New Vid!!! Angel!!!
May. 1st, 2004 03:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sisabetI'm heartsick about the show right now. Thanks, much thanks, as always to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sockkpuppett and renenet for beta and support.
Vid: Paradise
song by: Richard Ashcroft
"But you have so much more to lose."
Available in WMV, Here
All thoughts and comments are cherished, feedback is cuddled, and critiques are fed warm soup on windy nights.
ETA - site back up and running. Now if only I had hyperlinks. At least I think I want hyperlinks...Hmmm....
sockkpuppett and renenet for beta and support. Vid: Paradise
song by: Richard Ashcroft
"But you have so much more to lose."
Available in WMV, Here
All thoughts and comments are cherished, feedback is cuddled, and critiques are fed warm soup on windy nights.
ETA - site back up and running. Now if only I had hyperlinks. At least I think I want hyperlinks...Hmmm....
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Date: 2004-05-01 12:12 am (UTC)This was really heart breaking though, I just want to give Angel a hug and tell him it'll be ok. It's also making me want to run out and buy the Season 1 DVDs just so I can remember the good old days.
There is a lot of emotion in this video, which you must be proud of. Being outside the fandom I can tell, just by watching this video that you love the characters, all of them. Even if there are ones you wanna smack sometimes, you love them.
I also like that you left Spike out of this video... and all the people at Wolfram and Hart. I don't know if you did that on purpose or it just happened, but this video would have lacked slightly had Spike been there. Which I hate to say because ::huggles Spike:: but it's true. Spike doesn't represent the family that Angel used to have and loved so much, but is what I think you were showing in this video. I might be wrong, but I don't think so.
Anyway, another great video for sisabet. And I hope this was good... it was my first time leaving feedback for you. Erm... sorry about that. ;)
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Date: 2004-05-01 10:57 am (UTC)That is exactly why he did not fit in the vid.
I might be wrong, but I don't think so.
Nope - you were entirely on the money.
Thank you for the feedback - and I need to send you an email. I feel all addicted to you and your poison paradise. Hee.
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Date: 2004-05-01 12:27 am (UTC)Maybe I shouldn't have tried to watch it at 2:00am, after a long week of too little sleep and too much grief that's come on too quickly, but I'm strangely glad I did, tears and all. So many, many moments came back to me, and in some way I can't articulate, you captured the pain and the joy of being Angel, reminded me of all the losses he's suffered in the last few years, his longing for family and what he's willing to do to save it, even at his own expense. Bad choices, good choices, laughter, tears -- it's all there. And everyone is there. Under everything, and worth it all in the end, is this deep, underlying pain and sorrow, and my heart breaks with it, even as it's the result of so much love.
And I know it's all about Cordy, too, and I love how it switches, but the second time through I just started crying and couldn't stop, and all I can think at the moment is that even what's about Cordy is about Angel, because in some weird way she is his soul, and whoever would have thought that Cordelia Chase would end up so rich and full and wise and wonderful, and ultimately break Angel's heart even as she saved it?
Somehow this vid brings everything I feel about this damned show right to the surface, under the thin veil of my skin, and it's brilliant, and it hurts, and it's a pleasure so close to pain I'm drunk with it. I can't believe I'm breaking my heart so hard over a damned TV show.
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Date: 2004-05-01 10:58 am (UTC)Under everything, and worth it all in the end, is this deep, underlying pain and sorrow, and my heart breaks with it, even as it's the result of so much love.
Oh, wow - that is exactly what I was going for. Thank you!!!
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Date: 2004-05-01 12:27 am (UTC)Great job, for whatever it's worth :)
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Date: 2004-05-01 10:59 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2004-05-01 12:43 am (UTC)*cries*
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Date: 2004-05-01 12:49 am (UTC)That video was absolutely incredible - the simple, effect-free presentation made it a sort of quiet, haunting kind of nostalgic...Angel looking back on the family he had and lost, in light of their near-complete dissolution in S5. And typing the whole thing around Cordy made it even better...I'm not much of an Angel/Cordy fan, but one of the things that has made me saddest about this year was the brushing off of Cordy's death and it's implications...this video let Angel grieve, not just for Cordy but for the loss of the family that she was really the cornerstone of, in so many ways.
Like someone else said, I also love the fact that you didn't include Spike or Wolfram and Hart. I love Spike; I do - but he doesn't belong to the Angel "family" - it's not about him.
