Instant Video #15 — Make Believe by Tammy Lin Foreman (4 min. 2009) Directed, shot, and edited by Lester Alfonso for the collaborative weekly video project that ran from 2008 to 2010.
Check out also: The Instant Video Showcase and Before Instant Videos featuring videos prior to the Instant Video project and broadcast on CBC’s ZeD TV. Audio tracks are available for purchase on Tammy Lin Foreman’s Bandcamp page.
Desperately Seeking Susan
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Tammy works at the restaurant a lot these days. Time at home with the kids is a blur. Sunny has chickenpox. Georgia is 5 years old! Plus, we’re all still recovering from the holidays. We just need to get into a new routine.
Maybe the Instant Videos will help. They help mark the time. Since the new year I’ve started to look back and see how far we’ve come. Try to figure out where I can improve.
We’re already at Number 15. I can’t even believe it. Just the other day, I made a nice compilation of the Instant Videos on DVD that can be set to play all the tracks or individual and random play… Watching them all in one sitting I realize that this can be Tammy’s new “album.” Just as is. A DVD album.
It feels like The Gravity Song ended Season One. Fourteen episodes. A brand new one every week. I feel exhausted just thinking about it. I just really want to serve Tammy’s amazing talent as a singer/songwriter and performer.
Part of the fun is trying to figure out how to make an Instant Video within our busy lives every week…while on vacation (My Waves) or when Tammy has a bad cold (Choke) or how to put the heart in the video every week for those playing our own I Spy a Heart game. After two seasons of this, I’m thinking I’m gonna want to have a little break.
Or will I? Maybe I won’t want to stop. Maybe I’ll want to push myself through that Wall. That blogger’s Wall. And break on through to the other side.
Make Believe by Tammy Lin Foreman I got to tell you somethin' while my heart is thumpin' while this music's pumpin' while this joint is jumpin' Coz if you knew what I knew Then you would say it's true Make believe with me Make believe with me It's an illusion that I'm choosin' Desperately seeking Susan Make believe with me Make believe with me If I tell you how I feel Will you understand? If I tell you what is real? Will you hold my hand? Coz if you knew what I knew Then you would say it's true Make believe with me Make believe with me It's an illusion that I'm choosin' Desperately seeking Susan Make believe with me Make believe with me Every time I talk to you My heart believes it's true And then you believe it too Is there glory in the story? Is there happiness in the end? Coz other stories they were sorrys and they left my heart to defend I got to tell you somethin' I got to tell you somethin' Make believe, make believe Got something up my sleeve It's an illusion that I'm choosin' Is there glory in the story? Is there happiness in the end? I got to tell you somethin'
Tammy gets home late from work again tonight. Pressure’s on. The video has to be shot tonight.
The regular headphones won’t work with the black touque on my head. I need ear buds or something, says Tammy.
I’ll run upstairs to get them, I say.
Georgia startles me. She’s sitting at the top of the stairs. It’s 1 o’clock in the morning. Apparently, all the commotion woke her up. Can I come downstairs and watch? She says.
Of course you can! As long as you’re quiet.
Can I take some pictures too?
Haha. Sure.
[Photos: Georgia May]
posted by Lester Alfonso at 11:48 AM 3 Comments
Georgia did the photos? Wow, that’s cool!
WEBmadman, January 11, 2009 at 2:05 PM
Love the extra heart in this one- 3 that I count- did I miss any?
Yes! There are three hearts in all. That last one at the very end was an unexpected discovery during the edit… I just had to put it in!
Lester Alfonso, January 11, 2009 at 4:30 PM
Loved this! Great tune and cool video. I love the use of the multi-track – both the audio and the video (so to speak) and was then expecting the clapping to be out at the side like the shadow puppet was while Tammy sang on… But hey, maybe if this was a 48-hour project right?
GeoD, January 21, 2009 at 8:10 PM
Great job again.
G.