Water is Wide- Abstract Music Video

Reflection

In Ashley and I’s video we wanted to get across the idea of a child’s imagination. We started with the picture of the backyard to show where this is really happening then we showed the boy transform into the brave night. We also have some back story on the battle showing the “kingdom” before war and then what happened after. Then we meet the bad guy and you see the hero having to fight with the bad guy. Near the end of the fight you see the bad guy turn into a stuffed monkey. You see the kingdom morph back into to the backyard. The little boy’s imagination took him on a wild journey to save the kingdom from evil.

The sequence I’m most proud of is 2:59-3:14. In this sequence you see the battle field go back to the back yard and the night go back to the little boy. I think this really helped the story because the movement of the first image of the kingdom it’s moving across the screen and then the backyard continues to move in the same direction looking like you’re scanning across and you can see it go back to reality.

I would have to say about 50% of our film is abstract. The abstract pictures we used were pictures of trees or forest type landscapes and they did all go together to make the video come together in a common theme.

I learned it’s a lot harder to do an abstract video then a regular video. The reason why I think this is because with a regular video you can just show what you mean but with an abstract video you have to allude to it using abstract things and your meaning of the video can be lost to others there can be many different stories that other people see.

Music has a very large meaning and it’s interesting to see others interpret it because different people se different things and its fascinating to see the music come alive through the images that people choose to make a new story and plot.

My partner found all the images she worked incredibly hard looking through all the creative commons and finding pictures that would go with our idea and vision of what we wanted our video to look like. I think the most I contributed to the making of the video was the effects and edits that I made to sync the music up with our story line we were making.