New Vid: Flickers

[lolachrome]

New Vid: Flickers
Fandoms/sources: Veronica Mars, Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars, Revenge
Description: Girls + technology = ? "And with my opened mouth, I join the singing lights."
Thanks to rhiannonhero, mresundance, coffeejunkii, and outlawradio for your thoughtful feedback.
Music: Son Lux "Flickers"

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Comments

[rhiannonhero]

Hooray!!! I'm proud of it and of you!

[lolachrome]

Thank you, Hun! Seriously, for everything. <3

[kiki_miserychic]

This is so interesting and involving. The interplay with the clips are very well timed. It's very layered and rich. I feel like I'm not even understanding everything because I haven't watched all those shows. It makes me want to finish watching Revenge. I like the use of text in the beginning to set it up. It's so creepy, yet not that strange. It's strange to see so much technology in a vid. I usually don't notice, but wow, there really is a lot with so many devices and them all playing parts in the storylines.

[lolachrome]

Thank you!! I don't know if I can totally and wholeheartedly recommend Revenge, but honestly you might enjoy its crazy ride. I put up with it because it has its high moments and wonderful characters, but it's a bit of a mess.

But I'm so glad you enjoyed this vid, and liked the use of text in it! I hesitated before using so much text sporadically throughout, but I'm glad I went for it now.

And yes, soo much tech in these shows once you start collecting it together! So very many girls with cell phones/laptops/you name it! I could have gone on and on, filled a twenty minute song :) Probably good I didn't let it go that far, though :D

[profshallowness]

This was a really interesting, powerful and thought-provoking vid. I'm familiar with Veronica Mars and Revenge, but not the other two fandoms, however, the various iterations of surveillence and how the familiar idea of girls/women being watched is complicated, even subverted by their agency and use of the same tools in these various stories (eg one about a group of friends, some about pairs of friends and one about a young woman who we see as a girl) was so rich. Loved the push-pull of strength-vulnerability here on an emotional level and a thinky one.

[lolachrome]

Belatedly (and I'm sorry I missed this comment earlier!) thank you for such a thoughtful comment! I love how you summarize the idea here--iterations of surveillance, that's such a terrific turn of phrase for it! And yes, I was trying to get exactly at that tension, that push-pull of strength-vulnerability. Again, beautifully put! Comment much appreciated :)

[jedinic]

This is incredibly powerful. (And you just introduced me to a song I need to go buy.)

[lolachrome]

Aww, look at your Veronica Mars icon! Sigh, they look so young there.

I'm thrilled that you found this vid effective. And yes, Son Lux is wonderful and I can't recommend his work enough!