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.

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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

[chaila.livejournal.com]

Basically: what pellucid said. I never had so much interest in Helo. He tended to disappear behind my interest in the girls in his life, but this does a really good job drawing his story out of the background for me. The last couple shots really make your point that all of this was essentially set from the moment Boomer left him on Caprica. Plus a gorgeous piece of music!

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

I'm really glad the final shot works for you - that was the thing I had in my head from the start, really. <3 And yes, the music is gorgeous. The Piano has the most beautiful score. Insofar as I ever did any musical composition (which was to say, not much, under protest and at high school!), I was always big on the rolling bass arpeggios, which was pretty much entirely down to this score, which I discovered about the same time.