About this Short Film
Sky Falls Down, by RED Inc. (Australia, 2014), is a short documentary that captures a creator sketching a song and assembling its visuals, offering an intimate, informal account of learning, experimenting and sharing work online. Through fragmented rehearsals, dreamlike imagery about an angel butterfly and candid reflections on freestyling versus writing, the film foregrounds creative process over polished performance. Its tone is playful and reflective, with a DIY spirit evident in descriptions of downloading images, tracing graphics and uploading to YouTube and Facebook. Audiences interested in community arts, songwriting and grassroots digital storytelling will find value in its honesty and practical curiosity. A modest, process-driven piece well suited to the Focus on Ability festival programme.
Film Details
Film Transcript
The way I do my rap most of the time is I would freestyle and just come up with it as I go, but writing it down made more — just gave me a bit more of an option. But yeah, Skyfall just came about as I always had the song in my head really. It was like, because I always knew I wanted to try some writing and that's the sort of song I was aiming for.
Dream last night. Dreamt about an angel butterfly. She had a pretty face, flowers in her head; that's what your name, baby. But she told me not to stay.
This took for months to make. The tip itself is really nice. I haven't learned to download, I haven't learned to drop paste, I've learned to save. I mean, and I ordered that one. So we've chosen — we downloaded the pictures from the internet together and then we put it onto nearly night quality and then we chose what pictures to go with it. It was fun. I learned how to put it all together. Especially, I learnt about the tracing, the butterfly.
Was there something special about it that you hadn't done before? Put it onto YouTube. Yeah, excellent. And how to put fans onto the Facebook.
Dream swing is: you have someone in front doing swing and then you have a dream swing, and then wipe out the dream swing, and then you don't put anything in front of it.
It's really my first song. After you write your first song you keep it hidden away and no one can really touch it then, really. But yeah, I'm excited to be using it for my friend Sarah and Cassie's project and I hope it all goes well for them. Bye.
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Love The Work These Guys Do So Honest And Simple And Shows Us That Every Thing They Think Do And Create Is No Different From Anybody Anywhere Doing Their Creative Thing
Amazing This Is So Important To Give A Sense Of Empowerment To The Disabled. Amazing Things Going Down Up Here On The Northern Rivers With Inclusive Bands Such As the Bridge. Some Great Work Being Done By Spaces Such As See Space To Empower And Include The Disabled.
Very Cool Catchy Tune And Cosmic Clip