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  • Member: TaranT
  • Studio: Studio Tarantella
  • Title: Only Time Will Tell
  • Premiered: 2004-08-26
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  • Song:
    • From the "Wizards" OST Time
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    This song can be heard in the closing credits of the Ralph Bakshi movie, Wizards (1977).

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    I needed to make a quick video when the movie, Wizards, was finally released on DVD. This is a movie that I had been waiting several years to get, knowing that the closing song was worth hearing again. The song was short, so I decided to use it.

    For source footage, I was considering either Windaria or The Weathering Continent. Eventually, I decided that the latter did not have enough of the kind of imagery I was looking for.

    The song lyrics are a lament of changing times and a hope of returning to the old ways. There's not much room to tell a story except in very broad strokes and carefully chosen scenes. I focused on landscapes with some overlays of facial closeups of the main characters.

    Lyric matching is pretty subtle here. For example, the scene of geese flying home to the words "leading us together through the misty night". Or the scene of two lovers standing on ancient tree roots to the words "made with peace and hope and built upon the old".

    Technically, this video was an exercise in creating cinematic crossfading. It works well with this music and theme, but the result is not something that will get people hopping. This video is for those more contemplative moments.


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    TIME

    Time renews tomorrow,
    When we've used today.
    It will find the sorrow
    And wash it all away.

    Love can play a new tune
    On this carousel.
    It may be tomorrow,
    But only time will tell.

    Somewhere in the darkness
    There must be a light,
    Leading us together
    Through the misty night.

    And maybe in the new dawn
    We can break the spell.
    It may be tomorrow,
    But only time will tell.

    There can be a new dream,
    One for us to hold.
    Made with peace and hope
    And built upon the old.

    No one has the answer
    To give away or sell.
    Tomorrow holds the secret,
    But only time will tell.


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  • Local MPG 1186/224 MPEG-1/MP2 2:12 22.2 MiB Tarantella - Only Time WIll Tell.mpg
    Mpeg 1 System File [Video/Audio]
    Muxrate : 1.41 Mbps
    Estimated Duration: 02:12.99s
    Size [352 x 240] 29.97 fps 1.15 Mbps
    Audio : Mpeg 1 layer 2
    224 kbps 44100 Hz
    Stereo, No emphasis