Love in the Time of Harvest - My latest (vintage inspired) piece!

Hello all! To celebrate the official onset of autumn, I made this little video for one of my songs. It is greatly inspired by the musical pieces of the 1940s, especially jazz instrumentals. It's not perfect, but it was so much fun to do and put together. The piece was made in FL Studio using a couple different VSTs, processed through with Izotope's Vinyl plugin to sound like a vintage record.

I would love some feedback not only on the song, but also the video! I know it isn't the purpose of this forum to discuss that, but I'm an aspiring videographer/cinematographer as well and would love to know how these shots align with the song and the story being told.

I look forward to the discussions! Hope you all enjoy the song!

Hi @Layne,

I like your way of presenting the love story of the pumpkins with the technique of montage and silent films. 1:53 montage is real great with that Halloween pumpkin jump cut with special lighting. But what does the freaking horrible pumpkin ending means? I don't understand haha.

The BGM is quite suitable for the video, with some cliche love themes and some dissonance appears when that freaking pumpkin appears.

Thx for sharing!

Henry

On 10/4/2023 at 12:43 AM, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:

Hi @Layne,

I like your way of presenting the love story of the pumpkins with the technique of montage and silent films. 1:53 montage is real great with that Halloween pumpkin jump cut with special lighting. But what does the freaking horrible pumpkin ending means? I don't understand haha.

The BGM is quite suitable for the video, with some cliche love themes and some dissonance appears when that freaking pumpkin appears.

Thx for sharing!

Henry

 

Hello @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu! Thank you for listening! I am glad you enjoyed the video. It was a challenge, but so fun and rewarding to finish. Funnily enough, the song was made months before the video...So all of that was shot to accommodate the music!

As for the pumpkin and dissonance. I was hoping in some way to convey the love that comes with having a child...but also the struggles. When I developed the idea for the video I wanted to use those portions of the song to somewhat convey that feeling. I'm hoping to make this into a series of songs and videos that follow the journey of these pumpkin people and their pumpkin child! I'm glad that you caught the not so subtle influence from montage and silent films. I haven't seen anyone else on the places I've posted catch onto that! Perhaps if I had made it black and white that would be more obvious, but the colors were intentional to "modernize" it a bit I suppose.

2 hours ago, Layne said:

As for the pumpkin and dissonance. I was hoping in some way to convey the love that comes with having a child...but also the struggles.

Oh wait that freaking horrible pumpkin is actually their child??!! I think it is a mistress or an evil to break their loving bond. How evil I am!

2 hours ago, Layne said:

I'm glad that you caught the not so subtle influence from montage and silent films. I haven't seen anyone else on the places I've posted catch onto that! Perhaps if I had made it black and white that would be more obvious, but the colors were intentional to "modernize" it a bit I suppose.

I did watch quite a number of films in the past (but not now)! I definitely love Chaplin's silent films and The Passion of Joan of Arc by Carl Theodore Dreyer!

Henry

On 10/3/2023 at 9:43 PM, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:

The BGM is quite suitable for the video, with some cliche love themes and some dissonance appears when that freaking pumpkin appears.

On 10/6/2023 at 12:13 PM, Layne said:

As for the pumpkin and dissonance. I was hoping in some way to convey the love that comes with having a child...but also the struggles.

I feel like the piano theme came off as really creepy and the 16th note motifs sounded random and haphazard - not at all depicting what (imo) love for their child should sound like.  Overall though, the video is nice!  I think before filming I would have cut off the tags on the pumpkin dolls with directions about how to wash them and all (LoL).  Thanks for sharing!

On 10/9/2023 at 2:15 PM, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

I feel like the piano theme came off as really creepy and the 16th note motifs sounded random and haphazard - not at all depicting what (imo) love for their child should sound like.  Overall though, the video is nice!  I think before filming I would have cut off the tags on the pumpkin dolls with directions about how to wash them and all (LoL).  Thanks for sharing!

 

I suppose more the chaos of having a child would have been better wording. Hence, them looking in the mirror. Almost tired. But with spooky edge for October. As for the tags...yeah. I realized that in the edit...and my skills do not delve into removing tags digitally! Haha!! I appreciate the listen!