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

[pellucid.livejournal.com]

Ooooooh!!!!! I do love it when people in fandom have birthdays! :D

Despite the fact that I've not yet managed to finish season 2, I love this. The jump cuts (? is that what you call it?) work so well for Patty and Ellen, who are so often at such emotional extremes with each other. I also love the way you've got the pier scene overlaying so much of the rest of the action--that's such the omg moment in the first season, and for that reason it's one of those fancy technical things that really works here. (I suppose I'm not always a big fan of effects like that in vids, but I think it's because most of the time people seem to put them in--at least as far as I can see--because "hey, I can do this cool thing!" but here it contributes in a huge way to what the vid is doing. Much, in fact, like your boxes and such in your River/Eleventy vid. Clearly you're a model in how to do effects so that form contributes to meaning!)

Apparently I pay attention to technical vidding stuff now? Even though I'm still in the clipping stage of my own first vid that will never end...

Anyway. Yes. Patty and Ellen!!! Love it!!! Wheee!!!!

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

\o/

Thank you, I'm so glad you like it, even if you haven't seen all the source yet. Hopefully this increases anticipation rather than spoiling! ;)

The pier scene is something I'm really glad that people are picking up on as I spent quite a long time messing with that in an attempt to make both the montage elements and Ellen walking away clear and was really worried it was still kind of murky. It was something I knew I wanted to do very early on, even before settling on the jumpcut style. There's just so much going on with her as she leaves in that moment.

But I get what you say about not using effects for the sake of effects, it's something I try not to do, though I don't think I always succeed, but thank you for thinking I did this time.

And I love that you're paying attention to technical vid stuff. BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE BUG! I can't wait to see your first vid. Whenever that may be! ;)

(Clearly I need an icon...)