The Test by heresluck, commentary by killabeez

[killabeez]

Title: The Test
Vidder: heresluck
Fandom: Star Trek: Reboot/TOS
Link to vid: here
Commentary by: killabeez

I played around with doing a voiceover commentary (slightly less wordy than this one), but honestly I was too embarrassed by the sound of my own voice. Those things are challenging!

Comments

[suechosethis]

Super commentary here - I soaked it all up and then went to see the vid - I will most definitely be saving this one for repeated viewings.
Thank you so much for your thorough and insightful commentary, I enjoyed reading it and the vid itself totally lives up to it!

[killabeez]

Thank you, I really appreciate you reading it and taking the time to comment! I know it was long. *g*

[trinity_clare]

This is possibly my favorite vid in the whole world, so it pretty much made my day to see you'd done a commentary for it. :D

[killabeez]

Thank you so much for reading it! I may have gotten a bit carried away.

This is possibly my favorite vid in the whole world

You have good taste. *g*

[laurashapiro]

This is just splendid. I am a big fan of the vid itself, and your commentary really explains why it works so well for me. I particularly like the level of detail here, how closely you have paid attention to what the vidder is doing. Now I can see all those details too, and it's a gift to me, to be able to enjoy the vid so much more richly.

I am already madly in love with you, but if I weren't, this sentence would have made me starry-eyed: And of course, Kirk's smack to Spock's arm on the beat, and the phaser flashes with the drums at 02:23 are just good, responsible vidding. *g*

::fangirls you::

::fangirls heresluck::

[killabeez]

*snuggles you lots n lots*

Thank you, sweetpea. For everything! And especially for sharing the love of this magnificent vid (and its vidder) with me. :D

[laurashapiro]

Mmm, snuggles! ::glomps:: We must make these real at VVC, yes?

[killabeez]

Aw, I wish! I'm not coming this year. Next year?

[heresluck]

Oh, honey. I know you made this for the community and not as a special present just for me, but I love it so much that it feels like it is a special present just for me. I hope you know how much your good opinion means to me, especially but not exclusively when it comes to Trek, and reading your explication of why and how the vid is successful for you -- emotionally as well as aesthetically -- has made me more happy than you can know.

The movie said nothing about whether Kirk revealed anything to Spock Prime in the meld, but the vidder suggests the idea that maybe he did.

I love you so much for seeing those little visual details and for GETTING what I was after there. ♥

"I'm shining" is the line I will always remember first about this vid

ME TOO. :D The two clips of Kirk jumping were among the very first clips I had in mind when I started the vid, and I always knew they were going on that line.

Particularly, the clip where the camera shakes at 02:43 - their world is shaken by their connection.Yeah. Because Spock may be an

[killabeez]

I know you made this for the community and not as a special present just for me

Can't it be both? ;)

Don't know if you saw what I used for the cut tag for this: "Kirk loves Spock: second 'Verse, same as the first." ♥

I'm so glad to know you did edit the song. I was half expecting you to say, oh, no, I found this shorter version blah blah -- but it seemed to be so perfectly constructed, I just had a feeling. :)

[heresluck]

Can't it be both?

OH I GUESS. :D

I did see the cut tag. It made me smile and smile.

The song was pretty easy to edit sound-wise because it's so electronic; the tricky thing was I needed to kind of reshape it because there's a lot at the beginning that I didn't need, which is always harder than just cutting out repetitions of the chorus at the end. I had to cut something like 20 seconds of those pipes at the beginning, and then the whole "am I coming through?" sequence that follows the "can you hear me now?" I actually ended up having to cut the "to find that the images are fading away" line because it was part of that first "you know I always lost my mind" section that was cluttering up my vid structure. I lost a really awesome WHOOSH sound in that section, too. Alas. And then the "my heart and my soul they are free" section that's... maybe around the five minute mark in the original? And more pipes stuff at the end. I love the Chemical Brothers, but concision is, uh, not one of their virtues. Hee.

[thuviaptarth]

I like this a lot, especially the discussions of the music.

[killabeez]

Thank you for reading it!