Vid: Hummingbird Song
Dec. 29th, 2007 11:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccatoriaWow, I've been busy today! Don't worry - I've not forgotten about the scribbling project below, but I also finished my vid today. So here it is:
Title: Hummingbird Song
Music: Tom McRae
Characters: Kendra, Cain, Gina.
Spoilers: Razor
Summary: "It is such a quiet thing, to fall. But far more terrible is to admit it." (Quote: Kreia SW EU).
Download: right-click-save-as.
Or, for the rest of my videos: click here
Password: vidses
This was another of those, ZOMG I MUST VID moments. I didn't take a lot of time preparing or scripting the vid which was refreshing. Partly because it was so (comparatively) short, and partly because I wanted to keep a sense of mess in it. A sense of entropy and collapse in the chorus sections where the music didn't demand darkness and quietness and restraint. I'm not sure how well I succeeded. Certainly I think there's mess there. Hopefully not so much as to make it simply sloppy editing. It's hard to be...deliberately sloppy, you know?
Though the lack of scripting made me less sure of some of my clip choices and while that made for an interesting excercise and I think made this vid more organic, it also meant it took me about twice as long to vid two and a half minutes as I think it otherwise would have. Well, maybe one-and-a-half times as long. Though that could also be because I usually stick slavishly to lyric-symbolism and here I deliberately tried to be more open to interpretation. Finally, I didn't use anything outside of the footage provided in Razor. Though that does include the footage used in the beginning "recap" from season 2 episodes. Still; it was very limited and that challenge was interesting. Certainly the most limited palette I've ever used. Which probably added to the vidding time again.
Actually of everything, I'm least sure about the song choice here. Which is to say, I think it's the right song to have picked but I sort of wish the right song to have picked had been something...weirder. Tom McRae may not be quite mainstream but he's well-loved on the net and quite...vidderly? Not that I dislike vidderly, but I'd rather have had a piece of music that made people go, "HUH?! You vidded to that?"
Because my first goal in this vid was to make something where the violence of the video went against the grain of the audio, and where the lyrics were nearly irrelevant except for tone, I immediately thought about this awesome Farscape vid I once saw to Unchained Melody which was basically just a montage of them blowing up a bank. And I remembered thinking that it went absurdly well with the music. But I didn't want to steal that song and I couldn't think of something else as good from that style, so I figured, quit trying so hard. Go with the piece of music that's asking you to use it, not the piece of music you wish was asking you to use it. And thus...this.
Oh, hey, I just found a link to the Farscape Vid! Look, reccs and vids in one post!
I hope y'all enjoy.
Title: Hummingbird Song
Music: Tom McRae
Characters: Kendra, Cain, Gina.
Spoilers: Razor
Summary: "It is such a quiet thing, to fall. But far more terrible is to admit it." (Quote: Kreia SW EU).
Download: right-click-save-as.
Or, for the rest of my videos: click here
Password: vidses
This was another of those, ZOMG I MUST VID moments. I didn't take a lot of time preparing or scripting the vid which was refreshing. Partly because it was so (comparatively) short, and partly because I wanted to keep a sense of mess in it. A sense of entropy and collapse in the chorus sections where the music didn't demand darkness and quietness and restraint. I'm not sure how well I succeeded. Certainly I think there's mess there. Hopefully not so much as to make it simply sloppy editing. It's hard to be...deliberately sloppy, you know?
Though the lack of scripting made me less sure of some of my clip choices and while that made for an interesting excercise and I think made this vid more organic, it also meant it took me about twice as long to vid two and a half minutes as I think it otherwise would have. Well, maybe one-and-a-half times as long. Though that could also be because I usually stick slavishly to lyric-symbolism and here I deliberately tried to be more open to interpretation. Finally, I didn't use anything outside of the footage provided in Razor. Though that does include the footage used in the beginning "recap" from season 2 episodes. Still; it was very limited and that challenge was interesting. Certainly the most limited palette I've ever used. Which probably added to the vidding time again.
Actually of everything, I'm least sure about the song choice here. Which is to say, I think it's the right song to have picked but I sort of wish the right song to have picked had been something...weirder. Tom McRae may not be quite mainstream but he's well-loved on the net and quite...vidderly? Not that I dislike vidderly, but I'd rather have had a piece of music that made people go, "HUH?! You vidded to that?"
Because my first goal in this vid was to make something where the violence of the video went against the grain of the audio, and where the lyrics were nearly irrelevant except for tone, I immediately thought about this awesome Farscape vid I once saw to Unchained Melody which was basically just a montage of them blowing up a bank. And I remembered thinking that it went absurdly well with the music. But I didn't want to steal that song and I couldn't think of something else as good from that style, so I figured, quit trying so hard. Go with the piece of music that's asking you to use it, not the piece of music you wish was asking you to use it. And thus...this.
Oh, hey, I just found a link to the Farscape Vid! Look, reccs and vids in one post!
I hope y'all enjoy.
