When not making music, Rhett Redelings passes the time
with a camera or two. Rather than try to use this site to showcase that
work, the image gallery has morphed into Rhett's Photostream
and has moved to: Rhett
Redelings' Flickr profile. Click here to visit it.
I wanted a video that wouldn't be a literal interpretation
of the lyrics
but something that would compliment the emotional core
and tone of the song.
Because he is a distinctive artist capable of rendering
his visions
in multiple mediums, I asked Kevin J. O'Conner if he'd be
interested in working on the project and a few months later,
he suprised
and delighted me with this
wholy original work that, somehow, is completely unexpected
and yet
everything
I'd hoped for.
Please, pour yourself a beverage, sit back and enjoy.
-Rhett Redelings, R-Three
Help (rough studio demo):
One more baby step toward groking video, this is me
trying out my new
camera & video editing
software with a song I love
that kind of
says it all
about where I am right now. This is not my idea
of a polished
take or performance but
rather
a window into the middle of my creative
process such as it is. Dodgy bits and all.
I heard once that John Lennon said he thought Help
should have been
a slow, honest song about how he
was feeling
but that the Beatles needed
a single so they
played it faster than he'd have liked.
I thought that if I was going to play
it, I'd slow it down and really try to
connect how I'm feeling with the
lyrics and I was surprised at what a sad song
Help actually is
.
I didn't actually have a copy of the Beatle's recording
to reference for this cover
so I kind of made up the middle eight.
Does the original song even have
a middle eight?
H says it sounds too rough, naked and painful to make publicly available
which I guess makes me think it's a good idea to try it. It's hard to
resist the urge
to make everything "Just so", so it's with
a fair amount of apprehension that I'm letting this one out,
rough bits
and all.
Also, sometimes I find that when I ask the universe for help, I actually
get it.
Perceptual Distortion
This is my 2nd real video experiment. It is not linear.
It is no place but those places in the inbetween.
Being mostly a photographer and musician (not
a videographer), I thought I'd play to my strengths
in that area so this
video
is more about imagery, line, texture and shading than it is about, say,
plot.
Hopefully, like the song, it's good to just sit back and trip out to.
