Thanks for the recommendation! Save me out of my miseries for having to source for songs. I get what you mean for the death part. I still think it's scary though. Haha. I will see what I can do. Thanks.
- Anonymous said...
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. =(
Heys. Thanks for your comments. Sorry for not being clear. The death part is actually part of my real life story. I lost a kin on the journey I meant my love. So I trying to include it in to make enrich the storyline. But I will be considering taking it out if I cannot link the part well. Thanks for your comments!
- Mark said...
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
Thanks Mark! For the recommendations and the tips. I will retake the pitures! But I am trying to borrow the professional camera instead. It's really hard to achieve the kind of effects like yours. Hopefully I will get hold of the camera soon.
Chris Ong said...
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...
Like I said earlier, my apologies for not being clear. Haha. The funeral is reflective of my life journey in meeting my love. So yeps. Will try to connect and portray but in the event I can't I will remove that added bit. I will try out for the flowers bit you suggested. Thanks.
- Rash said...
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.
Hi Rash, thanks for your comments. But I don't think I will incorporate the shots of death or it will divert from the main topic. It will seems like love and death. Not something that I want to portray. It may turn into some disconnected random pictures. Thanks for the suggestions though!
- Anonymous said...
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, thanks for your suggestion but it is not something I want to portray. I think I will try to play with the sequence to do the compare and contrast you recommended. You have touched on my fear that it is inadequate to show the loneliness. So actually I am keeping the option of dumping my whole idea and restart at the drawing board...
Jennifer said...
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...- My reply:
Ozeona said...
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. =)
Hi Ozeona, yep it is actually what I want to portray. Sorry for not being clear in my blog description.
- Hui Yi said...
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..
Hi Hui Yi, thanks for your comments. I am considering taking it out. But my rationale is to tell my story on meeting my boyfriend. I wasn't clear in explaining so maybe it jumps out. But if you read my above reply to Jennifer perhaps the picture is clearer.
- Sam said...
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 !- My reply:
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i have a website that has plenty of classical 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 =)