Movie
Here is the movie that I made of Iron and Wine's version of "Such Great Heights." I could not manage to get the Windows MovieMaker program to work properly; every time that I made an edit in the movie, I had to start the video over again at the beginning or else the soundtrack would be hopelessly un-synced from the images on the screen. This meant that for every little cut that I made I had to play the movie over from the beginning in order to see if I had even edited correctly, and if I was a second or two off in my editing I had to readjust and then click the button that starts the video over from the beginning before I could re-observe and (hopefully) move on to the next edit. After many, many hours of working on this and getting my very tech-savvy friends to help me (to no avail) I just ended up doing the best I could with how the program was working and calling it a day.
Overall I really enjoyed this project. I did a lot of my own images in Photoshop since the photos that I found online weren't exactly how I saw the video in my head. This song has a very surreal feel to it, and that's what I tried to achieve in many of the images that I included in the video.
Sources of the pictures that I used are as follows:
Eyes: http://www.peterjacksonphoto.com/eyeballphotos/
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Eye_iris.jpg
http://www.brucemalone.com/stock/stock_pics/brown-eye.jpg
http://www.inkycircus.com/jargon/images/2007/04/25/eye.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/samirkharusi/eye.jpg
http://images.jupiterimages.com/common/detail/21/35/23273521.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Blue_eye.jpg/80...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Menschliches_Au...
http://www.benhammersley.com/images/eyes.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/432301063_af6b827524.jpg
puzzle piece: http://speechtherapy4kids.com/images/puzzle_piece-index.jpg
http://imagebase.davidniblack.com/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_... open hand
http://www.stanford.edu/~abramzon/Anya's%20art/ man and woman drawing
http://www.cet.edu/images/services/CTR/CTRservicesMain.jpg
http://images.jupiterimages.com/common/detail/52/60/22976052.jpg touching face
http://www.palletmastersworkshop.com/images/missingyou.jpg rocking chair
http://www.turnswitch.com/images/IMS_1005.jpg radio dial
http://image64.webshots.com/164/5/77/82/478657782ZhrCyh_fs.jpg hot air balloon
http://www.robertcampbellphotography.com/Images/Clouds/Clouds4.jpg clouds
http://www.headington.org.uk/oxon/broad/pics/east/indian_institute/stair... staircase
http://www.reefed.edu.au/__data/assets/image/0011/17021/clouds.jpg clouds2
http://static1.bareka.com/photos/medium/168032/buci-seine-looking.jpg distorted buildings
http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00039/ed_imgsnf0806fx1_540_39... cassette
http://www.telephonesuk.co.uk/images/kingfisher.jpg answering machine
http://lloydi.com/travel-writing/turkey/ballooning/images/rising-up-high... shrillest high
http://www.smartstart-toys.co.uk/images/Compass.JPG compass
http://www.mysciencebox.org/files/images/Soil%20profile%20Talbott.jpg dirt
http://justinsomnia.org/images/looking-straight-up-the-eiffel-tower-just... looking down at camera
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/PTGPOD/813366~Flying-Man-wi... flying man
http://www.danheller.com/images/Europe/CzechRepublic/Prague/People/crowd... people looking up
http://www.chromasia.com/images/grounded_b.jpg beach
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| Iron and Wine Video_0001.wmv | 4.29 MB |
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Erika, thanks for all the hard work with the video. All of the editing to the images makes for a fantastic visual progression through the song. I liked it very much.