New Vid: Dead Sharks Don't Swim (The OC)
Eventually, I will be posting my VVC video, but this is not that post.. until then, have this vid! I feel like VVC helped me decompress all my vidders angst about finishing and not finishing videos. I've actually made progress on my Sweet Charity video since I went, because I'm more motivated to use my spare time on stuff that is challenging.
Title: Dead Sharks Don't Swim
Vid Artist: Fabella (wistful_fever)
Song Artist: Bon Iver (song: "skinny love")
Source: The OC
Summary: This is what happens when a relationship stops evolving. Seth/Ryan.
Spoilers: Mostly Season 4, but with some S1 and S3 moments.
Length: 1:55min
watch/download
62mb avi @ megaupload
46mb avi @ megaupload
watch online @ youtube
a few notes:
The OC was, for me, a love affair. I'm shocked to find myself vidding it again, but it looks like it has hooked me once again. When I first started watching, I think I was somewhere around 19, and I mainlined the first season in 25 hours and managed to get my sister hooked on it at the same time. I've never started a show like that, before or since.
A part of me, from season one to four, always thought that the show was actually going to go there. Yeah, THERE. "Seth/Ryan" there. I can't say exactly why. Maybe it was just where I thought television seemed to be heading, or certain moments between their characters. Most of the time I didn't REALLY believe it, but there were times when it seemed possible that Seth and Ryan would ride off into the sunset together on a sailboat. Naturally, that never happened. In season four, they had a very tense relationship and chemistry, and I have a theory they were written that way, because there were no other options left for them, no other ways for them to be written other than the way no one would. They had stopped evolving as a relationship because their characters couldn't be portrayed to take the next natural step that they would have had they been male and female characters instead of male friends. This video is a brief exploration of that season four dynamic, and the consequences when a desired path is taken away, for whatever reason. I chose Ryan to be the voice here because, despite his tough guy image, he always struck me as the one who would have been more accepting and adult about a change in the status quo, whereas Seth would have freaked out big time. I think Ryan, as a character, would understand that they had hit a point in their relationship where they could only look back, not forward, whatever he would have wanted for himself and for them. This video is a narrative, but I think it's heavier on the mood. It's been a long time since I did a 'mood vid', but maybe my mood made me vid moody?
I'm clipping like a mad woman again, which is nice, because the source I had for The OC before was pretty pathetic. This is something of a weekend video, I'll admit it. It was kind of an emotional spewing of vidding. It's great to just make it, get it over with without agonizing, then release it. Some of my favorite videos have been made that way, weird as that is.
I eventually want to do an "epic" Seth/Ryan vid. By that I mean, my own person epic vid of my heart for them. Oh, it'll happen. I just don't know... when... exactly. I have other projects. Maybe I'll pound out some vidlets just for fun, though, with all this new shiny source just hanging around on my computer.
Feedback is golden.
Title: Dead Sharks Don't Swim
Vid Artist: Fabella (wistful_fever)
Song Artist: Bon Iver (song: "skinny love")
Source: The OC
Summary: This is what happens when a relationship stops evolving. Seth/Ryan.
Spoilers: Mostly Season 4, but with some S1 and S3 moments.
Length: 1:55min
watch/download
62mb avi @ megaupload
46mb avi @ megaupload
watch online @ youtube
a few notes:
The OC was, for me, a love affair. I'm shocked to find myself vidding it again, but it looks like it has hooked me once again. When I first started watching, I think I was somewhere around 19, and I mainlined the first season in 25 hours and managed to get my sister hooked on it at the same time. I've never started a show like that, before or since.
A part of me, from season one to four, always thought that the show was actually going to go there. Yeah, THERE. "Seth/Ryan" there. I can't say exactly why. Maybe it was just where I thought television seemed to be heading, or certain moments between their characters. Most of the time I didn't REALLY believe it, but there were times when it seemed possible that Seth and Ryan would ride off into the sunset together on a sailboat. Naturally, that never happened. In season four, they had a very tense relationship and chemistry, and I have a theory they were written that way, because there were no other options left for them, no other ways for them to be written other than the way no one would. They had stopped evolving as a relationship because their characters couldn't be portrayed to take the next natural step that they would have had they been male and female characters instead of male friends. This video is a brief exploration of that season four dynamic, and the consequences when a desired path is taken away, for whatever reason. I chose Ryan to be the voice here because, despite his tough guy image, he always struck me as the one who would have been more accepting and adult about a change in the status quo, whereas Seth would have freaked out big time. I think Ryan, as a character, would understand that they had hit a point in their relationship where they could only look back, not forward, whatever he would have wanted for himself and for them. This video is a narrative, but I think it's heavier on the mood. It's been a long time since I did a 'mood vid', but maybe my mood made me vid moody?
I'm clipping like a mad woman again, which is nice, because the source I had for The OC before was pretty pathetic. This is something of a weekend video, I'll admit it. It was kind of an emotional spewing of vidding. It's great to just make it, get it over with without agonizing, then release it. Some of my favorite videos have been made that way, weird as that is.
I eventually want to do an "epic" Seth/Ryan vid. By that I mean, my own person epic vid of my heart for them. Oh, it'll happen. I just don't know... when... exactly. I have other projects. Maybe I'll pound out some vidlets just for fun, though, with all this new shiny source just hanging around on my computer.
Feedback is golden.