Birthday present => new Lee/Kara Music Video: Lift

[m_a_r_i_k_s]

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

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[m_a_r_i_k_s]

Thank you so much for uploading the shiny version to sendspace.

Anything for you, dear :) I'm VERY glad you enjoyed the shiny version, that's the way the picture quality should be, it would've been even better had I been more into encoding specifics and nuances - but that's just the most boring part in vidmaking process for me. I always have to sort of talk myself into approaching codec settings installations after finishing my project out of sheer necessity. If I could, I'd skip the exporting and encoding parts altogether :)

This vid breaks my heart so early with its 'comes out awry' line. I've seen so many Kara fans dismiss that moment in the greater scheme of their romance, but I always found it really heartbreaking.

You know this period of time in vidmaking when you haven’t even started working with footage material in your software, you’re just listening to the song and trying to absorb it all, see some shots as clearly as possible in order to be able to use them as your milestones further, right? Well, the clearest vision I had when I was listening to Lift yet not vidding - was the first verse’s vision. I saw the shots I was going to overlay with “Times when I just Can’t - bring myself…” so brightly… as well as the moment you’re talking about! So I have to tell you it’s one of my favorite, breaks my heart about three times with its ‘Can’t’, ‘Afraid’ and ‘Awry’ words…

As for the actual scene on the Astral Queen with ‘I’m your friend, I love you’/ ‘Lee Adama Loves ME?!’ pearl, it’s a magnificently subtle moment in BSG, I love it to bits, always wanted to make some sort of Pilots thoughts’ subtitles for it because too many things are going on in their heads then that they keep to themselves; the only windows to their souls are their eyes, body language and certain accidental words that are quickly being masked under their usual bantering.

This video also differs from any other vid I made before in terms of storytelling as I tried to intertwine Lee’s POV with Kara’s POV very tightly here, make them flow in one stream so that the viewer could watch from both angles depending on personal preferences and interest. I’ve never done anything like it before.

one of my other favourite moments though is the surprise kiss on the drum beat around 4.30.
Thanks, Home pt.1 is one of the shippiest episodes in BSG, full of significant moments and too hard not to vid :)

The final sequence to 'Olympic Carrier' breaks my heart. But you gave Kara someone to stroke her hair!
It slays me when he smoothes down her hair… If I saw Kara stroking Lee’s hair or his cheekbones it would be the last straw and I think I’d dissolve into tears…
Anyway, Pilots, keep touching please :)

when she was all alone aboard Prometheus
Demetrius you mean) I know, Black Market is unforgettable :)

Thank you very much for your lovely feedback Bop! :)