Gods and Monsters Vid - Hammer Horror
Fandom - Gods and Monsters
Vidders - Magpie, whom I think (THINK!) may be omphalos
Song - "Hammer Horror" by Kate Bush
Download & Feedback - Here is where the vid once was. :( I painfully downloaded this vid many moons ago via dial-up and have not been able to find it available anywhere since.
Important Notes - The embedded version I have shared here was uploaded to YouTube by me, not the original vidder. This particular version of the vid is small (dial-up!) and has survived two computers and a few anxious data saves due to viruses and reformatting of hard drives. It may be grainy, but it is precious to me and...this was the only way I knew of to share it.
I don't think that I'm truly objective about this vid. There is no way I can be.
This vid is what made me fall in love with Vidding.
At the time I downloaded this vid I was fairly heavily involved in a number of fandoms, both as a consumer and producer of original fan-based content. I read, I wrote, I played with images and scanned more things into the internet than I care to remember, but (due to my slow connection) I never really allowed myself to develop anything but the most casual interest in vidding (or fan-soundtracks for that matter).
But one day I downloaded a handful of vids. I don't remember what any of the other ones were, but...dear God...I also downloaded this one.
I was already fond of the source material. Gods and Monsters is one of the few places Brendan Frasier has ever actually shown his acting chops, and Sir Ian is...well...I wouldn't toss him out of bed for eating crackers. I loved the movie. Owned the movie. Watched it not too infrequently.
This vid made me feel like a fucking idiot. It made me feel as if I'd never really seen the movie at all. It unfolded layers and layers of meaning in a way that made it seem so bloody fucking obvious that an infant could have understood the correlations and patterns of the story. Everything was so much clearer in retrospect, so much more carefully constructed and beautiful.
My love of the source material increased thanks to this vid.
My love of vidding as a fan-created art form began because of this vid.
I hadn't really seen the possibility of vidding as a form of visual meta until I, on a whim, suffered agonies of slowness to download this vid.
If I ever lose this fragile, low-quality copy I will cry buckets.
Vidders - Magpie, whom I think (THINK!) may be omphalos
Song - "Hammer Horror" by Kate Bush
Download & Feedback - Here is where the vid once was. :( I painfully downloaded this vid many moons ago via dial-up and have not been able to find it available anywhere since.
Important Notes - The embedded version I have shared here was uploaded to YouTube by me, not the original vidder. This particular version of the vid is small (dial-up!) and has survived two computers and a few anxious data saves due to viruses and reformatting of hard drives. It may be grainy, but it is precious to me and...this was the only way I knew of to share it.
I don't think that I'm truly objective about this vid. There is no way I can be.
This vid is what made me fall in love with Vidding.
At the time I downloaded this vid I was fairly heavily involved in a number of fandoms, both as a consumer and producer of original fan-based content. I read, I wrote, I played with images and scanned more things into the internet than I care to remember, but (due to my slow connection) I never really allowed myself to develop anything but the most casual interest in vidding (or fan-soundtracks for that matter).
But one day I downloaded a handful of vids. I don't remember what any of the other ones were, but...dear God...I also downloaded this one.
I was already fond of the source material. Gods and Monsters is one of the few places Brendan Frasier has ever actually shown his acting chops, and Sir Ian is...well...I wouldn't toss him out of bed for eating crackers. I loved the movie. Owned the movie. Watched it not too infrequently.
This vid made me feel like a fucking idiot. It made me feel as if I'd never really seen the movie at all. It unfolded layers and layers of meaning in a way that made it seem so bloody fucking obvious that an infant could have understood the correlations and patterns of the story. Everything was so much clearer in retrospect, so much more carefully constructed and beautiful.
My love of the source material increased thanks to this vid.
My love of vidding as a fan-created art form began because of this vid.
I hadn't really seen the possibility of vidding as a form of visual meta until I, on a whim, suffered agonies of slowness to download this vid.
If I ever lose this fragile, low-quality copy I will cry buckets.