It’s Called: Freefall
Called to the Devil and the Devil did come
I said to the devil, “Devil do you like drums?
Do you like cigarettes, dominoes, rum?”
He said only “sundown, Sundays, Christmas”
Some day’s end when I need a few friends
Now and again I could never hope to keep them
Thought to give friends what I thought that they wanted
Never had they needed a good friend as I’ve been
Don’t get me venting on friends who resent you
’cause all you’ve ever done is been a noose to hang on to
They thought was a necklace and reckless they fell into hell
where you both hang with nothing to do but
Scratch, kick, let gravity win like
Fuck this, let gravity win like
You could leave it all behind,
even the Devil need time alone sometimes
You could let it all go, you could let it all go
It’s Called: Freefall
It’s Called: Freefall
Called to the Devil and the Devil said quit
Can’t be bothered better handle your shit
Keep about your wits man, keep about your wits
Know yourself and who you came in with
Can I sit down I’ve been hustling all day
I can’t even count how many souls I’ve made
Off the same deal you on
Remember: The Devil ain’t a friend to no one
But FUN, true
You could let it all go, you could let it all go
It’s Called: Freefall
It’s Called: Freefall
Called to the Devil and the Devil said “Hey!
Why you been calling this late?
It’s like 2 A.M. and the bars all close at 10 in hell,
that’s a rule I made”
Anyway, you say you’re too busy
saving everybody else to save yourself
And you don’t want no help, oh well
That’s the story to tell
You could let it all go, you could let it all go
It’s Called: Freefall
It’s Called: Freefall
You could let it all go, you could let it all go
Cause ain’t shit free but falling out
And that shit’s easy let me show you how, it’s like…
Ain’t shit free but falling out
And that shit’s easy let me show you how, it’s like…
You could let it all go, you could let it all go
It’s Called: Freefall
It’s Called: Freefall
Noose video montage
Project Description
This video montage is about the temptation to give up. It’s also about sublimating anger and trauma. It’s also about the disappointment of Pleaser Syndrome: “Thought to give friends what I thought that they wanted.”
PAID COMPONENTS
Voiceover
There is no voiceover on this video.
OPEN-SOURCE COMPONENTS
Music Source
All soundtracks are music videos downloaded as MP3 audio files. I used free online YouTube downloader tools. There are many downloaders and they often advertise porn (so watch out!) Sometimes there is a copyright claim. But often when using stems, there is no restriction for monetization. But monetization is not our goal. I use YouTube only for hosting to conserve server resources. And keep our home site http://DizzyPictures.com loading fast. I use a WordPress video lazy-load plugin called Embed Plus Plugin for YouTube Pro ($39). Others are available but this premium one prevents recommendations of competitor video content. We want to keep people on our site and not on YouTube. YouTube has thwarted this feature to a degree with the inset “View on YouTube” non-feature link.
Five pieces of music are used for this video montage:
- “It’s Called: Freefall” by Rainbow Kitten Surprise (slowed)
- “It’s Called: Freefall” cover by Mitch Huckaby. Male vocal stem.
- “It’s Called: Freefall” cover by unknown artist. Female vocal stem.
- “It’s Called: Freefall” cover by Paris Paloma. Female vocalist and accompaniment.
- A major – F# minor Ambient Pad by Odir Ruano.
Audio Editing and Vocal Stems
I stripped the vocal “stems” from Mitch Huckaby’s and an unknown female artist covers of “It’s Called: Freefall”.
Stems are stereo recording components extracted from many audio tracks. I created the vocal stems using https://ezstems.com/ and https://www.acapella-extractor.com Both free online tools. I cleaned up the downloaded MP3 stems afterward in Audacity. I used: the high pass filter, transformed the stereo into mono, and added audio compression.
Audacity is a free and open-source digital audio editor. It’s available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. We’re using open-source Linux Mint Cinnamon as our computer operating system.
Music Modules
Modular music is the combination and overlapping of different compositions. One over the other. The compositions are also called modules. For me, those modules are covers performed by one or many different artists in different moments. You can add or remove new modules to create new work, a new composition, different from the original one. You can expand and extend a modular composition in time, space and size.
Soundtrack
The video is built around the song “It’s Called: Freefall” by Rainbow Kitten Surprise. It was released in 2018.
Atmospheric Backing Track
I added a YouTube A-major (F# minor) chord ambient backing track. These are called “pads.” Ambient Pads are atmospheric tones designed to fill out the sound of any music. You layer them under any major or minor chord progression. Pads are ambient, sustained sounds characterized by heavy reverb and delay. They are a staple in audio productions from pop music to film scores. A pad is a sustained chord or tone generated by a synthesizer. It’s often used as background harmony or for atmosphere. Like a string section, it’s used to pad out the sound of an orchestra or film score – or in our case, perhaps a vocal stem.
Music heightens a video’s emotion. It creates an aural mood for each scene, along with sound effects and dialogue. Film scores are custom-made and often performed by orchestras. Today a video score might feature all manner of sounds and instruments. A video soundtrack is already-written popular songs featured in a film or video. In a two-hour movie, there is about an hour of music. My videos are often music videos. And so the music is 3 to 5 minutes long – on occasion, 7 minutes.
Open-source Video
We didn’t use any stock video. Instead a montage of AI generated still images are used. They were created using Midjourney AI Bot. The prompts were lyrics from the main song. The Ken Burns Effect tool used to create the video is open-source PhotoFilmStrip software on Linux Mint. PhotoFilmStrip creates video output of still images in 3 steps. First select your photos, customize the motion path, and render the video.
Video Editors
I do video production using Kdenlive open-source video editor version 21.04.3 on Linux. There is a newer version available 22.04.3 as of July 10, 2022.
Titles are made in Kdenlive. The free-for-personal-use font is Big Noodle Titling, a display uppercase movie-poster font ($15 to buy the font family). https://www.dafont.com/bignoodletitling.font
Tracks
There are 8 tracks. 2 video tracks and 6 audio tracks.
V3: logo and title clips
V3: Lyrics rollover
V1: AI motion video
A1: 0.00dB, Paris Paloma female vocalist and accompaniment, “Companions” Lane King.mp3 – outro music
A2: 9.75dB, logo sound, male-stem-F# minor-_99bpm-_Its_Called_Freefall_Rainbow_Kitten_Surprise_Cover-_Mitch_Huckaby-_vocals.mp3
A3: 11.71dB, female2-stem-E major-94bpm_-_its_called_freefall_vocals-crop.mp3 effects
A4: 0.00dB, B major, 85bpm,- rainbow kitten surprise – it’s called freefall (slowed)-eb-eLblT3ak-160k-1660316111882.mp3 effects
A5: 11.98dB, A Major (F# minor) backing track (pad)
I didn’t use a microphone or camera to make this video montage. All components except music sound track are free web assets. The final video is a 104MB MP4 file.
