"Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-stripe scarf. When I was little my father would pull me into his lap and reach for the snow globe. He would turn it over, -letting all the snow collect on the top, then quickly invert it. The two of us watched the snow fall gently around the penguin. The penguin was alone in there, I thought, and I worried for him. When I told my father this, he said, 'Don't worry, Susie. He has a nice life. He's trapped in a perfect world."
-------
In case you haven't seen it the "Monster" Collab organized by BlacksGodDaughter ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJOV7wnxKXQ
-------
Alright, so... after starting 4 projects, finishing one that took me two weeks & almost giving up after Vegas decided to kill it the day before I left for my vacation, I was finally able to upload my video for the second challenge for the BOIT Competition.
I'm kinda proud of myself, lol. On Friday I was sure I wouldn't re-make a video for the competition... I was so angry, because I was really happy on how the vid I made turned out & I was sure I wouldn't be able to start it again, basically from scratch [I only had the first 13 seconds that I saved on my pc as a preview].
Then I decided SV wouldn't beat me but I also knew I couldn't make that same video again in less than a week. I started another & worked on it very hard. Every spare second I could find I started the pc & managed to finish it yesterday. I really like how it turned out & most of all I experimented with the coloring, trying some new fx as well as new combination & I love it. When I saw how well it went with the colors of the movie & those of Susie's outfit I was like "Yeah!", lol.
I won't tell you what my first vid was, I'd love to finish it one day, but I don't know. Everytime I open the project & see "Media Offline" everywhere I kind of want to cry :/
Now to this video. We were asked to choose a book we read & make a video out of it, based on the events that happened through it. My first choice was another (guess what?, lol), but after Vegas started being an a** & I watched the movie to this book I remembered how much I loved it.
I have to say, I read a lot, but this book was one of the best (non-classic) I read in a while. The story was heartbreaking but beautiful, I couldn't stop reading it even if I was forced to by natural causes (eating, studying, sleeping...)...
SPOILERS FOR THE BOOK AND THE MOVIE FROM NOW ON.
PLOT: 14 years old Susie Salmon is brutally murdered in 1974 by one of her neighbours. Her family is disraught & even if the body was never found, her murder was sure. But Susie didn't really fade away, she was in her own perfect world watching her family as it fell apart: her siblings living in the shadow of her ghost, while her father, Jack, tried endlessy to catch her killer & her mother, feeling abandoned by him, found some comfort in the detective assigned to the case. In the meantime her assassin continues to fool everyone but Jack & later Lindsay, while Susie tries her best to help them.
-------
The movie as graphically beautiful as it was, it left me with a vague sense of emptiness compared to the book. It was too fast & most importantly the last ten minutes tried to summarize half of the book without really succeeding. The whole atmoshpere of resentment & guilt was not explored at all & the characters despite being played by excellent actors did not have that same depth as the book's, they all loved & forgave each other too soon, without the least bit of fault. And well, the fact that the arc of the story remained in what one, two years? Instead of the 10 that allowed the character's growth, both physical & psychological...
I found this song to be perfect to put a remedy to the family-friendly movie & make it look some more like the book. The parts like "Where were you when everything was falling apart?" were excellent to describe exactly Abby, the mother, feeling abandoned by Jack & seeking comfort in Len & then leaving for years. But the "You found me" bits also concetrate the powerful feelings the members of the family have for each other, the relationship between Buckley & Jack, Lindsay & her boyfriend Samuel, even Susie, Ray & Ruth the sort of mystical triangle that finds closure almost 10 years after Susie's death...
If you have any questions about the interpretation of the lyrics just ask ;) Unfortunately the description can only be so long ... but if you've read the book & watched the movie it shouldn't be too difficult, I hope :).
Thanks for watching!