u/sookaisgone

I’m pretty new to making music videos and I recently hit a point where something started bothering me creatively.

I can plan shots, storyboard scenes, sync edits to the music, and technically put together a complete video.
Unfortunately when I watch the final result it still feels like just a sequence of clips instead of something emotionally cohesive.

So I realized the thing I’m actually struggling with isn’t editing or visuals, but the creative thinking behind a music video.

How do you personally decide what a song should become visually? When you listen to a track, what makes you think “this scene belongs here” or “this is the right direction”? Do ideas usually come from the lyrics, the mood, the rhythm, a story, or something harder to explain?

I think what I’m trying to understand is how directors translate music into images in a way that feels intentional instead of nearly random.

Would genuinely love to hear how different people approach that process.

TL;DR: how is a music video created? How do you think about the scenes? How do you come up with ideas about translating the music into a video?

A little introduction: I got hyped by Suno, started with the free tier account, got even more hyped and tried subscription for a month.
There I discovered that it can generate cover arts and animated cover arts, white rabbit starts here.
From there I followed the traces to all the online services to create videos from text and images, installed Comfy and started creating simple things.

I'm finishing the last of three videos, I was so freaking proud of myself till I got to the delivery page of Resolve and rendered...and watched for the nth time.
The result to me is so "meh" now, just a bunch of clip edited together without a start and an end.

I did a storyboard, created the character, wrote down the timing for each scene, but still...

So, how do you plan a music video? What is the creative process to film this scene instead of another one? Do you listen to the music till something come up to your mind? How does it work?

I'm trying to try Seedance2 for my video production, nothing out of this world: I'm just doing music videos as an hobby.
I'd like to try it but can't find anything that let's me generate a 1080p video of 10/15 seconds with image and audio reference.

Is there a way to try this out?
Also what's up with the prices? I'll burn 20.000 credits in probably a few days...