vid - the girl or the weapon? - Firefly/Serenity

[kiki_miserychic]

Vid Title: the girl or the weapon?
Vidder: kiki_miserychic, miserychic47@hotmail.com
Musical Artist: Michael Andrews
Fandom: Firefly/Serenity
Summary: Who we gonna find in there when she wakes up? The girl? Or the weapon?

Download: 48mb

Comments

[kuwdora.livejournal.com]

oh my god this beyond absolutely amazingg. I just woke up and saw the vid, and I'm kind of sleep for time squee kind of feedback

but oh my god, this is beautiful, phenomonal--creepy--ethereal.

wow.

wowo.

[bradcpu.livejournal.com]

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo excited!!!

End, work! End!

*roots for sunset*

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Good morning... or afternoon, whatever it is for you. :)

Thank you.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

EHehheeh. Work sucks.

[bananainpyjamas.livejournal.com]

That was awesome! I've only seen one episode of Firefly but I've seen tons of vids, so I know how shiny the footage can be and was excited for what you would do with it. I love the color shift at 0:51; it's quite foreboding and is the perfect way to acknowledge the shift in music and tone. The segment immediately following that contains an absolutely stunning use of overlays and crossfades. I went back and rewatched it a few times because a) there was so much packed in there and b) it looked damn cool.

The narrative was extremely well-constructed, making it both coherent and emotionally impactful even for someone with very little source knowledge like myself. 1:55 onwards is just mind-blowingly awesome. It's hard to pick out favorite moments because the whole thing just flows together so well with such wonderful musicality, but I will say the camera movement over the audio cue at 2:03 was particularly inspired. Amazing work! This will probably go down as one of my favorites from you.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

The source is so shiny I clipped far more than I needed because it was all so pretty.

I love the color shift at 0:51; it's quite foreboding and is the perfect way to acknowledge the shift in music and tone.
I'm glad that worked because I was worried I got the coloring wrong and it would be icky.

The segment immediately following that contains an absolutely stunning use of overlays and crossfades.
My eleven layers were a bit extensive...

Thank you so much. When I edited the different scores together I tried to make them all flow and I was worried it wouldn't all flow and be choppy.

I will say the camera movement over the audio cue at 2:03 was particularly inspired. Amazing work!
I have a sick love of that shot.

This will probably go down as one of my favorites from you.
Yay!

[aurora]

Oooh, this was so cool!!

[whereistheluv.livejournal.com]

This... I wish I had better words, but WOW. that was amazing, and layered and heartbreaking and amazing... and um, amazing... I thought there would come a point where I would be over seeing River vids because there's so little source but this felt so fresh and new. I really loved the overall vision and story of this. And wow, reading above, 11 layers?? I can barely get myself to use two for fear that I will cover something up and create a big murky mess that no one can see or understand but this, this was done so well. I really need to watch this several more times before I can even get a handle on my thoughts on it all. Great job!

[bradcpu.livejournal.com]

The tech here is very impressive, but far and away my favorite thing about the vid is how you used the tone of the music to reflect River's mental state so well.

The first time through the vid, I just sat there wide-eyed - just sort of along for the ride - wondering what you were going to throw at me next visually. But I rewatched several times, picking apart the layers and connections (I'm sure there are many more to explore). There's so much depth here.

I love how, when it's good for River (mentally), it's pretty, it's simple, but still sort of askew and confusing. And when it's bad, it's ALL bad - in waves. You get this inescapable, claustrophobic feeling.

I think my favorite moment is the fade to blue and awesome sense of horrorific, shattered reality from :52 to 1:00. Also, AWESOME connections around 1:22, 1:40, and 1:48. And all through the connections, you keep that mood of confusion and being sort of swept along. The section starting at 1:50 is another Wow. Schnikes. Also, I love how, through it all, the internal and external motion mirrors the flow of the music so well (like in that overlay at 2:03)

[talitha78.livejournal.com]

That was utterly cool. It was like a weird fever-dream.

Fantastic music choice.

Did you make the art here? Or is that from a comic or something?

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

I've loved Michael Andrews score since Donnie Darko and I couldn't pick just one piece to use. :)

The header image comes from the comic, not me. :)

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

I was hesitant to do a River vid because there are so many out there, but then I figured why not. The world can never have too many. :)

A few of those 11 layers were color gradients, so it's not all clips.

Thank you.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Love the icon.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

The tech here is very impressive
Thanks. My widdle brain finally was able to accomplish what I wanted effects-wise.

...how you used the tone of the music to reflect River's mental state so well.
There's something about the Donnie Darko score that just says River to me.

...So you like it? :)

[bradcpu.livejournal.com]

Well it sucks, but aside from that... yeah, I like it.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

It does suck because no one cried or puked. I would have settled for someone pooping their pants, but alas.

[winterevanesce.livejournal.com]

Haha, At first I thought the music came from Edward Scissorhands for some reason. Then "Oh it's from Donnie Darko!" - Love that movie!

Really awesome video! My eyes were so glued to the screen while watching that I almost got tears in my eyes from staring. I loved all the overlays! Truly a cool video! Gosh, I really need to check out Firefly one of these days. I've seen so many vids to the show and I really like this one the best! Awesome job!

[giandujakiss.livejournal.com]

This is really amazing. I love the concept and the execution.

[emily-shore.livejournal.com]

I would love to see this vid, but I am having a lot of trouble getting hold of it. In order to watch the Stage6 version, I think I have to download something from Stage6 (a special version of the divx codec?) and I don't want to do that. Tried downloading the WMV version and I got a message saying it had been compressed using an unsupported codec. I am perplexed because I've never had trouble watching either Divx or WMV before. Do you have any advice?

[hollywoodgrrl.livejournal.com]

Well then. I have two things to say. No, wait, three things.

1. Yays! You did it! \o/

2. I literally paused this and ran to tell my roommate about this vid because you're using the music from Donnie Darko, and I just recently rewatched that film and literally went, "I love that music. There should be a vid to it." So yay! And it worked so wonderfully here. Honestly, the concept is magnificent and it's executed spectacularly of course. You are a little genius.

3. I probably couldn't do this vid with two hands, so I expect a commentary.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Wow. This was brilliant. Excellent use of music, which was powerful, yet understated. What a gorgeous vid.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

1. One-handed vidding is hard, yo. :)

2. I love that movie and the score and the actors and the everything about it. I've wanted to do this vid for quite a long time and I was finally able to do what I wanted effects-wise.

3. Hehehhe, the commentary would consist of, "I have eleven layers here of eleventy thousand things, like an octopus and a doll, none of which are very visible." :)

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

The music could fit for Edward Scissorhands too. Donnie Darko's one of my favorite movies and favorite scores.

Yay, my 11 layers made your eyes water. :)

Thank you. Firefly is extremely awesome and it's not even a full series, so it's very short with a half a season and a movie.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

I'm not very up with the technical stuff, but I think it's because I made it with the newest divx codec (http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/download/?tiger_aff=z01_download_divx_codec&cid=GGL0000269&s_kwcid={ifsearch:divx%20codec}|1202956022&gclid=CK2lrJuB3ZACFQp7PAodBxe-YA&ef_id=1671:3:s_4eff77e877c590bfa16468069b84895e_1202956022:E3E4btB6MjYAAEGJZG0AAAAV:20080104163352). I'm uploading to imeem, so when it goes through I'll update you.