"A New" reflection (Water is Wide)

The story that Dillon and I were trying to portray is in the title "A New". This boy is in the beginngin catches interest in this glass of milk. Which if we wanted to could represent it as what we as people always do, find interest in material things. But that's going on tangent. The story continues as the boy sets out to attain the milk but in his progress things get frantic. Things are lightened as a girl approaches him and helps him find something else, "A New". The end is up for interpretation as how things turn out. We decided for them to just be good friends, but it can be seen as a love interest. Our initial idea was to be very random, to have a kid set out to find milk and struggles to obtain it when finally someone actually gets him the milk. What I was most proud of was the intro that Dillon set up while I was gone. It starts at 10 seconds all the way to 40 or so seconds. The intro trully matched thte mood we went for in the beginning our story. It tried to evoke a feeling of a nostalgic day back when you just sat on the grass, a field, a rooftop, anywhere you found most appealing and relaxing. The music really matched a field full of grass or whatever one finds desirably relaxing. The effects set on the butterflies helped set a really romanticized feel to our intro. Around 35 percent of our video is abstract. We didn't have a consistent color or shape to set our mood. But I guess as long as there were vivid colors. That helped set either a mood or relaxation or frantic design. The use of abstract images in film is just like abstract paintings and the like. It helps the audience try to percieve something that may not be even there. The amount of feelings can be seen in abstract art and it helps show how the director or artist derived at that type of emotion or portrayal of an idea. The music behind the images only bolster the ideas that the artist or director has tried to manipulate all together to blend emotions. The most important contribution that my partner made for this film was the conept we based our whole story on and the intro to our video because I was out during that time we started editing our video. The most important contribution I made was the editiing of the frantic effetcts to our video and the end of the video. Reflection for "The Water is Wide" music video assignment: 1. In 5-6 sentences, summarize the story you were trying to evoke (suggest) to go along with the music. 2. Choose the sequence of images in a 30 second segment that you are most proud of. Identify the time sequence (e.g., from 1 min. 10 sec. to 1 min. 40 sec.). Describe in detail what part of your story you were trying to suggest or evoke in this sequence. Describe how your choice of images helped suggest the story. Describe how your consideration of colors, shapes, and abstract images helped suggest a mood for this sequence. 3. What percentage of your film is made up of abstract images? Did you have a consistent idea about using a color or shape to suggest a mood? Explain. 4. What did you learn, realize, remember, or discover about the use of abstract images in film? 5. What did you learn, realize, remember or discover about the interaction between music and images. 6. What was the most important contribution your PARTNER made to this film? 7. What was the most important contribution YOU made to this film?