festivid reveal!
festivids reveals are up, so I can now 'fess up that (as malnpudl so easily guessed!) I made the 3:10 to Yuma vid:
all the money I had is gone (linked post contains streaming version and download link)
Source: 3:10 to Yuma
Music: All the Money I Had is Gone by The Deep Dark Woods (downloadable legally and for free from their website)
Summary: Ben Wade reflects on life, love, luck, and loss. Ben/Dan.
Vidder notes (short): A gift vid for theanonsisters in the festivids exchange. This vid would really have sucked were it not for
mlyn's heroic beta duties.
Extremely long, spoilery, and navel-gazing vidder notes: How making this vid turned me into a Ben/Dan shipper and taught me a lot about vidding.
Back when I first saw 3:10 to Yuma, I liked it, but I didn't see the Ben/Dan slash. Instead I found myself fascinated by the character of Charlie Prince (see icon) and his unnerving devotion to his boss Ben - that was the slash I saw and wanted, but of course, the rest of the fandom didn't see it that way. Also, there is the small detail of the ending - although the original version ( which I think is the superior movie) solves that problem, it's even less Ben/Dan because of the strong presence of Alice. (And I suspect it's totally unviddable, as most of the action takes place in the hotel room.)
I was psyched about the opportunity to vid this movie. theanonsisters didn't specify any details, but since I had also requested a 3:10 to Yuma vid (focusing on Charlie or Charlie/Ben) I thought it best not to duplicate what might be made for me, and planned a Ben-centric vid. I knew how I wanted to begin and end it - on the train - and looked around for music. I shamefully admit that I kind of wanted to use the classic Who song Behind Blue Eyes, but feared it might be ridiculous, and
mlyn concurred. I trawled my alt-country selections and kept coming back to The Deep Dark Woods, a Canadian band I discovered via
riverlight. Although they have a few songs which are much more explicitly about a killer facing the hangman at the end of his road, I daringly (for me) decided to go metaphorical with my choice.
The first draft was way too much of a film recap, with over-long scenes and too much adherence to the actual meaning of the clips, which
mlyn kindly but firmly pointed out. She also made me get away from clips of people, and use some of the background that makes it such a beautiful movie on an aesthetic level. So I had to expand my clip choice, and with that came a lot of technical fiddling with color levels (so I could use the night-time stuff) and garbage mattes (so I could get rid of distracting things in the background) and juxtaposing clips from different parts of the film to make a constructed narrative (still true to the story, but not true to the movie as presented). It really taught me a lot about how to use bits and pieces taken out of context (but not entirely so) to tell a different story.
And so while I was doing that I noticed that whoa, these guys look at each other a LOT. Looking at the movie visually, without the sound on (and the distracting context of the plot) reduced it to basically a bunch of clips of these two guys LOOKING at each other. A LOT. And suddenly I totally got the Ben/Dan slash. At which point I consciously went for the Ben/Dan, because wham, there it was, what else could I do?
My favorite part of this vid is the sequence from about 2:08 to 2:16, which is pieced together from three completely separate parts of the movie, but which makes sense as a whole not just in the context of the story I'm telling but also in the spirit if not the letter of the movie - and oh, the smiles they exchange make me go all gooey inside.
Lyrics:
I've been waitin' here for days
Tryin' to catch a break
The way I'm livin', it's gonna cause my heart to ache
'Cause all the money I had is gone
All the money I had is gone
I've been high and I've been low
I've been east and I've been west
The way it goes, I'll never get no rest
'Cause all the money I had is gone
All the money I had is gone
The wayward son
He never gets nothing done
If I had some money, I'd be on the run
But all the money I had is gone
All the money I had is gone
All the greedy hands
That live around this land
They'll be wiped away come judgment day
And all the money I had is gone
All the money I had is gone
I can weep and I can cry
I can wonder why
Also posted on Dreamwidth where there are
comments.
all the money I had is gone (linked post contains streaming version and download link)
Source: 3:10 to Yuma
Music: All the Money I Had is Gone by The Deep Dark Woods (downloadable legally and for free from their website)
Summary: Ben Wade reflects on life, love, luck, and loss. Ben/Dan.
Vidder notes (short): A gift vid for theanonsisters in the festivids exchange. This vid would really have sucked were it not for
mlyn's heroic beta duties.
Extremely long, spoilery, and navel-gazing vidder notes: How making this vid turned me into a Ben/Dan shipper and taught me a lot about vidding.
Back when I first saw 3:10 to Yuma, I liked it, but I didn't see the Ben/Dan slash. Instead I found myself fascinated by the character of Charlie Prince (see icon) and his unnerving devotion to his boss Ben - that was the slash I saw and wanted, but of course, the rest of the fandom didn't see it that way. Also, there is the small detail of the ending - although the original version ( which I think is the superior movie) solves that problem, it's even less Ben/Dan because of the strong presence of Alice. (And I suspect it's totally unviddable, as most of the action takes place in the hotel room.)
I was psyched about the opportunity to vid this movie. theanonsisters didn't specify any details, but since I had also requested a 3:10 to Yuma vid (focusing on Charlie or Charlie/Ben) I thought it best not to duplicate what might be made for me, and planned a Ben-centric vid. I knew how I wanted to begin and end it - on the train - and looked around for music. I shamefully admit that I kind of wanted to use the classic Who song Behind Blue Eyes, but feared it might be ridiculous, and
mlyn concurred. I trawled my alt-country selections and kept coming back to The Deep Dark Woods, a Canadian band I discovered via
riverlight. Although they have a few songs which are much more explicitly about a killer facing the hangman at the end of his road, I daringly (for me) decided to go metaphorical with my choice.
The first draft was way too much of a film recap, with over-long scenes and too much adherence to the actual meaning of the clips, which
mlyn kindly but firmly pointed out. She also made me get away from clips of people, and use some of the background that makes it such a beautiful movie on an aesthetic level. So I had to expand my clip choice, and with that came a lot of technical fiddling with color levels (so I could use the night-time stuff) and garbage mattes (so I could get rid of distracting things in the background) and juxtaposing clips from different parts of the film to make a constructed narrative (still true to the story, but not true to the movie as presented). It really taught me a lot about how to use bits and pieces taken out of context (but not entirely so) to tell a different story.
And so while I was doing that I noticed that whoa, these guys look at each other a LOT. Looking at the movie visually, without the sound on (and the distracting context of the plot) reduced it to basically a bunch of clips of these two guys LOOKING at each other. A LOT. And suddenly I totally got the Ben/Dan slash. At which point I consciously went for the Ben/Dan, because wham, there it was, what else could I do?
My favorite part of this vid is the sequence from about 2:08 to 2:16, which is pieced together from three completely separate parts of the movie, but which makes sense as a whole not just in the context of the story I'm telling but also in the spirit if not the letter of the movie - and oh, the smiles they exchange make me go all gooey inside.
Lyrics:
I've been waitin' here for days
Tryin' to catch a break
The way I'm livin', it's gonna cause my heart to ache
'Cause all the money I had is gone
All the money I had is gone
I've been high and I've been low
I've been east and I've been west
The way it goes, I'll never get no rest
'Cause all the money I had is gone
All the money I had is gone
The wayward son
He never gets nothing done
If I had some money, I'd be on the run
But all the money I had is gone
All the money I had is gone
All the greedy hands
That live around this land
They'll be wiped away come judgment day
And all the money I had is gone
All the money I had is gone
I can weep and I can cry
I can wonder why
Also posted on Dreamwidth where there are
comments.