A music video made for genero.tv 's Moby contest: the purpose was to make a music video fitting to Moby's "Wait for me" song. Everything was made voluntary and self produced.
I hope that it catches the mood of this beautiful Moby song enough so that you can enter the trip and enjoy the ride, whether you're trying to understand the characters or just digging the pictures moving with the pace of this music, which would already be more than enough for me! Take care and thanks for watching!
Credits:
A big huge thank you to the friends, friends of friends etc who spent one day, two days days or a week working during their free time (and some even missing their jobs) voluntary for the experience and adventure, that at the end of the journey beat the cold, rainy and sleepless nights! Loads of love to both the actors who gave all they had during this project, and were remarkably patient and tolerant with the delays, the continuous cold water and with a first time director. And finally a special big up to the people who entered completely into the northern sea that had a water temperature of 4,5° celcius that day... as someone else said it, the only people for me are the mad ones!
And now the credits who represent all the people i talked about above, in a more pompous and official way:
Directed, edited and produced by Nicolaos Zafiriou
Cast:
The woman: Sandrine Quynh The man: Peter Ninane Director of photography: Olivier Rios
Assistant directors (in alphabetical order ;) : Alan Deprez, Olivier Panier and Tamai Tusa
Camera Operator: Bagrad Badalian
Second Camera Operator: David Mortier
Steadycam: David Patel
Electricians: Dalilah Boudoudah, Jerôme Dessy
Color Correction: Bagrad Badalian, David Mortier
Make Up: Florence Morel (Obskur Make Up Artist)
Regie: Alice Versieux
Drivers: Andy Thys, Chris Bakolas, Gilles Sainsily
+ loads of thanks for their immediate help to the Victor Boin Swimming Pool (St-Gilles, Belgium), the Fleuris Bar (Brussels, Belgium), Tour & Taxis SA and the town of Knokke (Belgium).
Intentions:
While traveling and assembling ideas listening to this song of Moby, the idea to use the myth of Orpheus came to me inspired by the lyrics and the melancholic tone of the song. "Wait for me", "I'm gonna ask you to look away" etc can be quite reminiscent of this ancient myth and it's tragic ending (Orpheus seduced the gods so that he could bring back his wife from the dead, but he couldn't turn back to check if she was following him before they arrived on earth, otherwise he would lose her a second time. Eventually he couldn't resist and ... ) I liked the idea to use a theme that corresponded to the song but that at the same time wasn't directly connected to it, and that it allowed us to use many different places where we could capture interesting and different pictures that would end up mixed together, building something also visually intriguing. The editing in the video includes simultaneously both the past of the lovers (mainly through idealized visions of the man, suddenly interrupted by the unhappy girl's reality) and the quest of the man - compared to Orpheus - to bring his girl back to his real life through strange and deserted places. I wanted to maintain the doubt about the origin of this loss for him: was it like in the myth and was she dead or was it just a lovers breakup that he couldn't stand and so lives in his fantasy world, dreaming of taking her back and losing her again and again. Anyway it was made in emergency, traveling from one place to another the same day, finishing at 5am to wake up at seven so it is far from perfect and completely finished, but i hope that it catches the mood of this beautiful Moby song enough so that you can enter the trip and enjoy the ride, whether you're trying to understand the characters or just digging the pictures moving with the pace of this music, which would already be more than enough for me! Take care and thanks for watching!
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Moby - Wait For Meby LeraDnxcer4,255 views
One word:
BRILLIANT
mamr67598 1 year ago 3
@mamr67598 wow thanks a lot !!
ZafVids 1 year ago