vid - Devil Said - Merlin
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vid title: Devil Said
music: "Dirty Horse" from Gram Rabbit
source: Merlin BBC, King Arthur, and Mists of Avalon
duration: 2:49
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summary: Ohhh. Morgana(/Gwen)
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Now the devil said, “come on and walk with me
I’ll show you some things that you may not ever see
It’s time that I made myself real clear
and if things are cool, we’ll stop off and grab a beer"
Ohhh
Ohhh
Ohhh
Ohhh
Well, I never wanted to start any type of fight
I always wanted to make things just real right
But Jesus is mad and he’s blaming it all on me
when the problem is you, it’s very plain to see
Ohhh
Jesus said, “Ohhh”
And the devil said, “Ohhh”
And the angels said, “Ohhh”
Coyote said, “Ohhh”
The white rabbit said, “Ohhh”
The little yetti said, “Ohhh”
And we all said, “Ohhh”
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Date: 2009-02-13 09:03 pm (UTC)(and by the way, if I didn't tell you already, I did get the video you sent me. It, too, blew me away. I'm really very excited to be working with you.)
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Date: 2009-02-14 03:14 am (UTC)Thank you.
It's weird to take a show like Merlin and turn it into something entirely serious. A lot of vidders have done so.
I'm super excited about doing
YAAAAYY!!
Date: 2009-02-13 10:34 pm (UTC)The way you weave Morgana's story here is just breathtaking. I love the way you intercut her fighting with the King Arthur footage, the myth and the various tellings of it all together; the movement forward and back through time gives me additional shivers down my spine, especially combined with the little repeated movements of footage in time to the music. Reading the lyrics to the song I'm even more struck with its perfection: Jesus is mad and he's blaming it all on me---YES.
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Date: 2009-02-14 03:11 am (UTC)This song is Morgana. I'm convinced. You should listen to the whole song too.
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Date: 2009-02-14 01:30 am (UTC)Ohhh. Morgana. No kidding. That was beautiful. And beautifully blue. Love the song, too. I'd heard it once before, but I never knew what it was.
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Date: 2009-02-14 07:10 am (UTC)And hypnotic. Did I mention that part? *rewatches*
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Date: 2009-02-16 05:35 am (UTC)If I may ask, is there any chance you could point me in the direction of where I can get my hands on the song you used? I really liked it.
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Date: 2009-02-18 01:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-18 01:06 am (UTC)* the title font, and the way it collapses
* the beginning, with the cuts between Uther/Morgana and Morgana/Mordred, which I just realized reverses the red and blue-green on their capes and hoods. AWESOME. Love the reversal. That ties in so nicely to the blue-green at the beginning and end. Morgana reminds me of Little Red Riding Hood here, and with the "White Rabbit" at the end, she also seems like Alice, being led down the rabbit hole.
* baby!Mordred on "the devil", and Morgana's look on :55.
* all the little crossfade jump cuts - they work beautifully with the music
* the jump cuts and the lyric tie around 1:50. How perfect.
* you have such a great sense of color - the orange spot in the sea of blue at :16 and :21 is lovely, and the pan into the white lily. And how the little bug starts crawling to kick off the vid.
* the jump cuts to Morgana in the forest around 1:57. LOVE THAT. Very, very clever.
* the reflecting eyes of Mordred and Morgana at :43, right on the beat, and the broken mirror. I keep finding more amazingness while I'm trying to write this.
* The look and the lyric tie on 1:55.
* how you used the blue-green color to tie it all together, as well as the castle, and to match the beginning with the fighting footage at the end.
* how the arrow at :30 and at 2:03 serves to bookend the vid and mesh it with external to BBC source. The blending at 2:03 is really nice.
* how it emotionally climaxes with the crazy fighting at the end.
* THE FIGHTING.
* everything from 2:23 to 2:27.
I love how to you play off of the religious tension inherent in the text, and tie together magic, homosexuality, feminism, and the villain narrative. It is fab.
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Date: 2009-02-18 01:55 am (UTC)Child Mordred is so very creepy.
Meshing the source is always a struggle, so it's good to read that what I tried worked for you.
Yay and thank you.
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Date: 2009-02-24 12:02 am (UTC)...cause this vid is so wonderful. i really choked up while watching it - it's so beautiful, & heartbreaking somehow. you show how much morgana will change (even if she maybe doesn't want to), nothing/no one can prevent her destiny from coming true. i also love how you bring gwen into this & how it will be her death that changes everything for morgana... (don't know if i 'watched' that right though). & of course the way you merge the series with the movies is very cool, and the jump cuts, and... everything, ♥.
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Date: 2009-02-24 01:42 am (UTC)Thank you so very much. Yes, you got what I was doing with Gwen's death. Thank you. :)
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Date: 2009-02-24 11:44 am (UTC)Devil and Modred's face = awesome.
I can't tell you how much I loved this vid. It showed how strong Morgana is, and canon forgets that too often. Her powers and strength of character might eventually lead her down the wrong path (devil said come on and walk with me, *glee*), but it's so nice to see how full of spunk and kick-ass moments she is.
And the Morgana/Gwen moments were lovely.
*mems and goes back to rewatch*
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Date: 2009-03-06 07:23 am (UTC)The blending of the sources was beautifully seamless-I had to check your description cuz I thought it was all Merlin 'til I thought I saw Keira Knightly (Not sure I spelled her name right :/) plz forgive my source ingorance. Was she dreaming?
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Date: 2009-03-06 11:43 pm (UTC)Yep, she was dreaming, like many other Morgana vids. Originality fail.
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Date: 2010-01-03 08:44 pm (UTC)In the movie, King Arthur, Keira Knightly is Guinevere, but for my vid I made her Morgana. Actually, I think her character was more Morgana than it was Guinevere. For the vid, she has the same facial bone structure as Katie McGrath. I like the mesh of sources that let me make Morgana into something I could see her becoming in the future.
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Date: 2012-06-27 10:17 pm (UTC)Thanks and have a nice life.Best regards from Sweden / The Viking.
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Date: 2012-07-09 02:32 am (UTC)I made it as a companion piece with Between the Bars (http://kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com/151843.html).
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Date: 2012-06-27 10:21 pm (UTC)Again, best regards from Sweden / The Viking.
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