallym'aur Tempts His Onlookers”, “Feeling the Green of Envy”, “The Best of Friends”, “You Caused This Erection”, “Yaldur - the Elvin Prince”, “Nightsky Guardian”, *“Phourusj the Persian and Yaldur the Elven Flirt”, *“Phourusj the Persian 1 - 4”, *“Phourusj and Yaldur Kiss”, *“Phourusj and Yaldur Relaxing Together”, *“A Little Evening Music”, *“How to Stir Into Action”, *“Need Tats?”, *“Presto! Ta-dahh!”, *“Cheers”, *“Phourusj is Delightfully Erect”, *“Tantric Hug”, *“Phourusj and Nathan - In the Sunshine”, *“Phourusj and Nathan - Stretching Dorsal Muscles”, *“Bhojdan Enjoying the Full Moon Light”, *“Phourusj and Nathan - Being Suspended”, *“Aggadi”, “Before Yul”, ***“Eriodan 1 – 4”, “Phourusj’s Reflection”, *“Phourusj Poses”, “Leif Erik contemplates His Swelling Cock”, *“Mubamba Invites You to Enjoy It!”, “Dark Handsome and Sexy”, *“It Must Have Been THIS Big!”

http://www.daddyshere.com/thorvan-2018-7.html

New renders by Uncollared, “Hope Everyone Had a Fun Halloween”, *“Ice Cream Party”, *****“Home for Thanksgiving 1 - 6”, “Quiet! Why Do I Bring You?”

http://www.daddyshere.com/uncollared-2018.html

New renders by Vadim, *“Denton”

http://www.daddyshere.com/vadim-2018.html

SOX FETISH

Here are the links to all of Daddy’s sox pages! (If they don't open automatically, just copy and paste into your browser!)

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http://www.daddyshere.com/hotmeninsox.html

http://www.daddyshere.com/hotmeninsox-2.html

http://www.daddyshere.com/hotmeninsox-3html

http://www.daddyshere.com/hotmeninsox-4.html

http://www.daddyshere.com/hotmeninsox-5.html

http://www.daddyshere.com/hotmeninsox-6.html

http://www.daddyshere.com/hotmeninsox-7.html

http://www.daddyshere.com/hotmeninsox-8.html

http://www.daddyshere.com/hotmeninsox-9.html

http://www.daddyshere.com/hotmeninsox-10.html

http://www.daddyshere.com/hotmeninsox-11.html

http://www.daddyshere.com/daddys-sox.html

http://www.daddyshere.com/housesox.html

http://www.daddyshere.com/sox-art.html

http://www.daddyshere.com/sox-stories.html

www.daddyshere.com/bachelor.html

www.daddyshere.com/backwoods_01.html

www.daddyshere.com/backwoods_02.html

www.daddyshere.com/familyties.html

www.daddyshere.com/garage.html

www.daddyshere.com/saltnpepper.html

www.daddyshere.com/shoesalesman.html

www.daddyshere.com/soxmaster.html

www.daddyshere.com/whitesox.html

How about you? Got a fantasy that this photo brings about! Feel free to submit it to me by sending it to [email protected]!

Here are the links to almost ALL the pages at Daddyshere website.

http://www.daddyshere.com/daddyshere-webpages.html

If you find a posting or message from Daddy offensive, inappropriate, or disruptive, it’s not intentional, please ignore it...

If you don’t know how to ignore a posting or a message, complain to me and I will be only too happy to demonstrate...

I’m always looking for new, male to male erotic artists and writers! Is that YOU?

Submit works to me via email: [email protected]. If I like your work and they’re suitable for my website, I’ll add them to the pages accordingly!

I will not display your work without giving you notice and getting your permission to do so.

To have your own artwork page, you must submit at least 15 original, male erotic, works...they must be signed with your logo or signature, and include a statement that they are YOUR work and not images from another artist and that you give Mickey “Daddy” Ray the right to display them at his website, www.Daddyshere.com.

I wish to thank the following individuals and the various online groups that help to keep Daddyshere website always active and interesting to check out! Travis the Steed, Tag, Ronald Greenfield, Cleofus Di Bombadine, Eddie Scheck, Daddy G, Small Raven, Odanny Dannyo, Raw Recruit 2000, Zach, C. Smith, Bob Hickey, Philly Btm, Neil Ryder, Daniel Hernandez, Mario Lopez, Wesley Crusher, Harry Mulford, Doug Bill, Gary Gillingwater, and PAX for many of the photos, animated images and erotic fiction displayed at my site. These are the groups via many of the above names have sent their contributions of art. Gay Magazine Fiction, Gay Poser Art, Gay Toons, Gay Toons 2, Harry Bush Shrine, Male Art Toons (MAT), Mitchmen, Playgirl Group, DeviantArt, Renderotica, MalePoserotica 3D and Ulf’s Blog! This list may grow as time goes on!

