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How to Create an All White Room for a Music Video

Music videos are historically notorious for their use of bizarre sets, mind-warping special effects and outrageous costumes that may or may not have anything even slightly to do with the song. These accoutrements, and indeed the very concept of the music video, are used to enhance the artistic experience of music by giving musical noise a visual form.

A pure-white room can be a powerful background for a music video to create a sense of purity and sterility (or perhaps insanity.) With the right location and some friendly guidance, you can make your own “White Room” relatively easily.

Things You'll Need

  • White-walled room (if possible)
  • Large white sheets
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Instructions

    • 1

      Set up your music video shoot in a room with at least two white walls. Some apartments and homes come with white walls, so finding a room to use shouldn’t be too difficult. Remove any posters, pictures or other wall decorations, and light the walls so that your performer’s shadows aren’t thrown against them (unless it’s part of your visual artistic concept.)

      If you cannot find a room with white walls sufficient for your needs, you can attach large white sheets to the corners of the wall to create the illusion of white walls. If you do this, be sure to stretch the sheets out to avoid visible wrinkles in the material, and to avoid capturing whatever you used to attach the sheets to the wall on film.

    • 2

      Keep the angle of the camera at ankle-height or higher, and the color of the floor in the room will not matter, as won't be seen. If it’s necessary to see your performer’s feet at any point, cover the visible area with a large, white sheet to maintain the theme.

    • 3

      Utilize the corners of the room in any changing camera shots by angling the camera against one white wall to show the corner, and then against the other wall to show the same corner from a different angle. Cover any furniture with a white sheet (unless it’s part of your artistic concept), and use it to break up the background where necessary.

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