Music Video: ONE WORLD (2008)
I completed the song, One World, in May this year. I knew in my heart I had to make a music video for it.
I finally completed the music video over five evenings last week, including a weekend.
Link
Music Video: One World (2008) by Ivan Chew is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at starfishstories.wordpress.com. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://StarfishStories.wordpress.com.
Initial vision for the music video
In my mind, I saw this lone guitarist, holding a Les Paul Standard, walking up to the edge of a canyon. The camera pans around him and out into the vastness. Snap the view to the guitarist hitting the first note. And the video pans to scenes of soaring clouds, fly-overs of mountains, water falls, and then to city-scapes. And the video was about people, of all races and creeds.
One World, as the song title goes.
I couldn’t possibly shoot that kind of video. And I didn’t have the inclination to start anything. Until about a week ago.
Creative Commons
Went to Flickr.com and Archive.org to search for materials licensed under Creative Commons (attribution). Picked out 115 photos and 15 videos. Used most of them.
It’s not 100% what I had in mind (e.g. couldn’t find that rock guitarist video footage). But it’s close enough.
A huge thanks to those who’ve shared their works under the Creative Commons Attribution license.
It’s their generosity–those who have shared their work under the CC license–that I could make this music video at all.
CREDITS
Heh, just making a record of the credits took me two nights!
Photos, all 92 images, listed in order of appearance. Names are linked to the individual photos, so there would be repeated names. My friend, Kenneth, had so many excellent photos I ended up using many of them:
noahg | Chris Gin | Kris (ATX) | Darwin Bell | hypertypos | Ilan’s Photos | Ingorrr | Lourdes Nightingale | notsogoodphotography | angela7dreams | Rob | Rob | Haintso Rakouth | HK James Ho | J Pod | DMahendra | Elizeu Santos-Neto | kalandrakas | s.tormod | Nathalie_Renaud | soylentgreen23 | s.tormod | HK James Ho | Yoshimai | Ed Yourdon | stephane_tougard | MatterEnergy | jackol | Two Roses | chefranden | athomson | malias | freeparking | josh-n | dlkinney | gregor_y | Ahron de Leeuw | stephane_tougard | Two Roses | Vanessa | stephane_tougard | Ed Yourdon | kamshots | davco9200 | stephane_tougard | iZZomv | stephane_tougard | etoile | Ed Yourdon | stephane_tougard | pedrosimoes7 | Mr. Kris | yeowatzup | 2493TM | mrhayata | scumfrog | acroamatic | acroamatic | acroamatic | dogfrog | ryuuji | acroamatic | acroamatic | acroamatic | acroamatic | acroamatic | acroamatic | schillergarcia | acroamatic | Tawheed Manzoor | freeparking | stephane_tougard | acroamatic | masochismtango | freeparking | acroamatic | acroamatic | acroamatic | acroamatic |acroamatic | acroamatic | soham_pablo | acroamatic | acroamatic | acroamatic | acroamatic | acroamatic | acroamatic | schillergarcia | acroamatic | acroamatic | acroamatic |
VIDEOS (in order of appearance):
- United States Forest Service. Of Ice and Fire: The Mono Basin (1992)
- USDA. Vision of the Wild (1990)
- Ivan Bridgewater. Lightning Strike (2007)
- Ryan Mast. TangentIdea Productions. Lancaster clouds 05/14/06 (2006)
- Universal Studios. Anti-War Demonstrators Storm Pentagon, 1967/10/24 (1967)
- Christmas Tree Burn (February 4, 2006)
- Obsidian – Footprints (2008 )
- Eva Vikström. View From a Train, Heby-Morgongåva in August 2006 (2007)
- Chicago
The full-quality MPEG-4 video can be downloaded, here.
If you enjoyed this video, please feel free to leave a comment 
~ Ivan
September 24, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Nice work Ivan
September 25, 2008 at 1:36 am
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September 25, 2008 at 9:09 am
Excellent song and video. I’m glad you were able to make use of so many photos and video clips.
September 25, 2008 at 5:49 pm
U dah man. So much talent in you. Enjoyed the conceptualization behind the music video. Great music too. Loads of hardwork. You stood on the shoulders of giants – but all credit to you too.
September 25, 2008 at 11:51 pm
Nicely done, Ivan.
September 25, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Ivan, great work and a good illustration of the power of CC.
September 26, 2008 at 10:55 am
nice! lots of efforts put in! must have been a fun project to work on!
September 26, 2008 at 1:30 pm
LOVVVED IT! Eye-opening. Enjoyable. I salute you for making it happen and making it to the end. it’s the process that counts too…
September 26, 2008 at 5:44 pm
What an amazing video Ivan! I really love how you put all the various pictures and videos together to create a wonderful effect. It must have taken a lot of effort on your part, but it’s well worth it in the end.
Great stuff!
The crediting was extremely thorough too.
September 26, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Very nice
What I find amazing is how closely I feel that CC ties in with your song’s theme.
September 26, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Hey Ivan, that’s a very nicely put together music video. The effort must be tremendous. Somehow it seems to have some kind of environmental message or green movement undertone with the melting iceberg.
September 26, 2008 at 11:29 pm
This is great! I love the mix of the grand, the sweeping, and the everyday.
September 27, 2008 at 12:02 am
Nicely done! good selection of pics & videos & the music definitely has that 1 world, soaring feel. I like all the scenery & also the part where you coordinated the drummer’s beats to your music.
September 27, 2008 at 3:40 am
Hi Ivan,
Great work, wonderful music!!!
September 27, 2008 at 7:33 am
great video ivan!
and nope i wasn’t in it 
September 27, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Great work man~ amazing
September 27, 2008 at 9:37 pm
You knocked my socks off. Your music was great. The video was very expressive and flowed beautifully. Thank you for the very nice video credit. I will be watching for more of your videos!
September 27, 2008 at 10:48 pm
woah! Way to go.
September 27, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Good work. The video complements the music.
September 30, 2008 at 12:09 pm
nice, great that you take the time to do this, must have taken a lot of effort!
October 20, 2008 at 11:18 pm
i liked it. (=
look forward to hearing more… good luck!
December 27, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Excellent video!
February 4, 2009 at 11:18 pm
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February 27, 2009 at 11:02 pm
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March 19, 2009 at 9:20 am
Good Job, Ivan!
I wonder if we do 1 for Librarians too
Like 1 Library, 1 Knowledge, 1 community ..
April 16, 2009 at 6:20 am
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April 25, 2009 at 5:38 pm
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