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So, here we are again, with another music vid (SGA again) to offer. One that ATE MY SOUL. Nomnomnomnommmm. Mmm, apparently quite tasty! Who knew? Well, other than almost every fandom I've been in…ah well.
Vid info, download links and an extensive, rambling vidder's note
Title: What is Eternal?
Song: from Trans-Siberian Orchestra's Beethoven's Last Night
Character: Rodney…oh, OOohhh Rodney
Category: episode-related (Last Man), angst, and does Rodney McKay count as its own category?
Spoilers: Yes, yes and very much YES. All of the show, particularly "The Last Man". Will probably make very little sense if you *haven't* seen season four, so don't watch if you have yet to be shown it, this means YOU,
utopiantrunks! *cough* ^_-
Size: ~56 MB
Format: .avi
Notes: Vidder's note on just what addled thoughts were passing through my brain as this vid sucked hours, days, WEEKS from my life, can be found after the download links.
Links:
Youtube
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Song lyrics can be found here.
Or just watch it here:
Vidder's Notes:
So, I first got obsessed with Beethoven's Last Night several weeks before "The Last Man" aired, and at the time, I recall thinking, hmm, "What Is Eternal" could make a fun SGA vid. Maybe a Rodney piece, maybe the whole team, whatever. With no clear ideas jumping out at me, I put it on the back burner to stew for a bit. Then they gave us the season finale and it was OMG must do this vid NOW. Rodney, oh Rodney, so, SO perfect.
And thus began several weeks of semi-permanent exhaustion. Because, beyond eating my soul, this vid also devoured most of the hours I should have been doing useful things, like say, oh, SLEEPING. But, totally worth it. 'Cause…well, Rodney!
Still being kinda new to this whole vidding 'thang, I used this opportunity to test some new techniques. Like the image matte keying feature, which opens all kinds of new doors. (Coincidentally, I also discovered my computer reeealllly doesn't like having both Photoshop and Premiere open at the same time :-p) I hope what I was trying to accomplish comes through in the end…and that I didn't clutter up the video too much. :-p
As always, I'd very much like to know what people think (truthfully, with all the hours, and amount of SOUL this has eaten up, it's more like 'incredibly anxious to know" :-p), C & C is tremendously welcome!
Vid info, download links and an extensive, rambling vidder's note
Title: What is Eternal?
Song: from Trans-Siberian Orchestra's Beethoven's Last Night
Character: Rodney…oh, OOohhh Rodney
Category: episode-related (Last Man), angst, and does Rodney McKay count as its own category?
Spoilers: Yes, yes and very much YES. All of the show, particularly "The Last Man". Will probably make very little sense if you *haven't* seen season four, so don't watch if you have yet to be shown it, this means YOU,
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Size: ~56 MB
Format: .avi
Notes: Vidder's note on just what addled thoughts were passing through my brain as this vid sucked hours, days, WEEKS from my life, can be found after the download links.
Links:
Youtube
Sendspace
Megaupload
Song lyrics can be found here.
Or just watch it here:
Vidder's Notes:
So, I first got obsessed with Beethoven's Last Night several weeks before "The Last Man" aired, and at the time, I recall thinking, hmm, "What Is Eternal" could make a fun SGA vid. Maybe a Rodney piece, maybe the whole team, whatever. With no clear ideas jumping out at me, I put it on the back burner to stew for a bit. Then they gave us the season finale and it was OMG must do this vid NOW. Rodney, oh Rodney, so, SO perfect.
And thus began several weeks of semi-permanent exhaustion. Because, beyond eating my soul, this vid also devoured most of the hours I should have been doing useful things, like say, oh, SLEEPING. But, totally worth it. 'Cause…well, Rodney!
Still being kinda new to this whole vidding 'thang, I used this opportunity to test some new techniques. Like the image matte keying feature, which opens all kinds of new doors. (Coincidentally, I also discovered my computer reeealllly doesn't like having both Photoshop and Premiere open at the same time :-p) I hope what I was trying to accomplish comes through in the end…and that I didn't clutter up the video too much. :-p
As always, I'd very much like to know what people think (truthfully, with all the hours, and amount of SOUL this has eaten up, it's more like 'incredibly anxious to know" :-p), C & C is tremendously welcome!
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Date: 2008-04-09 03:58 am (UTC)Well done! WELL done! I've never heard the song before but it was interesting, and I loved the way you really took the lyrics to make this vid. The co-rleations were awesome and very well chosen. And I love the "sequence shots" where you run through a pannel with the "old" effect or the "backened out top and bottom" effect. And I loved the "death sequences" and the end sequences, and I really liked how you merged the two videos on top of each other, for example Rodney near the beginning thinking in the Last Man, and how you used that moment to shuttle through life on Atlantis.
I've never seen Rodney in SG1, either, and my god he looks so YOUNG! The contrast with that and Old Rodney was excellent, but my favourite - my absolutely favourite part was when you contrasted now and then Atlantis. The control room busy and then empty, the corridors bustling and then still. Blue light to that aweful burnt orange of a dying sun.
Gorgeous! Very well done! Can't wait to see what you come up with next :)
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Date: 2008-04-09 01:09 pm (UTC)Mmm, ain't Rodney adorable in SG-1? He's a total, unmitigated ASSHOLE in the first ep with him, "48 hours" but SO young and adorable and yeah. To be honest, the contrasted now and then of Atlantis part is the thing I'm most happy with how it turned out in the vid, so it makes me extra happy to hear others liking it! Thanks again for commenting, you made my day! ^_^