New Vid!! Battlestar Galactica!

[sisabet]

I finished another vid! Massive thanks and kudos to renenet for the machine gun beta performed well into the wee hours.

Fandom: Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Song: When I Paint My Masterpiece
Artist: Emmylou Harris
Starbuck, character study
Format: WMV, 20mbs
Oh, the streets of Rome are filled with rubble

WMV version - 19 mbs here


All thoughts, criticisms, recipes, whatever - it is welcome. Feel free to link to this page (not to the vid) on LJ, webpages, and communities/mailing lists.

A rough outline done in the hours before I started laying clips and was itching to vid, but stuck at work, can be found here . At that time I said I was not up for discussing the vid, just process. Now, now that I have done all that I can do, I am up for discussing the vid. Whew.

ETA: 1-11-10 the vid is now available (wmv only, sorry) for download again.

Comments

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

See, this isn't *just* country music, and it certainly isn't country pop.

This is a Bob Dylan song - a song I really liked - but when Emmylou Harris (a truly angelic voice regardless of genre) covered this song it went from being one of my preferred Dylan songs to being intensely personal and my favorite Dylan cover of all time (which is saying A LOT).

I see Starbuck in this - from the theme of searching for inspiration in the ruins of the past, striving for some nebulous goal - to the lilt in Emmylou's voice and the mischevious spin she puts in her voicing the lyrics. She is having fun here and she isn't trying to act as if she isn't.

That and I am a sucker for a good steel guitar.

[sabaceanbabe.livejournal.com]

That's the story in it. You're so right about Starbuck and the inspiration from the ruins of the past, and about the lilt in Ms. Harris' voice.

The best types of music, like the best types of shows, transcend genre. :)

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Now I am fighting the urge to madly and enthusiastically pimp you to some incredible artists you might not otherwise have been exposed to because music makes us happy!

[sabaceanbabe.livejournal.com]

Oh! Please do! Hee. I discovered quite a few of my favorite artists through videos. Mostly Farscape, but...