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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

[just-eunice.livejournal.com]

I'm catching up on the SGA vids I didn't watch while I was working on my own (it's a thing), and oh, this was absolutely *beautiful*. I'm all choked up and I wish I had smart things to say but I don't because OMG ELIZABETH...ATLANTIS! *loves* *goes to watch again and again*

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I'm catching up on the SGA vids I didn't watch while I was working on my own

=) I do that too.

But thank you for letting me know how you felt about the vid despite the time lapse! I enjoy feedback no matter when it comes and it brightened my day to see your review! ::hugs:: And I really owe you feedback on your Sheppard vid, I totally love what you've done with the themes though could tell that you don't come by beatwhoring naturally. I read the comments on your journal and am gleeful that you *are* taking the time to learn beats and think that I'd enjoy talking about it with you maybe. Are you going to VVC this year?

[just-eunice.livejournal.com]

Are you going to VVC this year?

Wouldn't miss it for the world. :) I was sorry I didn't get a chance to see much of you except in passing at the last one (con time! how do four days go by so *fast* without getting a chance to corner everyone you want to?). We should have lunch or something this year.

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Totally agree with you on lack-of-time issues, I'd barely had a chance to talk to sisabet and she was my vid mommy. ::shamefaceSHAME::

Actually, there was in general less shop-talk than I'd expected, and I don't know if it was because that's the general structure of VVC or if I was just in the wrong place for it. What I was really looking forward to was maybe like a roundtable of fellow vidders to bitch about vids to and maybe pick vidder's brains about neat tips and tricks and share my own in return. Did that exist and I totally didn't read the program right for it? 'cause I'd suggested a "walking people through versions of a vid" thing at the dead dog but apparently it'd already existed and Heres_Luck did it; I thought, reading the program, that she was just going to talk about what her and her betas did.