magnoliaparadise
12-15-2018, 09:21 AM
I'm searching for two videos I saw that were REALLY great that I should have book marked and didn't.
I think I saw them on FB (but maybe here?).
If you know the names or links of either of these videos, please let me know! I REALLY liked them. I think I cried watching the first.
The FIRST video is a video basically from parents and children's perspectives of children growing up. There is no words spoken in the video, though I think there is background music. The video is made up of different scenes of family members posing and putting up signs that they have written a word or two. Then the family members will drop the sign closest to the viewer and another sign will be revealed. They do this several times in each shot.
I can't remember what the signs say, but they are each from the perspective of the parent (when the parent holds the sign) or the kid (when the kid holds it). And they are often, as one can imagine, from opposite perspectives (kind of like the parent will hold up a sign that says 'he is leaving', then drop that sign and the next one will say 'i'm so sad. I love him'. The kid next to the parent will, at the same time, release the first sign, which says 'I'm leaving' and the next one, synchronized to his parent will say 'Freedom!'. But my example is a bit lame - the real signs are actually much more powerful and deep.
The SECOND video I am looking for also doesn't have spoken words, though again, probably background music. The viewer sees a middle school (or high school?) cafeteria initially and the video camera scans into to see students doing their things in a school (buying their food, listening to music, talking to friends, going to class, etc).
But the students on the video, although all very normal looking, get little video-inserted blobs above their heads for a second about what they are thinking. By reading the blobs above their heads (that only pop up for a short time before the next person gets a blob), the viewer realizes that most students have really big issues going on that one would never know about.
The blobs reveal (not at once, but as the viewer kind of goes through the school as the camera does and students walk by or do their thing) that this student is depressed, this student is pregnant and scared, this student just lost a boyfriend and doesn't know how she'll get over it, this student just did badly on a test and is fearful of his parent's reaction, this student just wants to leave school and become a musician, this student is excited she did well on a test after having conquered learning disabilities, etc etc. I'm making some of those up, but basically, the video is about how we all 'look' normal, but we all have stuff going on in our thoughts that we aren't thinking about. And that, therefore, we are all the same - different issues, but the same - and we just don't share them.
If anyone knows of either, please let me know! I don't know if they are Youtube. I fished around a bit and googled and could not find anything.
THANK YOU!
I think I saw them on FB (but maybe here?).
If you know the names or links of either of these videos, please let me know! I REALLY liked them. I think I cried watching the first.
The FIRST video is a video basically from parents and children's perspectives of children growing up. There is no words spoken in the video, though I think there is background music. The video is made up of different scenes of family members posing and putting up signs that they have written a word or two. Then the family members will drop the sign closest to the viewer and another sign will be revealed. They do this several times in each shot.
I can't remember what the signs say, but they are each from the perspective of the parent (when the parent holds the sign) or the kid (when the kid holds it). And they are often, as one can imagine, from opposite perspectives (kind of like the parent will hold up a sign that says 'he is leaving', then drop that sign and the next one will say 'i'm so sad. I love him'. The kid next to the parent will, at the same time, release the first sign, which says 'I'm leaving' and the next one, synchronized to his parent will say 'Freedom!'. But my example is a bit lame - the real signs are actually much more powerful and deep.
The SECOND video I am looking for also doesn't have spoken words, though again, probably background music. The viewer sees a middle school (or high school?) cafeteria initially and the video camera scans into to see students doing their things in a school (buying their food, listening to music, talking to friends, going to class, etc).
But the students on the video, although all very normal looking, get little video-inserted blobs above their heads for a second about what they are thinking. By reading the blobs above their heads (that only pop up for a short time before the next person gets a blob), the viewer realizes that most students have really big issues going on that one would never know about.
The blobs reveal (not at once, but as the viewer kind of goes through the school as the camera does and students walk by or do their thing) that this student is depressed, this student is pregnant and scared, this student just lost a boyfriend and doesn't know how she'll get over it, this student just did badly on a test and is fearful of his parent's reaction, this student just wants to leave school and become a musician, this student is excited she did well on a test after having conquered learning disabilities, etc etc. I'm making some of those up, but basically, the video is about how we all 'look' normal, but we all have stuff going on in our thoughts that we aren't thinking about. And that, therefore, we are all the same - different issues, but the same - and we just don't share them.
If anyone knows of either, please let me know! I don't know if they are Youtube. I fished around a bit and googled and could not find anything.
THANK YOU!