The Year of Getting Over [NAME REDACTED]

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• published: 04 Mar 2016
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woops, I think I just bared my soul. Here's a list of all the beautiful, beautiful music: 0:00 - "Clair de Lune" by Claude Debussy 0:52 - "The Art of Letting Go" by Robert G Borden https://youtu.be/8-VuUWk3cQc 02:25 - "Blossom" by Josh Belperio https://soundcloud.com/josh-belperio/ 03:45 - "Reverie" by Claude Debussy 5:48 - those terrible lyrics and backing vocals were by me but the (amazing) beat I used is "Kill the Boss" by the super SUPER talented "The Passion Hifi" soundcloud.com/freehiphopbeatsforyou 8:50 - "80s Sitcom" by Royalty Free Music For Youtube 13:05 - "Wish Granter" by Broughton https://broughton.bandcamp.com/ 13:26 - "The Art of Letting Go" again (do you get the symbolism of bringing it back? DO YOU?!) 16:13 - "Safe Journey's Home" by Broughton https://broughton.bandcamp.com/ 19:10 - "Cold Night" by me 22:53 - "Shadows in the Park" by Dan Schofield https://danschofielduk.bandcamp.com/ my twitter: https://twitter.com/naomibelet So, the story behind this video is this: basically I got heartbroken really really badly, my closest friends had moved away, and I was on my gap year, feeling desolate, directionless and hopeless. I spent a lot of time staring catatonically out the window, and I retreated very far into myself. I didn’t really want to talk to anyone about it (I hate being weak and vulnerable, and when your friends live far away, you don’t want to be crying every time you call them, and you don’t want to waste that precious Skype time or only ever be a burden when you talk, because then they’ll stop calling. Or at least, you worry that they will, no matter how close you are. It’s just different, having them away). So for that reason, I’d instead talk to this new camera I bought (it’s just like a camcorder), which is why I had so much footage of me crying. I still have a lot of that footage, of me moping around. I didn’t really intend to use it for anything. (I don’t actually use much in the video other than some audio clips at 2:30ish and that November clip later on, and a quick montage of crying shots near the end haha). Anyway, around late December last year, I actually did start hanging around people and feeling much better etc etc, and COMPLETELY spontaneously and pretty much by accident I got that beautiful one-take shot at the end of the video (the one from behind my friends, walking through the gorgeous Botanic Gardens). And watching that footage back made me feel so many things, so, I decided I had to do something with it. And I had a lot of other random footage I’d taken this year so yeah from that point I just started piecing together the arc of this particular story. It all came back to that garden shot, because that represented that revelation of learning to live again, with friends, etc etc. That’s it. Also, yeah, I DID edit this on Windows Movie Maker. It just requires extra creativity (I also used Paint and Audactity, which are also free) and work (I’d guessimate around 80-100 hours of editing over 3 months, but then, I’m very slow and ponderous when I edit; I watch it back a million times.) And it requires a lot of patience. It’s very frustrating to have the quality worsened (not that it was HD or anything to begin with, but still). AND IF I SEE ERROR 80004003 ONE MORE TIME I’M GOING TO THROW MYSELF OFF A BUILDING. (for those of you who are blissfully un-initiated, “error 80004003” is when Movie Maker decides to just spontaneously corrupt all or some of the files, for no particular reason, forcing you to start again. As you can imagine, screaming and the urge to throw your laptop against the wall does occur. You damn rich people with your iMovie (or Final Cut Pro or whatever) have no idea how lucky you are. I CAN’T EVEN OVERLAY). Also, if it wasn’t clear, I have no idea what I’m doing with videomaking. This was just my attempt. Also, in the process of editing this, I got into acting school and moved to another city. So I AM much happier now, if you care about that sort of thing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ And now to a section of the description I’m calling “Better Videos on the Same/Similar Topic”: Tim H’s “Reflective in Perspective” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRBf4... Hazel Hayes “AUGUST” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os0nQ...