"ReD" (2018)

Full Overview

Experimental music elicits an experimental response with video editing. I was approached with what was originally going to be just a simple video and audio sync job but after it was completed, the musician/composer (Hillary Fielding aka: Blancah Black) and I both agreed it was flat and boring. What resulted was a journey into true collaborative creative team work. I like to call "painting with After effects". Listening to the music initially without any context behind it or knowing what the narrative was about resulted in much of what is currently in the final video. After being informed of the narrative, I worked with the musician / composer to add a couple of extra elements, tone down and remove others and ultimately dividing the visual aspect into three moments of building tension, as occurs in the music. This was an exciting project and one that may never come around again which is why I jumped at the chance to be part of it. Copyright Notice: The song originally was composed and performed for use by the record label, Bridge Records, which had an exclusive rights holding for two years. The project was called the $100 Guitar Project in which a $100 used guitar was shipped around the country to a wide variety of guitarists on which a song of their own was to be performed. The resulting individual music tracks were then collected by the recording label as a large compilation album. This album is still available on Amazon and there is a YouTube playlist that features all the songs as well as this one - sans the video I made this year that accompanied the track. It i worth noting that the video footage in my video was shot by someone else and was shot at the time Hillary was performing her song on the $100 guitar that would later be included on the compilation album. Now that rights have expired and the song has since been copyrighted by Hillary Fielding. We are posting it here until her company's YouTube page and website are finished being built. Once they are done, we will remove the video from here and transplant it to her channel. Fielding Media Associates Website: fieldingmedia.com