new vid - "Shake it Out" - Thor - Loki

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Shake it Out
Fandom: Thor (2011)
Song/Artist: Shake it Out (alternate version) by Manchester Orchestra
Duration: 3:12 minutes

Summary: "I felt the Lord in my father's house." Loki character.
Spoilers: whole film

Premiered at bascon 2011 vidshow.

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Password: BiggerMess

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Shake it out, shake it out
God, I need another and another
And another and another, I can feel it now
I felt the Lord in my father's house

And I could see, I could see
Standing we were seventeen, make it clean
I am the living ghost of what you need
I am everything eternally
God, just speak

Cos I'm done being done with the funeral, at least for now
Are you tired of being alone, are you tired of being alone

Shake it out, shake it out
God, I need another and another for the other wasn't wanted
And I heard it out
I felt the Lord in my father's house

And I can see, I can see
Standing you were seventeen, make it clean
I am the living ghost of what you need
I am everything hypocrisy, can you see

I felt the Lord begin (I swear, I'll never go)
To peel off all my skin (Don't stop, don't nothing, don't ever, no)
I felt the weight within (I swore, I swore you'd go)
Reveal the bigger mess (That you don't know)
That you'll never fix, oh.


Made this vid while neck-deep in discussion with lolachrome about what "experimental" might entail for different people. I'm a statement vidder at heart, so while I don't think I'll ever be able to do Lola's kind of experimental with radiating questions and no concrete answer, we did talk about the idea of focussing on themes and having them prevail above plot chronology, if necessary. Again it's something that I instinctively rile against as far as vidding personality goes, but I'm also fascinated by it, so tried it here as much as I could. Which is to say not a lot, but enough to freak me out a bit, all the same.

Ditto with song structure - I'm not one for extended codas, mostly because a lot of the time it's tied up in structural issues, and if you know me, you know I prefer to say my piece and then make a rapid exit. So having a full 30 seconds of stuff after the climactic moment was weird and experimental for me, never mind how tame it might look to others. :)

I remember around the same time bananainpyjamas wrote a meme answer about how much her vids are usually self-contained stories that at least make some sense for the uninitiated viewer, because usually her experience as a viewer is that she doesn't know context, so it carries over into her vidding too. I don't quite take the same position with my vids, but nor do I usually go as far as I did in this vid. Because of the jumbled chronology, I'm not sure what - plot-wise - can be taken away by the viewer without context. But the goal was not so much for the plot arc but for the emotional arc to get through, and I think that did come across clearly enough. (If not particularly a challenge, given Loki's many and varied woeful puppy expressions. And, if in doubt, cut to a baby. That has to work every time, y/y?)