Making a SaD video.......

[ermetekos]

Hello fellow optix,

lets say you want to make a video clip with ambientish music, which portrays a sad feeling to the one who watches it.

What would you show?


Examples of footage will be highly appreciated.


respect

[syzygy]

why don't you post some of your ideas to get the ball rolling?


What kind of sad do you mean anyway? Isolation/lonelyness is sad but so is the destruction of a beatiful forest. Both sad but in different ways.

Dan.

[illectric]

try with rain drops

[ermetekos]

Originally posted by syzygy
why don't you post some of your ideas to get the ball rolling?


What kind of sad do you mean anyway? Isolation/lonelyness is sad but so is the destruction of a beatiful forest.

Exactly that, i meant, like isolation, solitude, loneliness and feelings like that.

I found some melancholic 3d clips, but my mind has sort of chanelled to one thing and can't seem to set my mind free to see other things.

[neoteo]

sad ...

a child crying ... old man alone in the park ... gray sky ... rain ... cold ... flowers dry .... death ....

[WordVirus23]

broken childrens toys

[Amukidi]

As someone who very rarely uses figurative imagery, I'd do it with colour - blues, greys etc and a fair smattering of blurred edges, and then put some tiny glimmer of optimism in the mix somewhere!

[complexvisuals]

Originally posted by syzygy
Isolation/lonelyness is sad but so is the destruction of a beatiful forest.
Dan.

If the forest was cut down to make homes for orphans and lost kittens, would it be sad then?

C

[syzygy]

Originally posted by complexvisuals
If the forest was cut down to make homes for orphans and lost kittens, would it be sad then?

C

It would be if there were a patch of industrial wasteland that could have been regenerated and provided the space for those homes.

In fact, I think the destruction of something beautiful would be sad even if the ends were for the best.

If I owned a valuable antique that I really loved, I'd be willing to part with it if the money could do something worthwhile, but I'd still feel a little bit sad about it.

Anyway, we digress...

Dan.

[eps]

my first attempt in non-linear editing was short video 'the inmost life" - starting from fairy colorful shots of not-yet-born babies [from Lars Nilssen documentaries] up to the birth and then shifting to National Geographic documentary about mummies including drops of the mummie-preparing process and found ancient remains

not talking about amateur quality of that work, for me it did produced deep enough feeling of loss and emptiness [very deep ambient soundtrack also did matter of course] - i just did it next morning after one of my beloved girls has lost her child

if needed i'll drop it online