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.

Thank you for that Robert. You have identified a raging debate I have been having with myself for weeks now: actually "say something" (semi-activist). What prevents me is that whatever stance I may take, I will probably offend at least half my audience. I cannot help but wonder if the first vid would have been more effective in allowing you to apply your own meaning to the aspect of lost hope. Grrrr.. the killer in this is I stupidly did not copy the project, but kept on developing the same one, so I cannot revert back to the original. I am really kicking myself over that.

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?

One of the problems with working full time at another job and trying to do this is editing sessions last long into the night, and there is a point when decision making abilities are ... less than stellar. The other night was one of them. Video projects take up huge amounts of disk space. I only have a tera. I was running out and the machine was bottlenecked. The mass sweep of stored projects used too large a broom. *hangs head in shame*

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

very nice work
I wish you continued success. Best wishes
 
Grup Gezgin

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

I thought it was a cool video - very moody, you can't appreciate it if there is a lot of noise or activity going on around you.  I would have liked a bit more depth to the music also.  Interesting ending.,  What happens next?  What would have happened if he didn't go there?  I guess I picked up on that part because a friend of mine went to the "unnamed hospital you probably know quite well" a few months ago because he was suicidal for a 72 hour assessment.  They let him out the next day, and he promptly got into his car and drove into a tree.  They needed the bed, they told him.  

"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.  

I don't know where you guys get the time to learn and mess with video AND maintain a music studio.  I'm not that ambitious.     The black and white video was very sharp and the music fit the video well, it created a very melencholy mood.  It would probaby do well at the Sundance festival.

I'm going to go kill myself now..

Daryl