New Vid!! Due South!!!

[sisabet]

So first of all - big huge beta thanks to renenet for going well and above the call of duty here. I am sorry I was such an unmitigated bitch last night. I blame After-Effects.

Massive thanks for additional beta duties to pipsqueaky (who remained firm even in the face of a very vid-disgruntled Liz), f1renze who freaking can pick up on ONE SINGLE FRAME MISSTIMED! (and also dealt with a bear of a me),absolutedestiny who sent me a key filter and then rued the day (muahahahaha), sweetestdrain and just_eunice for being so supportive, tzikeh for making sure I didn't watch "Victoria's Secret" alone, sockkpuppett for making sure I continued working even when it was hard and who had terrific ideas to tie things together, and laurashapiro and katallison cause they helped me figure out how to end the damned thing.

Whew. Also? None of the above made fun of me when they figured out what I was doing - although there were a lot of OMGWTFPOLARBEARVID. Mostly from me.

It really does take the Village People.

This is my first due South vid - no spoilers post season one.

Icebound Stream
Song by: Laura Veirs
I can hold a thunderhead in my heart


ETA: 8-19-09, this vid is now available again as a download:

Xvid version (28) Mbs available here


Additional source:

Inuit singers and footage taken from the documentary "Great North"
Additional footage from "Antarctica: An Adventure of a Different Nature" (I know, okay - I just needed snow), "The Blue Planet: Frozen Seas," "Alaska: Spirit of the Wild," "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom: Mammals of North America" and some educational film about glaciers that I can't find right now.

Also? infinitemonkeys for making this icon which reminded me of this idea everytime I posted.

ETA2: Oh yeah - that thing we do where I post something and you tell me what you thought about it? I *love* that thing! All feedback welcomed.

ETA3: Notes, interactive beta moments and my nervous breakdown during the making of the vid is discussed at length here.

Comments

[perian.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. That was exquisite.

[carla-scribbles.livejournal.com]

This is the vid that made me finally decide to look into due South.

Thank you.

[bardicsidhe.livejournal.com]

A-ha! I found it! Just adding my praise, found this via a mad google search after a friend of mine showed me the vid, wowed me with it, then forgot to transfer it from her computer to mine.

You are awesome. Clever idea (one I hadn't considered!) to cut in footage from other non-DS productions, and in so doing your timing was excellent. Downloading now, can't wait to watch it again. Thank you for your hard work, it's made for pleasure for lots and lots of people.

[elistaire.livejournal.com]

This vid is gorgeous. I watched it at the vid show, at the panel, and again tonight, I'll probably watch it again tomorrow. I love the song, and I love the way you make the polar bears work, and all the ice and the bit in the middle with the forest trees and making it look like the snow globe. I love the complexity of this vid, because it works on a level for me that even though i don't know the source material, I *get* the relationship here and that its a rough one.

[celiaka.livejournal.com]

This was fabulous. I really love vids that mix in things other than the TV show it's made from. You made it really work.

[floriatosca.livejournal.com]

This *is* the Victoria's Secret arc, in about three minutes, with symbolic artic wildlife. The music works really well, the dS and additional-source clips fit together beautifully, and the whole thing is heartbreaking and gorgeous. It's filled with wonderful imagery, but I particularly loved the diamonds-into-birds sequence.

[ggreenapple.livejournal.com]

nice. i really like this. love the diamonds/ice/birds, especially.

[vampedvixen.livejournal.com]

Holy crap that was amazing! The camera work.. the way you captured the subtle movements.. the polar bears and metaphors.. Someone commented on a vid of mine saying that it was the best one they had seen since Icebound Stream by Sisabet. So I searched for it and now I'm like, "Whoa! Mine is nowhere near that good, but it's an amazing compliment to be compared to this piece."

[obsessive24.livejournal.com]

Terribly late with the feedback! Downloaded this ages ago but it wasn't until recently that I've become entirely obsessed with it and can't stop playing it when I'm home and can't stop the song and visuals going round and round in my head while I don't have it on in front of me. Just amazing, wonderful, brilliant work. Which is no surprise to anybody, obviously, it being from you - but this one just has something incredibly moving and magical and fantastic about it especially. I know nothing of the fandom - woe - but the emotions are so transparent (albeit also layered) here, relayed across so succinctly, that I feel like I know what is going on even though I don't, not really. Just an amazing piece of work.

[bradcpu.livejournal.com]

Came by via obsessive24's "watch this or die" rec.

As a fandom outsider I don't have a lot of coherent things to say, but I just wanted to tell you that this is one of the most beautiful vids I've ever seen. The motion is extraordinary without looking like it's *trying* to be. It's just lovely and poetic.

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

I've been hesitating to leave feedback because... I don't have the words. Not to describe how utterly gorgeous and true this vid is. It's beautiful and powerful and heartbreaking, and perfectly illuminates the strange and twisted thing there is between Fraser and Victoria.

I am rewatching it obsessively. You know, I'm almost afraid to watch the actual episodes again, just in case they don't live up to the beautiful complexity of your vid.

