VVC 08 Premiere Vid: BtVS

[aycheb]

Comments

[giandujakiss]

Oh my god. That was so incredibly powerful, and so beautifully put together. Just a brilliant take on slayerhood.

[aycheb]

Thank you so much and for reccing. It's been such a long time in the making, I got really nervous about it finally being ready to post.

[charmax]

Wow, just Wow. It's amazing how such a quiet song can support such an *epic* vid. The enormity of taking on the slayer mantle comes across so powerfully. I love your use of the first slayer and the way we see Buffy evolve from a scared kid to a strong woman and entwines that with all the other slayers.

Awesome! I will have to rewatch it many times.

[aycheb]

Thank you. That's so true about the song, I think Sinead is very much a less-is-more artist, when she's not belting it out there's so much more to play with. And Buffy as well, it's a very personal story but epic and politcal at the same time.

[crickets]

Wow, this was incredibly touching and so beautifully sums up the sacrifices of the slayer. What they must give up of themselves. Just... wow.. this one's gonna stay with me for a while. Thank you.

[aycheb]

Thank you for commenting! It's a wonderful feeling when someone gets what you're trying to say.

[aycheb]

Thank you! I'm so glad it worked for you - it was a daunting song to vid technically but the emotion seemed so right I had to try. It comes from the album of classic covers Sinead did a while back but it's quite different from most of the other songs on that album, none of the big band production style, very stripped down, almost folky.

[thingswithwings]

this was beautiful. I love that Tiptree/Sheldon story, and I think you've captured the essence of it here, with a more positive ending (but not ignoring the pain). You brought tears to my eyes! Such a gorgeous meditation on what it means to be a slayer, the losses, and the bonds that the slayers make for themselves, in spite of everything. Gorgeous.

[aycheb]

I read the story so long ago but the title has always stayed with me and I think I had already started making this vid when I had the idea of appropriating it as a tag line. On re-reading it still felt right, although I'd forgotten the details, that story has such a contrast between the present day horrors the woman finds herself in and the future full of sisterhood and connection which you're never quite sure is a dream until the end. It was very like what I wanted to say about the slayer mythology although being a different kind of story they could make the future real. Uh rambling now but thank you. Yes.