Comments | vid_commentary: Hard Sun by bradcpu and Laura Shapiro, commentary by AbsoluteDestiny

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Hard Sun by bradcpu and Laura Shapiro, commentary by AbsoluteDestiny

Oct 13, 2009 14:20

Title: Hard Sun
Vidders: bradcpu and laurashapiro
Fandom: Firefly
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Comments 37

martzin October 13 2009, 17:19:47 UTC

Thanks! This is pretty clear and didactic. It's a straightforward vid, but I had completely missed the scroll-wheels as symbols for the vidder experience, as well as the significance of the final moments.

obsessive24 October 13 2009, 18:52:18 UTC

This is such a brilliant, well-structured commentary and I found myself laughing out loud more than once. Awesome.

absolutedestiny October 14 2009, 20:15:16 UTC

and luckily I intended the humour! Thanks :D

deathisyourart October 13 2009, 22:06:22 UTC

Phenomenal commentary! Thank you so much for producing this. :D

absolutedestiny October 14 2009, 20:15:29 UTC

Thanks for wrangling it :)

revolutionaryjo October 13 2009, 23:35:24 UTC

This was lovely. Especially, "You see, when vidders hear music tv shows appear out of nowhere!" because it's true! :D

bradcpu October 14 2009, 01:00:15 UTC

Wow, this really struck a nerve. The good kind. Am I naked? I feel naked now.

Very entertaining, very astute. You made things that felt complex and difficult to verbalize sound so direct, which is wonderful. It was so... RIGHT.

What I find the most interesting about your commentary is that it properly explained things that I (perhaps?) took for granted in the conceptual stage; or things that Laura and I did instinctively simply because they just felt like the right things to do.

It's incredibly fascinating to see the vid from a third-person perspective like this, and it gives me a lot to think about. Thank you so much for doing this.

absolutedestiny October 14 2009, 20:17:40 UTC

I'm really glad you liked it. That is, in fact, the best compliment I could receive.

I get vaguely nervous doing these sorts of things that I might grossly misrepresent the vidder but it's good to see (especially from your own commentary) that wasn't the case here. Thanks for letting me put your vid under a very public microscope :)