New Vid: Elemental (Merlin, Merlin/Arthur)
I just spent half a day trying to get this uploaded with my internet cap. OH MY GOD, I HATE HUGHES NET!! er, I mean. Enjoy.
Video Details
Title: Elemental
Song: "Stay" by Michelle Featherstone
Video Artist: Fabella (wistful-fever)
Summary: Merlin is of nature, Arthur of man. Enter conflict. Merlin, Arthur, Merlin/Arthur.
Fandom: Merlin (Series One)
Warning: Slash, M/M
Length: 3:21
Format: xvid/divx avi
Download Details
61.14mb @ megaupload
61.14mb @ mediafire
Watch On-Line @ youtube
Quality is directly related to size. If you have problems playing it, try the VLC Media Player. It's free, fast, and awesome.
Links Last Updated: 12/23/11
Vidding Notes:
I can't count the hours put into this. I don't think I really want to, because I think it gave me a gray hair. I'll just say it was a lengthy process and leave it there. I mentioned it once as this sort of too-involved-with-itself pretentious artsy video. AND I LOVE IT AS IT IS. The thing about Merlin, is that it is not a source all by itself. There is such a wealth of history to the legends, so many interpretations, that it's almost impossible not to tie that in with the canon they're giving us. And the most striking legend, to me, is that of Merlin as a man of the forest. That concept caught me. I knew I had to vid it. When it comes down to it, I made this video for the end clip, the money shot if you will. Merlin, as a tree. And maybe, maybe not (depending on your interpretation), Arthur is actually culpable, in a allowing it to come to pass kind of way, of entrapping Merlin in the tree. You can't touch a butterfly with your fingertips without risking its death. A fairly dark concept for me, of late.
This video incorporates a lot of outside source, which isn't something I've done too much of since Hemorrhage. There's far more of it here. I couldn't get enough of outside source with this one. I did manage to cut myself off when I felt I was distancing the audience from the heart of the story, but you never know how well that works until you get your reaction from the public.
Color work was fairly limited. I enhanced the greens and yellows, and added a brightening filter, but that was it.
What I did most, here, was matteing. Layering visuals. In a few places, there are as much as five different images/clips on top of one another. Some more noticeable than others. I'm usually more of a sparse, open-space type of editor than that, so five clips is quite the change for me. I'm really getting into using a graphics program with my video software. Hopefully that will lead somewhere interesting down the road.
I softened my cuts quite a bit with this video. The music seemed to call for a style more wistful than my usual hard cuts. It wanted transitions and fades, images streaming into one another. In the past, I've used soft cuts only once or twice in videos (well, in the videos I count anyways), and mostly to illustrate a point. Time passing, or the comparison of clips, the secret meaning behind one clip is the clip it transitions into so on and so forth. In this, the transitions are all about the feel, the mood, and the sound.
This *will* be my last Merlin video for a while. I have other projects to focus on, and to be honest, I think this video drained me dry creatively for these characters... at least until there is more source. Even if I want to make a video for this show, I'm not going to let myself! You heard it here first, folks! No more Merlin vids for me for a long time!... unless I really really have to. ;)
Credit:
Brushes: http://azurylipfesstock.deviantart.com/
Stock Footage: istockphoto.com
Other non-Merlin clips come from various documentaries, the majority from Planet In Peril.
Feedback is always appreciated.
Video Details
Title: Elemental
Song: "Stay" by Michelle Featherstone
Video Artist: Fabella (wistful-fever)
Summary: Merlin is of nature, Arthur of man. Enter conflict. Merlin, Arthur, Merlin/Arthur.
Fandom: Merlin (Series One)
Warning: Slash, M/M
Length: 3:21
Format: xvid/divx avi
Download Details
61.14mb @ megaupload
61.14mb @ mediafire
Watch On-Line @ youtube
Quality is directly related to size. If you have problems playing it, try the VLC Media Player. It's free, fast, and awesome.
Links Last Updated: 12/23/11
Vidding Notes:
I can't count the hours put into this. I don't think I really want to, because I think it gave me a gray hair. I'll just say it was a lengthy process and leave it there. I mentioned it once as this sort of too-involved-with-itself pretentious artsy video. AND I LOVE IT AS IT IS. The thing about Merlin, is that it is not a source all by itself. There is such a wealth of history to the legends, so many interpretations, that it's almost impossible not to tie that in with the canon they're giving us. And the most striking legend, to me, is that of Merlin as a man of the forest. That concept caught me. I knew I had to vid it. When it comes down to it, I made this video for the end clip, the money shot if you will. Merlin, as a tree. And maybe, maybe not (depending on your interpretation), Arthur is actually culpable, in a allowing it to come to pass kind of way, of entrapping Merlin in the tree. You can't touch a butterfly with your fingertips without risking its death. A fairly dark concept for me, of late.
This video incorporates a lot of outside source, which isn't something I've done too much of since Hemorrhage. There's far more of it here. I couldn't get enough of outside source with this one. I did manage to cut myself off when I felt I was distancing the audience from the heart of the story, but you never know how well that works until you get your reaction from the public.
Color work was fairly limited. I enhanced the greens and yellows, and added a brightening filter, but that was it.
What I did most, here, was matteing. Layering visuals. In a few places, there are as much as five different images/clips on top of one another. Some more noticeable than others. I'm usually more of a sparse, open-space type of editor than that, so five clips is quite the change for me. I'm really getting into using a graphics program with my video software. Hopefully that will lead somewhere interesting down the road.
I softened my cuts quite a bit with this video. The music seemed to call for a style more wistful than my usual hard cuts. It wanted transitions and fades, images streaming into one another. In the past, I've used soft cuts only once or twice in videos (well, in the videos I count anyways), and mostly to illustrate a point. Time passing, or the comparison of clips, the secret meaning behind one clip is the clip it transitions into so on and so forth. In this, the transitions are all about the feel, the mood, and the sound.
This *will* be my last Merlin video for a while. I have other projects to focus on, and to be honest, I think this video drained me dry creatively for these characters... at least until there is more source. Even if I want to make a video for this show, I'm not going to let myself! You heard it here first, folks! No more Merlin vids for me for a long time!... unless I really really have to. ;)
Credit:
Brushes: http://azurylipfesstock.deviantart.com/
Stock Footage: istockphoto.com
Other non-Merlin clips come from various documentaries, the majority from Planet In Peril.
Feedback is always appreciated.