NaViMaMo Vidlet: The Heart, The Piano [BSG]

[beccatoria]

Don'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 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.

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I will index and crosspost all vidlets at the end of November or when I've done all the prompts, whichever comes soonest.

Comments

[pellucid.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like this!!! My feelings about Helo tended to waver between generally positive indifference and mild irritation, all while thinking he was awfully hot, but this condensing of his story puts it into a frame that makes him, for me, easier to connect to. I like the effect of the piano music, as well; it doesn't impose as strong an interpretive lens on the vid as lyrics tend to do, and it ties nicely back to the whole piano music as important mytharc thing (which I will pretend did not fall so roundly on its face in the show itself--see, ability to pretend! I think I'm making progress!).

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm really glad that the song choice and approach worked for you. I always fell more on the side of positive indifference when it came to Helo, but I don't know how much of that, during later seasons, when much else was failing, was down to the fact he used to punch Tigh and give Adama the metaphorical middle finger. ;)

And don't worry, I'm also definitely on the track of creative avoidance when it comes to the mytharc piano thing. ;)