Lost Hope (redux) - John Burgess (Blipp)

Music by John Burgess  (Blipp)
Video by me
   
Lost Hope

That was cool

I'm going to agree with Mark above. You've made huge leaps with the new video, really flexed your creative muscles and introduced a raft of techniques, hats off for that.

For me though, the first video had more impact, because of it's simplicity, the sound effects and the minimalist feel of both film and music, which made the ending so affecting.

I am just embarrassing myself.

I thought that's what this forum was for. No?

You are probably right Mark. I don't know any more. I think I need to slow down and not post things until I am satisfied with them. The caveat is I seem to only notice the problems after I post it. Perhaps I am too wrapped up in the process to see the whole picture.

It is strange. I have never been embarrassed by posting music, art, writings - I suspect I did not really care if anybody thought they were good or not. But I am embarrassed posting this. I guess I care a bit more.

timidi

I am just embarrassing myself.

I thought that's what this forum was for. No?

I've proved that > 49K times IIRC

Thanks for the feedback guys. 

I will admit I am a bit confused by a few of the responses. Do you mean you liked the last song vid I did (Snow Day - with the song Dragonfly), or the first version of this vid? The reason I ask is there were no sounds in the first that were not in this (the only sounds added to either were traffic noise at the very beginning). I did cut out the first walking scene as it was kind of pointless and seemed more like a commercial than music vid start up.

If Snow Day, then I think I understand what might be missing, and will confess I had more than one internal debate about it already. I thought about keeping some of the sounds of traffic, the train and so on (I actually have some interesting recordings from the shoot). I also debated adding some of the voice from the "news reports" shown when the TV shots are on.

John mentioned one thing about it that might be right and that I gave too much information. Perhaps I need to reduce the number of TV scenes?

James - I completely agree with the simplicty statement. I should not have doubted that. I regret not staying true to myself in this.  I should have listened to Robby. He tried to tell me, but I failed to hear. I think you may be right in that the last one was far more affective (where as this is more effective). Self doubt is a terrible thing. I really do not like it.

I like the music. There could be alterations to the continuo though. After a while, it gets boring. IMO, subtle chnages through chords would keep the interest going. 

I don't like the video.

Great bit of writing! Thanks for sharing!

Hey Foxwolfen

I do video editing for a living and I'm also extending my creativity to music composition.  These days, as a musician you have to be so many things.  The writer, the musician, the engineer, the marketer, the distributor, the video editor, director etc, etc.  People are very quick to critisize if one of those elements is not quite right and it's no wonder juggling all these things can get you down, confused and frustrated.  I struggle with this myself.  At the end of the day you love and want to make music.  If it feels right, it is right - never second guess what other people might think as this dilutes your initial creative spark and you end up pleasing no one - worst of all not yourself. 

I've seen the video and heard the music for the first time and I really enjoyed it - they are defiantely complementary and you can be vey proud of this work.

Daniel

To me the video did not portray lost hope. It just seemed like a journey. It did not seem to go anywhere.

Lost hope for me is:

Religion - all these believers who don't believe and yet they do it so fiercly.

Homeless - in a world of believers, why are there homeless?

Healthcare - Everyone complains about the cost yet the cheapest way is socialized medicine. For some reason, that's immoral?

War - Everyone seems against war yet we spend ENORMOUS amounts of money on it.

There was a bloke in England after WWII who said, "if we can spend so much money to kill people, why can't we spend just as much to heal them?" I'm not sure I got the quote exact but that's the jist of it.

The botttom of it all is religion. There is nothing more perverse than that. Who knows if there is a god or not but if there is and he is what I learned growing up catholic, he's not happy with religion or the stupid humans who let atrocities happen in his name. Americans are so woefully ill-informed.  I don't know about other countries.

That's my idea of lost hope. Although, I would not know how to portray all that in a video.

For me, the 'lost hope' was pretty self explanatory, if one watched the vid to the end.

Shad, you uploaded the vid to YouTube, so surely it still exists in MPEG format, if not the project itself?

And... I deleted it from youtube when I uploaded this one... arrrrgggggg!!!! ... sigh

Great job! I can tell a lot of thought went into getting great composition in your shots.  Some of your best camera work to date IMO and super job on the fades.  The black and white was cool only helping the mood of the song/video.  KUDOS!


Kev

"At the end of the day I love what I do."

Wow, Shad, that's worth a ton!  Don't hang your head in shame.  Not at all.  (although I can totally relate to that sentiment!)  I thought the video was fantastic.  I tried watching it, not thinking "I know who made this and it's on the forum for critique" but just as something I might see on TV or youtube or whatever.  And I was totally impressed.  Of course, I'm no video editor, but I do watch TV and youtube and nothing stood out to me as amateur.  I really like the music too and found myself wishing I could do something like that.  Perhaps you could change it up towards the 3/4 mark as I sorta wanted it to go somewhere else, if you know what I mean.  

But I thought it was very well done.