Sunday, 3 May 2009

A Letter

We all know that Emese was the story writer, Fathir was a cameraman, and i was editing the whole staff, that's the main reason the video clip seems confusing a little bit, as we all had different ideas and view while doing our job.

First difficulty was that we had our computer turned off, we didn't have a charger with us, and we didn't know a password as well.
so we couldn't make it the right way: we were planning to draw in Paint or any other software on the computer, but we couldn't.
So, what we had with us were just sheets of paper, and we decided then to draw on them like if we were drawing on a touch pad.

Then the typing scene is about an apologizing letter from her.

Then comes a scene when she gets up and jumps into another world, i made a mistake here: i should have put some other effects here which would show that this is all happening in her mind and dreams. And that in reality she is just sitting there and writing her letter, that she didn't even stand up.

The flash backs represent her thoughts, her feelings as well as it is to add some contrast in an action, and to make us feel the same way as the main character. We know that when we have huge contrasts we feel things harsher, like here we have this sad and boring scene with the main character typing smth, and drawing; and then we have this dancing girl in a dress, she is not upset or anything, she is just enjoying her life. This makes the first scene appear even sadder, more bitter, her life be more miserable.

And the song... I had a problem with that. First of all, i was not planning to show my version of the video to the class; what i wanted was just to try the new software and see what i can do alone. And with that in mind i've chosen the first song that came to my mind.
i was not thinking a lot about the lyrics, i was rather focusing on beats and melody.

And the last scene.. It's hard to explain, but i'll try. The idea was actually to confuse the audience. First we think that this is a dream when they are dancing, but then the kiss comes in reality. What i was thinking was that when Emese met me in a fantasy world, i started forgiving her little-by-little, i invited her to dance with me, and then at the end it's like if i forgave her everything and excepted her in reality now. :)

But we don't have this thing in lyrics that's why it's quite confusing.

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