Fanvid: Crack the Sky

[maychorian]

Fandom: Supernatural
Title: Crack the Sky
Subject: Castiel
Summary: Ties that bind. Cracks that form.
Song: "Hey Man" by Burlap to Cashmere
Spoilers: Through 7.02
Length: 2.44, 89MB
Download: mediafire .mp4
Watch: YouTube

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I could write meta about Castiel and his story and what I'm trying to show in this video. I could write paragraphs and

Comments

[sockkiah]

D: I cried a bunch.

This is beautiful. Oh I love my Cas so much! So much.

[maychorian]

Me too. So much. Thanks for watching.

[winchesterlove2]

oh dear cass! i can't wait to see misha come back. i miss cass...hell i miss misha. this is fantastic dear!

[maychorian]

Thank you! I can't wait either. :)

[bellatemple]

Oh that is lovely.

I'm terribly jealous of those who can vid. Well done.

[maychorian]

It's more hard work than talent from me, I think. I can't do art, but I can find and trim clips and put them with music. I'm terribly jealous of those who can draw. :)

Thank you. I'm glad you liked it.

[bellatemple]

Bah, anyone who says that compiling, trimming, arranging, and timing visual images, moving or not, with an audio soundtrack isn't art is full of it. It's just a different kind of art than drawing.

One that requires equipment that I don't have access to and patience that I'm frequently lacking. Thus, jealooooous!

[maychorian]

It did take a looooottt of work to gather equipment, so to speak. A number of programs, a lot of research and practice. And reading websites about codecs to figure out why I only saw a blank screen and how to stretch squished clips and on and on. :D As I keep making them, though, they do get easier. This is my seventh fanvid and definitely the best so far. I've got a handle on my current program, now. If only it worked the way it was supposed to 100% of the time, I'd be golden!

And patience, yes. I made myself thoroughly sick of this song in going over and over it many many times.

[cmdc]

Gorgeous vid. I just love the way the end of the song coincides with cas sinking into the water for the last time (I got a bit misty), and how the refrain of "join us" is so central to Castiel's character arc. Much love.

[maychorian]

Thank you! That was very much what made want to vid this song, how it is all about coming together and breaking apart. ::sniff:: I got misty at certain points while making it.

[i_speak_tongue]

This was fabulous. I find my musical taste rarely converges with that of fanvidders, so I'm always SUUPER excited to find a well made vid with music I like. I really like this song! Might even look these guys up. And I love how you play on the lyrics, of Joining a band, and then the band breaking up. And I ALSO love how this is about the boys too, and how they invite him into the fold and make him feel accepted, and Cas's reaction to that, among other things

♥

[maychorian]

Ah yes, I do find that many vids tend toward the poppy end of the spectrum, which is not my favorite. And so when I hear a beautiful folk-rock song like this, I really want to make something with it. That's why I make fanmixes, too. :)

There's another song on this album that I want to turn into a vid, but that one is more fast-paced and intense and will be a bit more difficult, and the concept I have for it is a bit more abstract. We'll see. I really love Burlap to Cashmere and I recommend checking them out, for sure.

The boys are very important to why I like Castiel and his story. I just love the three of them coming together and working together, and I'll never get tired of teamy fanworks with the three of them.