Wow, thank you - seriously, thank you so much for taking the time to leave such a thoughtful and detailed comment. This is just fantastic to receive. The idea that I helped provide a new perspective on the game and its ending is humbling and incredibly gratifying. I adored the ending, essentially for all the reasons you state, the way the universe embraces the messy, diverse, contradictory, continuum of the relationship between biology and technology without offering clear answers except that it's an issue that is unavoidable and important? But - obviously - a lot of people didn't see it such a positive light, and I've been on the other side of this kind of situation too - painfully, horribly let down by the end of something I loved. So, anyway, tl;dr, the point is, the idea that I helped anyone take another look at the ending with a fresh perspective is pretty much the best piece of feedback I could ever get on this vid. So thank you.
Also, I'm so glad you liked the editing. You basically picked out everything I loved! :D You're right, the lyrics and the song are just so perfect, I almost feel I can't take credit for the vid! I spent ages trying to work out how to handle the "low note" judders you mentioned. I didn't have anything there for a long time and it didn't look right. Ultimately I went with a shifting zoom-blur to mimic unfocused camera movement. I wanted subtle, but noticeable - so thanks for noticing! And yes! The N7 on "covets my defects". That was one of the earliest things I knew I wanted to do in the vid because it was too perfect not to try, but I was really unsure if I'd be able to pull off the masking. It was a little tricky but actually easier than I'd feared, I think partly down to the uniformity of computer game graphics. I actually used the N7 from Shepard's hoodie in a different shot to composite over the chestplate (resized, and stuff).
I also saw you recced this over on the dreamwidth vidrecs comm - thank you so much, it was a totally awesome rec. ♥
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Date: 2012-06-04 09:20 pm (UTC)Also, I'm so glad you liked the editing. You basically picked out everything I loved! :D You're right, the lyrics and the song are just so perfect, I almost feel I can't take credit for the vid! I spent ages trying to work out how to handle the "low note" judders you mentioned. I didn't have anything there for a long time and it didn't look right. Ultimately I went with a shifting zoom-blur to mimic unfocused camera movement. I wanted subtle, but noticeable - so thanks for noticing! And yes! The N7 on "covets my defects". That was one of the earliest things I knew I wanted to do in the vid because it was too perfect not to try, but I was really unsure if I'd be able to pull off the masking. It was a little tricky but actually easier than I'd feared, I think partly down to the uniformity of computer game graphics. I actually used the N7 from Shepard's hoodie in a different shot to composite over the chestplate (resized, and stuff).
I also saw you recced this over on the dreamwidth vidrecs comm - thank you so much, it was a totally awesome rec. ♥