D-Day Omaha Beach - Muse

A video I made for a school assignment. It combines footage taken from:
Company of Heroes
Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault
Saving Private Ryan
The Ghost Of You - My Chemical Romance (Music Video)
With
Exogenesis Symphone Part II: Cross Pollination - Muse (vocal edit by me)

Written by: Terry Collett

They say three thousand men
Died on Omaha Beach
In 1944;
Far from their mother's arms

And their father's proud reach,
Brave men, who walked the path
Of death, paid the highest
Cost with their bone and flesh,

Another red sea was
This, coloured by rivers
From young men's veins, lost limbs,
Lost lives and battered brains,

And far from homes across
The sea and loved one's touch
And kiss and hold. Such is
The price of peace, the cost

Of war, remember them
And the high price they paid
And where their bones are laid.

Justification

The poem focuses on the deaths at Omaha Beach On June 6th, 1944. D-Day. I tried my best to represent massive loss of life in my film. The film tells two stories. It shows first hand the massacre that took place on that day, staying true to lines in the poem such as "They say three thousand men Died on Omaha Beach In 1944" and "Brave men, who walked the path Of death...", but it also tells a more in depth story of a soldier named Michael, the man with glasses shown in the beginning, and throughout the film.

At the start of the film, Michael is with his lover at a soldier's dance, just before they ship out to war. The dance is shown once again in the middle of the film, as a memory, quickly flooded with scenes from the war zone. This symbolises the lines "And far from homes across The sea and loved one's touch And kiss and hold". As Michael is making his way up the beach he is shot, and begins to die. A medic tries to save him, but he ends up passing away, while his brother Gerard watches from a safer part of the beach. The film fades, and comes back to show the mass graves for the soldiers that died that day. It shows a slightly older Gerard, visiting the graves, representing the final stanza of the poem "...remember them And the high price they paid And where their bones are laid". In the final scene it shows Michael symbolically walking away from his lover, representing his death, and the depressing mood in the poem.

My film is riddled with violent shots, correctly depicting the danger the men faced on that day. I believe this correctly represents the stanza "Another red sea was This, Coloured by rivers From young men's veins, lost limbs, Lost lives and battered brains,"

i dont own anything in this video. i just put it all together. no copyright infringement intended.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Muse
• Omaha Beach
• cross-pollination
• saving private ryan
• my chemical romance
• ghost of you
• company of heroes
• medal of honor
• d-day
• wwii
• ww2