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Make Your Music Video

You wrote the song - now give it a world, a look, and moving pictures that hit on every beat.

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    Play your song and name it

    A music video has ONE job: match the feeling of the song. So start with the song.

    Made a track in an earlier Suno hack? Open it and hit play. No song yet? Make a quick one, then come back.

    Type your song's title below. That name is your whole project.

    Open Suno (new tab)
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    Pick the ONE feeling

    Play 5 seconds and close your eyes. What do you FEEL? Hyped? Lonely? Dreamy? Angry?

    Pick one word. One. The whole video will sell that single feeling.

    This is the secret pros use - one clear emotion beats ten blurry ones.

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    Pick a decade

    Era is the biggest lever you have. A 1980s video (grainy VHS tape, neon) feels nothing like a 2020s one (clean, sharp).

    Pick a decade for your visuals: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, or 2020s. It can match your song or clash on purpose.

    One word here changes the film grain, the colors, everything.

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    Build the world

    Where does your video live? A rainy city street? A desert at sunset? A messy bedroom? Deep space?

    This is your world - the place every shot happens.

    Describe it in a few words. Make it a place YOU want to stare at.

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    Choose your colors and light

    Color IS mood. Warm gold light feels cozy. Cold blue feels lonely. Red and black feels dangerous.

    This is your color grade - the color wash pros paint over the whole video.

    Name your colors and lighting in a few words.

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    Pick who we watch

    Give the eye ONE thing to follow: a singer, a dancer, a stray dog, a lonely robot, just a pair of hands.

    This is your subject. Without one, the video feels like a random screensaver.

    Describe your main subject.

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    Move the camera

    How the camera moves = how the song feels. A slow calm push for a soft song. Fast shaky cuts for a banger.

    Match your camera energy to your song's energy. Quiet parts = still. Loud parts = movement.

    Describe ONE camera move (like 'slow push in' or 'spinning around them').

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    Make your key frame

    First, nail ONE still picture - your 'key frame,' the cover shot your whole video is built from.

    Copy the prompt, open ChatGPT, and paste it. It already knows your look, world, and subject.

    When you get a picture you love, type one line about what it looks like.

    Open ChatGPT (new tab)
    You are a music video art director. Make ONE cinematic key frame - the single cover shot my whole video is built from. Look: [era] film look, [palette] colors and lighting, cinematic and moody, vertical 9:16. World: [setting]. Subject: [character], framed so my eye lands right on them. Feeling: it has to feel [mood]. No words, no logos in the picture. Give me the image. Then in 2 short lines, tell me the camera angle and the lighting you used, so I can reuse them.
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    Make it move

    Now bring it to life. A video tool turns your still frame into a moving clip.

    Copy the prompt and open Sora. Describe only ONE camera move - simple prompts make cleaner clips.

    Type what your clip does when it moves.

    what will really happen

    Video tools drift from your prompt once things move - the motion goes its own way.

    They can morph faces and warp the background in the middle of a clip.

    The first clip is rarely clean - simple prompts and re-runs help.

    Open Sora (new tab)
    You are a music video director. Turn my key frame into ONE short moving shot. Keep it simple - describe only ONE camera move. Shot: [character] in [setting], [era] film look, [palette] colors, [mood] feeling. Camera: [cameraMove] - slow and smooth, no jump cuts. Clip: a few seconds long, vertical 9:16, no on-screen text. Then suggest one small tweak for the CHORUS version to add energy (this is tension and release - quiet, then BOOM).

    Did you re-run the clip when it drifted, or keep the first?

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    Build your video recipe

    Time to put it all together. Tap below and we build your full music video recipe from your answers.

    You get a style line, a shot list mapped to your song, and a video prompt you can reuse for every shot.

    Copy it - this is your director's plan.

    Do the steps above and your Your music video recipe shows up here.
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    Save your card

    Save a share card of your music video project.

    This is proof you designed something real - not lever-slop.

    Tap to save it.

    hold on - judge it, do not celebrate
    • Does the clip match the world in your head, or wander off?
    • What is the ONE part that looks off or generic?
    • What would you change so it feels like your video, not stock footage?
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    Ship it

    Generate one clip per shot in your video tool, then line them up under your song in any free editor. Cut on the beat.

    Post your video (or your recipe) on the class wall and tag it #Glunty.

    Paste your link or your hashtag below to lock it in. That's a wrap.

The class wall - share yours

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THAT'S A WRAP

You didn't pull a lever and take the slop - you built a whole world for your song, shot by shot, and it looks like you. Ship it, watch it, then go make the next one.

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