Here is my final video!
After I made my second sound sketch, I decided I didn't want to include Ghandi's entire quote anymore. I felt like my final clip would be too similar to that sketch, and I wasn't sure how the grasses that I had captured would fit. I thought about maybe including the words without the feet walking, but I thought it might be too contrasted to use the words from the city next to the calming images of birds and grasses.
(I hope this part doesn't sound cheesy), but then I was listening to the song "Tiger Mountain Peasant Song" by Fleet Foxes, and I noticed the lyrical line "...where the birds wait and the tall grasses wave..." and I decided to just include those two things in my video. Then I confronted another challenge: I wanted to have the birds on the wire in black and white, but the red leaves in color. So I decided to make my video ABOUT change... a change from black and white to color. Like The Wizard of Oz, when Dorothy leaves black and white Kansas and steps into a colorful Oz. But sort of different.
So, in the middle of my video, the viewer confronts a black and white doorway. I thought this image was pretty sweet. I used quick cuts to make the doorway change from black and white to color intermittently, and then all of sudden it's like stepping out of the doorway into color... where the red leaves are against a bright blue sky. It's almost like it's hard to change, so even into this portion of the video (with the leaves), it changes back to black and white for a second.
Then the viewer sees all the footage he or she saw before, but in color. My whole idea is that perhaps this will seem like a nice change... I'm portraying the idea of change as a good thing. For this reason, I didn't want super harsh sounds throughout the video. Many of my sounds are calming. Then at the end, the viewer sees the beautifully colored fall leaves, and the words "Be change." I wasn't sure if I should include the words, but I wanted to include at least part of my original drift strategy... I couldn't just forget about it.
So there you have it... enjoy the video!!
