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blast from the past
coming to you from circa 2000 CE and 2000 BCE, a Highlander vid.
This is a vid I started making in 2003 with a song I got from an SG1 Daniel Jackson vid about his delusions of world domination in Absolute Power by Rhian, which you can find on their website even after all these years, and with footage captured from SpikeTV Highlander reruns (I was not in the fandom in the heyday of its broadcast airing. I came later). It's about Methos, Cassandra, the Four Horsemen, rape, change, time, parallels, stuff. In 2004 I took it to![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
vividcon for critique and advice in Vividsection. I never finished the vid, though I made a stab and incorporating some of the suggestions I got about long shots and talky faces when I recut the bulk of it with DVD rip footage sometime in, *checks file dates* 2009.
I've been updating my vid links and posting old vids to AO3 as I've made them available, and I felt like, this was such a high percentage of a vid I'd like to go ahead and post it. I'm gonna post two versions--the Neat version and the Dirty version.
The neat version, which is the remastered major part of the vid, is viewable on its own as a complete vid in and of itself. The dirty version is most closely related to the version that went to Vividsection, with all the SpikeTV logos but also with the remastered version coscreened for comparison. There's over a minute extra of footage, some of which I am very proud of technically (there's a long sequence of things divided on the overlaid line of Methos's blue facepaint), especially considering the first cut was in iMovie, and I think the dirty version is metatextually interesting. But I suspect the reason I never finished remastering the clean version to longer than it is is that that section of the vid is a strong, tight vid by itself, and *checks calendar* fifteen years ago the main thing I was suffering from was the idea that you had to use the entirety of a song for a vid or it was cheating, when cutting it was the right thing to do. (the song is about 30 seconds longer than even the dirty version, and has a long fadeout, the worst kind of ending to fight with for a vid. it's no wonder I could never fill that timeline.)
It's a vid!
Ordinary Boy (neat)--the standalone version with clean footage, 39.3MB MP4
Ordinary Boy (dirty)--an unfinished WIP mess, presented for interest in vidding technical details, 53.6MB mp4
Fandom: Highlander
Song: Ordinary Boy by Adam Pascal
Vidder:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jmtorres
Warnings: like, nothing that's not in canon, but this is the two-parter about when Methos and his fellow horsemen were raping and pillaging their way across Mesopotamia, so, a fair amount of violence, some of it sexual.
Cross-posting tohouseoftorres and AO3.
This is a vid I started making in 2003 with a song I got from an SG1 Daniel Jackson vid about his delusions of world domination in Absolute Power by Rhian, which you can find on their website even after all these years, and with footage captured from SpikeTV Highlander reruns (I was not in the fandom in the heyday of its broadcast airing. I came later). It's about Methos, Cassandra, the Four Horsemen, rape, change, time, parallels, stuff. In 2004 I took it to
vividcon for critique and advice in Vividsection. I never finished the vid, though I made a stab and incorporating some of the suggestions I got about long shots and talky faces when I recut the bulk of it with DVD rip footage sometime in, *checks file dates* 2009. I've been updating my vid links and posting old vids to AO3 as I've made them available, and I felt like, this was such a high percentage of a vid I'd like to go ahead and post it. I'm gonna post two versions--the Neat version and the Dirty version.
The neat version, which is the remastered major part of the vid, is viewable on its own as a complete vid in and of itself. The dirty version is most closely related to the version that went to Vividsection, with all the SpikeTV logos but also with the remastered version coscreened for comparison. There's over a minute extra of footage, some of which I am very proud of technically (there's a long sequence of things divided on the overlaid line of Methos's blue facepaint), especially considering the first cut was in iMovie, and I think the dirty version is metatextually interesting. But I suspect the reason I never finished remastering the clean version to longer than it is is that that section of the vid is a strong, tight vid by itself, and *checks calendar* fifteen years ago the main thing I was suffering from was the idea that you had to use the entirety of a song for a vid or it was cheating, when cutting it was the right thing to do. (the song is about 30 seconds longer than even the dirty version, and has a long fadeout, the worst kind of ending to fight with for a vid. it's no wonder I could never fill that timeline.)
It's a vid!
Ordinary Boy (neat)--the standalone version with clean footage, 39.3MB MP4
Ordinary Boy (dirty)--an unfinished WIP mess, presented for interest in vidding technical details, 53.6MB mp4
Fandom: Highlander
Song: Ordinary Boy by Adam Pascal
Vidder:
jmtorresWarnings: like, nothing that's not in canon, but this is the two-parter about when Methos and his fellow horsemen were raping and pillaging their way across Mesopotamia, so, a fair amount of violence, some of it sexual.
Cross-posting to
houseoftorres and AO3.
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But also: oh, Methos, buddy.
(god, will I EVER finish that fucking Sorceror's Apprentice vid? I STILL WANT TO, IS THE THING. arrrgh.)
ALSO, tangentially: it's been deeply weird and surreal realising HOW MUCH I've been applying vidding principles to constructing aerial routines once I got over the "aaaa I haven't done this before!" freakout of choreographing my first routine. Like, I got the recap of what they talked about at the first rehearsal for my showcase and was like "...you mean... all the things I do BY DEFAULT in approaching visual storyteling with a song?!" Because like, oh my god, OF COURSE you have to consider the structure of the song musically and match your visuals to them? And also the lyrics matter a lot? WHY WOULD ANYONE NOT BEING THINKING ABOUT ALL OF THAT?! *snerk*
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ways in which this is not representative of highlander fandom as a whole: no shot of paint on methos's nose
but yes. oh methos.
snicker you should DEFINITELY post fannish aerial stuff to ao3, you are doing the thing!
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ahahahahahaaaaa
snicker you should DEFINITELY post fannish aerial stuff to ao3, you are doing the thing!
I'M GONNA. this is not how I expected to be expressing my fannishness in my 30s but HERE WE ARE ANYWAY, I am GONNA post this shit to the AO3! next routine after the LoTR/Hobbit one is gonna be The Losers, SO HONESTLY. this is apparently my A/V venue of fannishness now.
(have you seen the deadpool pole routine yet? bc if not you've gotta see it, it is BRILLIANT.)
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you're going to post the hobbit one too, right?
Yes, I've seen the Deadpool one -- delightful
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heck, I might even eventually get my shit together and do the cut of the Pink routine and post it as well. I mean it's not a specific fandom but, you know, queer cyborg lady set to Janelle Monae, it's still kinda fannish.