Gah, this whole video is incredible. I can't think of anything else to say, because I'm sitting here watching this and sniffling for Angel, for Wesley, for Cordy, for Gunn...and for us, because it's really just now hitting me that we're *losing* this show.
Absolutely incredible video. Possibly one of my favorites, ever. Period.
Linzee
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Date: 2004-05-01 11:02 am (UTC)Absolutely. There was no way Spike could fit in to this vid. And thank you so much. Yeah, I went very simple and spare on this vid - not a lot of surprises in the timeline as far as editing tricks - just some dissolves when it felt like it needed to dissolve. I don't know - this was my tribute to this part of the show and it felt like it needed to be simple and quiet - anything showy would be tacky and disrespectful.
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Date: 2004-05-01 01:08 am (UTC)I liked it a lot! You chose some very moving images from the whole run of the show, and they were beautifully cut together. The song was just the right touch of somber given the reality of reaching the end of the show. It made me tear up, so I hope that's what you were going for! *g*
I'm curious as to why you chose not to include any images of Spike in the vid. Just personal preference, did he simply not fit into your vision, or some other reason?
Thanks for sharing this!
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Date: 2004-05-01 11:06 am (UTC)I adore Spike - I do. But while making this vid, I became more and more conscious of the fact that he truly does not fit in this, this family dynamic, that was constructed for the last 4 seasons. TBQ said it at the beginning of the season and she was right. Now - I am glad that Spike is there and I am thrilled with his current "Angel's Wife" turn - I hope they are together forever and ever - but Spike has no place in what I was saying here - which is Once Upon A Time Cordelia walked into Angel's life and built him a family and a place in the world and he was loved. And then it all goes away. Like things do.
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Date: 2004-05-01 10:49 am (UTC)I keep breaking the site. Damn.
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Date: 2004-05-01 07:38 am (UTC)Angel doesn't want much, but he's denied all of it ultimately, and even when he seems to make headway, it comes crashing down, and the remembrance of good things only serves to highlight his losses. It makes my heart clench up. And yet? There's always hope. It's a musical illustration of the only thing left in Pandora's box.
What a fruit, what a tree indeed.
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Date: 2004-05-01 11:10 am (UTC)Angel doesn't want much, but he's denied all of it ultimately, and even when he seems to make headway, it comes crashing down, and the remembrance of good things only serves to highlight his losses. It makes my heart clench up. And yet? There's always hope. It's a musical illustration of the only thing left in Pandora's box.
Oh God. I want to shield him and all and you can't cause he is living now. This is life. For 100 years he didn't and he didn't hurt like this - even when guilt forced him onto the streets or in with the animals - but now - he is really alive. And being alive means losing and hurting.
*cries*
*cries*
Date: 2004-05-01 08:45 am (UTC)I sobbed at 'You're welcome' because I still love me some Cordy when she's not Pod!Cordy. I cried at this because I love me some Angel. As always, beautful, beautiful work.
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Date: 2004-05-01 11:28 am (UTC)I hope that this vid does not make anyone think I am going for a romantic love with Cordy and Angel - because to me - that cheapens how very much they loved each other. They were family and Cordy was the key to the entire family and that is beyond sex and death and taxes.
Thank you so much for the feedback.
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Date: 2004-05-01 09:53 am (UTC)It says it's down.
*sniffles*
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Date: 2004-05-01 12:14 pm (UTC)I can't seem to download it, and when I tried to go to www.headtilt.com, it says it does not exist. No!!! Noo!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Date: 2004-05-04 08:39 am (UTC)Just thought I should jot you a little thing to thank you for making such an emotionally affecting vid. It was lovely to see everyone, as seen through the lens of Angel, and everyone and everything he's lost in his little family.
Thank you for this. Very much.
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Date: 2004-05-04 03:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-04 11:37 am (UTC)But omg, sad :( And I don't even watch Angel.
Loved how some of the transitions looked like they morphed from one to the next, and (I'm guessing) because we're looking at the foregrounds, it seemed like only a part of the screen morphed. Gorgeous.
And the end credits...like a tombstone :(( I can only imagine how you felt while vidding this one.
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Date: 2004-05-04 03:57 pm (UTC)Also I owe you pages and pages of feedback. I suck - you know this - right? I'm still at work right now or I'd get to it and by the time I get home tonight, coherancy will not be my friend - but one of these days...
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Date: 2004-05-04 06:33 pm (UTC)Thank you so much for sharing this fantastic video with us.
::hugs you::
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