That vid I did I was talking about

[etrangere]

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

Comments

Sweet

[michel_islor]

Tender and impressive indeed for a first!!

Congratulations!

I don't dare imagine how much time you've spent
on it <80)

A bit surprised by some stuff (double opening...)
and by the thoughts generated by this vid (by the
song and its association with / and the alternance
of these particular women)

Re: Sweet

[etrangere]

Thank you!

Yeah vidding does take a lot of time lol I didn't take count, but between the ripping and selectionning clips and then the actual process of making the vides, and then of coding it for distribution, it's kind of funny :D

A bit surprised by some stuff (double opening...)
and by the thoughts generated by this vid (by the
song and its association with / and the alternance
of these particular women)
What do you mean?

Re: Sweet

[michel_islor]

Double opening through the feather and then
the door... Details but I was just wondering
about little things like that.
My spirit likes wandering a lot I guess <80)

Tori's song link with the characters is still
echoing that's for sure. I was especially
surprised to see Kotori here though. I tend
not to consider her in the same group: not
the same state of mind... Of course, she
fits with the sweetness and love images yet.

Re: Sweet

[etrangere]

Double opening through the feather and then
the door...
Haha, yeah, I was following the music so I needed something to fill this large blank.

I was especially
surprised to see Kotori here though.
I agree that Kotori is a very different person from Hokuto and Karen in terms of personnality. However from a narrative point of view, she's put in almost as much the same position as Hokuto (sacrificing herself to try to prevent her brother to kill her childhood friend/crush) That's why I had to put her there, since I wanted to talk about the female characters in X who die in sacrifice, with agency, for what they hold dear.

[umadoshi]

That was really interesting--I love both Tori and X, and would never have thought to juxtapose the series with that particular song. ^^

[etrangere]

hehe, I love Tori Amos and tend to associate with wayyy too many thing (I made an all Tori Amos Utena FST after all >_>;), but I hope in this case it worked somehow. It's a song I associated with Karen for the longest time, then it became about Karen/Hokuto, then about Kotori, and Tohru, Tokiko and Saya, and BAM I had to do a fanvid.

[umadoshi]

I find I associate her very, very strongly with the Fruits Basket characters I fic about most often, but not with much else. (Except some Utena things, which is part of why I was so taken with your FST.) I'm always interested to see what my favorite singers make other people think of, though!

Anyway, I've now wandered off and recced your vid. ^^ Perhaps some of my f-list will drop by.

[etrangere]

Ooooh Furuba, that's interesting. Now I'll definitely have to look at your fics (once I'll be done with the hundreds of fics I need to read, argh)

Thank you so much for the recs :D

[wingblossom]

This is an excellent vid.

I wouldn't have expected the song to work half as well as it did, but it you really pulled it off. All the different story threads segue in so nicely, and the lyrics echo that repetition. I especially like the ripples and the shot of birds flying on the first bit of "sweet, sweet, used to be so sweet to me."

[etrangere]

Thank you so much; I'm so happy you liked it. The seagull were one of my favourite bits too (and the ripples lol).

[a_white_rain]

I'm not good at reading vids, as it were, but I really liked this one. Especially the bits that focused on Karen and Kotori.

[etrangere]

Thanks for watching! And I'm glad you liked it :D