Romantic Montage - Life is Sweet

„It isn't the big troubles in life that require character.
Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage,
but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh -- I really think that requires spirit."

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I thought, making this video would somehow help me to cope with her death. I thought, if I would do this video then the same thing would happen that normally happens to me: I think and think and think about the movies and especially the lyrics, I even „build up" a relation to the lyrics... But, and that is strange, this phase never occured when I was editing this video. I imagined it to be some kind of healing... but I guess it was just school and family problems that kept me from thinking about it too much. My idea of this video was to slowly build it up, let more and more people find access to the video and make it bigger and brighter. I got quite frustrated in the end. It didn't turn out as I had hoped for. I don't know what I exactly expected, but surely something else! I had no real free time to actually choose from the movies, I just took the ones I saw first and built up the story with them.
Some days ago I really thought I should not upload this video. It is nothing special. It wouldn't do her any justice. My thoughts were somewhere else completely. I was not honest with myself. And i did not have this „high" feeling I usually get when I finish a video. I was indifferent to it. So many other things to do on my list. I hope this little comment will make you have some mercy with me. Please, believe me, I can do better! And I wish this video would be better, be a statement. But sadly it isn't... Maybe someday I will redo it. I don't know yet. Right now, all i can think about are my exams. And I wish I could think more about my piano teacher. I miss her so much. And I really am somehow ashamed of this video, it is not a worthy tribute to her...

Oh, and as for the yellow coloring in the end: I don't like it:) I'm so sorry. I only tried it but then it stayed that way and I couldn't redo it. Strange... but the program did not remove it... I hope it is not too crazy!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Life
• is
• Sweet
• Natalie
• Merchant
• Period
• Drama
• Movie
• Montage
• love
• happiness
• death

[PinkTitanium]

which album is this version from? it's not from Ophelia

[MelodyofSnow]

@PinkTitanium I am sorry, I don't know. i downloaded the song from the internet.

[majtris]

Oh Sarah! Du hast mich wirklich zum Weinen gebracht! Was für ein wunderschönes Video! Ich liebe Natalie Merchant! Und die Szene wenn Cecilia und James McAvoy am Strand sind, was ja nur in der Phantasie passiert, in echt haben sie sich nie wieder gesehen! Und dieses wunderschöne Video hast Du Deiner Klavierlehrerin gewidmet! Herzzerreißend schön!!! Sie muss ein besonderer Mensch gewesen sein um von einem so besonderem Menschen wie Dir so geliebt zu werden !

[MelodyofSnow]

@majtris danke nathalie! danke! es hat mir so viel bedeutet, diesen wunderschönen kommentar von dir zu lesen. ich denke allerdings, dass du mit dem letzten satz etwas übertrieben hast :) danke. es freut mich, dass dir mein video gefällt!

[vampires18]

I love it. I came for the song but stayed for the video.

[MelodyofSnow]

@vampires18 thank you

[thamiCappuccino]

This might not be "perfect" the way you wanted it to be, but the important thing is that you made it and posted it anyway. (It'd be a shame if it remained unused inside a computer) It is a wonderful video montage and it's great that it's here for people to watch. And the gesture remains strong, a sweet tribute to a loved one lost.

[Klynn85]

Hun this is wonderful just the way it is. I wish there was a way to convince you of that...I love the way that you took so many wonderful characters and stories and wove them together so perfectly. I have never attempted a montage myself but you always manage to make such beautiful and wonderful ones :)