Thank you to the judges for the cc, truly appreciate it.
Just want to clear up some things about my track being unfinished, empty, in-cohesive etc. These are all valid but I thought I'd just explain.
So basically the entire track was just a narrative of some events in my life, each part representing or symbolizing something. Of course having only seen the track from my point of view I thought it was really great but it is clear now that it
doesn't make any sense to everyone else when I haven't made the narrative clear, obviously. (poor judgement on my part haha).
Narrative:
Just over 3 years ago, I moved from * to Canada on very short notice. It was a massive culture change and overall quite distressing. I felt very emotionally close to * as a place, I had many close friends and lots of great experiences. I had lots of struggles with moving, as anyone at that age, and a hard time accepting my separation; you could say, "I was lost" (I also went from a grade size of 40, to a middle school with over 1000 kids which was horrifying at the time).
I feel that in the last year and a half, I have really found my place here. Overall I feel that I've matured in my relationship with the large part of my life that I spent in * . So rather than trying to crawl back to it, I've accepted my distance thankfully but still appreciate any time it comes back to relevancy, "letting go".
Explanation:
I began the track knowing what I wanted to emulate in the editor, but not really knowing how it was to be done. I decided to start by just literally drawing * using building, architecture references in a realistic 3d perspective, and then later settled on the idea of having a volcano eruption to demonstrate that it was being destroyed. Having the ride underneath, or in the volcano clearly wasn't the best idea frhd/art wise, but for me it was just a way of emulating how I would've been stuck underneath this burden, and that to enjoy life as it is now, I would have to let go of what it once was. In retrospect, zycerak's idea of coming out of the top of the volcano is what I should've really gone with as it would be really epic frhd wise but also probably be a cooler way to represent me getting out of this, rather than just coming out from underneath. In truth, the spaceship was just something I drew in the last 2 weeks after I was getting slammed by dante and others for more than a half of the track being just white space
, but it turned out to suit the narrative quite well, as my escape pod or, as safety as it's written on one of the right wings. It also ended up being my favorite individual part of the track, it just didn't fit into the visual theme at all.
So in reality, I accomplished (more than) all I was planning on doing. Although, the more I look at it, the more I see how much more I could've done and how pretty much everyone is calling it unfinished. These comments are all entirely justified, not trying to defend myself on that part haha.
The title, "In My Place" and lyrics on the track are from a FANTASTIC Coldplay song, 100% listen to it if you have never done so. I just thought the lyrics reasonably exemplified the feelings I was going through, nothing more there.
There it is. Huge thanks to everybody who had helped me with this track, and all the positive feedback has been quite awesome!
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