Friday, January 14, 2011

Life as we know it

This is my short video. The bleeping seconds heard in the beginning are from the start of Hello Skinny, by The Residents. I did not want to use the whole of Hello Skinny because it would not have had a great relationship to the clips presented. I did have a feeling to add that in to the beginning. The first audio is L'absente by Yann Tiersen which was the best audio I could find for my video, it fit. The "second part" of the video which can be seen after an old lady speaks and shoots to black, is Macros Boules by Yann Tiersen. I wrote the title in French "la vie que nous connaissons" to not make the video's meaning seem so obvious. There is meaning in fact, which surprised me because I was going to make this video strictly experimental and without any deep meaning. There is meaning and it is very simple. I chose to make most of the shots black and white to not let any colour interfere with why that shot was put in, and the significance of it. There are too many things I would have done to this video, changes that would take another two weeks. I'm happy overall with my first video and I learned how much I hated Adode Premiere Pro CS3. This is the Youtube video below: