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beccatoriaDon't expect I'll keep posting two a day (even if technically I did finish the other one yesterday). But this is about SPEED and JUST VIDDING IT, so hooray for early momentum! This is for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kuwdora, and I actually have some vidderly thoughts on this one; probably best to read after viewing.
I find myself a little disappointed I didn't quite get what I was going for on this one. I mean I think in parts I did. My grand scheme was to make an endless, quick-fade montage of Helo's life, one thing after another, but always to focus more on the earlier seasons than the later. In the later seasons, the three most important people to him - Sharon, Hera and Kara - are all swept up in this opera house prophecy, and Helo, as he always does, stays like a rock, supports them, and sort of...gets left behind. I wanted to convey that somehow, and I thought condensing the whole later section of the show (which is the part of the show where Most Stuff Happens) into the very last, much shorter, section of the vid, might be a way to show that - that from his perspective, all the enormous changes to his life and viewpoint happened much earlier, and now he has to stand back and wait while the world changes, and uses his wife, his daughter and his best friend to do it. But honestly, I'm not sure that comes thorugh enough here, or that the piano playing is adequately synced up and that makes me saaaaaad. Well, all right, not that sad, but it does make me think, perhaps, it was a concept better suited to a vid than a vidlet. Still, Helo. I haven't actually vidded him much since the...third vid I ever made. At least now that's rectified.
Title: The Heart, The Piano
Video: Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Audio: The Heart Asks Pleasure First [The Piano] // Michael Nyman
Summary: Time is relentless, Karl is patient.
Direct download available here. 15 megs approx. RightClickSaveAs.
Password: vidses
I will index and crosspost all vidlets at the end of November or when I've done all the prompts, whichever comes soonest.
kuwdora, and I actually have some vidderly thoughts on this one; probably best to read after viewing. I find myself a little disappointed I didn't quite get what I was going for on this one. I mean I think in parts I did. My grand scheme was to make an endless, quick-fade montage of Helo's life, one thing after another, but always to focus more on the earlier seasons than the later. In the later seasons, the three most important people to him - Sharon, Hera and Kara - are all swept up in this opera house prophecy, and Helo, as he always does, stays like a rock, supports them, and sort of...gets left behind. I wanted to convey that somehow, and I thought condensing the whole later section of the show (which is the part of the show where Most Stuff Happens) into the very last, much shorter, section of the vid, might be a way to show that - that from his perspective, all the enormous changes to his life and viewpoint happened much earlier, and now he has to stand back and wait while the world changes, and uses his wife, his daughter and his best friend to do it. But honestly, I'm not sure that comes thorugh enough here, or that the piano playing is adequately synced up and that makes me saaaaaad. Well, all right, not that sad, but it does make me think, perhaps, it was a concept better suited to a vid than a vidlet. Still, Helo. I haven't actually vidded him much since the...third vid I ever made. At least now that's rectified.
Title: The Heart, The Piano
Video: Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Audio: The Heart Asks Pleasure First [The Piano] // Michael Nyman
Summary: Time is relentless, Karl is patient.
Direct download available here. 15 megs approx. RightClickSaveAs.
Password: vidses
I will index and crosspost all vidlets at the end of November or when I've done all the prompts, whichever comes soonest.
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Date: 2010-11-06 11:54 pm (UTC)Needs more vids. :-) I like this. Especially your zoom in shots and in particular the short of him at O:49/0:50. 'Cause he looks good and I rarely think of Helo that way! I'm selfishly glad you stopped short of the rest of season 4!Helo too. I just remember him yelling at Kara for something when he didn't know or maybe know that she was like dead, you know? And that he'd never get to say good-bye to her. :-(
Now, I've read your notes. I don't feel Helo got left behind (except maybe in Daybreak when he just got left out and I really thought he was dead until the last five minutes) so much as his role had been fulfilled. I think he was always the wind-beneath-your-wings kinda guy and I don't think he minded. Yet the decisions made involving him: giving Gaius that seat, helping to create Hera, giving Kara that photo, those decisions had such far, far reaching effects.
Yay, vidlet!
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Date: 2010-11-07 11:19 am (UTC)I think I didn't really express the stuff about Helo getting left behind right though? Cus I agree with you. I don't think he got left behind in a tragic way. He was still there, supporting his girls, quietly stoic, never giving up or being too freaked out, just silently acting like their rock while destiny swept them all up. Playing the small roles and letting them go off and change the world. So I'd agree - it's more his role got fulfilled than he got left behind. But I still wanted to show that it was the earlier days that formed the quiet, sidelined (but not in a bad way?) man he was by the end?
Either way, yay, vidlet! :D Thanks for the feedback, and yeah, I think it would have been too sad to go into the Hera kidnapping/Best friend yelling/Wife not talking plot. *hugs him*