NaViMaMo Vidlet: A to B [Pushing Daisies]

[beccatoria]

They keep showing up later and later... ;) This is for kiki_miserychic!

Because I haven't vidded Pushing Daisies before and because it's been a really long time since I watched it, I decided to wimp out a little and make an episodic. I also figured that would mean it would be easier to make a mini vid rather than a fragment of a bigger vid (which is...sort of what I'm aiming with these with, I think, varying degrees of success). I wasn't quite prepared for how viddable the source would be - I remembered it being bright and beautiful but quite static and still. Though of course, this vid does again demonstrate my predilection for jump cuts (they're so FUN), which work well with slow zooms. Anyway, what I wanted to say is, alas, I think this feels more like a vid fragment than a mini vid, but perhaps that's a compliment to the source which simply wouldn't allow me to rush through it. It's a really interesting song because it has a kind of innocent quality while actually being fairly dark and/or filthy in a lot of its lyrics, and I'm sort of disappointed I didn't get to the chorus, but I think the chorus would have required footage from the rest of the season and for the sake of my sanity and timeliness, I decided to cut it off at the one minute mark.

Title: A to B
Video: Pushing Daisies
Audio: Little Bit // Lykke Li
Summary: A to B, Ned to Chuck, episodic for the pilot.

Direct download available here. 11 megs approx. RightClickSaveAs.

Password: vidses

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I will index and crosspost all vidlets at the end of November or when I've done all the prompts if I decide to keep going to finish them.

Comments

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

Oh, Pushing Daisies! WHY DID I DELETE YOU FROM MY HARD DRIVE?

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

Oooh, shiny! I like this! The jittery motions work well with the song and source material.

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

That's what external harddrives are for! :p

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Yay! Thank you. It was a lot of fun to work with - and I love your icon! :)

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

It WAS my external hard drive! I don't know what I was thinking!

[emmiere.livejournal.com]

Oooh, very cool. :) This may be my favorite use of jump cuts yet for these (and I totally love jump cuts.)

it has a kind of innocent quality while actually being fairly dark and/or filthy

That's incredibly appropriate for the show at times, really interesting song. *curses deleting of Olive icon*

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Yay! Thanks. I love jump cuts an insane amount and have constant anxiety I overuse them, so I appreciate the vote of jump cutting confidence. ;)

I wish I'd EVER had an Olive icon! *uses Olivia instead*

thigh to thigh

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

I absolutely love it to bits. I'm rewatching the whole series because it made me remember how much I love and miss the show.

Re: thigh to thigh

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Awww, thanks. I'm really glad you like it and awesome that it inspired rewatches. Honestly I think I'd be rewatching it if I weren't still vidding like an idiot right now. Making this really did remind me of how great a show it was. I really wish it hadn't been cancelled. :(

[nicole-anell.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha are you sick of my late comments yet? SQUEE SO MUCH LOVE. Really great work with the jump cuts here, they made the vid feel a little more 'bouncy' while still totally fluid.