Con.TXT Premiere: Soul Meets Body
Soul Meets Body (0 words) by seekingferret
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Soul (2020)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: 22 & Joe Gardner (Soul 2020)
Additional Tags: Fanvids
Summary:
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
Third in my series of vids of the Hugo Finalists for Best Dramatic Presentation Long Form, this premiered at CON.TXT last night. This was a quick make and a largely intuitive vid that I'm struggling to put words to. I think I'm uncomfortable theologically with the vision of souls as communicated in the movie and adapted in the vid, but I'm not uncomfortable with the metaphorical storytelling that this imagining of souls enables. The idea that life is our opportunity to work on our souls until they reach the point where they are ready to go to what happens beyond, but also that readiness is measured on an invisible scale known only to us, and has nothing to do with external measurements of our accomplishments, is a lovely and deep and complicated one that I enjoyed sitting with.
My favorite bit of editing in this vid is the epiphany where 22 watches Connie playing trombone and remembering why she enjoys it. I had a very specific slot in the song to fit it in and adjusting the timing of each clip to create that precise dawning sense of discovery was an extremely challenging tightrope to walk. I also think it's at the heart of what the vid is about, the movie's ideas about how the world is a place for discovering the numinous! I also really enjoyed playing visually with the scenes in the spirit world, the animation is so beautiful that I think I just chose to work with it aesthetically rather than fretting the theology.
I got some nice feedback in con.txt chat about the song selection. This is from a beautiful album by Renee Fleming of song covers, where she turns down her powerhouse voice to a manageable level and delivers these incredibly precise, specific renderings of pop and indie pop songs. I know I've talked to
starlady about the album a bit, she feels that because Fleming is so technically perfect some of the emotion of the original can be lacking, but I'm not sure I agree, and anyway I found the technical precision made vidding a delight- there are subtle but significant differences in each chorus that really help trace a narrative through the song, for example. This entry was originally posted at https://seekingferret.dreamwidth.org/381466.html. Please comment there using OpenID. There are
comments.
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Soul (2020)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: 22 & Joe Gardner (Soul 2020)
Additional Tags: Fanvids
Summary:
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
Third in my series of vids of the Hugo Finalists for Best Dramatic Presentation Long Form, this premiered at CON.TXT last night. This was a quick make and a largely intuitive vid that I'm struggling to put words to. I think I'm uncomfortable theologically with the vision of souls as communicated in the movie and adapted in the vid, but I'm not uncomfortable with the metaphorical storytelling that this imagining of souls enables. The idea that life is our opportunity to work on our souls until they reach the point where they are ready to go to what happens beyond, but also that readiness is measured on an invisible scale known only to us, and has nothing to do with external measurements of our accomplishments, is a lovely and deep and complicated one that I enjoyed sitting with.
My favorite bit of editing in this vid is the epiphany where 22 watches Connie playing trombone and remembering why she enjoys it. I had a very specific slot in the song to fit it in and adjusting the timing of each clip to create that precise dawning sense of discovery was an extremely challenging tightrope to walk. I also think it's at the heart of what the vid is about, the movie's ideas about how the world is a place for discovering the numinous! I also really enjoyed playing visually with the scenes in the spirit world, the animation is so beautiful that I think I just chose to work with it aesthetically rather than fretting the theology.
I got some nice feedback in con.txt chat about the song selection. This is from a beautiful album by Renee Fleming of song covers, where she turns down her powerhouse voice to a manageable level and delivers these incredibly precise, specific renderings of pop and indie pop songs. I know I've talked to
starlady about the album a bit, she feels that because Fleming is so technically perfect some of the emotion of the original can be lacking, but I'm not sure I agree, and anyway I found the technical precision made vidding a delight- there are subtle but significant differences in each chorus that really help trace a narrative through the song, for example. This entry was originally posted at https://seekingferret.dreamwidth.org/381466.html. Please comment there using OpenID. There are
comments.