Ta DAAAA!!!!
Ok for two days now, I have been obsessed with this idea.
Blame it on Rye. I did when he kept saying "What ARE you doing???"
Ok, go here, because the imbedded image is messing up my sidebar, which makes me cranky!
I think that tissues are recommended if I don't say so myself!
So.....what do you think???
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LOVE IT Love it! woooot!
ReplyDeleteThat was hard to watch, Claud. But it was very good.
ReplyDeleteOh Claud.....
ReplyDeleteBeautiful
ReplyDeleteI cannot see it from work. Will check out later!
ReplyDeleteclaud, I guess I am going to be the only one who thinks this gives a bit of a confused message.
ReplyDeleteIt made me cry because I am a mother of loss, I have been reunited, I am middle-aged..even elderly now..and I know from a lifetime of grief...how horrible adoption really truly is.I know what a lie adoption is.
But I am not sure this video would stop a young mother from surrender.
It still seems to show that our children are 'placed in loving homes'...and only the mothers suffer the consequences.It shows brutal angry scenes between the parents..and it doesn't show that these relationships can sometimes work out for the childs sake..not necessarily marriage, but a cooperative agreement to raise the child with support from families.FAthers and their families often suffer, too, especially after enough time has passed.
Then there is the fact that our children are often very angry..and confused also.Reunion often doesn't happen or even help when it does...
Adoption agencies today often do tell mothers that they will feel pain..but it will be "necessary pain" and they will be doing the right thing for their children...and they will still see them and have a reunion someday.This video is not that different from what the agencies are telling the mothers..
I am very sorry to be saying this to you.this is beautifully done, but I think it still needs to be more brutal..to be frank.
JMO.
Bravo Claud!
ReplyDeleteI wept.
Not sure if it was my computer or not but a few of the frames went by so fast I couln't read the captions. I'll watch it again later to see if that's still the case.
I love it. I think it could have more about the pressure from others, the stupid comments about doing the right thing, the agressive lawyers and social workers, but no I love it, well done. GREAT JOB!!! TRULY EXCELLENT.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely tissues. Beautiful. But some of the frames went by too fast for me too. I couldn't read that fast. There is always more to say. But you can't say it all in one video. This is a great start!!! Nice work.
ReplyDeleteamazing. love it. cried. keep doing it (and why do we need lorinda? kidding).
ReplyDeleteyou know where I am going to put this, right?
muhaha.
as for the horror, i think there are many many levels of adoption horror and many reasons why children are taken from their mothers. i say this one is perfect and you can make yet another deeper, darker one to addresses concerns raised by op.
Also had trouble reading some of it, but it was beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI hear the comments about what it lacks, but I think you captured the loss well and I imagine this is just a beginning. I'm all about making something to draw people in, convincing them, then taking them to another level.
And I loved all the words at the end.
yes I ahve a feeling that there is a lot more to say and there will be many more videos to say it (hehehe...only from my knowing of Claud.......)
ReplyDeletethis was so wonderfully done, and I think all that we are hoping for shall come forth....um..no expectations or anything claud....lol
Holy Shit Claud....beautiful...I am in tears here...it was wonderful...please do more...
ReplyDeleteNote: Dont watch while waiting for late photos.
ReplyDeleteSame as others... moving... tears... fast... mother's loss...
Bleh.
Hey thanks all...In between work and kids, I did this in 36 hours having no clue to what I was doing. I know it is hard to read, but...that was the limitations of the dumb program. All I can say is that peps will just have to watch it again! lol.
ReplyDeleteStupid thing kept freezing up my laptop, I wanted to throw it out the window! After three AM when I got it up last night, but was just glad to get it out there. Have to thank my DH for saying "Hey, you should do this...look they have adoption videos"..and now he found a bigger better ( way more complicated) progrma to install for me...so I doubt it will be the last..lol.
Broadcast and share at will. Ther si a link on the YouTube page that is the whole thing to insert if wanted..or you can just link. If you Do view it on YouTube, then it will get more hits and be higher on the scale so more folks will see it..you can also rate it too..or do "honors" what ever that means. I just want it seen..imperfections and all.
Let you all know when I make another...you know I shall! I am thnking now of...what?? And trying to find good music too. Imagery also,,that took forever!
I was very surprised to see my own photo used! It's a photo of me pregnant with my daughter, taken a little over 6 years ago, and a friend uses it on her pregnancy information site :) I don't mind that you used it, but I was, yeah, very surprised.
ReplyDeleteNice video, Claud.
Claud, it's beautiful. I don't think I've ever seen anything that so clearly shows what moms go through when they lose their children to adoption.
ReplyDeleteNow to get it to the media - I say do a press release.
OMG Amiee!! You know..I said to myself ..wow, that looks familier..and it occured to me, that it looked like you.
ReplyDeleteI just googled images..and then grabbed.
I'm glad you don't mind!!
It's a great shot!
By the by, it is number 89 or 84 or somthing out of top 100 favorites ithe "people" catagory of today...it's an "honor"..I hope that means others are seeing it!
Hi, Claud. You know, from when last we spoke, if you recollect, I was *that girl* that thought about adoption in 1993. I was that girl who was completely left by my boyfriend (who would never leave me) and that girl, who when delivered a baby girl, LSS had a person *stop by* with three bmoms to help me through my "difficult decision."
ReplyDeleteI left my baby at the hospital that night and didn't sleep a wink. I walked outside in the snow and pictured my life *with her* instead of without her...as *without her* was what I was trained to think and had thought about it for months and months. I would make that family so happy and blessed as they were married and I was not.
The next morning, at 7:59 a.m., I called LSS and told them I would be picking up Madeline at the foster home. I didn't care if I starved. I knew I would be ousted in the small community. I knew that the paps' attorney would be calling me immediately. I knew this. I did not have anything to lose and at that moment, I knew who I was.
This video brings back allllll that uncertainty and pacing. It brings back all the scared thoughts of that young girl not knowing who she was, what to do, or why this was happening to her.
The text was fast but just to look at the pictures makes me want to look at my little Maddie who is now almost 13. I am not sure if I can watch the movie again. Because I feel so much for women who have relinquished...and I did not. I feel so freaking sad for what could have been...but it was changed in an instant and it caused an infinite amount of hurt to you and others who had an insurmountable amount of pressure.
I hate how unfair and wrong our world is.
I have clung to my children and faced the fire. I simply don't give a hoot what other people think. And it has been painful -- even last week at parent-teacher conferences, when the teacher asks, "Where is dad?" I simply shrug and say, "I am all the family she has had and thank god for that," and then yell, "I will be damned if you think she deserves a 'C' in orchestra."
I wish you all the best...but I believe this CAN BE AVOIDED IN THE FUTURE. Women need to open their eyes and believe in themselves first and foremost and they need a place to go just to REALIZE who they are and what they are capable of. Best wishes my friend, jed
I had to wait till the weekend to see this. It made me cry. Beautiful picture, well balanced text. Too fast, I agree. You could make the next one include mothers who kept their babies...
ReplyDelete(((Claud))) This was an awesome video. :'(
ReplyDeletereally?? not real sure what to think, some truth some not, at least not my situation. I think it is mixed, certainly not going to sway a mother who is not sure. The whole pure profit thing seems a bit out of place.
ReplyDeleteWow. As a photographer/artist, I am extremely impressed with the way the music flows with the imagery ... and the essence captured. I concur with what Poor Statue said.
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