A listener’s take at creating a video for Central + Saturday question #1
Written on February 7, 2009 in Elsewhere on the web, Saturday Questions & with 9 responses
Tags: central, listeners, music video, saturday question, the empyrean, unofficial
Andreas Yngvesson/BaconDude has created a music video for Central. It's pretty interesting and unusual, so have a look!
[flash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4YutWM0n0Y]
And, why not, since Saturdays are so quiet, let's start a new tradition: a random question asked on Saturday, for you all to answer.
This week's (obvious) question: Would you create a video for any of these ten (twelve) songs yourself and if you would, what song would it be and how would it look like? Reply in comments.
9 Reactions to A listener’s take at creating a video for Central + Saturday question #1
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Wow amazing
I think John would like to watch that video
Great video but in some ways I hate video clips. They're blocking your imagination, at the moment the whole The Empyrean has a full circle of scenes in my head each time I listen and I would hate to loose 'em over someone's else imgination if you get my drift.
I would love to see a video for Song to the Siren.
I would do Unreachable. It's has such a strong image in my head.
the video is nice but i tootaly agree with powaz.
I'd do a video of God.
The main character is frozen in his room. The room is white and has only a bed and some guitars/basses, which are purple (except for a acoustic guitar, maybe). The God character sings the song, but he's not the 'god' idea we get from religion(s). He's a mix of a man with superpowers, the joker, the cliché corporation boss and a loving mother. Like, a whimful psycho who likes to toy with the universe and learn the reactions of the human kind, though he loves them. He looks like the main character but he is thinner, has a more classy hair, a bandage covering his eyes and dresses in black (somewhat inspired by this photo of John: http://invisible-movement.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/speeddealermoms.jpg).
In the intro part god is whispering the song at the ear of the main character, and then he keeps singing the song like a speech to him, exaggerating a lot his movements
Sometimes god would be speaking at the room, others would be speaking from heaven, which would be a gray town covered in dust with a golden throne in the middle of the street. There's nobody at the town.
The main character sheds tears while standing still as the song gets intense. I'd also use some colorful psychedelic fire/clouds like in Bacondude's video, which by the way is awesome.
Music is expression, expression that has ability to invoke expressed emotions in listeners. But every human being is individual soul that has different life, different Ego, desires, demons.. This things works in your mind when you listen to music.. So final output is different in every single mind .. so in many ways i agree with Powaz but, there are some videos that give another dimension to songs that i really like, but its true that its someone others imagination.. but you know, its the same when you read a really divine book, you imagine all the stuff and its beautiful, then hollywood films it, and the film is shit.. but still there are many majestic films, that are master pieces of filmart itself..
its the same with music videos but video clips are nowadays made in 99,9 per just for marketing bussiness shit around music..
I think that empyrean is divine as a unit.. you would have to made whole film for album, but its such a demanding, complex theme that it would be nearly impossible to make satisfying piece, and it would still represent only one single way
I agree with Jean Antonie. Actually if I had means (film-making knowledge/equipment or just be able to draw animations) I'd do a 50 minute movie of The Empyrean. Every time I play it from beginning to end I imagine the whole story as a movie in my head. Maybe it's not exactly as John described, but it's an approach. It happens a lot to me with some albums, like Shadows Collide with people, which I find more interesting because I don't even know if it was supposed to be a concept album.
I love this music video but i would chose Before the beginning wich is instrumental and it's more powerful to imagine !