Best wishes to you all!

Daddy

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mediathroughabby · 7 years

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MISTAKES HAPPEN

Whether you are an avid social media poster, journalist, a mix of the two, etc., you are bound to make a mistake. Luckily, most mistakes are able to be edited quickly - but not always.

It’s obvious that one should always prepare for possible mistakes, but sometimes things happen that you weren't expecting or failed to think of. Know how to fight instead of relying on your flight response.

As a journalist, of any sorts, you should professionally know how to immediately handle situations where a mistake was made. Though, hopefully, you can catch them all before it becomes a published piece.

If you are live:

Push through! Some of the best work comes out of mistakes being made. If you are able to improvise, adapt, and overcome to keep going then you look much better than the person who hides behind the accidental comment or wording - if you were a company, pulling through to look as professional as possible outweighs the company that stumbles after a mistake and looks sloppy, unprepared.

Maddie Ziegler, a professional dancer and star in Sia’s music videos, recently went on tour with Sia as the lead dancer. During one of her performances her leotard broke, but she didn't miss a beat. At only 14 years old she moved a crowd and portrayed professionalism - so, no excuses in the digital/print world!

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If a mistake was uploaded:

APOLOGIZE. I can't stress enough how important it is to be a voice that talks to their audience instead of at their audience.

If you make a factual error understand that even if you edit the post minutes after, hundreds of people already saved or shared the piece. Once you notice the mistake, fix it and then publicly make note of it - this shows that you are a listener and truly care about transparency.

Avoid it all:

Fact check. Fact check. Fact check.

There are so many ways you can avoid mistakes, and every precaution to avoid them should be taken.

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/02/the-5-biggest-social-media-mistakes-to-avoid.html

You can:

-search public records to get information on properties, businesses, people, etc.

-re-read your work

-don't be lazy and get real, quality sources

-don't be afraid to research things to get background information to be sure you are portraying the angle accurately

...and so much more!

You don't want to fail to see a mistake and be considered “fake news.” (article on “fake news” below)

http://www.npr.org/tags/502124007/fake-news

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TEN HIGH-PROFILE SOCIAL MEDIA MISTAKES^^

#Social media #mistakes #journalism #youtube

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ulyssessklein · 6 years

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Creating a good lyric video for less than $10

How to make a lyric video for your song (without using Motion or After Effects)

Lyric video: a video that shows your song lyrics while the music plays. [Pretty self-explanatory.]

Not only are lyric videos a great and manageable way to keep your video content coming in between bigger projects that involve more complicated production, but I’ve found they can actually be a lot of fun to make.

Below I’m going to talk about how I created six different lyric videos along with info on some of the FREE tools I used.

A few things to keep in mind:

I’m not a video guy. Every time I make one of my own lyric videos it’s a process of trial and error. A pro could probably create something twice as good in half the time, but I enjoy playing around to find solutions on my own. Plus, video budget? (Pshaw).

You can make really cool lyric videos with programs like Motion and After Effects. I didn’t. For one, those programs cost money (see pshaw above). But diving into one of those programs would mean I have yet another learning curve to climb. I’m interested in exploring Motion at some point, but in between family, work, and everything else, I’d rather use what time is leftover to make music and bang out some videos, not hunker down in the lab for days on end. Maybe those programs are easier to use than I’m imagining, and I’m missing out (let me know in the comments), but for the sake of this article, let’s just refer back to the zero-budget appeal of making lyric videos WITHOUT Motion or After Effects.

That leaves you with free video editing software like iMovie or Windows Movie Maker. Pros might scoff at these intro-level video production tools, but when you combine them with a few other tricks, plus some creativity, I think you can create compelling lyric videos with little more than what comes loaded on most desktops, tablets, or smartphones. [Full disclosure: I used Final Cut Pro X on some of the videos below, but I’d worked in iMovie for long enough before that to know most of the things I’m doing in FCPX can be done in iMovie.]

Beginner tips for making lyric videos

Open your movie-making software and set your new project’s aspect ratio to 16:9.

Import your song and any other media (like video clips, still images, logos, etc.) that you plan to use.

Move your first clip or background image to the project pane. If you plan to use one static background image the whole time, you can click and drag to adjust the duration that it appears so it’s long enough to display during your whole song.

