Radical Face | Radical Face - The Ship In Port (Acoustic) @RadicalFace | Uploaded 4 years ago | Updated 3 hours ago
This took longer to make than expected. I am still learning how to operate a camera myself and it was my first time personally working with a key light. So there was a good bit of reshooting along the way while I figured it all out. But I also learned about editing with proxies, which is a game changer!
So when I was working on the original version of "The Ship In Port", Nico's "These Days" was a big reference. I have loved that song since I heard it in high school, and I wanted to capture some of that mood. So when I sat down to work on a video treatment for this, Wes Anderson instantly sprang to mind. His use of These Days in "The Royal Tenenbaums" is forever paired for me (as well as "Needle In The Hay"), so I decided on flat backgrounds and a Futura font as a direct nod to him.
Josh and I just shot a bunch of surfaces around the house for backgrounds (rugs, towels, carpets, astroturf, doormats, walls, etc), and used as many flat surfaces as we could. I've been enjoying this constant rethinking of the house, and this was a fun one to make.
Tutorial for this song coming soon. Then on to the next one. I hope everyone is well.
Lyrics:
Some say our dreams are a distant road
Down which our hearts would like to go
But I have always stayed in place
Under that old illusion that it's safe
You said, "The ship in port is the safer one,
but it's not the reason it was made."
So forgive me if I wander off
And forgive me more if I just stay
Sing another song for the lost ones
'Cause we're the ones who need it the most
Every time you run it'll cost ya
But that doesn't stop us running
If a coward dies a thousand times
Then there's a graveyard in my head
'Cause it took me years to say the words
That you did not even need said
Sing another song for the lost ones
'Cause we're the ones that need it the most
Nothing that you fear is forgotten
It follows you around like ...
Then everything danced to a stranger tune
We found our song and we found our truth
Now that we know, it's that we always knew
Farewell to the chains we were born into
Then we danced among the ashes of our lives and laughed it off
And then we burned our tiny worlds and found the ocean
Just beyond those paper walls
This took longer to make than expected. I am still learning how to operate a camera myself and it was my first time personally working with a key light. So there was a good bit of reshooting along the way while I figured it all out. But I also learned about editing with proxies, which is a game changer!
So when I was working on the original version of "The Ship In Port", Nico's "These Days" was a big reference. I have loved that song since I heard it in high school, and I wanted to capture some of that mood. So when I sat down to work on a video treatment for this, Wes Anderson instantly sprang to mind. His use of These Days in "The Royal Tenenbaums" is forever paired for me (as well as "Needle In The Hay"), so I decided on flat backgrounds and a Futura font as a direct nod to him.
Josh and I just shot a bunch of surfaces around the house for backgrounds (rugs, towels, carpets, astroturf, doormats, walls, etc), and used as many flat surfaces as we could. I've been enjoying this constant rethinking of the house, and this was a fun one to make.
Tutorial for this song coming soon. Then on to the next one. I hope everyone is well.
Lyrics:
Some say our dreams are a distant road
Down which our hearts would like to go
But I have always stayed in place
Under that old illusion that it's safe
You said, "The ship in port is the safer one,
but it's not the reason it was made."
So forgive me if I wander off
And forgive me more if I just stay
Sing another song for the lost ones
'Cause we're the ones who need it the most
Every time you run it'll cost ya
But that doesn't stop us running
If a coward dies a thousand times
Then there's a graveyard in my head
'Cause it took me years to say the words
That you did not even need said
Sing another song for the lost ones
'Cause we're the ones that need it the most
Nothing that you fear is forgotten
It follows you around like ...
Then everything danced to a stranger tune
We found our song and we found our truth
Now that we know, it's that we always knew
Farewell to the chains we were born into
Then we danced among the ashes of our lives and laughed it off
And then we burned our tiny worlds and found the ocean
Just beyond those paper walls
