vid - Between the Bars - Merlin

[kiki_miserychic]

vid title: Between the Bars
music: Chris Garneau
source: Merlin BBC, King Arthur, Mists of Avalon, and Merlin (with additional footage from Blade Runner)
duration: 2:30
notes: Thanks to obsessive24, millylicious, sol_se, and kuwdora for the betas.
summary: The images stuck in his head.

download: 30mb xvid avi


Drink up, baby
Stay up all night
The things you could do
You won't, but you might
The potential you'll be
That you'll never see
The promises you'll only make

Drink up with me now
And forget all about
The pressure of days
Do what I say
And I'll make you okay,
And drive them away
The images stuck in your head

The people you've been before
That you don't want around anymore
Or that push and shove and won't bend to your will
I'll keep them still

Drink up, baby
Look at the stars
I'll kiss you again
Between the bars
Where I'm seeing you there
With your hands in the air
You're waiting to finally be caught

Drink up one more time
And I'll make you mine
I'll keep you apart
Deep in my heart
Separate from the rest
Where I like you the best
And keep the things you forgot

The people you've been before
That you don't want around anymore
Or that push and shove and won't bend to your will
I'll keep them still

I'll keep them still
Oh-oh

Comments

[sweetestdrain]

I somehow managed to overlook your list of sources (save for the "additional footage from Blade Runner" bit), so the moment Sam Neill popped up I went "Holy shit! Merlin and MERLIN!" and you totally had me. Awesome weaving of sources, great song choice, and I am definitely gonna have to rewatch this several times. (Hmm. New favorite Merlin vid? Very possible. New favorite Arthurian legend vid? Heck yeah.)

[milly.livejournal.com]

And Mists of Avalon? Yes? No?

Also, YAY you posted it!

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Oh poop. I forgot that one. Thanks.

:)

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

EHehhe, it's a rather long list. :) Thanks!

[milly.livejournal.com]

Well, you know what I think, but I'll just repeat again that I LOVE this vid and the dreamy experience - images from a dream - of it all. It's like a fairytale in motion and it's gorgeous.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Wow, great blending of source for that full on Arthurian experience. I love the way it all flows into each other moving seamlessly between young Merlin and Arthur and their older selves. I particularly admire the colour work especially on the Excalibur section. The coronations sequence was really well worked and was probably my favourite sequence because they should be joyful, triumphant occasions and yet they are full of foreboding and as a result are kind of heartbreaking.

I can only marvel at your ability to get all the different source to play nicely together to create such a wonderful dreamlike whole.

Great vid, Kiki.

[wistfuljane.livejournal.com]

I love how you weave various Arthurian sources into one narrative and especially the implications of those scenes, the foreshadowing of Arthur & Merlin's futures. The segues of Merlin dreaming and of Merlin & Arthur waking were really powerful, I thought. Just so very nicely done.

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Yay! I feel I'm missing so much because I haven't seen most of the new Merlin series or the Mists of Avalon movie at all, but I did love the visuals and musicality of this. Beautifully edited as always, and seamless use of multiple sources. I did love the "between the bars," kind of...between realities link? If I didn't miss the point because I haven't seen most of the primary series you're using? Because it felt to me like the alternate Merlins and alternate Arthurs from all these possible/probable/impossible futures and pasts were stuck in this Merlin's head as his life and destiny unfolded around him? In a very BSG-type "all of this has happened before and will happen again; the players change - the story remains the same," kind of way?

Anyway, great stuff.

[giandujakiss.livejournal.com]

OMG that's awesome - it's a fabulous bit of meta!

[heyiya.livejournal.com]

This is so beautiful. I love the way you weave time here. I haven't seen any of the source except Merlin, which gives it a feeling of prophesy too--knowing the story but not the exact part that is in question at a given time. I liked beccatoria's comment; all this has happened before, all this has happened again, but perhaps differently this time.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I loved making the Excalibur section. It was one of my favorites to edit.

The coloring took forever to get right. My god, I could have murdered it. :)

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I love how slightly different all the sources were.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

For not getting it... you pretty much got it. :)

Mists of Avalon is pretty awesome.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Thanks. A big part of Merlin is that we pretty much know where it's going. Much like Nicky's Red, it's a rather depressing idea.

[snake-easing.livejournal.com]

Really excellent! I love how you weave everything together. Now I want to know how to get my hands on Merlin BBC!

[heyiya.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I meant to say--GORGEOUS title font.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

This was really fascinating. Great use of source from other shows.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :) I like your wording.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

I know. It's so pretty. It's from dafont.com which is the best place for fonts.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Thanks. There's bunches of torrents of the show up at mininova.

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

Wow. I'm absolutely speechless. Merlin manages to create these stunning vids and this is all that and then some. The way you weave the different sources, create this larger argument and mythology. Just gorgeous!!!!

[bradcpu.livejournal.com]

That was *excellent*, Whitney. First of all, I love what you did with the song which is definitely not a song I would have imagined being used for the characters. Your sense of musicality really made it shine, especially with all of the source ext. motion.

Also - WOW, incredible coloring work. Really does a terrific job of blending the sources and making transitions so much smoother, while also adding to mood of different sections and establishing certain colors for certain characters/themes.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Thank you. This song was so perfect. I think I'm getting closer to understanding motion.

The coloring was part of why I wanted to junkpunch this vid so hard.

I blame you for the dream I had last night about grocery shopping with Sam Witwer.