[zabira.livejournal.com]

Okay, so I gather from the four pages of comments that folks have already told you this, but I just wanted to put my two cents in:

This is, no joke, bar none, the most incredible fanvid I've ever seen. It's a powerful episode, but you have used the clips, the music and the other sources to make something newly powerful out of it. Thank you!

(And now I go to watch it another dozen times or so...)

:)

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Wow, thank you so much for letting me know you liked it.

[thete1.livejournal.com]

Most belatedly, this was lovely and affecting. I'd forgotten how much my heart just *broke* for Fraser in this storyline, and how obvious his conflict was, his need, his loneliness, and how very *not* ambiguous those last few moments with the train were. *siiigh* You do an excellent job of telling the story in a bare few minutes, while also making it wider, wilder, and deeper. You already know this rocks -- this is just to let you know that one more person figured that out, too.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for letting me know - I almost missed this comment due to inbox explosion, and I am so glad I didn't.

[wihluta.livejournal.com]

god, I LOVE this vid and I LOVE this song. I can't stop listening and watching. Really. Wonderful job!

[jesse_the_k]

Adding one more well-deserved love letter to a pile that's almost tipped over, but at it's not a duplicate.

I came to dS fandom via Slings & Arrows, so my expectations where high.

I watched your vid five times in last week before I'd ever seen Victoria's Secret. Recc'ed to folks who wouldn't know Paul Gross from a ream of paper.

It took my breath away. It was moving, scary, mysterious, other-worldly.

When the right Netflix envelope arrived I trembled, to think I'd see the source of such intensity.

Then I watched. I was brutally disappointed. Thirty six minutes of outstanding TV sprinkled over a flabby 90 minute running time. Passion was implied, but never flamed. Knives a plenty, yet I hardly felt a scratch. Vital relationships displayed but hardly explored. The disappointment burned my eyes.

Then I came back to watch Icebound again. You succeeded where Haggis failed. Your images, pacing, music, editing evoked & invoked what the show had weakly attempted to tell.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[ellie-i.livejournal.com]

I honestly wasn't expecting the vid to be like that: like being punched. The strength of the first thirty seconds took my breath away - and the rest was fantastic, of course, but the intro.

The cutting was so tight. Spot on.

[faroutgal.livejournal.com]

Hi sisabet,

I've seen several recs for your due South "Icebound Stream" vid but when I click on the link it tells me its out of date.

Is there any way you can reload it? Reading the comments made me only want to see it more....

Thanks.

FOG

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

My website is down so there is no reloading it - at least for the time being.

I do have the vid up at my imeem account and it can be viewed there:

http://profile.imeem.com/VGn8hY5/video/

[kernezelda]

Hello!

Your vid site appears to be down. I'm reccing your Due South vid "Icebound" to seperis, so if you don't mind, I'd like to upload a copy for her to download. I won't do so unless I hear from you, of course.

It's such a gorgeous vid, she should definitely see it, to be as amazed as I am at its perfect capture of "Victoria's Secret".

ETA: Sorry, never mind, I read the comments above mine and saw the Imeem address. Sorry to bother you!

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Hey - feel free to upload the vid if you want - especially for Seperis.

[travels-in-time.livejournal.com]

Hi! I just watched this vid on your imeem account and it is beautiful and heartbreaking. Is there anywhere I can get a download of it?

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

The link has now been fixed, thanks for your interest.

[zellieh]

I just saw this vid shown at a con, and I loved it. Thank you!

[chuckjd.livejournal.com]

This may be random and totally weird, but my hard drive crashed and I've finally tracked this video down after all this time. Is there anyway you could reupload it? This is my favorite vid of all time and I would really appreciate it.

[chuckjd.livejournal.com]

I just read above (how noob of me to miss it) and rewatched it for the first time in forever. Just as amazing as the first time. You've got some amazing talent.

[aqua-eyes.livejournal.com]

Heya, is there an available download for this vid? It's just been rec'ed to me. ^^

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

The link has now been fixed, thanks for your interest.

[judas-river.livejournal.com]

Hey, I see that this vid's available for viewing at your imeem account, but I was wondering if you have it up anywhere where I could download it? I like to save vids to my hard drive just in case they end up disappearing from the internet. :)

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

The link has now been fixed, thanks for your interest.

[china_shop]

Ohhhh! I really didn't get this when you first posted it, because my vid reading age is at picture-book level, but I've just started vidding and wanted to watch something that used footage in addition to the fandom source, and I thought of this, and watched it, and my head exploded messily everywhere. WOW!

The gunshot at 1:04 is so perfectly timed it feels like punctuation; the transition from the burning cabin to Fraser in the sweatlodge at 2:11 is incredibly powerful; I loved how you used Fraser's bowed head at 2:30 as a transition from the effect that came before it; and the parallel between the polar bears at 2:48 with Fraser and Victoria directly after is just awesome. The diamonds to the flock of birds, and so many other fantastic transitions and echoes and visual metaphors. OMG! This is SO COOL!

[chatananas.livejournal.com]

Damn, this is beautiful.