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Drinking my second bottle of hard cider this evening (an unprecedented indulgence for me when I'm on my own... it's probably a good thing for my liver that I so rarely have alcohol in the house) and waiting for Eprime to call me back with an account of the Richard Shindell concert she went to last night.
A good songvid is a beautiful thing. Diana Williams' Q/O vid using "Come What May" from Moulin Rouge (it's on Songs for Slashers #2) is brilliant, and the Jim/Blair "This Kiss" had me making chirpy noises of fannish pleasure, even though I've never seen an episode of the Sentinel and have read about three fics.
But I just spent an hour painfully downloading an extremely disappointing vid. I was excited about it because I actually knew the song being used, and because I haven't seen any LOTR vids yet. Well, now I have, but... well...
The timing was excellent, and the narrative and point of view worked reasonably well, but where the vid really ran into trouble was with clip selection. The song was a slow, reflective, moody piece that meshed well with scenes of people being thoughtful, but didn't work at all with battle footage. Nor with the single biggest jump moment of the movie, the Bilbo-becomes-a-demon scene in Rivendell. All three times I saw the film, that scene had me grabbing the nearest hand. It is not suitably paired with music that E's older brother described quite accurately as sounding like Enya on speed.
A good songvid is a beautiful thing. Diana Williams' Q/O vid using "Come What May" from Moulin Rouge (it's on Songs for Slashers #2) is brilliant, and the Jim/Blair "This Kiss" had me making chirpy noises of fannish pleasure, even though I've never seen an episode of the Sentinel and have read about three fics.
But I just spent an hour painfully downloading an extremely disappointing vid. I was excited about it because I actually knew the song being used, and because I haven't seen any LOTR vids yet. Well, now I have, but... well...
The timing was excellent, and the narrative and point of view worked reasonably well, but where the vid really ran into trouble was with clip selection. The song was a slow, reflective, moody piece that meshed well with scenes of people being thoughtful, but didn't work at all with battle footage. Nor with the single biggest jump moment of the movie, the Bilbo-becomes-a-demon scene in Rivendell. All three times I saw the film, that scene had me grabbing the nearest hand. It is not suitably paired with music that E's older brother described quite accurately as sounding like Enya on speed.
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So true! I just sit there saying "Soooooo cuuuuuuuuuuuute!!!" It doesn't translate into an urge to read Senslash, though... perhaps because I've heard enough conversations about it to feel as though I've read it all already. :-)