dS vid: Fallen Leaves

[keerawa]

Fandom, Character: due South, Fraser
Summary: Maybe one man can't save them all, but that won't stop Fraser from trying.
Song: "Fallen Leaves" by Billy Talent
Rated: PG
Thanks to: My beta, annieb1955 for helping me get this posted in 2007.
Feedback: Pretty please? Any and all feedback will be welcomed with heartfelt cries of joy, including concrit.

Comments

[nos4a2no9]

Okay, I'm back! Only a couple of days late :-) I've got to preface my feedback by saying that I don't really like the song: Billy Talent is played constantly here thanks to the can con laws and that song was on constant rotation on the radio station at work. So...I don't like the song. But! I loved the vid, so I hope it comes as a compliment when I say that I liked the vid in spite of the song.

I said above that I really admire the way you marry lyric and image to evoke an emotional response in the viewer, and that skill was on full display here. You did a great job crafting a narrative around the notion that Fraser does try to save all those lost sheep we see in the show, and the lyrics ("in a crooked little town" keeps running through my head) worked perfectly in conjunction with that message. There was a lot of energy and momentum in the clips you chose, which also worked well with the song, and the whole vid had a clear narrative and a lot of vitality, and it was a pleasure to watch even though I winced when the first few bars of the song started to play :-)

I also like that last image, of Fraser smiling and feeling like he's had some success against the tide of corruption. That's a nice message, and it had a weird bit of syncronicity with arrow00's vid, which was posted just after yours went up. Great job on this!

[keerawa]

Billy Talent is played constantly here thanks to the can con laws and that song was on constant rotation on the radio station at work.
You know, I hadn't even heard of the band until omphale23 uploaded this song. Billy Talent and Jim Byrnes - apparently famous Candian music bands I never would have heard of if it weren't for fandom.

I worked hard on synching internal movement with the beats here, to give it forward momentum, so I'm delighted that you commented on that. At first I thought the vid would have an angsty ending (Fraser trying to find refuge from the city in the wilderness but pulling a corpse out of the water instead), so I was so glad to find that actually the Muse led me to that happy ending.

Thank you for the feedback, Nos!