Video promo (and music by D) for Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Erasmus study programmes, GR

Thank you my dear Friend

Aha! I see you Demetris!

Good promo, love the beat-based stuff at the 2:30 mark, and the way it grows...then a short pause....and the beat again plus guitar riffs in the background....ending peacefully. Nice!

Damn I feel like going there right now.

Good job D!

Great promo video, D.!
And great to see nepotism in Greece is still alive and well: I seem to recognise a few familiar faces?
(EDIT: Poop. Thor beat me to it. I should read earlier comments more carefully)

The mood shots very much remind me of Cordoba and the Azores (not a bad thing at all by the way! :nostalgic: ), but I think the faculty shots with its energetic, driving "get up 'n' go" music really are the money shots. Excellent promotion of academic interest, drive, curiosity and productivity.
Damn, it makes me want to sign up!

Question on the score!
No, first a compliment: I really like how you weave in traditional Greek sounds and instruments without it sounding like acheesy holidays promo. It gives the whole thing a clear national flavour, while still retaining an international allure.
I don't wanna go overboard here (it's a promo! Not a symphony!), but I honestly think you did a thoughtful and outstanding job appropriate to the material (and I tend to think I know a (very little!) about it, as I have some friends in the business and they enjoy showing me and explaining to me what works and what not).

OK, so, the question: from about 1:22 to 2:00 (and later around the 4:25 minute mark again), you opt to use -what I think is- an oriental instrument. I may be wrong, it may well be a balkan sound (esoecially when you go into the counterpoint it -melodically- certainly has more of a balkan flavour than a "Chinese" one), but still....my very first association was with the Far East.

I'd be very interested in your thinking behind this?
Why did you choose such a stand-out instrument/sound?

No criticism intended. I'm just intrigued.

What instrument is it, though?

I'm not sure, but I think Demetris is teaching in practical film production in that school.

Thanks guys! No it was not a school project, it was a well-paid job commissioned by the department of
European studies of a.u.th and the state funding for studying organization.

FInally had a chance to check out your video. I remember you posted some pictures about "a promo" some time ago, so I suppose this is the final one.

First of all, well done on getting to do this job! This is quite a gig I would think? I so hope this gets people to your university, and perhaps also tourists to the city. Glad you got a good amount of money for it.

A for the video, it's very cool! Especially the in-the-city passages. Very smooth and hip. I liked the last shot too. Really breaths the atmosphere of a university city (it wouldn't have been my first stop previously!). Seaside looks lovely and your wife is the star! Music fitted perfectly, and it must've been quite a job to sync both video with what you had in mind of the music, or was it the other way around? First the video and then the music, but then, you have to have an idea of the music. Catch 22!

It took me a while to figure out what the A in the very odd A.U.TH stood for. All came clear at the end. I could've also just read the thread title more carefully.

Congrats!

It's you and John Williams!

Somehow Martijn I think he is avoiding the question

Now you gone done it!!!

Nop, it's an Erhu

Oh, certainly my friend!

Nobody....nobody noticed before!

What the hell is wrong with us?