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Another post devoid of RL stuff... Not sure why I'm so reluctant to write things down right now, but. Regardless. I just want to say that I've started three vidding projects, and at the moment, I'm excited about them. One is Sherlock Holmes with Lady Gaga's "Alejandro" (I don't know, ok, I really don't know, but I just wanted to and I'm sorry lol) and the other two are for The Phantom of the Opera.

Came out of nowhere, right? I haven't given any thought to Phantom in years. Except that I've always kind of wanted to use the song "Bright Eyes" by Blind Guardian for it. And right now I'm really in love with the song "Blinding" by Florence and the Machine and it would be perfect for Christine (and for Phantom as a whole in a meta way). or at least, it'd be nice to imagine that she eventually has an epiphany like the one which the song describes. I'm sort of toying with the idea of using some other source for an AU, more grownup Christine (could Irene pass, do you think? eh?), but I don't think I could really pull off making them look like they go together. Anyway -- the "Blinding" one is the most recent project (in fact, I haven't really started it -- it's just a bunny) so it'll be a while in coming, probably, but... Yeah, could be cool.

Working on these two at the same time has me wishing for some Holmes/Phantom crossover stuff (fics, vids, whatever). Does anyone know of any? I mean, I know it's a pretty random request, but on the off chance...

I guess that's it. I hope everyone's doing well.

Title: The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out To Get Homes and Watson!
Song: "The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out To Get Us"
Artist: Sufjan Stevens
Movie: "Sherlock Holmes" (Guy Ritchie's; 2009) [and a couple of sneaky clips from "Finding Neverland"]
Comments from the vidder: Yeah, so I'm not really super proud of this one, but you know, whatever. I do enjoy it, and I hope you do too. I found the song difficult to vid for -- it's a bit quirky and ponderous (I edited out a few big chunks of it and it's STILL almost 5 minutes long) -- but I couldn't squelch my desire to do it. Every time I listened to it, I thought of H/W and UST. In my mind, the wasp (or crow? can we pretend a crow works?) represents both the prick of love and desire, and the the oppressiveness of (Victorian) society and ideals which make that love impossible. Enjoy.

Download: My copy of SH isn't great (it's very dark) and WMM isn't great, of course, and on YT it just becomes even worse. So if you're interested in a slightly better quality viewing, here's a download link: here. [28,169 KB; 4 minutes, 56 seconds]
YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmT0fzKxXiE
Stream:

Fandom: Watchmen
Song: "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" by Radiohead
Characters: All (overall focus shifts from Comedian, Ozymandias and Dr. Manhattan to Dan, Laurie and Rorschach)
Summary: The world might end! Can we stop it? Is stopping it what's really important? How should we view ourselves/life/the world? What should we do? Existentialist quandaries of the Watchmen and Radiohead join forces!
Notes: I know I already used this song for a fanvid (a Lord of the Rings one) but oh, well. It's what I found working for me. Aaaand now I just found one ghost clip, and it's going to piss me off forever.
Disclaimer: None of this is really mine -- I'm just a fan with too much time on her hands.
Links: watch it here or here...
Additional rambling:To me, this song is kind of about the absurd, as Camus described it: "that divorce between the mind that desires and the world that disappoints; my nostalgia for unity, this fragmented universe, and the contradiction that binds them together." The world is full of destructive forces, none the least being humankind -- everything is doomed, and for what? Rorschach says "existence is random, has no pattern... no meaning save what we choose to impose." It's a "rudderless world...not shaped by metaphysical forces" but just by us and by everything else in it. And yet, there is a structure to it -- there are laws of nature, and everything is set in motion in a certain way; Dr. Manhattan calls the universe "a watch without a watchmaker." But where does that put us? How do we view ourselves and our choices? Radiohead concludes with saying "immerse yourself in love." Thom Yorke has some stuff to say about the song too.

Title: Read My Mind
Movie: The Neverending Story
Music: The Killers
Summary: A feel-good video for a nostalgic 80s movie. My sister gave me the DVD for Christmas and I just had to vid it. I'm really pleased with how it came out. The idea is fairly self-explanatory; it's about Bastian trying to cope with the world, through fantasy, and the world of fantasy and the characters there depending on him to keep them alive and thriving.(Thats, you know, the plot of the movie.)
Link: Watch it here

Well, it's finished!