Place your song into the project pane. If you want it to start playing right away, drag it all the way to the left. If you have a title page or some other introductory elements, you can leave a little room before the song starts.

Use “titles” to place the lyrics on the video at the appropriate time during the song, matching with the vocals.

Use a font size and style that’s readable (or that looks cool at the very least).

Position your titles on the video (again, by dragging) so they appear in a place that’s legible. For instance, if you’re using a still image of a sandy beach below a light gray sky, you don’t want white font to appear over that sky. Better to drag it down so it appears with starker contrast over the dark sand.

Make adjustments to the length of the titles (you can do this by clicking and dragging) to smooth out the transition from line to line.

Watch your whole video a few times through and make any needed fixes.

Export your video file and upload it to YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, etc.

Some tricks to spice up your lyric videos

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This is the lyric video for my single “Collapsing Star” — a long fade-out kind of song about devotion in the face of aging — so I thought the visuals should do exactly what the music and lyrics do: fade, shrink, collapse.

The creation of this video involved some really basic elements:

Still images of space that slowly evolve — I wanted there to be a extraterrestrial time-lapse effect, so I used some super hi-res photos from Unsplash, applied a very long cross-fade between each transition, and also used just an imperceptible touch of “Ken Burns” (an effect that creates some motion using a still image).

A shrinking sun — Scientifically speaking, I know stars don’t collapse in this way; they usually get big and bright before dwindling into white dwarfs or black holes. But I thought a slowly shrinking star would paint the lyrics in a haunting way, so I used Canva to create dozens of colored circles, each one small than the next. I then placed them on the timeline with overlap so that each one could (like the space images) fade into the next and depict shrinking. With the addition of some blur and some “stencil” effects, I was able to hint at dark sun spots and the rippling surface of a star, as well as the halo around a star.

The twinkle of space — Because I was using static images, I needed to add some other light effects that made for a kind of twinkle or oscillation in the background stars. The main one I relied on was the “sketch” effect in FCPX.

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This is the lyric video to my song “Irretrievable Beauty.” To create it I followed all the basic steps mentioned above, but here are a few of the bonus elements I added for (hopefully) extra impact:

Additional text — No one ever said a lyric video should contain ONLY your lyrics. So I wrote a bunch of other text (a letter from the 22nd-Century) and placed my lyrics within it. Check out the video and what I’m describing will make more sense.

Color contrast of text — The actual lyrics of the song needed to be easily readable, so they’re all in black against a lighter background. The rest of the words are white, and it’s fine if they roll by without anyone being able to read them all. I intended to create the feeling of being flooded by text, so lots of it is supposed to wash over you.

Public domain image — I found a super hi-res image from 1905 to use for the background of the video (and my cover artwork too), and slowly zoomed in throughout the whole video.

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Above is the lyric video for my song “1+1+1=3.” Some of the things I did to make this video:

Slow fade between different versions of the same photo — The background image for this video is the same as the cover artwork, a photo I took of arithmetic on a chalkboard. I then applied different filters to the photo to create three separate versions. While editing the video, I started by laying the three images out in a repeating pattern and then cross fading them all so it looks like there’s some kind of slow transformation happening.

More extra text — The additional text in this video is nowhere near as crazy as in “Irretrievable Beauty,” but I wanted to add a few bits here and there. You’ll spot ’em.

Directly reference the subject matter — The song is called “1+1+1=3.” Yes, it’s about love, but the math element was a fun visual reference point. Arithmetic on a chalkboard. Strange equations in the text. Etc. What’s the visual reference in your song?

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Above is the lyric video for my song “Silently.” Some things I did to create this one:

Hyperlapse sunset — One afternoon when I was visiting Oregon, I ran up to the top of Mt. Tabor (an extinct volcano in the heart of Southeast Portland) and found a good spot to film the changing sky as dusk fell. I made sure to be out of the way of anyone who might walk in front of the camera and ruin the looooooong time-lapse shot. Hyperlapse is a free app from Instagram, and it makes it easy to shoot long videos and then speed them up at various rates. I think my 4-minute music video required about 45 minutes of footage.

Intro titles from Word Swag — If you read this blog frequently, you probably know I love Word Swag, a free app that lets you add cool fonts to images. I used Word Swag to create both the circle logo at the beginning with my name in it, and also the “Silently” title. You could use this app to create text for every single lyric, but that’d get time consuming so I just ended up using it for those two elements at the beginning. For this purpose, within Word Swag you’ll usually want to lay the font over a transparent background so you can fly it into whatever video you’re creating without disrupting the moving footage. [Note: I used Word Swag to create the intro text for all the lyric videos below.]

