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I'm at work - and I am bored. Bored bored bored and I want to be home and vidding and since I can't do that - I have done something I rarely do nowadays.

I've outlined my vid. And I decided to post it because - well other vidders might be as interested in process as I am.

Now what I do want to note here is that:

1. Please don't comment on the vid idea, clip idea or any of that itself. I have a beta and will figure it out and the questions in the outline are there for *me* to answer. It will bug me if anyone else tries to answer them without me contacting them and actually *asking* the question.

I'm not up for discussing this vid - that will kill the vid before I can even get more than 30 seconds laid.

2.

renenet do not read behind the cut. I'll bookmark and you can read later after you rightfully tear this down.

What is up for discussion is process, process, process --- I normally don't write these things down, but this *is* how I do generally think about a vid when I first go into it.

Fandom: Battlestar Galactica 2003; Starbuck Character Study
Song: When I Paint My Masterpiece, Emmylou Harris

Oh, the streets of Rome are filled with rubble,
Ancient footprints are everywhere.
You can almost think that you're seein' double
On a cold, dark night on the Spanish Stairs.

Will fill and vid last -- making notes of things to introduce. Can use Arrow of Apollo to frame, beware Caprica/Rome over literalization, but it might be nice hook - will see.

NOTES: state to establish Kara as pilot, establish her place in Adama family, Also need to count my masterpiece moments cause becoming own person - independent of views of self and Adamas is where she is headed.

Got to hurry on back to my hotel room,
Where I've got me a date with a pretty young boy from Greece.
He promised that he'd be right there with me
When I paint my masterpiece.

have to see how this affects her even now -- the longing mixed with the pain and hit hard at the grave -- face language hints at absolute horror of the moment -- go lightly at lyrics and highlight "promised" and "masterpiece"

Musical - steel guitars -- this didn't kill her and she is still Kara, don't curl up and die -- show Apollo here

Oh, the hours We've spent inside the Coliseum,

Jail? Hose? Go light here? How in love with Starbuck is the audience by now? Could go dark, but will go dark on next line so lighten up here so it sticks. Fun Kara! POKER AND HOSE! Intro Gaius if possible.

Dodging lions and wastin' time.

Tigh - does he fit? Is he a lion? How much does she dodge him? It will work. I know it will work - why will it work? She *does* dodge him, he is what she doesn't want to be! OMG! YES - She is afraid of being him, she is terrified of being him and this is why she freaking apologizes to Apollo and how the hell do I show that she is dodging fate? DAMMIT.

Wasting time with Apollo - figure this out. Make it work but don't overthink it. It isn't wasting time because she can't have him - that isn't the point. She can't really have anyone - she isn't ready. Why is it wasting time? She is putting off the inevitable? No, she isn't. Denial of feelings? Not much of that. He distracts her. Yep. Caring about him isn't a waste of time but constantly battling him is. Use standup to CAG and dissolve into laughter scene here.

The guitar does that pluck, bling bling thing there. Close in on scene. Cutaway or juxtapose - do *something*

Oh, those mighty kings of the jungle, I could hardly stand to see 'em

Has to be Adama. Has to be Adama. HUGS! Oh - where he holds her shoulders -- post funeral -- GOOD STARBUCK FACE HAS TO GO HERE. This is key to setting up her coca cola, so hit this hard hard hard. She confesses and he rejects her -- worst fear -- she hero worships him and only partly because of Zack. DADDYVIBE.

Yes, it sure has been a long, hard climb.

Allowed to go literal here if I need to do so but not allowed to use actual climb on crashdown planet. Can use PT footage but that might be throwaway emotionally. Better to go with laughing. Laughing Starbuck is better than even strutting Starbuck. Emmylou hits *been* nicely - good note - pay attention. Vid the emotion here - not the action. Laugh before you cry and then laugh because you cry. Starbuck.

Train wheels runnin' through the back of my memory,

You are not allowed to go literal here - you are allowed to use Apollo and Gauis here. Hee!! GLEE! VID THIS WITH GLEE.

When I ran on the hilltop following a pack of wild geese.

No idea - what does this sound like? Use it to connect the next part - figure out how they fit and the piece that fits is about this line. Trust me.

Someday, everything will sound like a rhapsody
When I paint my masterpiece.

Bringing in the cat - obviously - that part has to go here, it has to go and if renenet says cut it, come up with something else to do elsewhere to keep this part. She has to bring in the cat and hear nothing but the rain. Has to. If you have her land at the end of the paint my masterpiece line then you have the steel guitar bit at the next portion to set her up with the cylon fighter.

NOTE -- REDO EARLIER PORTION TO INTRODUCE STARBUCK AS PILOT.

Sailin' 'round the world in a dirty gondola.

Has to be cylon. Have to see "Starbuck" written on wings. Kill the Source.

Oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

NOTE: IF RENENET DOES NOT LIKE THIS, BE PREPARED TO SACRIFICE ALL OTHER POINTS IN VID.

Have to hit hard - Starbuck in bed - use face shot from later in scene where she asks for cigar - hand clasp - Adama kiss -- at *coca cola* show her face crumble and this is the Emotional Moment here and hit it hard. At the bit before the transition into the next stanza, show her and Apollo's wings wiggle at each other cause sooo sweet. Her family.

NOTE: NEED ADAMAS/STARBUCK 3-SHOT EARLY IN VID AS WELL.

I left Rome and landed in Brussels,
On a plane ride so bumpy that I almost cried.

Will vid when I come to it. Want to use sex but it might not work with next bit so hold off cause next bit is more important.

NOTES: Torture and planning - Adama trusts her - he needs her brain even sidelined as a pilot -- strategist. Might not fit here and running out of Masterpieces but integral to theme.

Clergymen in uniform and young girls pullin' muscles,

RayKCylon and hand to hand and then sucked out thru airlock. Would like to use torture stuff as well - in character, absolutely - vid prev stanza after this. Torture stuff will work for almost cried - esp where she connects/fears cylon.

Everyone was there to greet me when I stepped inside.

Use her gods here - the ones she has wrapped up and tucked away. She prays here.

Newspapermen eating candy
Had to be held down by big police.

Disillusionment over Adama - DADDY! Break-way to go to Caprica

Someday, everything is gonna be diff'rent
When I paint my masterpiece.

Will know when you see this. Chill.