Title:Fly
Fandom/Movie: Peter Pan (2003) and Finding Neverland
Song: "Fly" by Blind Guardian
Summary: Just the general message of the two movies -- valuing imagination and creativity, optimism, joy, courage... Specifically, the video (and the song) is primarily J.M. Barrie's point of view as he tries to inspire Sylvia Lewellyn-Davis and her sons (especially Peter), as well as Peter Pan's point of view as he initiates Wendy and her brothers into Neverland.
Notes: Vista Windows Movie Maker is a bitch. The quality of this isn't as great as I'd have hoped, due to having to save what I had when it no longer allowed further edits, import that saved copy, edit it a little, save that and import it again, etc., multiple times. And then there are the one or two ghost clips. Oh, well. I'm through messing with it. Here it is: I hope you enjoy it. This is also, I think, the longest song I've used for a fanvid so far.
Links: You can watch it on YouTube or Imeem (better quality).
You can also download it here (wmv)
Or here:

Title: One and the Same
Song: "Two-Headed Boy Part 2" // Neutral Milk Hotel
Characters/Pairs: Luke, Leia, Anakin, Padme
Description: This is a study of the whole Skywalker family and how they relate to each other. Luke wonders about his father and comes to sense that they are not very different -- he is actually very like his mother as well, though, with his kindness, idealism and hope. After meeting, Luke and Leia become very close and realize that they have a sort of connection, and that they are twins and struggling with a lot of the same things. They are both reflections of both their parents in different ways. The last segment of the video focuses on the parents and on how much Padme means to Anakin, but because they live on in their children and all is one, he shouldn't be afraid to let her go ("Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force," as Yoda said).
Note: I made this for a challenge at sw_fanvids a few weeks back and just got to posting it here now. As you can see, it won 5th place. (The video quality is pretty terrible. Nothing I could do about it.)
Links: ( embedded behind the cut )

or straight link

Title: What It Is To Burn
Music Artist: Finch
Size: 11 MB
Description: Anakin's all-consuming passion and how it ends up destroying everything. Padme becomes everything to him, the only one he can relate to and the only thing he really cares about, but eventually he becomes so caught up in his passion that he loses sight even of her, and everything that he's fighting for. (Or: How raging hormones and batshit paranoia brought about the end of the Jedi and the Galactic Republic.)
Characters/Pairs: Anakin/Padme
Length: 3 min 44 sec
links: download link and streamload link

( click to watch the embedded link behind the cut )

Movie: RENT
Song: "Let Go" - Frou Frou
Notes: So, we watched this movie in my suite the other night. I'd seen it before (the movie, and the play) and I started thinking how it'd be fun to make a fanvid of it. The movie is kind of silly in parts, but it works well as a fanvid, I think, since it's basically one long music video anyway (with awkward speaking-in-rhyme-as-if-it-doesn't-rhyme bits) and I got to cut out the parts I didn't like. Also, I'd been wanting to use this song in a fanvid for a while but hadn't been sure what to use it for. But this movie is a good match, I believe. The general message is to not be afraid or reluctant or caught up in yourself, but to just get out there and enjoy life.
Links: Streaming (YouTube) or Download (Sendspace)

Or just watch it here: ( embedded behind cut )

Movie: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Song: Parting of the Sensory
Band: Modest Mouse
Notes: A million thanks to elynittria for sending me the Ros & Guil DVD. She is MADE OF AWESOME. I hope you enjoy the video. As always with fanvids, the music might not be to everyone's taste. Also, it's a pretty fricking long song. But, you know, I thought it fit. :) So... Enjoy!

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Or watch it here at YouTube.

New vid, guys! Dead Poets Society! I was feeling bored, and couldn't seem to finish any of my other vids (or write anything) so I started this vid. Finished it very quickly, just a short, easy little vid. The song is extremely overused in fanvids, but it was what I felt like using. I hope you enjoy it. It's, uh, wicked depressing. :D

Watch it here!

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