(To set the scene, I'm using Ben as a pillow today while I nurse my bad arm by the fireplace in the great room today. He has his laptop and we are watching Things. I'm not going anywhere. My arm is very sore. I don't think it should hurt like this when weight is put on it but then again, I heard what it looked like that one time. But this isn't about my arm. I'm about to have an opinion, here. Look out.)
I'm at the point where I've absorbed enough direction and have enough confidence to watch a brand-new music video of an acoustic rendition of a song and give it my own running commentary.
(Slow it down, just a little. You can't breathe while you sing this. Black anad white would be better. Add some noise. Some film grain maybe. Some local cameras. Stop with the wide shots already. The composition could be tightened on this by a monke-Hey! This goes right into Memphis May Fire (God they're young). Stop. With. The. Wide. Shots. End it with the song, we don't need a cheesy afterstory. Do more of THIS. PLEASE.)
Ben is very patient while I rattle off all of the things I would change. Sometimes he takes full advantage, as I am a ruinous, rabid music lover as well as the subject of more than a dozen semi-infamous music videos so my suggestions (or rather, my opinions) come from a place of love.
Well, what do you think?
I think you're jaded. Maybe they calculated this for humility.
Yeah. I doubt that.
A subtle image change for them. Like 'hey, it turns out we're not perfect'.
Okay, in that context it works great. Sort of like these bands that are like 'hey, we know a guy with a drone'.
Worked for your last music video shoot, Bridge.
It sure did.
So...don't quit your day job? And he laughs, because they would love it if I did.
I'm at the point where I've absorbed enough direction and have enough confidence to watch a brand-new music video of an acoustic rendition of a song and give it my own running commentary.
(Slow it down, just a little. You can't breathe while you sing this. Black anad white would be better. Add some noise. Some film grain maybe. Some local cameras. Stop with the wide shots already. The composition could be tightened on this by a monke-Hey! This goes right into Memphis May Fire (God they're young). Stop. With. The. Wide. Shots. End it with the song, we don't need a cheesy afterstory. Do more of THIS. PLEASE.)
Ben is very patient while I rattle off all of the things I would change. Sometimes he takes full advantage, as I am a ruinous, rabid music lover as well as the subject of more than a dozen semi-infamous music videos so my suggestions (or rather, my opinions) come from a place of love.
Well, what do you think?
I think you're jaded. Maybe they calculated this for humility.
Yeah. I doubt that.
A subtle image change for them. Like 'hey, it turns out we're not perfect'.
Okay, in that context it works great. Sort of like these bands that are like 'hey, we know a guy with a drone'.
Worked for your last music video shoot, Bridge.
It sure did.
So...don't quit your day job? And he laughs, because they would love it if I did.