IJVP #6: "The Perfect Drug" (Battlestar Galactica - 2003)

[dualbunny]

Previous IJVP vids here.

Wow, where did those two weeks go? :P Now I can spend all of tomorrow sitting in front of the TV finishing my painting for this year's Women's Perspective show. I am a bee with the busy-making, I tell you. But not a European honeybee living in Japan. Because they get massacred by the biggest fucking scariest damn

Comments

[f1renze]

Whoa. The hotness, it is overwhelming. The cuts are mind-bogglingly gorgeous -- they're so clean and just the *perfect* amount of sensory experience. And I don't even need to mention your movement because it OWNS me, forever and always. :D

I thought your layering process was a great approach. The vid has a smooth, planned-out feel to it, which I love.

I also cut much more slowly than I pictured in my head when I first started rolling the song around in my head.

I think I know what you mean, but you made the right decision. Because you didn't just ignore these more intense parts of the song, you instead used it a in different way, for example by using Gaius's intense expressions, eye close-ups, Gaius/Six buildups... Together, they made me *feel* for Gaius, who is someone I don't have strong feelings for on the show. So thank you -- I'd take this approach over plain-old beat-whoring any day ;)

ALL of the visual tricks worked so well for me. I adore the way you keep returning to some scenes - it's just so perfect for the intense mood of the song. And I absolutely *love* the Levels-flashes and the blurs and zoom and, guh.

Some of my many favorites:

- "you’re reaching, dragging, shaking me"
- the zoom at "the more I die"
- the staircase intercuts
- "when I’m all stupid eyed" - great choice there
- the whole intense ship intercuts from 1:38 until it breaks at 1:43
- 2:11 "without you" with the white

::hugs you::

I love this vid.

[dualbunny]

::squeezes you back::

I appreciate your comments so much. :} I was curious how this would play for someone that wasn't all that attached to him on the show, so thank you for mentioning that! And I'm relieved you thought I made ok choices with the pacing. It was really fun to play with the source in little ways in this one. The show lends itself to that really well.

And I was really caught up on the "stupid eyed" lyric, so I love that you liked that one. Heh, and the "reaching, dragging, shaking me". I felt I was very restrained in not using scenes when she was either reaching, dragging, or shaking him, heh. ;D I see them in my head, so I figured I could use the chance to be subtle instead.