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• Member: Schattenlied
• Title: Beyond the Silence
• Premiered: 2006-12-20
• Categories:
  • Drama
  • Serious
  • Romance
• Song:
  • Within Temptation Our Farewell
• Anime:
  • Final Fantasy 7 (VII)
• Comments: 'Beyond the Silence' is my fourth (Cloud & Aeris) video. It is the first done with Adobe Premiere 6.0 however and the jump from WMM to Premiere was quite a hard one. Because of this 'Beyond the Silence' took months longer to make than I expected. However, please do not expect that I have a full grip on Premiere by now.
  I played around a lot but stayed away from the more fancy effects, favouring zooming, slowing down and - finally - the option to do true overlays.
  I choose to make the video FFVII only, because Advent Children adds nothing to the story of Cloud and Aeris (Aerith). My last video contained AC, my next will probably, too, so I decided to stay away from it in this one. Of course doing a 5-minute-song with FFVII alone means you will have a lack of footage when you are halfway trough resulting in the repetition of some scenes. I think I did quite well, however trying to use the scenes in a different way and changing them somewhat, so that it doesn't feel like you have seen exact the same just a minute before. Whoever was annoyed by Aeris face popping up again and again in 'Whispers through Memory' should feel warned, though.
  
  'Our Farewell' is a long song that starts out slow but steadily builds up power till the end. I used the instrumental beginning to show Aeris remembering and then thinking about her death, while only hinting at what is about to happen, after that, I mostly follow the lyrics of the song. I portrayed the games ending as Clouds and Aeris fight for the future of the planet and for each other: Cloud fighting on earth with Aeris providing help from the afterlife through Holy and the Lifestream - this way I could include all the pretty ending scenes...
  Cloud reaching out for Lifestream, being 'embraced' by Lifestream, etc.
  Overall it is to show that Aeris death is not 'our farewell'.
  
  Btw. did anyone notice that Aeris lips are moving when she lifts her head during the FFVII-ending? That is the reason why I chose this scene to the lyrics of 'I can hear you say my name'.
  
  If anyone has problems downloading or opening the video, please tell me. I don't know that much about video compression, so in case there are problems I need to know about it.
  
  
  Our Farewell - Within Temptation
  
  In my hands
  A legacy of memories
  I can hear you say my name
  I can almost see your smile
  Feel the warmth of your embrace
  But there is nothing but silence now
  Around the one I loved
  Is this our farewell?
  
  Sweet darling you worry too much, my child
  See the sadness in your eyes
  You are not alone in life
  Although you might think that you are
  
  Never thought
  This day would come so soon
  We had no time to say goodbye
  How can the world just carry on?
  I feel so lost when you are not at my sight
  But there's nothing but silence now
  Around the one I loved
  Is this our farewell?
  
  Sweet darling you worry too much, my child
  See the sadness in your eyes
  You are not alone in life
  Although you might think that you are
  
  So sorry your world is tumbling down
  I will watch you through these nights
  Rest your head and go to sleep
  Because my child, this is not our farewell.
  This is not our farewell.