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

[absolutedestiny.livejournal.com]

Adorable.

Also, a very very excellent use of the cheesy zooms that the show has everywhere (totally ripped from Firefly but hey).

Also also, some great honorary-daddy/daughter moments in this vid. Of all the loving connections that's certainly the strongest right there.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

DADDY! Um, sorry - but I just love their relationship, even the messy bits of their relationship. The Adamas don't just have issues -- they have periodicals. They have piles and piles of microfiche!

::loves::

Also, a very very excellent use of the cheesy zooms that the show has everywhere (totally ripped from Firefly but hey).

I think Firefly lifted some of the jump cut techniques from Homicide: Life on the Streets and also... COPS (and whoa, just made that connection) but I do like the immediacy the nausea-cam gives us (although they totally go overboard on the zooms - not that I am complaining cause that worked in my favor here, just observin'). I have a weakness for cheesy zooms and special effects (::pats Smallville fondly::)

[absolutedestiny.livejournal.com]

Yeah, although there is a little difference between the sci-fi interpretation of these essentially documentary techniques. Where the cop shows like the shield will only move the camera after the action has happened in order to create this spontaneous realistic feel the sci fi shows can occasionally be more omniscient feel about it, which can create an interesting eerie feel. There's not *quite* as much out-of focus stuff but there is a great deal of panic, which works well.

It's all very much a modern US-TV way of doing things though - it's the zoom shots in the external CG stuff that was a particularly firefly thing... applying this documentary idea to sci-fi externals was unique. Of course the CG in firefly and the CG in BSG are done by the same folks so :)

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

I think it would be fun to stack all of the sci-fi shows of the last, say, 10 years, together and look for trends in the SE and camera work, but I am lame and have a lot of free time.

You are right about FF and BSG doing the same thing with the external CG(which I never really noticed before) - I wonder if "Serenity" keeps it up.

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Actually, it's the same FX people doing BSG who did Firefly, so I guess you could say they're ripping themselves. (: