I am using a piece of audio that I am creating myself. It is pieces of several of my songs, which are manipulated in many ways to create a slightly disoriented feeling. I want to use several effects in this video to compliment the sounds. I plan on using layers of video on top of each other in a few ways. I want to experiment with the feeling created when one layer of video is zooming in while the other layer is zooming out. I also want to try layering different points of view of the same scene on top of one another playing simultaneously. I want to experiment with the motion of the camera and the objects in the shot to somewhat mimic the movement of the sound.
The main video layer will be a person trying to find his or her way home. It will show several angles of the person walking in different places. I plan on trying to show first person view, medium shots, long shots, and close ups of the person walking(at least two angles simultaneously on layers). I plan on doing things like zooming in on a close up in one layer while zooming out to a longer shot in the other layer. To emphasize that the person is lost, I will show them walking through two or more different scenes in different settings simultaneously using the layers. The opacity will change fading certain parts out and revealing others.
When the character is in the city, I plan on fading in shots of blurred city lights and cars driving past the character(seeing from the cars p.o.v.). When the character is in the country it will be really dark so I plan on fading in layers of the shot during daytime. In the country, there will be only one car that drives past the character at the end showing him passed out or dead on the side of the road. This will be the last shot as the car continues to drive on without stopping.
Outline
1. Person leaving through a door and walking into the night.
2. Person walking through town or city. Layers of city lights flashing across screen.
3. Person walking through the country, hardly no lights. Daytime shots of the same area will fade in and out .
4. Most disorienting scene showing layers of different places at the same time fading in and out.
5. Final scene person is passed out (or dead) on the side of the road. The only car that passes him in the country passes and sees him laying on the side of the road and doesn't stop. All layers fade out but the point of view of the car continuing to drive on down the road.
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The idea sounds like it will work. The zooming in and out and multiple layers would make this piece disorienting. The viewer will probably feel exactly what you're trying to portray. Will the persons movements match up any with the song? Say for instance, is the persons death or passing out right as the song comes to an end? I like the idea of the person dying. Some of us that get lost don't make it back.
Disorientation can mean a lot of things. If you cover all of your bases with this video, I can see it working.
lovely wes. lots of layers and streaking audio. id be interesting to coincide audio layers with visual layers, but can get unwanted or unexpected randomness, and eliminates narrative to an exent.
This seems like the soundtrack to any other movie that you have done. I think it sounds interesting.
once again, a strange and intriguing concept involving some poor, disturbed soul. Sounds like you know what you want with this. but what about information on where this person is going or where they have been...
the way you describe putting this video together sounds interesting, but stacking a bunch of layers of video might prevent the audience from being able to get all of the plot information. i don't know if that's important for you or not. the simultaneous zoom in and out thing sounds cool.
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