Erase This Fan Video (Help me out, yes?)

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Soooooo..... This last winter I started working on a music video for Erase This where the whole idea (since I obviously couldn't get Amy in the video....) was that Erase This is such a universal song open to many interpretations and applicable to so many situations, it would be Amy singing through another person's body and thus enable me to make the video and work my gender into it in a creative way... It is finished now, and while I am very happy with large portions of it, there is early footage throughout (this is the first time I've ever tried to make a video for anything) that isn't quite up to par with the better parts of the video... So I want to cut those older parts and replace them. Then I got an idea!

Would anyone like to film themselves doing something related to the story of the video and send it to me? I can then edit it in and improve the video while also making it a more collaborative effort. This way it would be Amy singing through more than one person's body to truly represent that universal quality of the song.

Please help me out with this, creative folks!

Just so the video remains consistent, here's some small guidelines:

-If you can play it on guitar, it'd be fantastic to get a close up shot of your hands playing it.
-Even better if you can play it on drums
-If you wanna film yourself singing, try to set the scene. Have an interesting camera angle, good lighting, etc... Don't just sing, ACT! marycourage, I'd love for you to do a scene, since I know you're into theatre and a great actress (if that lyric video thing for TLSIWOY is anything to judge by)
-A major part of the video is surveillance style footage. If you could film yourself doing something and make it seem like you're being watched, or even becoming aware that someone is watching you, I would greatly appreciate that! Especially if it's something you wouldn't want someone watching you do.
-Don't do anything outdoors! There's sort of story about someone trapped in their own house and being watched
-Related to that, don't let the weather outside be seen in your videos... It's important to the timeline.
-HD close ups of your eyes (especially if they're big and unsettling) are great!
-I worked quite hard to get lots of good piano shots, so there won't be any more needed.
-Also, if you don't have a great video camera, then just do surveillance style footage. The lower the quality, the better for that sort of thing.
-Lastly, try to make it as good as you possibly can... I painstakingly shot and reshot things for months to get it where it is now and I don't want to have to cut someone's contribution because they didn't put any effort into it.

I would love anyone who helps out so very much.

[Worm Baby]

This sounds really interesting. I'm excited to see the final product after you've gotten the footage you need. Makes me wish I was back in high school. My friends and I would've been all over this kind of thing. We used to always talk about music video concepts for Ev songs and stuff. We never got around around to shooting a video, but we did do some pretty elaborate photoshoots. But alas, I'm all old and busy with a wee baby now.

[Andromeda - Evanescent-Killjoy]

ohh cool this sounds awesome id love to see some of what you have done so i could get a better feel for the themes your trying to create.

i can do some guitar parts and some singing parts i just have to learn the song and borrow my sisters camera.

[Deleted]

I can contribute with my guitar. It doesn't have to be live right, cause I know the tabs but it's not perfect and I don't have enough time to make it perfect due to exams being on their way. Can we drama-sing also?

Edit: Oh, I can add the piano intro too
Edit 2: Then I read the rest..

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Andromeda - Evanescent-Killjoy I'll try to send you a small clip that sort of shows off the style, but I did the editing over the course of 30 days... In other words, a 30 day free trial, so I have to buy the license for my video editing software and I might not be able to send you anything until I do *shrug*... The video is being held hostage at the moment, hehehehehehehehe.

@atrium It doesn't need to be perfect (I played cello in the video.... I am terrible at playing the cello) because it will be cut up into little bits. Generally, the guitar shots have been brief and spread out across the whole video. Also, if you're concerned about being able to play it perfectly, then you can always fill the role of 'second guitarist'. Basically, if SkillZiHazDEM can film the close up shots of the guitar, then you can do a far shot of a second guitarist (The other guitarist in the full body shots being me, pretending to know how to play guitar, hehehehe....) if you don't want to worry about practicing the part too much....

You can both do guitar parts and 'drama singing' if you want, which would be especially helpful if not a lot of people want to contribute. For the act-singing though, just try to set a scene with it like the 'guidelines' suggest. I'll see if I can put a small clip together to give you a better idea of the visual themes in the video, as SKillZiHazDEM requested.

[marycourage]

what kind of acting?

[Deleted]

Sing-acting, heh.... Like music videos. It's all described pretty well in the first post, I think.

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It's Boobies, the owl! He's making that face back at you.

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Alright, since I can't make a small clip of the video (I can't export until I buy this stupid program), I made a collection of screen shots to help demonstrate the video a little better as requested.

Firstly, the guitar parts so far have all been done in black and white, so if you wanna do a guitar part it'd be great if it was also black and white... As you can see, I had fun being a bit of an acrobat for this, hehehehe....



Here's what I mean by unsettling close up shots of eyes:

Dry!


Wet with black crud smeared on my face!


Then here's a small theme in the video of a sort of... Melting man, heh. I don't expect anyone to pour dye on their head like I did, but if you want to, go right ahead! Heh, dye had actually run into my eye and it looks really freakin' cool in the video 'cause you can see that little black line slide across my eyeball before I blinked and had a black eyeball for the rest of the night.





Here's what I mean by surveillance style footage, which is how I chose to film the cello and then there's me in the shower (with clothes on because the character is now paranoid that he's being watched)





For the singing parts, it'd be great if they had really bright and vivid lighting like these and a dramatic camera angle like the one with my hands on the piano. Of course, it would be best to sing in surveillance style footage too, but the lighting and dramatic angles aren't as necessary for that, heh.







Here's a few shots of the piano scenes, just because they're pretty so I thought I'd include them.





You may notice it's all different colors, heh... The video has this evolving color scheme throughout, but I don't know if I'll keep it like that.

I hope this gigantic whale of a post helps you understand it better.

[Deleted]

There isn't any kind of deadline, is it?

[Deleted]

Nope. I've had this thing since December of last year, heh.

[Worm Baby]

Jun 10, 2013 0:31:32 GMT -5 darn said:

Whoops!

This is Melt, I literally just deleted my account a few minutes ago and forgot to address this thread.. I couldn't determine if there was a way to reactivate it, so I just threw this one together for an Erase This emergency. @atrium and Andromeda - Evanescent-Killjoy, if you're still interested in doing something you can message me on soundcloud here: soundcloud.com/harle-1 ..... Or on youtube: www.youtube.com/user/RequiemLacrimosa ......... If not, then I bid thee adieu! I'll still be working on the video while I'm not here anyway....

But, but, where are you going? Why are you leaving Evthreads? That makes me super sad. I always liked you.

And I just realized, does that also mean you won't be hosting Song Of The Week anymore? Do we need to appoint someone else to take over that or did you ask someone to already?

[Osky]

Till next time then! Take care of yourself.