BSG Vidlet: Manifesto.

[beccatoria]

Here is my fourth vidlet response to thearchive2's challenges!

Title: Manifesto
Video: Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Audio: Mario Savio - December 2nd 1964
Spoilers: 4x01 - 4x10
Summary: Natalie and Tyrol and Starbuck have a manifesto.
Editor's Notes: As you'll see when you watch it, this one was far more time-consuming and crazy a project than its thirty-second length suggests. My thanks to cyborganize for even more insane beta-work than usual: without her this wouldn't have worked. This is in response to the fourth thearchive2 challenge: manifesto.

Direct download available here. 6 megs approx. RightClickSaveAs!

Password: vidses

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Cross-posted to tharchive2, vidding and galactica_vids

Other vids available here.

Comments

[heyiya.livejournal.com]

I have to confess if you had got me in for beta I would have argued against the layer window! Only because I didn't notice the first time through and then was a bit disappointed when I did. At first when I saw the same images I thought you were using them to go to someone else's POV, like Tigh or Tory. But it *does* work -- and the overall effect is utterly fabulous. <3

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

I can see your point. To be honest, in general I'm against layering because I find it confusing, and so I only like it if there's a really strong reason to use it. But in this instance I decided I liked it. I'm kind of attached to the way different images sort of...surface out of the murk at different times.

I actually made a really accidentally gorgeous overlayered version of Natalie's final vidlet and an early draft of the Chief's: I was so shocked at how pretty it was I kept it.

I did consider doing Tigh or Tory very briefly. The reason I didn't is that 1) I liked the symmetry of one human, one cylon, one final five cylon, and 2) I felt that Tory's storyline crossed too much with the Chief's (though you're right that could have been awesome) and that neither hers nor Tigh's really...pinged for me as this rageful manifesto of refusal to conform to expectations/society. Of the three, Tyrol's is probably the least ragefully noncomformist, but at the same time, his amazing screaming fit with his gun was what put me onto this along with the fact that it was Chief, in the S2 finale, who quasi-quoted Savio to start with. So he needed to be in there just for that.

/long-rambly-commentary!