Melancholy: The Movie

Melancholy: The Movie from Candice on Vimeo.

As typical of most of my projects, my initial idea was pretty ambitious. I started off with wanting to create a track — actual singing and adding background effects, then combining that with a video footage and animation. The story line was about living life being chased by ghosts of the past. Once I realized that all of that is quite a bit to accomplish in a week, I reconcepted and came up with the idea of Melancholy.

I shot a lot of footage in places I spend most of my time: the initial setting is Trophy Bar in Williamsburg where I have a drink on their drink board in tribute to my regular status, then the Broadway G stop that I pass through often, and finally my apartment/building. The self-created sample idea was replaced with using a song I already knew. I was initially planning to go with “Mojo Pin” by Jeff Buckley,  but it didn’t invoke the sense of angst I wanted to get across. The audio clips were selected mainly from old movies (Gone With The Wind, Jezebel, All About Eve) and one more recent favorite (The Truth About Cats and Dogs). They went from sad/despairing in the beginning to ending on a hopeful note. The visuals were meant to be dark and the blurry, jerky movements to indicate a crazed state of mind.

It wasn’t a total success, but I like how it came out.