San Fran MUSIC VIDEO (Part 16)

Sutro Heights 2 - Birds and Sea at Sunset Music Video
(((VIDEO 16 NOTES)))
This is part 2 of Sutro Heights and continues the video right were we left off in video #15. The path looks slightly treacherous looking down on the water and rocks below, but I felt completely safe walking all over the place. At 0:48 I focus in on a rock formation in the ocean that looks exactly like a heart shape. At 1:18 the sea gulls are doing some interesting things with the waves by the rocks. It looks cool going along with the music. I do a couple pans of the entire coast running South to North, and giving the Golden Gate Bridge one last chance to steal the scene. lol I get some nice shots of the waves crashing on the rocks with the birds doing their thing at 1:56. I should also note that at 2:25 a bird glides backwards into the scene, and at 2:28 it clones itself in mid-air. That was a camcorder glitch that just freaked me out when I saw it happen. I wish I could say that was my doing. lol At 2:33 you see me running down a long path, and climbing onto an ancient building ruin, and then running back toward the camera. I Sped it up and added some wild colors to the video to make it seem cartoon-like. That was also the last footage shot of San Fran until the plane ride home the next morning.

(((MUSIC 16 NOTES)))
This is part 2 of Sutro Heights and is still the same song as in video #15 and continues right where the last part left off. The Oboe is still my guitar synth and my MIDI pickup tracking half decent. It sounds like a cartoon soundtrack with its goofy melodies. lol At 0:45, I am playing the riff from the Battle Ship (video #9) and the beginning of video #13. The reoccurring theme is deliberate as I am hooked on the sound of it and wanted to hear different ways of arranging it. I sample a bunch of different sounds on the Roland GR-20 guitar synth and settle on a violin /orchestra patch for the music fade out.

(((SAN FRAN VIDEO SERIES INFO)))
The seventeen (17) segment series took 3-months to edit and mix for your viewing pleasure. This footage is from our December 2007 SAN FRAN vacation video that I created original music for and heavily-edited the video with some wild effects (FX) using SONY Vegas DVD+ Movie Studio on my PC to be more of a music video than your 'typically shitty' home-movies with crap for sound. lol

The 17 Snack-Sized Videos were broken down from my 68-minute DVD. The smaller files allowed me to render at 3Mbps, which means its High-Quality Resolution + Sound. Of course you have to select "WATCH IN HIGH-QUALITY" to benefit from that. Choosing that triples the sound and video quality. For smooth playback, hit pause and wait for the red progress bar to get a good head start before watching it. I say go pop some popcorn; get a drink; dim the lights; hit full-screen and take a mini-vacation with me. :)