New Occupy Wall Street Anniversary Music Video

Please check it out and tell me what you think

vimeo.com/49784884

Made with FCPX

I'll have a look, thanks.
Although, in your anti-establishment zeal, you might have hastily posted this in the wrong thread. Fortunately, they're not as heavy handed here as the riot police you might have faced while filming, but you might find this link helpful...

fcp.co/forum/13-made-with-final-cut-pro

EDIT ::::::

Got a chance to review your video. When we are using media to try enlighten others to our religious, political, ethical positions, we hope our passion will be transferred to our audience, converting them to our cause. No wonder Apple has always called this “evangelism.” They have really cultivated an almost cult like following where we tell our friends about how great it is. That is total conversion to affiliation. So, how do you make passion contagious? It’s not easy.

Ironically, you need the corporate giant to get your anti-corporate message out. So, what is the message? Let’s have a look...

Liked your little electronic interference logo glitch. The song, if you can call it a song, is really just a loop so it quickly becomes very repetitive & not entirely that interesting. To make up for it, you better wow us with visuals. Unfortunately we get a lot of backs of heads shots & profiles of walking. The latter was marginally effective with the police & crowd in slow motion. More unfortunate was your color strobing effect which was instantly irritating. There is a distinct lack of content here. To break it up a bit, it would have been nicer to hear some articulate spokespeople championing their cause. Instead we get a brief interlude of a very poorly mic’d woman asking how many people are from out of town. Hardly compelling.

Perhaps it gets a bit stronger in the 3rd act when we have less walking & backs of heads & focus more on just the slogans of signs. Sadly, we’ve been so effectively dumbed down by this media culture, that our attention span is reduced to slogans. Since writing out the “Feed the Poor” sign was rather predictable, here would have been an excellent opportunity to utilize FCPX’s wonderful speed ramping technology. I would have sped up the writing, then slowed it right down on the end of Poor & slowing to the making of the period right on a beat. That would have been effective. One last interesting addition, your curious use of font for the closing titles, if you’d reversed the order, having the larger titles at the bottom the smaller ones appearing later higher up, it would have given he illusion of 3D letters or models in the perspective of the frame. A nice touch.

Not entirely sure what the Occupy people want, or if they even have a cohesive workable solution to the universal historical divide between rich & poor, at least no such message came thru in the video, but I do see that I should have invested in the sale of "V for Vendetta" masks.

I have removed some messages from this thread as they don't really fit in with the way we run things here.

If you post a video, then you should take comments and respond to those in a civil way. Likewise people who post comments should do so a constructive fashion and hard as it is, not respond to a hostile reaction. (it will get deleted anyway)

People like this board because the majority of the discussion happens in a very civil manner. We aim to keep it that way and not fall into the trap of the other big boards who are now finding their traffic dwindling due to trolling and bickering.

Peter

[quote="TrixTrax9000" post=14291

Not entirely sure what the Occupy people want, or if they even have a cohesive workable solution to the universal historical divide between rich & poor, at least no such message came thru in the video, but I do see that I should have invested in the sale of "V for Vendetta" masks.[/quote]

Interestingly; Time-Warner owns the copyright for the V for Vendetta mask; so every time someone who is of an anti-establishment inclination buys one, they are ironically supporting the worlds largest media conglomerate! Seemingly that mask is (and has been for a few years) one of the most popular items for sale on amazon.com.

I would agree with TrixTrax to a degree here; the message doesn't really come across very strongly; but as a quick montage of scenes from the protest it works well enough to get an idea of whats happening on the ground.

I bet there is a great documentary from the Occupy movement waiting to come out though.

peteramwiggins wrote: I have removed some messages from this thread as they don't really fit in with the way we run things here.

If you post a video, then you should take comments and respond to those in a civil way. Likewise people who post comments should do so a constructive fashion and hard as it is, not respond to a hostile reaction. (it will get deleted anyway)

People like this board because the majority of the discussion happens in a very civil manner. We aim to keep it that way and not fall into the trap of the other big boards who are now finding their traffic dwindling due to trolling and bickering.

Peter

Couldn't agree more.

Dave