Sketch effect — I then added some built-in effects, including a color saturation effect and two doses of a sketch illustration effect, to make the video look grainy and lo-fi. Like I said above, this wasn’t premeditated. Just playing around with effects to see what looked promising. On that note…

Earthquake wobble effect — I used the earthquake effect because I thought it kind of made the text look like it was on a transparent slide overlay that was out of focus for a second.

Alternating pacing of lyric appearances — Sometimes the lyrics appear and disappear with the vocal. Sometimes certain lines linger. I just went by feel, and payed more attention to how the titles looked laid out across the screen than anything particularly musical.

Alternating the color of the text — This is another obvious way to add some variation if you feel like your lyric video is too much of the same thing: change the colors of the lyrics!

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Here’s a video for a song called “Morning Edition” which I posted right before the election in 2016. The recording is actually just a super lo-fi Garageband demo, but I only had two weeks until election day, and I figured if I’m going to make some kind of statement, there’s no time to wait to get my band into a proper studio. So, a few notes about this lyric video:

A lyric video can still have live action — I’ve never really liked the distinction between “music video” and “lyric video,” as if one is more legit and exciting than the other. As someone who listens to lyrics just as much as the music, I love good lyric videos, and I think there can be an interesting hybrid between these two approaches. For “Morning Edition” I lip-synced to my song, 10 seconds at a time, while using the Face-Swap tool in Snapchat to graft a certain someone’s mug onto mine. Then I edited all those takes together and applied a sharp contrast filter to blend the background of the Snapchat clips with the large black borders on both sides of the clips.

Did I say the lyrics have to be legible? — Well sure, it’s good to have legible lyrics, but I don’t think they need to be HUGE if that means you’re ruining the aesthetic of the video. For this one I figured I’d keep the text in a thin minimalist font at the top of the screen, out of the way of my face, and anyone who really wanted to read along could watch the video in full-screen mode.

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Here’s the lyric video for my song “Veterans Day.” By complete accident — again, lots of playing around with built-in options — it ended up with a kind of Zen art aesthetic. Here’s how:

Stock video — I looked through tons of stock video sites to find an affordable, hi-res clip that could be used as the background for the whole video. I ended up buying (for less than $10) a short video of milk being poured into a clear glass of water with a black background. But 6 seconds of video wasn’t going to cut it for a 5 minute song, so I…

Slowed the clip WAY down — I stretched the clip as long as it could go and still only had about 2.5 minutes’ worth. So then I…

Reversed the clip — By duplicating the clip I had 2.5 minutes of forward motion, and 2.5 minutes of backwards motion. So the result is like a palindrome, or like that famous bass solo on “Call Me Al.” Halfway through, the whole thing turns around and the milk goes back into the bottle by the end. Another accident that I ended up enjoying.

Color inversion — I used the built-in tools to invert the colors so the white milk became like black ink, and the black background turned to a light gray.

B&W — I then took that video and turned it to black and white, which ended up darkening the whole thing in a nice way.

Scrolling text — One of the built-in title options on many video software programs allows you to scroll text vertically, like the end credits of a film. I used this effect separately for each verse and chorus of the song. Then I did another layer of scrolling text with just a bunch of randomly spaced letters and symbols, with a high transparency on the font so it appears as a graphic element, and I think it gives the whole video a kind a translucent papery feel.

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Here’s a few things you might be able to learn from the lyric video to my song “Premiere:”

Still photos are your friend — Check out royalty-free photo sites such as Unsplash. I made the entire video for “Premiere” using photos I found on that site. The one risk you run is that other artists use the same photos in their work, but you can always tweak the images so they’re barely recognizable as I did with the milk video in “Veterans Day.”

Don’t be afraid of Ken Burns — He has a built-in video effect named after him for a reason; that technique of zooming in and out on still photos can be really effective for creating mood. Dynamics! Don’t go crazy or anything with the motion, but a little Ken Burns here and there can make flat photos come to life.

Mix and match fonts — I used a bunch of different kinds of fonts on “Premiere,” giving each section of the song its own feel.

Apply effects and transitions to the titles (text) too — Don’t forget that many of the same effects you can use on pictures and video will work to give your lyrics an interesting look as well.

