This is amazingly good! I feel like I'm listening to someone make an impassioned speech or hearing an uplifting political ad! Really damn good stuff! 5 stars! First prize!
Reviews for "A Stroll Down St Pancras"
You really captured the sense of hustle-and-bustle of being in a transport station. I've never been to St. Pancras International but the closest thing I can think of that I've had experience with is O'Hare airport in Chicago. To me there's almost a sense of urgency; I can see people hurrying and trying to make their plane/bus/train with their suitcases while moving through a crowd of people.
The vast production, in my opinion, also shows a feeling of determination. The imagery I get is something like: You're at the bottom of a large cliff, there's nowhere to go but up, and come Hell or high water you're going to climb it.
I'm not quite sure if that's what you were going for, but that's how I see it.
Reading your description it seems like one thing you were going for, though, was a sense of optimism and freedom. I can definitely see that.
The only thing that keeps this from getting 5 stars from me is this: To me, something about the flow of the piece seems to get in the way of what you're trying to do. I think this is especially the case when the quiet part hits towards the middle. I'm wondering if it would be more effective if there was a continuous buildup of instrumentation to reflect ever-growing positive energy, and at the end is where the quiet part would come in. Just something you may want to play around with.
Overall, I'd say you did a phenomenal job. :)
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Troisnyx responds:
Thanks for the thought you put into your review, much appreciated.
I hadn't had the strength to mention this, but if you haven't been to St Pancras, it truly is something else. If you have time, you can get lost in its beauty, stop at the eateries or the high-end shops, or walk around and soak in the architecture, which is a happy marriage of the old and the new.
If you're pressed for time, you will find yourself tempted to pause, listen to the buskers, or catch glimpses of a beautiful place. You hesitate. You think, "I hope I have enough time to see these beautiful people and things..."
St Pancras is an international symbol, being the gateway to continental Europe. Certainly in 2015 and not so much now, I could look at it and say, "Ahead of us is more of the European Union to explore." Imagine what a sense of liberation, joy, *pride* there is in that.
That pride may be gone from the UK but I still remember it, and hopefully have captured every moment of it.
I agree with Jordi <3
Wonderful work! :)
Well this is phenomenal.