Festivids Reveal!
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"All This and Heaven Too", Inside Out, for Festivids 2015-2016 from Laura 47 on Vimeo.
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I swore after last year I was just going to make happy action vids, likely to animated movies, because my Lego Movie vid was so much less stressful to make than previous years and it was well received.
And Inside Out seemed like a great source to offer.
BUT ALL THE FEELINGS. It is, of course, literally *about* feelings in the most literal sense possible, but somehow I just offered it anyway, even though I cried watching it in a theater. I wound up making something very emotional for me, and apparently it's hit some viewers emotionally as well. There wasn't anyway to vid this that wasn't going to be emotional, by definition, so I felt a bit silly, but I'm quite happy with where it all went!
I was quite aways into the process of this vid when I realized I was confused about what the vid was about, because that's how my creative processed works sometimes. :) I started out thinking I was making a vid about the importance of lower-case-s sadness, then i realized I was making a vid about the importance of sadness and Joy coming to understand that, then I scrapped some stuff and added more Joy because clearly it was about Joy, Sadness, and Joy understanding the importance of sadness and also Sadness, and also also Sadness understanding the importance of S/sadness. Then, awhile after that, I realized I was ridiculous and the feeling I never knew existed before was the joy-and-sadness feeling (i put literally clips down and went WAIT THAT'S THE THING I may have shouted, my spouse and friends are used to it). So the vid was actually about Joy, Sadness, Joy understanding sadness, Joy understanding Sadness, I'm losing track of things but also joy-and-sadness, lowercase. Which is terirbly amusing for me, because my little nephew loves this movie and calls it "joy and sadness" instead of the proper name. Adorably, my mom was using the context of the movie to try and talk to him about what his dad might be feeling, attending the football game we were watching. If this movie helps kids talk about feelings and develop empathy a bit better or a bit sooner, then booyah. :)
As for the song, I just didn't know what to do, and I asked various friends to make suggestions for me.I'd been asking for songs that felt both sad and then happy, and all sorts of complicated things, and really was thinking about it in the wrong way. I was driving over to
shati's house for vidding, having done more clipping and arranging than I'd ever done before because I was still songless, and I made a playlist of all the songs people had suggested to listen to in the car. And then I clicked on a playlist I'd been working on for a LARP character, and this song came on, and I said to myself "Yes Laura, you've wanted to do a Florence vid all along, you've even thought about this song in passing but thought you couldn't pull it off, and it's time to just make the vid you want to make." So of course I think got external validation of a my closest advisors saying it could work, and that's how I found my song. :)
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