Don’t publish your video until you’ve proofread it a dozen times! — If you watched my lyric video for “Premiere” you might’ve found a typo. Whoops. I didn’t catch it until it’d been posted for over a week, and by then… oh well. Staring at text while you’re editing gets tiring. Your brain tricks you. While you’re in the process of creating, you might not catch something that seems glaringly incorrect later on. So get some bandmates and friends to watch the video a few times to make sure you don’t have any spelling or grammar issues on your lyrics (I mean, besides the usual grammar or syntactical issues that ALL lyrics have). Another way to limit errors is to…

Write your lyrics out in Word and then paste them into your titles — When you type your lyrics in Word first, you get the benefit of the program’s spellcheck system. Some of the popular video editing software doesn’t have spellcheck, so paste those lyrics in after you’ve vetted them in the external doc.

Okay, those are some of the tricks I’ve used to make my lyric videos more interesting than just white font on a black background, all without paying for extra software or expensive stock footage and images. Hopefully they’re helpful as you create your next video.

Do you have any advice to add? I’d love to hear it. Holler in the comments below and be sure to post a link to your best lyric videos on YouTube!

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Creating a good lyric video for less than $10

How to make a lyric video for your song (without using Motion or After Effects)

Lyric video: a video that shows your song lyrics while the music plays. [Pretty self-explanatory.]

Below I’m going to talk about how I created six different lyric videos along with info on some of the FREE tools I used.

A few things to keep in mind:

That leaves you with free video editing software like iMovie or Windows Movie Maker. Pros might scoff at these intro-level video production tools, but when you combine them with a few other tricks, plus some creativity, I think you can create compelling lyric videos with little more than what comes loaded on most desktops, tablets, or smartphones. [Full disclosure: I used Final Cut Pro X on three out of the four videos below, but I’d worked in iMovie for long enough before that to know most of the things I’m doing in FCPX can be done in iMovie.]

Beginner tips for making lyric videos

Open your movie-making software and set your new project’s aspect ratio to 16:9.

Import your song and any other media (like video clips, still images, logos, etc.) that you plan to use.

Use “titles” to place the lyrics on the video at the appropriate time during the song, matching with the vocals.

Use a font size and style that’s readable (or that looks cool at the very least).

Make adjustments to the length of the titles (you can do this by clicking and dragging) to smooth out the transition from line to line.

Watch your whole video a few times through and make any needed fixes.

Export your video file and upload it to YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, etc.

Some tricks to spice up your lyric videos

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Public domain image — I found a super hi-res image from 1905 to use for the background of the video (and my cover artwork too), and slowly zoomed in throughout the whole video.

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Above is the lyric video for my song “1+1+1=3.” Some of the things I did to make this video:

More extra text — The additional text in this video is nowhere near as crazy as in “Irretrievable Beauty,” but I wanted to add a few bits here and there. You’ll spot ’em.

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Above is the lyric video for my song “Silently.” Some things I did to create this one:

Earthquake wobble effect — I used the earthquake effect because I thought it kind of made the text look like it was on a transparent slide overlay that was out of focus for a second.

Alternating the color of the text — This is another obvious way to add some variation if you feel like your lyric video is too much of the same thing: change the colors of the lyrics!

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Here’s the lyric video for my song “Veterans Day.” By complete accident — again, lots of playing around with built-in options — it ended up with a kind of Zen art aesthetic. Here’s how:

Slowed the clip WAY down — I stretched the clip as long as it could go and still only had about 2.5 minutes’ worth. So then I…

Color inversion — I used the built-in tools to invert the colors so the white milk became like black ink, and the black background turned to a light gray.

B&W — I then took that video and turned it to black and white, which ended up darkening the whole thing in a nice way.

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Here’s a few things you might be able to learn from the lyric video to my song “Premiere:”

Mix and match fonts — I used a bunch of different kinds of fonts on “Premiere,” giving each section of the song its own feel.

Apply effects and transitions to the titles (text) too — Don’t forget that many of the same effects you can use on pictures and video will work to give your lyrics an interesting look as well.

Don’t publish your video until you’ve proofread it a dozen times! — If you watched my lyric video for ��Premiere” you might’ve found a typo. Whoops. I didn’t catch it until it’d been posted for over a week, and by then… oh well. Staring at text while you’re editing gets tiring. Your brain tricks you. While you’re in the process of creating, you might not catch something that seems glaringly incorrect later on. So get some bandmates and friends to watch the video a few times to make sure you don’t have any spelling or grammar issues on your lyrics (I mean, besides the usual grammar or syntactical issues that ALL lyrics have). Another way to limit errors is to…

Do you have any advice to add? I’d love to hear it. Holler in the comments below and be sure to post a link to your best lyric videos on YouTube!

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