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Welcome Home | .wmv (624x346, 36.1mb) | .avi (624x346, 43.9mb) | mirror here (thank you paranoidangel_!)
_{Source: Stargate Atlantis (Spoilers up to The Siege III)
Song: "The Blood of Cu Chulainn", by Mychael and Jeff Danna
Summary: Her, city}

Thanks: Much love and thanks to aurora_84, nel_ani, and sisabet for the feedback and advice, and also to lierdumoa and absolut3destiny for audiencing! =D

"Let us resolve that she shall dream dreams deeper than the sea and higher than the clouds of heaven, that she shall come forth crowned and transfigured with her statesmen and wizards and saints and sages about her, with magic behind her and miracle before her."

_{-Vachel Lindsay}

Notes: It's been awhile since I've let myself cut loose on the cutting, partially because I've been experimenting in style and effect and partially 'cause I was testing my threshold of pain/irritation with not molesting every beat. This vid felt like a sigh of relief after all that, what with the massive beat-whoring, finally getting the RAM able to handle the type of vid I've been wanting to make, and finding SGA. Which, just...::waves vaguely at old meta posts:: yeah.

Oh, and there's like huge numbers of things I tried to say about Elizabeth and Atlantis in the vid, all mixed up together, so there are a very many equally valid interpretations of the vid. Hell, I'm not even sure of all the things I put in there, but I'm very curious as to what themes or stories or impressions that those watching the vid might get, so don't be afraid to tell me what you think!

(I would recommend using VLC Player to play the vid, it's free, or you can look at this guide. Also, apparently there's a compatibility problem with playing the vid in Quicktime.)

Notes part 2: The wierd and uncomfortable feeling that occurs before the music starts? That's on purpose; it was my goal that Atlantis is creepy and uncomfortable and wrong...until the expedition came, woke it up, and let it breathe.

Notes part 3: Wow!



::bounces and glomps everyone::

Thanks to everyone who'd nominated and voted for me at the Stargate Fan Awards, it won for Weir's catagory!

Comments

[swanswan.livejournal.com]

Oh I love love love love it!!! You can tell that it's written by someone who loves Atlantis (the show and the place) and I'm not even going to correct the fact that I wrote "written" instead of "vidded" because it actually expresses well the fact that this felt crafted in a way that I can usually only properly analyse with fic. It's just like - Yes!! Someone else sees it too!!! The impression it gave me was one of... history pre-existing, like they all arrived on Atlantis and the city already knew what would happen to them, like it was ready for them to live their lives and fight their fights there. I loved that Elizabeth was made Queen of Atlantis here, how you showed the best of her, who I love when I think of her. The sweep of the video was amazing, how it told its story through these swathes of imagery becoming narrative, how you framed it in its opening shots by showing Elizabeth on her first day and at ten thousand years old. I loved Rodney's close-up (shallow!!) and the clips of the city under attack. It made me want to write the story you made, which is, in my own mind, the best way of expressing how much it affected me. Wonderful story.

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::GLOMPS:: wow, your *feedback*. ::glows:: I'm so happy it worked and worked so well for you, I'm glad it's a coherent story 'cause it's an instrumental vid and that it's "legible". (and god, Rodney has the prettiest "tragic" faces ever)

The impression it gave me was one of... history pre-existing, like they all arrived on Atlantis and the city already knew what would happen to them, like it was ready for them to live their lives and fight their fights there. I loved that Elizabeth was made Queen of Atlantis here, how you showed the best of her, who I love when I think of her. The sweep of the video was amazing, how it told its story through these swathes of imagery becoming narrative, how you framed it in its opening shots by showing Elizabeth on her first day and at ten thousand years old.

::buttprints!!:: I hadn't hit on those words to think of this vid, but yes, yes, that too.