I’m just realizing that you made the video. Great job! I see you have many more and a good taste in music. They are deserving of more views. A couple of other Gerry Rafferty classics are Baker Street and Stuck in the Middle With You (he was singer with stealers wheel).
I’m guessing you did not see a movie named The Warriors which was a cult male classic made in 1979 about gangs in New York. Although its notoriety came from its violence, it’s really a good movie with an exceptional director. One of my favorite videos on YouTube was made using this movie. And a song I had never heard. I left the comment that it is the most under-appreciated video on YouTube. Take a peek when you have a minute. As a fellow romantic I think you will like it.
https://youtu.be/wbgjLV-fEK0
I very much enjoyed your link. No I hadn’t seen the movie and I did immediately play Baker Street after you mentioned it. It doesn’t have a strong enough story for me to work with.
I’ve done over 850 literary song videos since 1985. I’ve run a number of workshops, given a talk on them at the MIT Media Lab, and have been interviewed for a number of books. Not sure by now if I should consider a lot of my video friends as children, grandchildren, or great grandchildren by now. People used to show up at my house for mini workshops for 24 hours or a week.
These are not MTV videos. I usually think of those as fine arts turned kinetic. What I do is closer to short story writing. I have written quite a bit of fan fiction and had Writers&Artists repping two of my movie scripts.
I can outline a literary song video in much the same way as I would a short piece of fiction. The story is everything so what I’m always looking for is the song that tells the story of a particular show, or the show that will explicate the lyrics of a particular song. I once stood outside a cafe in New Orleans listening over and over again to Boys of Summer. It took me 30 years to find a show that would handle that.
I use the videos to show off a character or to slice thru some aspect of a show. In the “old days” I used to be able to hold an entire series in my head and work loose. These days I tend to flit to new shows so build elaborate time-coded logs with body English descriptions when I’m trying to put together several videos for the same show.
Rarely do I do movies, except for ones with sequels like Star Wars or Superman. Usually just series. But some movie ones you might enjoy would be:
Witness - Weird Al - Amish Paradise
https://youtu.be/y66HERLkQLQ
Escape from NY - Julia Ecklar - Escape
https://youtu.be/PKRiZu5qUqQ
Gettysburg - Soundtrack
https://youtu.be/XiZ8cTeeeLE
Raiders - Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out for a Hero
https://youtu.be/VYwXtki4FpE
My full set of videos, chronologically organized, is at:
http://www.iment.com/maida/tv/songvids/historical-list-of-all-music-videos.htm
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What’s your passion? Besides Gerry Rafferty!