I spent the whole morning editing the music video I did for my course in Television. My two professors were there to check out my work. Professor Carlo Tagliabue is a kind of living encyclopedia when it comes to films. I have the impression that he has watched all the films that went on screen since Lumiere. Professor Franco Lever, on the other hand, is a visual genius. For him nothing is ugly. Everything is just a matter of perspective for him. He seems to instinctively know which angle of view best frames a picture.
The theme of my music video is “The Face of God”. The video is about God’s love but it does not show any conventional image of God, say a cross. It shows ordinary people doing everyday things – a mother taking care of her child, a young man goes out to buy pizza while on the street a beggar extends his empty hands, and two lovers having a spat and reconciling a bit later. Yet through the images of these generic folks, my music video shows that in a person who unconditionally loves another, in a person who forgives another, and in a person who does an act of charity, we discover the face of God.
My professors gave me compliments after watching the four-minute-and-a-half music video. Prof Tagliabue particularly noted the flashback part. He said he liked my use of the character’s eyes as the transitory image to his past. Since he had privileged access to all files in the university’s video studio, Prof Lever said that he had already watched my video a number of times. I felt that I had accomplished a job well done.
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