Vid: Enemy at the Door Trailer

[lost_spook]

The commentfest continues! And talking of obscure and British things...

As threatened, a 'trailer' of sorts for ITV's 1978-80 WWII drama, Enemy at the Door. I made this as an experiment, because I thought I'd solved my issues with sound-editing on my vidding software. Guess what? I haven't, so this is not entirely a success - there are some

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[sallymn]

Oh that's good! (I wish I could do them... but what the hell, I need to concentrate on writing). The occupation of the islands was always a fascinatingly dark little spot in history...

And Nimrod (I have to say I see the sound problem, it got a tad loud over the dialogue at the end, but not to bad). Nimrod was one of the works I voted for in the swoon...

[lost_spook]

Thank you! :-D

Yes, I couldn't alter the sound levels - I think it's a fault in the software because it's rather old now & things wouldn't register. It could still be me, but I'm fairly sure at this point it isn't. It's actually the fact that the music is inaudible at the start and all the weird hitches that was the bigger problem, because at least Alfred Burke was pretty good at talking over the climax of the music. But, yeah. Until I get some new software someday, best to keep any voice/music stuff to a minimum!

[sallymn]

At least your choice of music made me very happy :) I once claimed (in one of those frivolous mailing list threads where people were suggesting characters' theme music) that 'Nimrod' was Blake and Avon's theme... okay, interspersed with <'Let's Call the Whole Thing Off' :)

[a_phoenixdragon]

*HUGS*

[lycomingst]

Very good and intriguing. Gosh, ASH is a boy.

[lost_spook]

Thank you! ♥

I believe it was ASH's first TV role, though despite how young he obviously is, you really wouldn't know it from his performance. (Probably not-so-coincidentally, his Mum Helen Shingler is a regular in the series!)

[liadtbunny]

I see what you mean about the sound it was crunchy in parts. An effective trailer - it's war, people die, no party hats.

[lost_spook]

Thank you! And, honest, there are a few happy things. Er. One or two, really! ;-) (But not in the trailer.)

Yes, crunchy sound = v annoying, and it wasn't like that until the last couple of edits, so I'd finally got it into shape and then it was doing that at me. Ah, well. At least it's all fine if I stick to music!

[executrix]

Smashing job! I do hope people will watch this, if only to show that Blake was not the single least effective resistance leader ever. (Srsly, you captured that it's a show about very real moral issues that don't have a simple answers.) And Henry VII as a Nazi, I forgot him!

[lost_spook]

Srsly, you captured that it's a show about very real moral issues that don't have a simple answers.

Oh, thank you!! Because that was exactly what I wanted to do. I don't know if it'll persuade anyone else, because the sound went a bit up the creek, but still... I try!

And, LOL, old British TV is just full of people failing and mostly being stoic about it. I find it oddly reassuring somehow. Yes, everything is terrible and we failed again, but that's just life. Have a cup of tea. ;-)

And Henry VII as a Nazi, I forgot him!

Ahaha. Sorry. It's just that this was my last vid. I am a strange person and, though I find this hard to remember now, I actually only watched EatD in the first place because I was trying (and mostly failing) to get my hands on some more James Maxwell after really liking him in Shadow of the Tower and somebody sent that to me. I nearly turned it down because it sounded too depressing, but changed my mind, thankfully. (Also, I asked the internet if he was alive or dead and it answered back: he's a ghost

[executrix]

Lovely vid! I hadn't seen it because I seem to not have you friended--OK if I remedy the omission? After I saw Shadow of the Tower I put Portrait of a Lady on my Netflix queue, it took ages to get there so I still haven't seen it yet.

I think, on balance, the VERY worst resistance movement must be Wish Me Luck, they constituted an entire Third Front for the Axis by getting the entire French resistance killed. The true British touch was the episode where the retreating Germans wiped out the SOE and their French allies just before the Americans arrived.

[lost_spook]

Lovely vid! I hadn't seen it because I seem to not have you friended--OK if I remedy the omission?

Thank you, on both counts, & of course. I'll go friend you now. :-)

I have mixed feelings about Portrait of a Lady, but James Maxwell does pull off even more epic hand-holding than in SotT, so that was quite something. Also there was Richard Chamberlain, obviously. (I just prefer actors I like not to be playing awful characters who are way too interested in choosing their 17 year old daughter's dresses, really.) In the unlikely event you ever want a list of things to watch (or not watch) with James Maxwell, I am right there, heh.

I think, on balance, the VERY worst resistance movement must be Wish Me Luck,

The thing with Wish Me Luck is that it is supposed to be based on the memoirs of one real agent (S1 & 2) and on a particular real operation (S3, hence the condemnatory speech at the end), so presumably the real Resistance was that useless, or at least the parts where they had help from the British! (It's life, see.