BSG Vidlet: The Book of Kara

[beccatoria]

Because apparently vidding makes an excellent present time tool to distract oneself from a rather stressful job! In other words, my plan to vidlet all thearchive2's challenges continues!

Title: The Book of Kara
Audio: Metamorphosis V by Philip Glass
Video: Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Warning: Non-graphic self harm.
Summary: Leoben quotes from the Book of Kara.
Editor's Notes: My continued thanks to the mulitheaded cylon vidding machine, and to cyborganize, my beta. This is in response to the second thearchive2 challenge: Scripture.

Direct download available here. 16 megs approx. RightClickSaveAs.

Password: vidses

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Cross-posted to thearchive2, vidding and galactica_vids.

Other vids available here.

Comments

[rhoboat.livejournal.com]

Ooooh! That was intense, nicely done, and to Philip Glass as well? *applauds*

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

And yes, Philip Glass is just awesome. When I heard them using his composition in Valley of Darkness as the piece Kara's father was playing, I squealed. I'm still really hoping that it's significant that Kara's father was playing Earth music the way the final five heard Earth music, so when I decided to make a Kara and Leoben vid about scripture, I kinda had to use it. It's BSG holy music!

[heyiya.livejournal.com]

Yay! Love the titles, especially "decrypted." And the rest, of course -- the colour effects and the dialogue bookending work so well. \o/

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU! \o/

I'm kinda worried that the titles are at odds with the feel of the vid. At the time, I liked that about them, switching from the holy scripture ancient feel of a visual media piece of scripture to the electronic modern feel, but now I'm ambivalent. But I spent like...forever messing with them and I stand by my decision to just upload it and sent it out onto the web. ;)

Thanks for the feedback. I'm glad the dialogue bookending works well, and, YAY-COLOUR-PULSES-ON-WMM! *preens*

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Blargh - I always forget something. "Decrypted" is the work of cyborganize but I love it so I want to start using it for ALL my vids! XD I don't think I will though. Unless it's apt.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Shiny.

Peter Pan as BSG scripture. What's not to love?

The fading in and out of color is great. It gives a dreamy quality. The music gives a sense of repetition, which is perfect for the subject. Philip Glass' The Metamorphosis tracks are great for vidding. The connection to the source gives it a nice backbone as her father's composition.

Though it's not directly quoted in the vid, it makes me think of Leoben's "Each of us plays a role; each time a different role. Maybe the last time I was the interrogator and you were the prisoner. The players change, the story remains the same."

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

XD Yay! I'm glad you like it. I absolutely love the entire Metamorphosis series. So simple, and repetitive yet never, ever boring. I think that in general they're too long for vids but thanks to the silence he incorporates they're easy to trim down and, as you say, stunning for vidding.

I'm really glad that you think of that line. While I don't quote it, I was totally thinking of it too. It's in that episode we first really come to hear "all of this has happened before and all of it will happen again," and that's...the core of it. It gave me shivers at the time that something like that was scripture. I can't really parse it better than that, but...yeah.

To get to the actual point, I like that you thought of that line, since the intention is that in between the two bookend slices of dialogue, the grayscale/colour pulsing is Leoben quoting scripture, the Book of Kara, divining their future from what happened in the time of Pythia, or even earlier.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

I had never heard of Philip Glass beyond movie score before BSG. I quite like his compositions. I did a firefly vid to the entire Metamorphosis series. Yeah, it's repetitive. :) I think that's what makes it great.

I love the "all of this has happened before and all of it will happen again" quote. It's paraphrased from Peter Pan and it makes me endlessly happy to think that it's scripture in the BSG universe.

I like that even though it's not there, the vid draws from that quote.

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

You did? Dude that's awesome hardcore. All six of them? Do you have a link?

I should have known about that Peter Pan thing since I've actually read the play. There's a hinted-at terribly sorrowful optimism-and-tragedy to Peter's story that I was just awed could be sketched so lightly. I remember I had a similar emotional reaction to, Oh no, no one must ever touch me! followed by the very simple stage direction that for the entire play, no one does.

And stuff.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

It's here, but it's not very good. It's from 2006, so I'm warning you.

Whoa. I never noticed that.

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

That was really interesting to watch, actually! I hope you don't mind me agreeing that it's not a patch on your later work, but the idea is intriguing and there are some very nice moments in there. I kind of like the way you often use the rapidly alternating notes to flick between "exchanges" between two characters in a scene from the episode.

It's such a beautiful and claustrophobic piece, but the claustrophobia was never really evident to me until I saw it in the context of this episode. So thank you.

It's really interesting to see it as an era of your development as a vidder and gives me hope that one day I'll be as awesome at it as you! (I'm still so impressed/creeped out by your vid for The Cell. OMG.)

I tried out Vegas but my computer didn't like it and it was a little counterintuitive for me so I didn't keep it past the trial period, but I'm working on a challenge vidlet now where I'm hoping I'll be using splitscreens or picture in picture, neither of which WMM can be tricked into doing. So I'm taking baby steps and considering trying to partially use Pinnacle, so perhaps I'm taking my first steps into the wider world of editing. *twitch*

I...don't really like it though. :p *stubborn*

Anyway, thank you for the link and for sharing that!

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

I can't believe I thought it was a good idea to vid a nearly 6 minute song with 1 episode.

I watched a documentary the yesterday and Philip Glass popped up. He said something that I meant to write down to tell you, but it's 1am and it totally escapes me where I put that postit note... I'll get back to you when I remember.

I think everyone is still creeped out by my vid for The Cell.

It's a lot different going from WMM to another program. There are some good resources in the memories at vidding if you need something. There are people that get amazing things out of WMM.

[ellyvstheworld.livejournal.com]

I love this. It's so great.

I also really like your mood icons. Where did you get them?

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it.

The moodtheme is totally awesome, isn't it?

It's from here: http://community.livejournal.com/acrobatica/30786.html

And thanks for reminding me, I need to put that in my profile or something. :)

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

glorious!

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Thank you!