Damn. It's 3am and I was gonna watch this vid, go to bed, and rewatch it tomorrow when I'm more coherent and then give feedback, but (rather stupidly) I underestimated your power of emotional storytelling even for fandoms I don't know, and I feel an acute need to write some stuff now, mostly along the lines of
...guhh. That's one impressive vid. Beautiful song and haunting clips. I love your use of beats in this one: it's obviously very strong in the music and you utilised it beautifully in the editing.
The image at 0:32 is extremely evocative. I usually don't like negative filters, but I felt that this was a prime example of how to do it right and really get a bang out of video effects. Love the mouse motif you've got going on, and the various filters you used on it. 0:49 is lovely.
0:36 I especially liked, the movement was gorgeous; same with the brief shot of him jumping forward at 0:47. The window sequence starting at 1:00 is beautiful - such poignancy coming through when married to the music that way. Definitely one of the high points for me.
I love how the clip at 1:45 sets the mood, it was very nifty. I really like the way you take your time with things like that, mixing up your standard face/body/reaction/action shots with symbols and snapshots of interesting significance.
"I go quietly" has some wonderful juxtaposition with clip choice, and really brought the vid to a climax.
I wish I could write some stuff on theme and characterisation, etc, it's inevitable I'm missin' out on whole chunks of texture by not knowing the fandom at all, which is a shame as usually your insights are so worth exploring. Le sigh. I'll check out the IM starter kit tomorrow.
Wonderful vid!
(I hope the FTP problems aren't coming from my end. If you have persistent trouble give me a yell.)
Feedback from you ALWAYS makes me happy. I was going to go take a shower, but I think I'll just sit here and re-read it for a little while. :)
I'm glad you were able to catch some of the meaning w/out knowing the original source. It's great source. I haven't watched your vids yet (see? pain for me. I need to set aside some time to catch up on vids I want to see), but knowing your a vidder, you'd definitely love this show. A lot of the effects you speak of liking in this video *came* from the source. I just took advantage of it, and played it off the beat. :)
And nah, I think it's me with the FTP---I have an outdated version of SmartFTP, and it keeps telling me to upgrade. ::kicks it::
Hah. Don't let me get in the way of cleanliness! ;)
Damn - That's the thing with not knowing the fandom - you can't be sure where canon ends and the vidder begins. Boy, I feel sheepish. But I am still very impressed by the way you managed to use these clips to maximise their potential. I'm definitely going to check it out as soon as I can.
Oh, don't feel sheepish. I thought the same thing when I first saw Sisabet's Weeping Willow. The show is just pretty, with nice camera work/angles/motion, not just the standard shots, and it makes it a lot of fun to vid. I mean, I probably won't be getting a bucketload of feedback for I-Man vids, but it's so interesting to vid that I just don't even care. I love vidding it that much.
...guhh. That's one impressive vid. Beautiful song and haunting clips. I love your use of beats in this one: it's obviously very strong in the music and you utilised it beautifully in the editing.
The image at 0:32 is extremely evocative. I usually don't like negative filters, but I felt that this was a prime example of how to do it right and really get a bang out of video effects. Love the mouse motif you've got going on, and the various filters you used on it. 0:49 is lovely.
0:36 I especially liked, the movement was gorgeous; same with the brief shot of him jumping forward at 0:47. The window sequence starting at 1:00 is beautiful - such poignancy coming through when married to the music that way. Definitely one of the high points for me.
I love how the clip at 1:45 sets the mood, it was very nifty. I really like the way you take your time with things like that, mixing up your standard face/body/reaction/action shots with symbols and snapshots of interesting significance.
"I go quietly" has some wonderful juxtaposition with clip choice, and really brought the vid to a climax.
I wish I could write some stuff on theme and characterisation, etc, it's inevitable I'm missin' out on whole chunks of texture by not knowing the fandom at all, which is a shame as usually your insights are so worth exploring. Le sigh. I'll check out the IM starter kit tomorrow.
Wonderful vid!
(I hope the FTP problems aren't coming from my end. If you have persistent trouble give me a yell.)
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I'm glad you were able to catch some of the meaning w/out knowing the original source. It's great source. I haven't watched your vids yet (see? pain for me. I need to set aside some time to catch up on vids I want to see), but knowing your a vidder, you'd definitely love this show. A lot of the effects you speak of liking in this video *came* from the source. I just took advantage of it, and played it off the beat. :)
And nah, I think it's me with the FTP---I have an outdated version of SmartFTP, and it keeps telling me to upgrade. ::kicks it::
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Damn - That's the thing with not knowing the fandom - you can't be sure where canon ends and the vidder begins. Boy, I feel sheepish. But I am still very impressed by the way you managed to use these clips to maximise their potential. I'm definitely going to check it out as soon as I can.
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/pimp
I'm done, I swear. *zips mouth*
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