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etrangere

That vid I did I was talking about

Jan 05, 2009 18:55

So yeah, I did an X AMV.

Title: Back in Bethlehem
Fandom: X
Music: Muhammad My Friend by Tori Amos
Summary: It's time to tell the world we both know it was a girl back in Bethlehem.
Download: Back in Bethlehem (50 Mo avi file, archived in rar)
Thanks: To ngblog for betaing.

@Imeem

Back in Bethlehem - Etrangere

( Lyrics )

fanwork: fanvid, a: clamp, series: x, vidding

Comments 27

keelieinblack January 5 2009, 18:02:15 UTC

Lots of vidders seem to be using Imeem these days as an alternative to Youtube, though I'm not sure if you'd want to sign up for an account just to upload one vid.

I can't watch this until I get home from work, but I'm eager to see it. And you should get congratulations for finishing it in the first place--vidding is hard.

etrangere January 5 2009, 18:13:22 UTC

*nods* I noticed about Imeem, but whenever I try using it to watch stuff, it never works for me (for whatever reason) or is way slow; so I'm prejudiced against it, but I'll probably try it anyway.

And you should get congratulations for finishing it in the first place--vidding is hard.
Heeh. Thank you. I think it's very lengthy, methodical and technical and requires a lot of patience, but I don't think it's difficult a such (I'm not sure I make sense, but it's much more difficult if you try to do something complicated and more sophisticated than the simple stuff I did). It's funny, I think at the point I was at, emotionally, I found it much easier to do than writing. Because the technical process allow you to distract yourself from the soulbaring part, so it's only now that I'm feeling all upset and anxious.

etrangere January 6 2009, 11:44:59 UTC

and the second attempt at uploading to imeem was a success, yay! Thanks for the suggestion :)

cryptoxin January 6 2009, 00:37:39 UTC

Congratulations on your first vid! I liked the song choice, and how evocative it made the images. My favorite part was where the edits started coming faster towards the end, around the 2:50 mark, mixed in with longer clips -- it had a nice rhythm & build-up which fit well with the music.

etrangere January 6 2009, 00:41:12 UTC

OMG feedback! Thank you so much ♥

sakanagi January 6 2009, 00:46:31 UTC

I liked the AMV. I'm not expert about those things, but it seemed good. :) I liked the bits with Kotori especially, and the beginning.

etrangere January 6 2009, 00:54:27 UTC

Thank you for saying so. I don't think you need to be an expert to appreciate fanvids ^^

I always liked Kotori a great deal yet never had any occasion to explore her in fic form so I'm glad I had this one. :D

luminaire January 6 2009, 01:02:26 UTC

Dude, this was good for a first try at vidding. I would never have associated this song by itself to X, but the clips you chose synced up well with the lyrics and it did just fit.

I really liked the beginning, and I liked how you focused on Hokuto, Kotori, and Karen each in turn.

*thumbs up*

etrangere January 6 2009, 01:10:07 UTC

Thank you :D

Hehe, it's a song I always associated with Karen from wayyy back. Then I had a WIP songfic with Karen/Hokuto for years until I lost it in a computer breakage.

mithrigil January 6 2009, 13:57:04 UTC

Wow, that's powerful as a commentary on the treatment of women in X--and in X fandom, where they are more or less neglected and overshadowed....

Fabulous editing, by the way, would not have guessed it to be a first vid!

etrangere January 6 2009, 15:54:58 UTC

Thank you so much!! I'm so happy you liked it. Hehe, it's a couple of discussions about WiR and how it related to TB/X at the root of this vid, I think I wanted to be both critical and celebratory at the same time; and yeah, the fandom, also it's not specific to X at all.