Wilson fanvid: How to Save a Life

[laene_lif]

Dedicated to secondsilk because she answered this post. :)

I have finished another video! And I'm pretty happy with it. It's far from perfect - the wide screen/full screen thing is a bit irritating, not to mention the fact that I do not have "Tape" and decided to go ahead and just use stills from it... (I wouldn't have even known it existed if not for daasgrrl.)

So, the video is to "How to Save a Life" by The Fray. And it's full of Wilson!Angst. Basic premise: Wilson remembers his long-lost brother and tries to sort of make up for it with his friendship with House, trying to keep anything similar from happening to him.

Also, I've, uh, gone ahead and cast Ethan Hawke as Wilson's brother. :)

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Holy Cow!!

[atreidesheir.livejournal.com]

Usually when I am reading the comments at the bottom and I see the whole "Dies" thing I wanna roll my eyes. But on this one, I have to agree. This video just hit a place down inside me so deep that it physically/mentally hurt. Seeing Wilson struggling so badly to keep House from destroying himself, to keep him from ending up like his brother, had such an impact on me. I am going through a tough time right now and I had to keep from going into an emotional upheaval over this. The music fit so well, described the situation perfectly, and the clips/video that you used could not have been better. I've only seen 3 pieces on YouTube that I have found to be exceptional, and this is one of them. (And you say that it's not perfect yet). My story that I am writing is all Wilson angst over House's self destruction, among other things, so this fed my imagination nicely. I give you such high praise, I can't even figure out how to post my journal onto here yet, LOL. (I've read the instructions but don't get it). So to make a video this good, just blows my mind!! Thanks for sharing!!

Re: Holy Cow!!

[stephantom.livejournal.com]

Wow, thank you! I'm flattered that you found it so powerful, though I'm sorry to hear you're going through a rough time. That's very cool that you're working on a fic dealing with some of the same issues! I'd be interested in reading it. Do you mean that you don't know how to post your story to the [info]house_wilson comm? (or [info]wilson_is_love or [info]house_fic)?

If that's your question, all you do is post in one of those communities with a link to your journal. To make it look like it's actually part of the comm - that is, to do a "fake cut" - you can bold your link and put it in parenthesis, but that's not necessarily. You don't even have to make a link with html, you can just paste the URL and it'll be a link. But to do a fake cut, you write this: < b > ( < a href = " your URL here " > click here < / a > ) < / b >

But with none of those spaces. Except between a and href. There is a space there.

Sorry if I misunderstood and that wasn't at all what you meant.

Thanks again for watching and commenting!

(And sorry for redoing this comment three times - the html example kept being actually being html accidentally.)