Bear With No Face
How to get creative during the COVID-19 lockdown?
Making music videos or serious of documentaries? Learning how to make an effort to tribute someone or somebody? There are many time-wasting projects online, but we know already how desperate we are for a good music documentary that has been watched many times after running through all our queues. Hmm…How long one music documentary needs to be in the production? How much money and time consuming this is? There is a term called a fair use of copyrighted works without direct ownership in a manner that is new or modified. This type of use wouldn’t infringe on the original work relating using the footage from a rival network, station without rights that is deemed fair use because it has been created into something new with the old footage that doesn’t affect the original content. Musicians nowadays have been especially crafty, performing shows from their bedrooms, hosting talk shows, etc. But what about music enthusiasts and fans who are tired of endless talk on Facebook about their favorite band? Or whose done talking about it via comments on YouTube? Nowadays everything is in the comments of fans. There are complicated productions and music producers that can judge and can see and have a shortcut, saving money only by reading the comments below the music videos, no survey needed for that!
Reading online posts and YouTube comments I have most fun sometimes! If you take a good look, there are useful comments, not just glorifying in words. A pretty mysterious guy on YouTube called himself a Bear With No Face who made his own documentary about the British band The Cure. This is a big band you know! Very important too! And our Bear have 3 long documentaries about The Cure, with strictly Robert Smith, a head and vocal of the band talking about the band. The band has existed for a long time now and it marked many generations all over the world and Bear collected fantastic footage from different televisions all over the world of the 80s and 90s, behind the stage…casual walks in nature (Robert Smith likes nature). Here, the band talks about themselves and all footages are basically uncut versions of the users who uploaded on internet to tribute the band. You can feel their personal musical development here, cause there are only a slight cut from different televisions worldwide or no cuts at all because the upload is coming from the non media related footage. At the head version of the footage Bear claims that he has been a fan of The Cure for over 30 years. Well, me too mate! Or better say many of us are! Bear, in a time of lockdowns, he discovered that there are a million hours of footage of The Cure on Youtube. The footages all over the world recorded, saved, and then uploaded decades later: some of it was made 30 years ago. “I imagine I’m not alone in wanting to see all this footage in the order that it plays in my head. I think Bruce Conner said it best: In my own mind, I had a very long, complex movie made and expected someone to make this and nobody did,” said Bear With No Face.
Check it out!
You know, sometimes bears of our childhood wants to stay invisible, and those bears often stay without face because we like to smash toys if we are bored with it. This bear that I am talking about is not a toy! And this Bear wants to stay Bear With No Face! He does not want to reveal his true identity, which is just fine by me. It’s good and it is all fine… rule number one…no names! But who is our Bear With No Face everyone wonders? In all parts of the documentary, there are moments where Robert Smith personally talks about the life of The Cure as well as other members of the band. And honesty is the one thing you just can not avoid recognizing. And with music honesty and being natural is one of the crucial aspects of success. Because audience sees everything and honesty is something spotted right there and right away. Here you can catch an honest talk and rambling of the band between the songs, behind the stage, behind the videos released for different worldwide TV channels, when they talk about themselves.
What a marvelous idea Bear! You stand out there and enjoyed the history of the band without complicated productions and producers deciding what is attractive or suitable for the band at the moment. This is a true homemade movie made by a true fan, someone who does not insist on all glorifying moments of the band. Someone who appreciates talking and no posing installed.
Well done Bear With No Face!