HOUSE FANVID: Everybody Understands

[laene_lif]

Title: Everybody Understands
Song: "Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands" by Elliott Smith
Characters: House & the whole gang
Summary/Notes: I found it a sort of challenging song actually, what with seemingly endless instrumental section at the end and stuff. Some parts of the video are stronger than others, I'd say. But hopefully, for the most part, it works. Eh? Eh?

I actually started working on this before "Meaning" aired, but funnily enough that episode fueled the feelings behind this even more. Basically this video is about House's resentment at constantly getting advice and concern and judgement from the people around him and his fear of being dependent and helpless.

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[topaz-eyes.livejournal.com]

Works for me! Nice cutaways, nice flow, nice mix of images.

[leiascully.livejournal.com]

Nice work! In a painful sort of way.

[stephantom.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :)

[stephantom.livejournal.com]

Thanks for watching!

And yeah, it is kind of painful. What's sort of funny is that I started making another fanvid at pretty much the same time as this one, which was also about the importance of people in House's life to him, particularly Wilson and Cuddy, but it was from an entirely different (and much fluffier) angle, using "4 AM" by Our Lady Peace. And I think that the feeling in that was just as valid. So it's not like it's all painful. But in this video, yeah. Heh.

[leiascully.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there are lighthearted moments. I hope you post the other one too!

[joe-pike-junior.livejournal.com]

Great subject matter.

[billie-rose.livejournal.com]

FANTASTIC! I loved it. You are very tallented. I hope to see more from you. Have a great day :-)

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

One of the things I always enjoy about your vids is that I can usually 'understand' them first go - the lyrics and the clips always match well together, and this was no exception. The long instrumental at the end was tricky, but I think I mostly got it - his life on and off drugs, and the things that actually worry him. I think. I particularly enjoyed the 'you know nothing about' bit in Cuddy's office.

I noticed the aspect ratio jumped around a bit - was there any particular reason for that? If you have something in the wrong ratio, you can output it as a single clip in the right ratio (in a high quality format) and import it again to use. If you wanted to of course! Anyway, nicely done :)

[teapot-stains.livejournal.com]

You used Elliot Smith! *gives sparkles*

I really liked this video, you captured a lot of what goes on in the series using those clips and the music. I especially loved the end of the video, it was extremely well put together :)

[evila-elf.livejournal.com]

Can you please toss this on youtube or a downloading place like sendspace? I can't view :(

[darkstarsdream.livejournal.com]

YAY steph! I love the part where hee punches wilson >> lol

[purridot.livejournal.com]

I liked this a lot. I love it when people use clips like words, to tell a story. I thought the bit accompanying the rising crescendo at the end was particularly inspired. Can't wait to see the next one.

[stephantom.livejournal.com]

Thank you. And yeah, the instrumental was... the drugs are part of the feeling of weakness/dependency... He's dependent on people and on the drugs. But the drugs also something that he gets a lot of disaproval about, from Wilson and Cuddy, which - disaproval and meddling from Wilson and Cuddy is a big part of the video. Though it also shows his team having to take care of him or pitying him or questioning him. And then, his parents, too, being disappointed, particularly his father, looking down on the weakness/dependency thing too.

...Yeah, so, that mess right there is what it was all trying to say, lol.

And yeah, I was irritated by the aspect ratio changes too, but I didn't know how to fix them... It seems like what I set it as is what is set for all the clips, but some of the episodes I have are different ratios and end up getting squished. I think I get what you're saying about how to fix it... Hm. Should have done that. I suppose I still could go back and change it.

Well, anyway, thanks!

[stephantom.livejournal.com]

lol but poor execution? ;)

Thanks for watching and commenting!

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

I always love your videos. Great storytelling in this one, and the long instrumental at the end worked beautifully with the scenes you chose.

[stephantom.livejournal.com]

*blush* Thanks! I do have more videos actually, I don't know if you know. They're all up on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=stephantom).

[stephantom.livejournal.com]

Heh, thanks for the sparkles. Elliott Smith is (well, was - RIP) wonderful. Glad to see another fan.

And thank you for your kind comments about the video. :)

[stephantom.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfZlawbb44E&eurl=).

I will try to get it on yousendit or sendspace soon. Every time I tried last night, my computer crashed (who knows why).

Heh, your Wilson icon is so sad. :(

[stephantom.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Julia! :) There is something strangely satisfying about that part, isn't there? Though, poor Wilson - I do love him.

[stephantom.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much. I'm glad to hear you thought the crescendo part worked. :)

[stephantom.livejournal.com]

Thank you! (I feel really cool getting a review from you, since I'm obsessed with your fanfiction, lol. Even if this is only a fanvid.)

[stephantom.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I'll finish it now, because... it's so much the same as this one. I mean, the message is almost the opposite, like I said, but strangely enough, it's a lot of the same clips. I don't know why I did that. I almost set it up like, whichever one I finished first would be the one I posted. Shrug. Oh, well. I might still finish it anyway.

[leiascully.livejournal.com]

You should. They could be companion pieces. And with only two seasons, there's not that much material out there anyway.

[stephantom.livejournal.com]

Ok, I uploaded it to yousendit (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=34E8D779631091D2) if you're interested.

[evila-elf.livejournal.com]

*huggles*
Thank you!
And a really nice vid, I quite enjoyed it :D

[stephantom.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it. :)