My friend and super talented musician Dave Camacho sent me an ambient audio track he created called “Like A Scene From A Movie” and asked me to respond with what I saw as I listened. Here’s the audio track:
And below is what I saw. Listen and read together – would love to know what you think of this! (This is a brain dump, responding in the moment, so just go with it!).
Setting:
1920s. Rich, saturated, moody colors like the interior of a night club.
Through the entire piece, you see details about the woman: feet, stocking, hands, purse, waistline – but not her face.
Imagery:
A woman walking on cobblestone streets in a city. We only see her feet in old-timey high heeled shoes and flesh colored stocking with a seam up the back. Now we see her handbag clenched in her hand.
Screen splits in two: her bag in hand walking through city. Other screen: the ocean/beach, no one there. We stay focused on handbag as she walks from city background screen into beach background. Bag swishes as she walks. Ocean/beach screen expands and is the whole scene now. She keeps walking on the beach.
She approaches and opens a free standing doorway on the beach. She goes through and enters a nightclub. We watch her hand clasping the handbag as she moves through a crowd of dancing people. Suddenly (when record skips), the club is empty – we are looking at her waist, facing us, handbag held in front of her with both hands. Now the room is full of people again, and she is still moving through the crowd. She throws down quarters for a drink at the bar. Drink poured. We see her hand lift the drink out of the screen, empty glass replaced. Her hands push her away from the bar. She walks out a door.
Rain. Feet walking in puddles. Stockings wet. Water running down her leg. She walks across the street to another doorway. She goes through to foyer.
Finger on door buzzer. Toe taps as she waits. Flashes of images from earlier moments (city, beach, club, drink) really fast as we hear a radio channel changing.
Car pulls up on the street behind her, and we see her back still facing the door. She turns, hands on hips, then runs and jumps in the back and slides in.
Interior of the car. 4 people in the car, still don’t see faces, just details. Her hands are rested on the seat back in front of her. Her fingers tapping to the music. Her shoulders shake to the music. A man’s hands are on the steering wheel. Everyone is bouncing around. Cop lights flicker outside the car as it whizzes by.
Split to 2 screens: left screen is car interior, right screen is interior of a club. She slides out of car (left screen) and then is walking into club (right screen) – we watch her waistline as she walks. Club screen then expands and is the entire scene now.
We see her hands clutching her purse as she walks to a table. She puts her bag on table and sits. Fidgeting, she sets her bag in her lap. Her hands rest atop her bag, tapping to music. The piano melody ends, and she lifts her hands to clap.
We watch her hands as they rise up in front of her, and we finally see her face. She is smiling and clapping and beautiful.
