Vid Announcement: Miracle and Wonder
Sep. 4th, 2006 03:43 amSo a very close friend of mine from high school got married this weekend, and as one of my wedding presents for her, I recreated a Star Wars vid I made, oh, five years ago, when the only way I could get footage into iMovie was to point a digital camcorder at the television. The original vid no longer exists (thankfully?). I looked high and low for a copy, and couldn't find anything.
I remember a good deal of how the original went, and it was very literalist--"lasers in the jungle" were the speederbike chase on Endor; "a distant constellation dying in a corner of the sky" was always the Death Star blowing up; "a shattering of shop windows" was Luke getting sucked through the window into the Cloud City core. A good deal of that stayed in the vid, but some things, I changed, because as I started figuring out what I was doing, the theme that revealed itself was one of nostalgia: These are the days of miracle and wonder, says the song, and that's how we felt about Star Wars when we were young, before we got cynical about George Lucas and the prequels and everything.
Nostalgia is something I could never have accomplished at the time; you can't be nostalgic for something you're right in the middle of. But now, looking back, this vid is about all the things in those movies that warmed my heart, that I wanted to share with and remind the Bride of.
Miracle and Wonder
(AVI, divx, 27.1MB, 3:19, 640x270, 29.97fps)
song Boy in the Bubble by Paul Simon
original Star Wars trilogy by George Lucas
vid by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jmtorres
(If you want to link to this vid, please link to this post rather than directly to the vid. Please do not redistribute. Basic vid etiquette, etc.)
Also on AO3.
I remember a good deal of how the original went, and it was very literalist--"lasers in the jungle" were the speederbike chase on Endor; "a distant constellation dying in a corner of the sky" was always the Death Star blowing up; "a shattering of shop windows" was Luke getting sucked through the window into the Cloud City core. A good deal of that stayed in the vid, but some things, I changed, because as I started figuring out what I was doing, the theme that revealed itself was one of nostalgia: These are the days of miracle and wonder, says the song, and that's how we felt about Star Wars when we were young, before we got cynical about George Lucas and the prequels and everything.
Nostalgia is something I could never have accomplished at the time; you can't be nostalgic for something you're right in the middle of. But now, looking back, this vid is about all the things in those movies that warmed my heart, that I wanted to share with and remind the Bride of.
Miracle and Wonder
(AVI, divx, 27.1MB, 3:19, 640x270, 29.97fps)
song Boy in the Bubble by Paul Simon
original Star Wars trilogy by George Lucas
vid by
jmtorres(If you want to link to this vid, please link to this post rather than directly to the vid. Please do not redistribute. Basic vid etiquette, etc.)
Also on AO3.
