I loved May McDonough's 'Riverside' upon watching fajigajiga's animated short 'The Anglerpod'. Inspired by the short and this sultry melody, I had it in my head that if there was ever going to be a music vid for this number, it was gonna be 'noir-y', even though I haven't the faintest what that actually means.

Hence this record -> lust, love, betrayal, and death. Lots of black (it's noir, non?)

I realise for someone pretty green to this (my first fully-edited vid...with plot), I might have been too ambitious with the editing and plot. If it's all a convoluted mess to you (like I suspect it is), please shoot me a comment and I'll add the plot details in the record. That said, I would be so happy if someone used this vid as a springboard to better the storytelling or incorporate other themes.

PS: Did I mention how much I love 'Riverside'? :)

EDIT: I'm going to include the details of the 'plot' under the cut here, but I encourage you to watch the vid without reading it first to form your own interpretation. Once you're done you can compare it to mine and decide on how it can be better remixed (to yours or mine). Now no interpretation is wrong, mine is just one of them :)

Also, do share with me your interpretations! I'd love to hear them!

-------------------------------------------------------------------

Plot: 

2 guys walk into a bar. They are attracted to the sultry woman over there (songstress-?). They pursue her. She lets them. She strings both of them along. They eventually find out. One goes on a drunken rampage and eventually dies in a car crash. The other goes into depression and drowns himself. Yup.

It sounds silly when put like that, but the reason why there is an undercurrent of sensuality and danger is because I wanted her to be the femme fatale. The maneater. A dangerous woman who eats men for breakfast. And when I started exploring the idea of predator and prey; the idea that she was consciously manipulating these men...I thought it would be pretty neat if it were a movie and she was watching it with a smirk on her face. Works too if she was actually singing the song the whole time. Hence the last shot, the snippets of rolling film and dusty light streaks throughout the vid, the close-ups of the lips, and instruments/band clips.

I'm aware it's a pretty ambitious plot. It was a challenge coz the resources are all very different. But if you enjoyed it all the same, I'm a happy duck :)

get colourin' in.

drawn by me: stars, owls/branch, kites, starjar, central little dude reading [with eyes shut.. how?!] 

redrawn by me [to maintain style & outline thickness] but copied from other illustrations: bees, spaceships, dusty dancers, oranges, skeletons

unchanged : bunting, teddies, dodos, elements

Thought Marke's A Good Sky For Falling would make a nice background, added some cameras, et voila. Remix away!

Image size was limited to the original upload of the background image, maybe the original is floating around somewhere...

My first image remix - yay!

The "REmix Theatre" collaboration began on January 18, 2011 and, after nearly three months of hard work by the contributing community, the 'Pilot Episode' is officially on the air.

I had no idea if making a quasi late night television show was even going to be possible. But I figured it was worth a try.

As outlandish a concept as it was at times, the community was remarkably supportive and immensely helpful in contributing the essential pieces to the project. And I wanted us to aim high, making the show as close to real television as possible: commercials, credits, bumpers, and network IDs had to be created just for this.

With the pilot in the can, my hope now is that this Pilot Episode will help inspire future installments. The idea behind "REmix Theatre" was always to establish some kind of structure and then have other hitRECorders pick and choose which parts they would like to carry over into new episodes. And with new episodes would come new Featured RECords, new fictional host characters, and new formats.

I did my best to cite every REsource involved with the project but I did want to highlight a few key contributors to this production, without whom none of this end product would have been possible:

* thesherbethead: I'm forever indebted to this creaive spirit. His theme music contribution really kickstarted the whole thing when it was in a lull and helped me figure out the direction it truly needed to go in. And Vincent McSuperfly is a character I really enjoy. Did you know that #McSuperfly has been trending since 1976? I thought it was since '77, but wikipedia was incorrect.

* Melanne: Heavily involved from the get-go, Melanne's ideas and passion motivated me day in and day out to keep going and stick with it.

* themetafictionist: Every single RECord on the site has the ability to inspire. When themetafictionist uploaded "How To Wear Your hitRECord Button" I remember thinking for a while what her RECord reminded me of. Then it came to me. It was like an infomercial from the '50s. I had already REmixed a Public Domain ad for "Free TV" and I had decided that was to be the lone commercial for the show. But then I decided to work on the "Retro RECord Store Ad" collaboration and that was one of the most fun things I've worked on (plus I think it adds a nice light-hearted touch to the show.)

* Dolphin170: There were so many excellent logos uploaded to the initial "REmix Theatre" collaboration, but Dolphin170's "Hitrecord Network Logo" was the one that I found myself really connecting with. Her logo was so uniquely retro and simple, and it hit on all the points I was looking for. That one design became so integral in the crucial "Network IDs" that bookend the episode.

The following Public Domain clips were used:

* "Shock Waves" - http://www.archive.org/details/ShockWaves-Trailer

* "The House That Dripped Blood" - http://www.archive.org/details/TheHouseThatDrippedBlood-Trailer

* "Madman - trailer" - http://www.archive.org/details/Madman-Trailer

* "Ruby - trailer" - http://www.archive.org/details/Ruby-Trailer

* "Corruption - trailer" - http://www.archive.org/details/Corruption-Trailer

* "Dracula Has Risen From the Grave - trailer" - http://www.archive.org/details/DraculaHasRisenFromTheGrave-Trailer

* "The Virgin of Nuremberg - trailer" - http://www.archive.org/details/TheVirginOfNuremberg-Trailer

* "Maniac - trailer#1" - http://www.archive.org/details/Maniac-Trailer1

* "The Wicker Man - trailer" - http://www.archive.org/details/TheWickerMan-Trailer

* "Taste the Blood of Dracula" - http://www.archive.org/details/TasteTheBloodOfDracula-Trailer

* "Don't Open the Door - trailer" - http://www.archive.org/details/DontOpenTheDoor-Trailer

* "Horror of Dracula - trailer" - http://www.archive.org/details/HorrorOfDracula-Trailer

* "One Dark Night" - http://www.archive.org/details/OneDarkNight-Trailer

* "Our Feature Presentation HD Clean & Dirty" - http://www.archive.org/details/PublicDomain-OurFeaturePresentationHdCleanDirty

* "Drive-in: Save Free TV" - http://www.archive.org/details/Drive-inSaveFreeTv

This record took me waaaaaaay longer than I thought it would!!

When I listened to Madrond101's beautiful picece for the first time I instantly fell in love with it and I still can't stop listening to it so I knew I had to do something with it. I found a record by L.A with amazing footage of Paris and remixed it with Joe's Escargots and daysandhours's Sans Toi.

I'd love for someone to write a story for this and someone to read it as a voiceover, preferably a dark male voice, but anything goes really ;)

The story in short: he gets up in the morning, just to go looking for his lost love, he sees her in every girl and goes on a frantic search through the whole city, drowns his pain in alcohol and eventually lets go. Nouveau Départ - A New Start :)

Enjoy! Looking forward to your texts and VOs xxx

a sort of stream of consciousness-y thing ive been writing lately. i saw this timelapse vid today by bluebudgie and was really inspired to experiment with it. i understand how this might be seen as political or preachy or offensive.. but i honestly dont mean to be any of those things. it is directed at me more than anyone else. there's a lot of literary reference nod's in the text.

sub-point: the track is an instrumental version of everything is on fire