vid - Fiddle and the Drum - sga

[kiki_miserychic]

vid title: Fiddle and the Drum
music: cover by A Perfect Circle
source: Stargate: Atlantis
duration: 3:14
notes: Beta from hollywoodgrrl and cathexys, with consideration from kuwdora. Made in conjuction with iambickilometer's Nowhere in the Corridors for artword Ch016 - Jan./Feb. 2009 - Colors.
summary: We have all come to fear the beating of John Sheppard's drum.

download: youtube
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And so once again
My dear Johnny, my dear friend
And so once again you are fighting us all
And when I ask you why
You raise your sticks and cry, and I fall
Oh, my friend
How did you come?
To trade the fiddle for the drum
You say I have turned
Like the enemies you've earned
But I can remember
All the good things you are
And so I ask you please
Can I help you find the peace and the star?
Oh, my friend
What time is this
To trade the handshake for the fist?

And so once again
Oh, America my friend
And so once again
You are fighting us all
And when we ask you why
You raise your sticks and cry and we fall
Oh, my friend
How did you come
To trade the fiddle for the drum?

You say we have turned
Like the enemies you've earned
But we can remember
All the good things you are
And so we ask you please
Can we help you find the peace and the star?
Oh my friend
We have all come
To fear the beating of your drum

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Comments

[blitzed451.livejournal.com]

This was really beautiful. and maybe what's most impressive is that the clip and editing choices you made gave new depth of meaning and pathos to lyrics (and images) which are pretty familiar. It brought to my mind another old soldier song "Johnny we hardly knew you"...

[beachlass.livejournal.com]

Wow. Beautiful and haunting.

[lamardeuse.livejournal.com]

Oh my god. I'm actually tearing up here. This is brilliant.

[johnsheppardluv.livejournal.com]

a lovely job well-done, mate! a simply and FULLY lovely vid this was indeed! :) really really beautiful and i love the "story" that it tells, as it's quite true to Shep himself! :) so - brava! brava! encore! encore! *applauds hearily in total awe and appreciation of your utterly maaaaddd set of crazy awesome skillz* :) ~Sharma

PS Just call me Happy!Shocked. :)

[tearful-eye.livejournal.com]

this is so beautiful!

i adore a capella songs a lot & you used it to such great effect here - i absolutely love the color & motion in this; you really used all the prettiest shots from the show... *happy sigh*

the john/john fight for example, it's one of my favorite scenes (visually at least), and it fits so perfectly here! and the scenes of the wraith dressing up (from 'vegas') is probably my favorite bit in the whole vid - it's so different, but somehow fits perfectly right there into the whole identity-thing. and of course the shots of the face behind the glass/door & the corridors, *flails*

(and you even have a tiny bit of imaginary!kolya in there, \o/ oh the adorable screwed-up-ness of john knows no bounds)

...i've got so much love for this vid! i didn't enjoy the last season of sga very much, but this brings back all the good memories i've got of this show :)

[rustler.livejournal.com]

Oh, so haunting, and all of John's blurred lines. Loved this.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I like Sheppard as a dark character. Most of my favorite characters are dark.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Thanks for watching, especially if it's not your fandom, and staying for the pretty.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I've never heard that song, but I'll be looking it up on youtube and google soon.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Aww, hopefully you don't cry for too long. Thank you.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I was trying to capture some of how I see Sheppard and express that. Glad you like. :)

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Whoa, thank you. Editing to an a capella song as amazing. I really liked it. SGA can be very, very pretty. Thanks for the bits you picked up on. :)

I wasn't really into the last season of SGA, but Sheppard remains fucked up.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

;) Thank you.

[mz-bstone.livejournal.com]

Vids don't usually make me cry.

This one did.

B

[gwendolynflight.livejournal.com]

Wow. That was great! Very challenging song, I'm impressed.

[saffronhouse.livejournal.com]

oh, golly. Heartbreaking and beautiful.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Aww, thank you.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Thank you. The song was too perfect not to vid.

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :)

[such_heights]

I adore this beyond reason - the song, the colours, the scenes and images you've woven together, I can't stop watching this!

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I'm glad it stands up to rewataching

[juniperphoenix]

Wow, that's going to stick with me for a while. It's so painful and haunting. I get the feeling that the rest of the team (and we, the audience) are sort of hovering helplessly just off-camera, wanting to rescue him and not quite knowing how.

The coloring was very effective; I think it made the already great clip choices seem even more powerful.

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

That's like the show I was dreaming, rather than the show I was watching! You made the footage look so beautiful and took John seriously as a character in ways TPTB never did. Gorgeous.