Birthday present => new Lee/Kara Music Video: Lift
This is the day brokenmnemonic was born, the day the world became one good man richer :)
Happy Birthday my dear friend! I wish you to have a wonderful day! Remember how much you are loved and appreciated and to quote a famous song's lyrics - don't worry, be happy! :)
As a matter of fact, I didn't send you anything by mail - I wanted to give you this video as a Birthday present instead. *HUGS*
The video is also for all the shippers as it represents the quintessence of Kara and Lee's relationship and mutual journey.
Download link and lyrics below
Song: Lift
Artist: Poets Of The Fall
Characters: Kara and Lee, Starbuck and Apollo, Pilots, Friends, Soulmates
Spoilers: hmm.. up to 4x04 Escape Velocity, although I think I used a couple of short clips from Revelations Size: 57 mb
Warnings: surely there's Angst with capital 'A', people
Youtube link: here
Download link: megaupload
Для русскоязычных представителей моего ф-листа - русские титры к клипу (а песня по смыслу важна) можно скачать тут
Commentary:
The story of this video is monumental for me, because it is pretty much what I was vidding for all this time (or at least it was one of the major aims). To make this one. Nevertheless I’ll try to make it shorter for you to read about.
Back in the days when I just started vidding I made this first look into Lee & Kara relationship in my early video Dawn as some of you may remember - that was the time I heard another song by the same band - Lift. And it captured my mind right there and then, flooded my thoughts with imagery I didn't know how to bring together. I loved the song, saw great potential in it and I realised how much it was fitting Pilots, so much that it's become some sort of anthem for them in my head.
But the problem was I simply didn't have enough knowledge of vidding techniques to tell the story the way I wanted to, emphasise some points, so that it would get argumentative and passionate enough, in other words - make the work worthy to my own eyes.
So I was postponing it again and again and again throughout more than two years still remembering the project or the idea of the project from time to time, keeping it at the periphery of my senses and thoughts, waiting for the moment when I could tell myself : “Enough is enough, I am ready”. That moment came after Canta Per Me. Yeah, it’s unbelievable that it took me five months of on and off serious dives into the material to complete this work.
And if it wasn't for Ed's recent essay on Pilots' relationship and why Kara and Lee are the best pairing on television, which I highly recommend to read here, it might not have been finished today. Inspiration is a tricky beast. And I’m grateful it was cooperative enough to let me make a present I wanted to in time.
There are many new things I learned how to do during these months but it would take me too many pages to tell about it here and I don't want to ruin the mood for non-vidders who probably just want to watch the damn video without having to read all my ramblings.
This is the most difficult work I’ve done in vidmaking so far; the vid is about 6 minutes length, which is also way too much by any standards. And moreover, it’s the first video I’ve ever created that has made me sob and cry in pain uncontrollably like some shot animal during editing.
LIFT
***
Times when I just can't
Bring myself to say it loud
'Fraid that what I'll say comes out somehow awry
That is when it seems
We move in circles day to day
Twist the drama of the play to get us by
And it feels like fear
Like I disappear
Gets so hard to steer
Yet I go on
Do we need debate
When it seems too late
Like I bleed and wait
Like nothing's wrong
You lift my spirit, take me higher, make me fly,
Touch the moon up in the sky, when you are mine
You lift me higher, take my spirit, make it fly,
Where all new wonders will appear
Like the other day
I thought you won't be coming back
I came to realize my lackluster dreams
And among the schemes
And all the tricks we try to play
Only dreams will hold their sway and defy
When it feels like fear...
Like I'll disappear
Gets so hard to steer
Yet I go on
Do we need debate
When it seems too late
Like I bleed and wait
Like nothing's wrong
You lift my spirit, take me higher, make me fly,
Touch the moon up in the sky, when you are mine (x2)
You lift me higher, take my spirit, make it fly,
Where all new wonders will appear, oooohhhh
Take me high
Make me fly
Happy Birthday my dear friend! I wish you to have a wonderful day! Remember how much you are loved and appreciated and to quote a famous song's lyrics - don't worry, be happy! :)
As a matter of fact, I didn't send you anything by mail - I wanted to give you this video as a Birthday present instead. *HUGS*
The video is also for all the shippers as it represents the quintessence of Kara and Lee's relationship and mutual journey.
Download link and lyrics below
Song: Lift
Artist: Poets Of The Fall
Characters: Kara and Lee, Starbuck and Apollo, Pilots, Friends, Soulmates
Spoilers: hmm.. up to 4x04 Escape Velocity, although I think I used a couple of short clips from Revelations Size: 57 mb
Warnings: surely there's Angst with capital 'A', people
Youtube link: here
Download link: megaupload
Для русскоязычных представителей моего ф-листа - русские титры к клипу (а песня по смыслу важна) можно скачать тут
Commentary:
The story of this video is monumental for me, because it is pretty much what I was vidding for all this time (or at least it was one of the major aims). To make this one. Nevertheless I’ll try to make it shorter for you to read about.
Back in the days when I just started vidding I made this first look into Lee & Kara relationship in my early video Dawn as some of you may remember - that was the time I heard another song by the same band - Lift. And it captured my mind right there and then, flooded my thoughts with imagery I didn't know how to bring together. I loved the song, saw great potential in it and I realised how much it was fitting Pilots, so much that it's become some sort of anthem for them in my head.
But the problem was I simply didn't have enough knowledge of vidding techniques to tell the story the way I wanted to, emphasise some points, so that it would get argumentative and passionate enough, in other words - make the work worthy to my own eyes.
So I was postponing it again and again and again throughout more than two years still remembering the project or the idea of the project from time to time, keeping it at the periphery of my senses and thoughts, waiting for the moment when I could tell myself : “Enough is enough, I am ready”. That moment came after Canta Per Me. Yeah, it’s unbelievable that it took me five months of on and off serious dives into the material to complete this work.
And if it wasn't for Ed's recent essay on Pilots' relationship and why Kara and Lee are the best pairing on television, which I highly recommend to read here, it might not have been finished today. Inspiration is a tricky beast. And I’m grateful it was cooperative enough to let me make a present I wanted to in time.
There are many new things I learned how to do during these months but it would take me too many pages to tell about it here and I don't want to ruin the mood for non-vidders who probably just want to watch the damn video without having to read all my ramblings.
This is the most difficult work I’ve done in vidmaking so far; the vid is about 6 minutes length, which is also way too much by any standards. And moreover, it’s the first video I’ve ever created that has made me sob and cry in pain uncontrollably like some shot animal during editing.
LIFT
***
Times when I just can't
Bring myself to say it loud
'Fraid that what I'll say comes out somehow awry
That is when it seems
We move in circles day to day
Twist the drama of the play to get us by
And it feels like fear
Like I disappear
Gets so hard to steer
Yet I go on
Do we need debate
When it seems too late
Like I bleed and wait
Like nothing's wrong
You lift my spirit, take me higher, make me fly,
Touch the moon up in the sky, when you are mine
You lift me higher, take my spirit, make it fly,
Where all new wonders will appear
Like the other day
I thought you won't be coming back
I came to realize my lackluster dreams
And among the schemes
And all the tricks we try to play
Only dreams will hold their sway and defy
When it feels like fear...
Like I'll disappear
Gets so hard to steer
Yet I go on
Do we need debate
When it seems too late
Like I bleed and wait
Like nothing's wrong
You lift my spirit, take me higher, make me fly,
Touch the moon up in the sky, when you are mine (x2)
You lift me higher, take my spirit, make it fly,
Where all new wonders will appear, oooohhhh
Take me high
Make me fly