Finally: VVC Vid Rec: Bright Star
I know I'm weeks late on this. First there was con drop, which merged with looming deadlines I just couldn't ignore, and I just never settled down to spend some time with the con DVDs and write up my thoughts. But better late than never, so here we go.
For me, there was one vid that stayed with me, that my mind wanders to, that makes me itch to want to open FCP. And no it is not the #catbaby vid, though, especially as a once upon a time hardcore SV Clex fan, that was a crazy transcendent collective experience and I adored it too.
But no, the vid that's most settled into me was
kiki_miserychic's challenge vid, Bright Star. I haven't seen the source text (Jane Campion's film of the same name), though now I absolutely want to watch it. But I do know Jane Campion, and loosely the story of Keats (well, I know that he died at 25!) And that is enough to know for this vid. Or rather, you don't need to know Jane Campion, but one of the things I love so much about this vid is the way it plays with and makes the most of Campion's lyrical, expressive way of communicating a moment through an image.
In the first section of this vid, the intercutting is just to die for. I want to watch it over and over and over. I love how the rhythmic editing combined with the music almost changes the way you breathe--or perhaps it does change the way you breathe. I love the parallel imagery of them both (seemingly?) lying prostrate as their romance takes them over, and how we start with her processing her meeting of him, but we increasingly get these images that suggest that he's caught in something more unruly than their romance (depression/melancholy and disease, from what I know of Keats...). And by the end of that first section, we are bound into him too with that beautiful imagery of him entwined in the flowers--and now I must watch the film to find out what the context for that image is. Is it simply the tree from a different angle? Or is it a field of flowers? Either way, it's such an essentially Campion image and I love the way it holds so much meaning in the arc of this vid.
After that the editing gets more subtle, but equally compelling and exact. I love the elegance and precision of the editing throughout, as their affair and fate and eventually his illness take them over, and I love how, throughout the second portion of the vid, images of their connection to each other (that beautiful long take of them holding hands) are intertwined with images of words and writing. And finally I love how this vid is so fittingly poetic in feel given its subject matter.
Oh and that moment when she collapses into the purple flowers. Perfect. Perfectly visual and musical.
Right so.. I didn't expect to say so much about a single vid! It would seem these VVC vid rec posts will have to tackle one vid at a time...
This entry was originally posted at http://lola.dreamwidth.org/64408.html. Comments welcome here or there.
For me, there was one vid that stayed with me, that my mind wanders to, that makes me itch to want to open FCP. And no it is not the #catbaby vid, though, especially as a once upon a time hardcore SV Clex fan, that was a crazy transcendent collective experience and I adored it too.
But no, the vid that's most settled into me was
kiki_miserychic's challenge vid, Bright Star. I haven't seen the source text (Jane Campion's film of the same name), though now I absolutely want to watch it. But I do know Jane Campion, and loosely the story of Keats (well, I know that he died at 25!) And that is enough to know for this vid. Or rather, you don't need to know Jane Campion, but one of the things I love so much about this vid is the way it plays with and makes the most of Campion's lyrical, expressive way of communicating a moment through an image.
In the first section of this vid, the intercutting is just to die for. I want to watch it over and over and over. I love how the rhythmic editing combined with the music almost changes the way you breathe--or perhaps it does change the way you breathe. I love the parallel imagery of them both (seemingly?) lying prostrate as their romance takes them over, and how we start with her processing her meeting of him, but we increasingly get these images that suggest that he's caught in something more unruly than their romance (depression/melancholy and disease, from what I know of Keats...). And by the end of that first section, we are bound into him too with that beautiful imagery of him entwined in the flowers--and now I must watch the film to find out what the context for that image is. Is it simply the tree from a different angle? Or is it a field of flowers? Either way, it's such an essentially Campion image and I love the way it holds so much meaning in the arc of this vid.
After that the editing gets more subtle, but equally compelling and exact. I love the elegance and precision of the editing throughout, as their affair and fate and eventually his illness take them over, and I love how, throughout the second portion of the vid, images of their connection to each other (that beautiful long take of them holding hands) are intertwined with images of words and writing. And finally I love how this vid is so fittingly poetic in feel given its subject matter.
Oh and that moment when she collapses into the purple flowers. Perfect. Perfectly visual and musical.
Right so.. I didn't expect to say so much about a single vid! It would seem these VVC vid rec posts will have to tackle one vid at a time...
This entry was originally posted at http://lola.dreamwidth.org/64408.html. Comments welcome here or there.