First Flight

Reflection for "The Water is Wide" music video assignment: What we were trying to aim for was a little bird named Marley trying to find his way to fly in a way find himself throughout the journey. When this bird flew he undergoes several obstacles, within this journey facing terror with other villains around nature. This reflects the animal nature where everyone and everything is trying to fight to survive in this world. Towars the end of marley's journey he reaches peace within his fundamental environment which happens to be his nest. Regardless of human or animal, we humans can relate 100% with these wonderful extraordinary creatures, this object is what we love and can't seem to be away from and that is home.Where I felt Ryan and I did a good job (my favourite) was towards 1:16-1:27+1:51-2:06 the way the bird slowy and gracefullly moves within the wind showing his essence of truly being. The way the image goes turning into three duiffrent shades really brought this to the table, it really went well with the song in that particular moment. Marley was taking a ride ride in his journey, enjoying it in his FIRST FLIGHT. The choice of images we used I felt really represented the bird in his journey, really capturing his first journey in this tough yet beautiful world we all know. The colours,shapes, and absteracts used for this video were so pretty.... Especially 0:06-0:10+2:27+2:34-2:45 were just really cool for the feeling and mood I recieved throught it all. The feeling of new life. I would say our film consits of on and off abstract images... We used abstract effect although we wanted to let the viewer be able to grasp what the actual image was to provoke the message and assignment. I learned a lot using different effects for this project, it was a awesome experience to be a part of. It was like involving artful images to actual footage. It was really important to flow the mood and moment using the song to display the images in the video. What I noticed if we were't to folow the flow we got from the song, this video would be not as great... Ryan was totally awesome to work with in this project, he really was hands on and very approachable to new ideas. I don't think I could have asked for more from him I really learned some new things that I wouls totally use outside of class. SO THANK YOU! The contribhution I made for this was actuallly using the effects with Ryan we both used the effects we found to be best for the moodmoment we wanted to actually create not only a great visualization, but a great storyline for the music video, usingh certain images. A quote that would really fit the storyline to this music video that i like is: "Not all who wander are lost"