New Vid - HLotS - You

[barkley]

New Vid:
Song: You
Music: Candlebox
Fandom: Homicide: LotS
Subject: Tim Bayliss and his obsessions

Vid Page

Many thanks to lapillus, katie_m, laurashapiro, and destina
for their comments and encouragement.

I would love to hear anything you have to say about it no matter how big or small or good or bad. Seriously.

Comments

Blessings Upon You

[bookworm_myrtle]

Thank you for this. Thank you more than I can express. There are so many wonderful aspects of this vid, both emotional and technical. I know Eunice is having trouble right now because, you see, one night at my house she watched HLOTS with me, complained at first that the camera work gave her a headache, but she got sucked in and was suddenly hooked. Then obsessed. It was her first fandom, her true love, and Timmy... well he was just kind of everything to her.

That said, I had him first!!!! :)) And this vid brings it all to the forefront *why*. Eunice says "he wasn't *fixable*" and that's the great pain of his character. But I say he didn't need to be fixed; he desperately needed and ceaselessly sought a justice that was never coming. Your vid walks us through painful beginning to heartwhrenching end. It's incredible to look back and see how thoroughly lost he was from the moment he got the call for Adina.

Style question/comment -- in general, talky face drives me to distraction. But I realized partway through that you'd done it deliberately, and I started to see patterns in it. Can you sort of describe what you were thinking/seeing when you incorporated that? I didn't realize until watching this that it could actually be powerful instead of annoying.

Thank you again and again!! I will hold this vid very close to my heart because I'll never love a show the way I loved HLOTS.

Re: Blessings Upon You

[barkley]

Oh, thank you so much! Homicide was that show that I heard was really good but on days I wasn't home. And then I was home and it was on and my jaw dropped at the Homicidey goodness (and this was in season 5 when most of the hard-core newsgroup posters were bemoaning the lack of quality. Whatever, I was in love.)

There was v. intentional talky face in the beginning. I wanted to create a buzzing of other people telling him what to do and how a real murder police would go about investigating Adina Watson's death and have that be the insecure voices in his head that carry through with him for the entire run of the series (until he comes back in the movie and say, "look! I am a good detective! LOOK WHAT I DID!)

And then I used them again in the interrogation scenes because it is all about interogating and how you sell someone something that they have no use for and how Tim can never be Frank because Frank is the master and how that too will compound the above insecurities of Tim.

I used more of the yelling in the end confession because that's when I wanted to get across a desperate, "Hear me, Frank! I've got something to tell you and I'm dying here and I need for you to hear me!"

And it's so neat to look at the change between Phone Answering Tim from the first episode to Tim of the movie.

Thanks so much for your comments! They really mean a lot.