New Vid: Your Biggest Fan (SPN, Sam/Dean)
How long has it been since I posted a Sam/Dean vid? Let's see if I still know what I'm doing where they're concerned. I'm glad to set this vid free, you have no idea.
Title: Your Biggest Fan
Song Artist: Bruno Mars
Video Artist: Fabella wistful_fever
Source: Supernatural Seasons 1-6
Summary: "The heart can think of no devotion, Greater than being shore to ocean - Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition." -- Robert Frost (Devotion). Sam/Dean, Dean character study.
Disclaimer: Supernatural and "Grenade" do not belong to me.
Length: 3:43min, DivX Avi
Download @ 4shared (64mb)
or if you want a big, perfect file: 144mb @ 4shared. Your choice.
(links updated 2/18/12)
Watch @ 4shared.
I did upload the highest quality one to youtube, but sadly, youtube instantly muted it. :(
ETA 9/27: Youtube re-enabled it, due to the transformative nature of the work. Interesting.
Vidding Notes.. and whining.
This video has been a year in the making. I always wonder what people will think when I say that, if they expect some sort of grand masterpiece, but honestly, this was just a labor of bittersweet determination. I have a really difficult time vidding Sam/Dean these days. Not because I don't have plenty to say ... there is just SO. MUCH. SOURCE. I have about four unfinished Sam/Dean vids festering their achey little hearts out on my computer, one of them owed to someone, yet progress is minimal. The pace I vid Sam/Dean at is a clip a week. I'm not even kidding. That doesn't mean I give up... especially now that I've managed to finish one that has been burning slowly inside my vidder brain for so long. It all came together this past month, which was a very nice gift considering the state of my personal affairs. Now if only the same thing would happen to a specific SPN vid that has been in the works for, oh, 3 years?
"Your Biggest Fan" came from Dean's face. Seriously. The little flinches and scrunches and movements and neediness, and the way that need is so intense it's almost burned up everything he can feel, leaving him hollow. This is a video about how seriously fucked up it is to put all your eggs in one basket the way Dean has. It's also a celebration of that same life strategy. Dean being fucked up is my favorite thing. On another level, it came from my interest in the subjective gaze. Dean feels all these feelings, yeah, and subjects Sam to them, but dude, Sam is just a guy with a lot going on, Sam loves him back---even if he isn't always the most open book. In this video, it focuses heavily on Dean's gaze and how inconsistent and shaped by wounds that gaze is. This video is like the baby of "Come On, Angel" and "Your Own Co-Dependent Wet Dream" if that baby punched you in the face. I don't know, okay? I've been working on this for a year, I said. It's a lot of things to me, mostly a pain in the ass. I'm glad it's done. Screw you, Bruno Mars. I never have to listen to this song again.
The source was modified quite a bit to get the grittiness I wanted (like a bad stubble burn). Added scratch, levels, gain, brightness/contrast, glow, and color. The transitions were all either additive or subtractive dissolves. It suffers a bit under compression. If you've got the time, download the huge file. Considering I still haven't recovered half of my cds of my vids from moving, I might need to download my own vid from you in the future, so be prepared.
Feedback... please?
Title: Your Biggest Fan
Song Artist: Bruno Mars
Video Artist: Fabella wistful_fever
Source: Supernatural Seasons 1-6
Summary: "The heart can think of no devotion, Greater than being shore to ocean - Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition." -- Robert Frost (Devotion). Sam/Dean, Dean character study.
Disclaimer: Supernatural and "Grenade" do not belong to me.
Length: 3:43min, DivX Avi
Download @ 4shared (64mb)
or if you want a big, perfect file: 144mb @ 4shared. Your choice.
(links updated 2/18/12)
Watch @ 4shared.
I did upload the highest quality one to youtube, but sadly, youtube instantly muted it. :(
ETA 9/27: Youtube re-enabled it, due to the transformative nature of the work. Interesting.
Click to viewVidding Notes.. and whining.
This video has been a year in the making. I always wonder what people will think when I say that, if they expect some sort of grand masterpiece, but honestly, this was just a labor of bittersweet determination. I have a really difficult time vidding Sam/Dean these days. Not because I don't have plenty to say ... there is just SO. MUCH. SOURCE. I have about four unfinished Sam/Dean vids festering their achey little hearts out on my computer, one of them owed to someone, yet progress is minimal. The pace I vid Sam/Dean at is a clip a week. I'm not even kidding. That doesn't mean I give up... especially now that I've managed to finish one that has been burning slowly inside my vidder brain for so long. It all came together this past month, which was a very nice gift considering the state of my personal affairs. Now if only the same thing would happen to a specific SPN vid that has been in the works for, oh, 3 years?
"Your Biggest Fan" came from Dean's face. Seriously. The little flinches and scrunches and movements and neediness, and the way that need is so intense it's almost burned up everything he can feel, leaving him hollow. This is a video about how seriously fucked up it is to put all your eggs in one basket the way Dean has. It's also a celebration of that same life strategy. Dean being fucked up is my favorite thing. On another level, it came from my interest in the subjective gaze. Dean feels all these feelings, yeah, and subjects Sam to them, but dude, Sam is just a guy with a lot going on, Sam loves him back---even if he isn't always the most open book. In this video, it focuses heavily on Dean's gaze and how inconsistent and shaped by wounds that gaze is. This video is like the baby of "Come On, Angel" and "Your Own Co-Dependent Wet Dream" if that baby punched you in the face. I don't know, okay? I've been working on this for a year, I said. It's a lot of things to me, mostly a pain in the ass. I'm glad it's done. Screw you, Bruno Mars. I never have to listen to this song again.
The source was modified quite a bit to get the grittiness I wanted (like a bad stubble burn). Added scratch, levels, gain, brightness/contrast, glow, and color. The transitions were all either additive or subtractive dissolves. It suffers a bit under compression. If you've got the time, download the huge file. Considering I still haven't recovered half of my cds of my vids from moving, I might need to download my own vid from you in the future, so be prepared.
Feedback... please?