Festivids reveals #4-5: Dead Poets Society (Smokin' in the Boys Room, I was meant for the stage)

[bironic]

deelaundry was kind enough to include Dead Poets Society among her Festivids requests after I got an email from the mods the day before the signup deadline saying that no one had requested any of the fandoms I'd offered. Then we didn't even get matched, ha, but I still wanted to make my original vid idea ("I was meant for the stage") as well as give her a

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[flywoman]

These are both wonderful, and because I watched the perfect, hilarious "Smokin' in the Boys Room" first with a huge grin on my face, the other packed that much more of a punch. It almost seemed like that song had been written specifically for the film! *sniffles*

[bironic]

Yeah, that song follows the movie suspiciously closely. Googling the song title and the movie title together to find out whether the Decemberists or any critics ever talked about it is what turned up Dani's own version of the vid. (Whoops.) Glad you liked the vids, different as they are!

[linaerys]

Yeah, this. I watched them in that order too, and the Decembrists one was almost too much to watch.

Lovely work.

[bironic]

Thank you very much. As time passes and as I compare it to other vids, including isagel's much more layered one that she made for the 'fest, the Decemberists one has felt more like an obvious, sentimental, one-note sort of vid - but I will be honest, your response is all the reassurance I needed.

[daasgrrl]

Aww, I enjoyed them both, bit of a nostalgic trip to revisit DPS. I thought the first one had a really strong ending, I would have totally teared up if I'd been the type *g*. Perfect song for Neil, of course.

The second was just fun and I'd actually forgotten a lot of what they did, including the smuggling of the girl (teacher?) in there and the actual, literal smoking! Quite inspired, and I think you cut it down to just the right length :)

[bironic]

I had forgotten there was literal smoking in the caves until I started clipping for the vid. It posed sort of a problem, because there's that thing about being too "on the nose" with clips - but I hoped that waiting until the second chorus would help. :) The girls I think were from the local high school? I don't really remember either. Confession: I made both these vids without actually watching the movie again, heh.

Anyway, glad the fun one was fun and the sad one was sad!

And I'm smiling a bit because if the "Guess the Festividder" post they do each year is any indication, no one read too much into my default icon and pinned the three DPS vids on me.