Anyway, I collected more photos. I will be starting on trying out in the imovie and see if I can achieve the effects while continuing to find more photos and music. If the effects ain't there, then I will have to change it within the mid-semester break. I still don't have the eureka moment in which I know it is the kind of design and feel I want. Hopefully my intuition is wrong this time round...
The new thing I am adding in is actually death. This is actually a Chinese funeral casketing 'advertisement'. They print their number and information on the back of the tent in which they set up for funerals. It is more of a Chinese culture thing in which the others may not understand. May violate the thought that I want something more universal but I guess there are some parts on culture that just can't be universal... And it was scary to take this picture. I have to say sorry and excuse me first because it is a real funeral (Chinese has this superstition that you should always say sorry and excuse me if you need to do something that may offend the spirits. Ask for 'their' understanding first. But other than this I am still looking for ideas to add to the element of death.Anyway, other than that, I have collected more photos:
These for for the lonely and destruction parts. For the colorful part, bright and happy part... It dint work well. Quite clueless of what to do about it. Won't be using the flowers I guess. They say nothing. Unless I could capture a flower blooming like the Linkin Park's MTV. I'm still trying to brainstorm on how I can do it.
In addition, I will be flashing our pictures very quickly at the near the end of the show. Sort of like the climax and last impact.
So the things to do next for the coming week:
- More and more photos
- SONG. sigh.
- imovie pretest
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i have a website that has plenty of classocal music and best of all it's royalty free!
http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/
try it out. Hopefully u can find the song you want in there. One of the songs i'm thinking of using comes from this website.
in addition to the element of death, how about going to various cemetaries and taking picures of it? You don't have to take the tombstone but maybe you can take the things surrounding the tombstone? like flowers, the old and chipped vases etc.
hope my comments made some sense =)
Hey girl. I really liked your idea of using things that you see on the road to depict loneliness and stuff instead of using typical symbols of love. I see that you have used the Chinese funeral to show loneliness. Ok. One issue that I have with that is, and this is a personal opinion, is perhaps the funeral picture is a bit too strong to show loneliness and to include in a movie about love. I don’t know. What do you think? Other than that, I think the other images are fine. Looking forward to see the final products. I am stuck with the music as well. =(
Heya,
I have to agree with the, funeral being just a tad too strong for the single bit ba... the other shots of lonliness are pretty understandable too though, as for the camera bit I'll post during the "defence" part of this elearning thingy.
Anyway ya, to increase the sense of lonliness with the bicycle you could try placing it in an open field and take a long shot of it might increase that feeling of "voidness"
as for music I can reccomend one too, but its kinda like the music i use for mine, google ghostnotes
yup, hope my comments were useful, cant wait to see ur test vid :)
-Mark
Ok truthfully... the funeral pic looks a bit out of place. I guess overall for the video you need to achieve the "maximum understanding with minimum explanation" thing. How you're going to do that, i'm not exactly too sure. But maybe for the flower photos, its possible to use them... just need to do some tweaking in photoshop, or get shots from a different angle i guess... hope that helps...
Hello there, I think your idea of adding the funeral picture may be a bit strong if your other pictures are pretty straight forward (things which we see normally see). Perhaps you could add a balance by adding some shots of death too, e.g an old man sleeping on his bed alone, longing for his past wife or a man with tears, looking at an old photograph of himself and his late wife. This way, I think the funeral part may not seem as a strong visual to depict loneliness.
Just my 2 cents worth!
Pei, I feel that your pictures didn’t adequately portray the feeling of loneliness. Perhaps you need to compare and contrast to show it? For example, you could show a group of friends laughing together while a lone person standing by his own looking sad. Or you could show a couple hand in hand smiling and skipping along while a lone person walks dejectedly without anyone beside him. Or two flowers side by side followed by one lone flower. Something like that?
hi,
just wondering... is death supposed to portray loneliness? I think that picture of the Chinese funeral is too strong compared to your other lonely pics...
Is it only the portrayal of loneliness? If that is so, maybe u can incorporate a character in the story, who had passed away or something, then you can link the element of death with loneliness. =)
i thought your initial idea was cool as it really showed how many things comes in two.. and it brought me to think about how it'll be like if it becomes one..
i jus thought that the funeral part that you added in was jus a little too....... harsh? it was like a huge jump for my emotions..
Hey Su Pei, i agree with the above comment by anonymous that the pics dont really bring out the notion of loneliness/destruction. The funeral pic is also out of place.
It is a good idea to contrast things so as show loneliness. Without a context to your photos, it looks a lil something like an excursion to Pulau Ubin. Do pardon me if i sound rude.
May i suggest an improvement to mark's suggestion for loneliness instead of a bicycle in a large field. Put a person instead looking up. The photo should be framed in such a way as that the person looks small in relation to the field and sky.
However the missing link of the photos to loneliness/destruction could be adequately covered by your narration. So perhaps the sample vid would give us all a better pic.
nice creativity with the single yellow line and double yellow lines on the roads.
Cheers !
Hi all, thanks for your comments. Sorry for not being clear. I mentioned that it will be part of my real life story. I lost my closest kin during the journey I meant my boyfriend. It was the darkest period in my life. So yeps it is actually to portray the kind of bond we had. But I haven really develop the idea yet. I will follow up with a reply post by post!
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