Vid: Public Eye - All These Things

[lost_spook]

Anyway, as you'll have noticed, I've been trying to explain Public Eye since last November and failing. Now I've made a vid and that's the best explanation I have, and I'm happy at last:

All These Things
A Public Eye tribute.
(Length: 4.59 minutes)
"You've lived to be old... It's not a question of years, it's a question of seeing." Frank Marker

Comments

[clocketpatch]

This vid is so brilliant! Even with only seeing the one episode + your talking about the show, I could figure out a lot of things that were happening and got lots of feels. I love the way you interspersed colour with b&w, angst with joy, and all those great little life moments, and the ending with Frank just walking along the boardwalk.

It's just lovely and I can't think of a more perfect advertisement for the show, because I vaguely wanted to watch it before to know what all the fuss was about, but now I REALLY want to watch it, and am also sad because it doesn't all exist.

[lost_spook]

Aw, thank you! It was so good to find this comment waiting yesterday morning! When I'd finished the vid, I felt (rightly or wrongly), that it was just so much better than anything else I'd done, and really worked - but what I didn't know was what it would look like to someone who didn't know the show. I'd tried to think about that when making it & tried to make sure most clips that were of people showed clear emotion + helped by the lyrics, but I did worry it would just look like random clips of all these different people

[elviaprose]

What a beautiful vid! Even not knowing the show, it's wonderful to watch, and your love for these characters comes through so clearly. Stunning work!

[lost_spook]

Aw, thank you so much, and thanks for taking the time to watch! ♥

[swordznsorcery]

This is really good! Excellent editing, and I'm glad you went ahead with your original choice of song. It does get used a lot, but if it's right, it's right; and from everything that you've said about Marker, it seems like a perfect choice.

I see that you snuck your broom clip in there! Nice contrast to the violence that came later. It looked oddly like Mrs Mortimer punching Frank towards the end, but I suppose it must have been somebody else with similar hair?

Nice work.

[lost_spook]

Thank you! And I should partly blame (or thank you?) for bringing it back to mind yet again with your fanmix. ;-)

There was not much danger of me not including the broom or the tangoing. And, heh, no, it's not Mrs Mortimer. Pauline Delany is in that sequence, but as Mrs Jessop at the start of it. Mrs Mortimer never hits anyone, not that we see, anyway!

[oonaseckar]

I know less than nothing of vidding (my usual disclaimer) so really all I can give is impressions: of the velocity of life for Frank, of endurance by him, buffeted along, of the little bit of warmth he gets out of it! (And how he doesn't really expect much more.) Of the agency he exerts where he can, the participation he insists on, when he could just throw up his hands and abdicate responsibility. (Getting his two penn'orth in, getting his point across.)

Enduring impressions, the mug, the rose, and Mrs Mortimer smiling: maybe the same for Frank? (Oh, and Frank getting duffed up a lot, and seeming pretty resigned to it...)

[lost_spook]

Aw, thank you! :-)

The velocity is just me being misleading. If I did a more accurate show tribute, at least two minutes would be spent purely on tea/coffee-making, drinking said tea/coffee, and Frank cleaning the office/mending things and standing about on street corners.

Enduring impressions, the mug, the rose, and Mrs Mortimer smiling

♥ (I must be a sentimentalist at heart...)

[liadtbunny]

Very professional looking, well done! I like how you synched the guitar ins with the wobbly kitchen wall cam and Frank not being a soldier (ie getting beaten up). The use of colour was good. I thought it was all going to be b/w and then wham! blue car!

The lyrics sound like they fit right too.

[lost_spook]

Thank you! Thanks for watching. :-)

As I said above, though, I thought about the issue of mixing b&w with colour a lot before I started... and then as soon as I got going simply ceased to see it and wouldn't have known the car was the first colour clip. (I thought about the other clips a lot, but something in my brain ceased to bother with noticing the differences between colour & not.)

[liadtbunny]

Your unconscious brain is a very clever thing. Students and grey beards would write great meaning into the colour car in essays.

[lost_spook]

I mean, I did at one point think about the first colour clip, but I think that was before the car clip was in there, so...

But of course it is all just my unconscious being clever, let me take all the credit and be smug. ;-p