So, in the realization that what I was trying to achieve wouldn't be feasible with my resources,skill and time I have decided to change the song for the video. This also means changing the scenes to fit more to the new song, which by the same artist Damh the Bard and is called Spirit of Albion.
Part of the problem with the first song choice, sons and daughters was that it required me heavily using shots of actors, actors i just don't have. So rather than change the theme completely it will be similar, just a different song. The main point is in this song I don't require actors, meaning I can focus my efforts on getting the right shots and using what footage Ive already taken. There will still be footage of people in video, this will be taken from other sources though, such as concert footage of the bard himself.
The plan for this video is listed below along with the lyrics:
Spirit of Albion by Damh the Bard
An isle so fair, a isle so green, ( )
Known by many names. ( images of signposts zoom past semi transparent upon a recorded bit of footage from Bodmin)
Feel the pulse, the pulse of the land, (The video begins to pulse )
The blood boils within your veins. (The screen transitions in an urupution into the next scene, reference to the blood boiling )
Someone go down to the Holy Well (Either, go down to the blue pond and capture from multiple angles )
and raise the Spirits there! (Or create a well in the garden use a stone a hose pipe )
Lay a feather on a stone, (The water crashes into a transitional semi transparent filter to the next scene of a feather landing on a stone next to a lock of hair and then stop start editing to make the illusion that the candle lights itself )
with a flame, and a lock of hair. ( )
(Chorus)
The Crane, the wolf,
the bear and the boar, ( Each of the animals flashes in as each is said transparently)
No longer dwell upon these shores, ( Upon a shot from the shore near Tintagel, then image then fades towards the “no longer” )
You say that the Goddess and God ( This section will be the video footage from the London musician on the bridge)
have gone, ( )
Well I tell you they live on! ( )
For in the cities and hills, ( )
And in circles of stone, (a video of walking into a stone circle pop out from the centre of the last scene to transition creating the effect that the audience is walking into the video/scene. )
The voices of the Old Ways, ( )
The Spirit of Albion is calling you home! ( As that scene merges into a video of people at stone henge as well as ravers dancing)
From Manwydden's crashing sea, ( )
To the moor and the Highland Glen. ( )
From the Faerie Hills, home of the Sidhe, (This scene will run along each other, with the screen being split into three shots, first starting with the crashing sea from tintangle to a shoot from bodmin moor to a shot of a mond, poping up on the scene consecutively )
To the veins of the Broad and the Fen. (get some helicopter shots of the net of rivers in norfolk and rivers in the fens possibly near the island of ely )
Someone go down to the Holy Trees ( )
of Oak and Ash and Thorn! (Take footage from up the long wood of each type of tree )
Utter a charm in the verse of three, ( )
Till the Summer King is born! (super impose an image of a rising sun behind the trees, coming up, maybe an animation for instance )
Ride the white horses ( )
carved into the hills, ( )
Walk to the Hanging Stones. ( )
Bow to the might ( )
of Cerne Abbass' height, ( This and the previous four lines will be a collage of images/video still shots to match the scenes described)
Feel the peace in the Ancestors' homes. ( warm sun shots shown)
Someone go down to Wilmington ( )
where the Giant guards the way! ( )
Step into the Otherworld, ( )
into the womb, ( )
Where centuries pass like a day! ( )
Part of the problem with the first song choice, sons and daughters was that it required me heavily using shots of actors, actors i just don't have. So rather than change the theme completely it will be similar, just a different song. The main point is in this song I don't require actors, meaning I can focus my efforts on getting the right shots and using what footage Ive already taken. There will still be footage of people in video, this will be taken from other sources though, such as concert footage of the bard himself.
The plan for this video is listed below along with the lyrics:
Spirit of Albion by Damh the Bard
An isle so fair, a isle so green, ( )
Known by many names. ( images of signposts zoom past semi transparent upon a recorded bit of footage from Bodmin)
Feel the pulse, the pulse of the land, (The video begins to pulse )
The blood boils within your veins. (The screen transitions in an urupution into the next scene, reference to the blood boiling )
Someone go down to the Holy Well (Either, go down to the blue pond and capture from multiple angles )
and raise the Spirits there! (Or create a well in the garden use a stone a hose pipe )
Lay a feather on a stone, (The water crashes into a transitional semi transparent filter to the next scene of a feather landing on a stone next to a lock of hair and then stop start editing to make the illusion that the candle lights itself )
with a flame, and a lock of hair. ( )
(Chorus)
The Crane, the wolf,
the bear and the boar, ( Each of the animals flashes in as each is said transparently)
No longer dwell upon these shores, ( Upon a shot from the shore near Tintagel, then image then fades towards the “no longer” )
You say that the Goddess and God ( This section will be the video footage from the London musician on the bridge)
have gone, ( )
Well I tell you they live on! ( )
For in the cities and hills, ( )
And in circles of stone, (a video of walking into a stone circle pop out from the centre of the last scene to transition creating the effect that the audience is walking into the video/scene. )
The voices of the Old Ways, ( )
The Spirit of Albion is calling you home! ( As that scene merges into a video of people at stone henge as well as ravers dancing)
From Manwydden's crashing sea, ( )
To the moor and the Highland Glen. ( )
From the Faerie Hills, home of the Sidhe, (This scene will run along each other, with the screen being split into three shots, first starting with the crashing sea from tintangle to a shoot from bodmin moor to a shot of a mond, poping up on the scene consecutively )
To the veins of the Broad and the Fen. (get some helicopter shots of the net of rivers in norfolk and rivers in the fens possibly near the island of ely )
Someone go down to the Holy Trees ( )
of Oak and Ash and Thorn! (Take footage from up the long wood of each type of tree )
Utter a charm in the verse of three, ( )
Till the Summer King is born! (super impose an image of a rising sun behind the trees, coming up, maybe an animation for instance )
Ride the white horses ( )
carved into the hills, ( )
Walk to the Hanging Stones. ( )
Bow to the might ( )
of Cerne Abbass' height, ( This and the previous four lines will be a collage of images/video still shots to match the scenes described)
Feel the peace in the Ancestors' homes. ( warm sun shots shown)
Someone go down to Wilmington ( )
where the Giant guards the way! ( )
Step into the Otherworld, ( )
into the womb, ( )
Where centuries pass like a day! ( )
