Vid Rec: Devil Wouldn't Recognize You
Title: Devil Wouldn’t Recognize You
Music Title & Artist: "Devil Wouldn’t Recognize You" by Madonna
Vidder: obsessive24
Verse: Elementary
Link: LJ Announcement Post
Vidder's Summary: “I close my eyes and I try to picture him. And I see someone an awful lot like you.”
Reccer's Comments:
A beautiful example of the vidder's art, masterfully deploying Elementary's visual language to illuminate the first season's central spoiler. (Note: the vid itself is pure spoiler; this rec post is spoiler-free.) The first time I watched it, the layers of allusions and parallels that it revealed took my breath away.
But the vid's brilliance goes far beyond a mere accounting of visual metaphor. Through a host of vidderly techniques, obsessive24 draws the viewer into Sherlock's disorientation, thereby giving real heft to his desperation. I am frankly astonished at how much control the vidder demonstrated in communicating Sherlock's emotional chaos; this vid could easily have devolved into a smush of effects-laden noise, and yet it is always coherent, always interpretable. (You know how art students hang out at museums and sketch the paintings, in order to learn composition? I need to devote a week to recreating this vid, clip-for-clip, in order to understand what-all obsessive24 did here.)
Content Warnings: blood; guns; violence; drug paraphenalia.
Physical Warnings: quick stuttery cuts; swooping motion; double images and other visual effects.
Music Title & Artist: "Devil Wouldn’t Recognize You" by Madonna
Vidder: obsessive24
Verse: Elementary
Link: LJ Announcement Post
Vidder's Summary: “I close my eyes and I try to picture him. And I see someone an awful lot like you.”
Reccer's Comments:
A beautiful example of the vidder's art, masterfully deploying Elementary's visual language to illuminate the first season's central spoiler. (Note: the vid itself is pure spoiler; this rec post is spoiler-free.) The first time I watched it, the layers of allusions and parallels that it revealed took my breath away.
But the vid's brilliance goes far beyond a mere accounting of visual metaphor. Through a host of vidderly techniques, obsessive24 draws the viewer into Sherlock's disorientation, thereby giving real heft to his desperation. I am frankly astonished at how much control the vidder demonstrated in communicating Sherlock's emotional chaos; this vid could easily have devolved into a smush of effects-laden noise, and yet it is always coherent, always interpretable. (You know how art students hang out at museums and sketch the paintings, in order to learn composition? I need to devote a week to recreating this vid, clip-for-clip, in order to understand what-all obsessive24 did here.)
Content Warnings: blood; guns; violence; drug paraphenalia.
Physical Warnings: quick stuttery cuts; swooping motion; double images and other visual effects.