Emotion Video- "Happiness"

Happiness from Brady Small on Vimeo.

This is my first ever attempt at producing/editing/shooting film! Enjoy!

Music Video Analysis

I chose "Old Pine" by Ben Howard.  The entire video seems to be a nostalgic/happy look back at his past. He just walks down a dirt road facing the camera lip syncing the words as if he were telling the story/stories of him growing up or his fondness of the area.  All the shots had some sort of filter that gave a feeling of memories.  It was like a sepia toned video memoir.

Old Pine by Ben Howard

Documentary

I draw lots of inspiration and knowledge from documentaries.  My idea would be to follow around a person with Cystic Fibrosis (an incurable, terminal disease), and show shots of their daily routine.  As well as get interviews of them talking about living with CF and their outlook on life because their life expectancy is in the early to mid-30's.  Its always interesting get the opinion of someone who knows their days are numbered.

 

Narrative

For the narrative,  I have an idea of a sort of post relationship story.  I want it to show the sort of changes of feelings from sadness/desperation to happiness/hope.  I would love to try to show a sort of montage of the past girl through the thoughts, to try to show whats going on in the person's head.  I don't have an image but I do have a short film I'd love to draw inspiration from to create it.  The short film is titled, "Apricot".

Apricot

Music Video

First I like to preface with the fact that I do produce EDM(electronic dance music) and would love to use one of our songs for the video as well as give permission to other groups for other songs that we have created.  The song is "Imaginary Friends".  There is no words but the song emits a sort of "feel-good" vibe with a more serious, somber piano piece at the end.  My idea would be to create some sort of montage of a person with a bunch of friends partying, doing things, etc.  But at the end during the end piano piece, it would be cool to show a "real" image of him doing the same things but really on his own, to sort of show it was just his/her imagination.

"Imaginary Friends" by Crestfallen

Self-Portrait

Self-Introduction

Hi! I'm the 22 year old, Brady Small.  Answering the questions of "favorite" anything can be difficult for me.  It all depends on the mood that I'm in currently.  I tend to like anything that tries to go "against the grain" and "re-invent the wheel".  I enjoy "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" because I love Hunter S. Thompson's writing, as well as all books written by Chuck Palahniuk.  Another great film I enjoy is "American Psycho".  Don't be deceived, I don't enjoy scary/horror/gore films at all, but I do love some dark comedy.  As far as music is concerned, I truly love almost all genres except for Country.  My goals for the future are to find a stable job in Graphic Design while in pursuit of my dreams of producing EDM (electronic dance music).  I'm interested in making media in order to become as self-sufficient as possible in order to attain my dream in music.