IJVP - Day 9!
Hi team, how're we doing? We're over halfway done with my version of IJVP, so just hang in there. :) Today's vidlet was suggested by _par_avion, it's a Battlestar Galactica vid to Cheryl Wheeler's "Orbiting Jupiter."
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Orbiting Jupiter (19 MB)
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Lyrics
Orbiting Jupiter
with telescopic eyes
floating in the wonder of the weightless world
watching all the planets rise
Gazing through the asteroid belt
out beyond night and day
seeing with my own eyes
the cosmic ballet
Ganymede and Io rising
talk about a hallowed moon
I am drifting wide-eyed listening
to the static in the solar tune
There is comfort in starlight
in moonlight guiding my way home
I'm falling for midnight
for lovely worlds of ice and stone
My Thoughts; What Works; What Doesn't
Let me start by saying that I am madly in love with this song, and with this song for Starbuck, especially. It was incredibly difficult for me to cut it down (emotionally, not technically - technically it was the easiest), so I really had to focus on what the heck it was I wanted this to be about. And ultimately I'm not sure I'm happy with it.
I decided to pick an aspect of Starbuck I've been interested in but thought I wouldn't really be able to fill several minutes' of footage on, and that's Starbuck and Daddy Adama's relationship. That called, therefore, for a fairly specific set of episodes: the miniseries and the Act of Contrition/You Can't Go Home Again two-parter, in order to best focus for the limited amount of time. I wanted this to be about how Starbuck sees Adama and the way people react to him, and how she reacts to him herself, and in the end how she really wants and doesn't want to rely on his love (clearly, I need longer than a minute to get all of that across). He's a powerful force in all of their lives, and I think "orbiting Jupiter" is really the perfect way to describe it. I'm not entirely sure this was the best route to go - the song really screams for more flippy ships shots, and there's sort of an off feeling about that I can't place, but I think it's because the song is full of room and space and breathing, and the vid is set primarily inside; it's highest point is at "in moonlight guiding my way home" because that's where the visuals and the song marry the best. For the rest of the vid, I think it's just too internal. Although the shots of Starbuck running down the corridor work well, again, I think, because of the airier nature of those shots. Not that I dislike the vid, just that I think the subject is not being faithful to the sound of the song.
And in a way, I did that on purpose. I purposefully did not choose to vid space-related scenes for this song because I was trying to be different. I was going against type, for me, and selected something that matched metaphorically; it gets a little literal on a couple of shots, I admit, but for the most part the lyrics don't directly apply. There is an application, but you have to go a layer deeper. Generally. Something I learned? Ganymede and Io were both children of the River God who were taken by Zeus as lovers (one male, one female). So there you go - incest for free! Heh.
I actually have a different version of this vid with a single, 12-second clip on the "guiding my way home" portion that I really wrestled with. I loved how it looked and where it ended and thought it would be neat to have such a long clip, which I've never done, but the upswing in the music needed some sort of shift, and the whole point of the single shot was to not change it. I think I'll export the other version just for my own files anyway.
As for the effects in the vid, I'm 50/50 for the first Mirror effect, but I really like the second one on "drifting wide-eyed listening" because it feels like she's floating in water, which is appropriate for drifting. The third one, as the camera is pulling back on the scene, I would leave out in the future.
I'm really on the fence with this vid. It's not bad, but it's definitely not the vid I had in my head. This has been the most personally disappointing, because I feel like there is a fantastic vid waiting in this song, and I wasn't able to find it.
What I Learned
Not that much, honestly. Mostly I finally found where the Color wheel is (Color Corrector and Color Corrector 3-Way) and tried to figure out how that works. I'm still not completely sure everything it does, but I did get to apply it a bit on the shots of the Cylon Raider. I also used the Mirror effect, set to 0, -90, and 180, respectively.
For those of you who are just here for the vids - please right-click and 'Save Target As.' The file is DivX AVI.
Orbiting Jupiter (19 MB)
Please let me know if you're unable to play the vidlet.
Lyrics
Orbiting Jupiter
with telescopic eyes
floating in the wonder of the weightless world
watching all the planets rise
Gazing through the asteroid belt
out beyond night and day
seeing with my own eyes
the cosmic ballet
Ganymede and Io rising
talk about a hallowed moon
I am drifting wide-eyed listening
to the static in the solar tune
There is comfort in starlight
in moonlight guiding my way home
I'm falling for midnight
for lovely worlds of ice and stone
My Thoughts; What Works; What Doesn't
Let me start by saying that I am madly in love with this song, and with this song for Starbuck, especially. It was incredibly difficult for me to cut it down (emotionally, not technically - technically it was the easiest), so I really had to focus on what the heck it was I wanted this to be about. And ultimately I'm not sure I'm happy with it.
I decided to pick an aspect of Starbuck I've been interested in but thought I wouldn't really be able to fill several minutes' of footage on, and that's Starbuck and Daddy Adama's relationship. That called, therefore, for a fairly specific set of episodes: the miniseries and the Act of Contrition/You Can't Go Home Again two-parter, in order to best focus for the limited amount of time. I wanted this to be about how Starbuck sees Adama and the way people react to him, and how she reacts to him herself, and in the end how she really wants and doesn't want to rely on his love (clearly, I need longer than a minute to get all of that across). He's a powerful force in all of their lives, and I think "orbiting Jupiter" is really the perfect way to describe it. I'm not entirely sure this was the best route to go - the song really screams for more flippy ships shots, and there's sort of an off feeling about that I can't place, but I think it's because the song is full of room and space and breathing, and the vid is set primarily inside; it's highest point is at "in moonlight guiding my way home" because that's where the visuals and the song marry the best. For the rest of the vid, I think it's just too internal. Although the shots of Starbuck running down the corridor work well, again, I think, because of the airier nature of those shots. Not that I dislike the vid, just that I think the subject is not being faithful to the sound of the song.
And in a way, I did that on purpose. I purposefully did not choose to vid space-related scenes for this song because I was trying to be different. I was going against type, for me, and selected something that matched metaphorically; it gets a little literal on a couple of shots, I admit, but for the most part the lyrics don't directly apply. There is an application, but you have to go a layer deeper. Generally. Something I learned? Ganymede and Io were both children of the River God who were taken by Zeus as lovers (one male, one female). So there you go - incest for free! Heh.
I actually have a different version of this vid with a single, 12-second clip on the "guiding my way home" portion that I really wrestled with. I loved how it looked and where it ended and thought it would be neat to have such a long clip, which I've never done, but the upswing in the music needed some sort of shift, and the whole point of the single shot was to not change it. I think I'll export the other version just for my own files anyway.
As for the effects in the vid, I'm 50/50 for the first Mirror effect, but I really like the second one on "drifting wide-eyed listening" because it feels like she's floating in water, which is appropriate for drifting. The third one, as the camera is pulling back on the scene, I would leave out in the future.
I'm really on the fence with this vid. It's not bad, but it's definitely not the vid I had in my head. This has been the most personally disappointing, because I feel like there is a fantastic vid waiting in this song, and I wasn't able to find it.
What I Learned
Not that much, honestly. Mostly I finally found where the Color wheel is (Color Corrector and Color Corrector 3-Way) and tried to figure out how that works. I'm still not completely sure everything it does, but I did get to apply it a bit on the shots of the Cylon Raider. I also used the Mirror effect, set to 0, -90, and 180, respectively.