Music Video Artist's Statement

My name is Alex Hadjian. The music video was my first major project. I take much pride and honor in my work, and I am very proud to be able to claim it as my own. The video was created using the Adobe After Effects program, and by merging videos which I filmed, together. The final version took some time to create, and I went through an earlier video; as well as a storyboard with completely different ideas. One of the main reasons that I decided to use the "God of War" video game series in my video is because the game is about the Greek gods of Olympus, and my family comes from Greece as well. In the music video, there are a few sequences. In the first sequence it shows two men fighting, the two men are Zeus, and his son Kratos. In the game they are both enemies. Quickly after their fighting is over the video rewinds itself. I added some noise to the rewind in attempt to recreate the rewind which is in older videos. The videos were all filmed on my television, so I had to mask out parts of the t.v. which appeared in the video. The masking took a lot of time, but was worth it in the end. I am very proud of my work, it may be my first project, but I will continue to produce great work.