Vid: blood, blood to the bruise [Damages]: HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHAILA!

[beccatoria]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHAILA! Originally I had a crazy plan to not even tell you I'd even started watching Damages, but obviously that lasted about three seconds. ;)

Title: blood, blood to the bruise
Video: Damages
Audio: Me & Stetson // Tom McRae
Spoilers: Seasons 1 & 2 only
Summary: You're like my daughter. I tried to kill you. [Patty. Ellen.]

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Comments

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it and that it even comes close to doing justice to the complex relationship between these two. And thanks so much for the rec! Seriously that was kind of awesome - I posted it before I went to work, got here and found a comment already waiting. Much better start to my day than usual!

As to your other comments, it's interesting that you should mention the quick fades. I didn't actually start out with them, as I also thought that hard cuts would be more effective, and in several places I think I'm still using them because it was my preference, but what was happening was that in practice, I found it looked too jarring - I was getting this feeling that there was a ghost frame in there when there wasn't one, and this felt smoother on the eye. But it's a compromise from the original, err, artistic vision? *she says, feeling pretentious!*

The other decision about using only seasons one and two, yeah, I thought about that too. I'd even say that season four is pretty necessary to their overall relationship although I agree, perhaps less so without the overall benefit of the final season for context. The reason I focused on the first two seasons is pretty much down to the song, and slightly due to the fact I enjoyed those more and therefore felt more comfortable vidding them since it was my first time with this source. But basically I really wanted to make the first verse-second verse showcase moments the two times those women apparently (or actually) try to kill each other, and for all that it does interesting things to the way they interact, after that there's more a sense of both of them understanding the capabilities of the other and having an (uneasy) truce, and there just wasn't a big, epic, scene of scenes that I wanted to work with in season three, so I decided to make it a vid about that particular reversal of circumstances - the song seemed very much like it fit that kind of flip-around.

But I meant to actually put something about that in the header, so thanks for the reminder - I will go do so now!

And thanks again for taking the time to leave such a considered and thoughtful comment. I'm really pleased you liked it!

[obsessive24.livejournal.com]

I also thought that hard cuts would be more effective, and in several places I think I'm still using them because it was my preference, but what was happening was that in practice, I found it looked too jarring
I see I see! I know how that can go, something that by rights should look one way but somehow doesn't seem to sit well when you actually put it down that way. That definitely explains why you went with the fast crossfades, then. :)

I agree that we probably won't really get a whole idea of the relationship until we have all five seasons that inform each other. I have to admit I never hear lyrics upon my first viewing of a vid, so doubtlessly that coloured my thinking whether the structure corresponded to just two seasons as oppposed to 3 or 4. But what you say definitely makes sense. I think also noting in the vidpost that it's s1 and s2 only also helps a lot because then viewers like me aren't then going into the vid expecting the in-vid relationship to be developed beyond s2. I think the vid totally works in what it's trying to achieve by focussing on just these two seasons, it's more a case of perhaps managing the viewer's expectations as they come to it. Anyway, I'm off to rewatch! Thank you for making such an awesome vid.