Meantime, on my first watching of this, the moment when the petal hit the surface of his wine and the ripples spread just so lining up with the heartbeat sound in music was the exact point when this vid completely broke through my rational mind going "so hey wow this is a vid, huh? never seen one before but it seems really interesting..." and *connected* and my heart jumped up into my throat, and I just watched and felt and breathed and reacted to the rest of the vid on a much deeper more involved level -- which of course is harder to put into words. *^_^*
The use of colour, especially red, was so amazing. Often made even more effective by playing up the saturation and brightness to make it the most intense thing in the scene, although if you don't mind a bit of concrit from a vid-watching newbie, it seemed in a couple of the nighttime scenes in the woods from the Chin Iisou arc, Gojyo's hair was a bit too bright and saturated to look like part of the scene, when everything else was so dull and either dark or washed out, and there seemed to be too much contrast with the shadowed parts of his hair so that it was jarring rather than connected. In dim lighting like that I'd expect even bright red to appear dark and dull, like a burgandy or maroon colour. On the other hand it stands out like the blood droplet and ripples on the plain black background after the greysclae flashback and manga scenes of his mother's death. The symbolism more important than realism, and maybe a message of the meaning they attach to it being too extreme and disconnected from reality at that point in the narrative?
One other part that really struck me, before I forget, was the echoing of Kanan's knife with Gojyo's scars, and with the beam of Iisou's puppet shooting at Gojyo, how they flash one after the other almost like subliminal messages (like how you first worked in the Gaiden images too, with the eyes), and even the angles line up and echo each other. Not a connection I'd made before consciously, and you make it so powerfully here each time, as if Kanan's knife and Gojyo almost getting killed those two times cause the same pain, all tangled up together in Hakkai's messed up emotional state.
It was on subsequent watchings that I was able to put the "story" of the vid into words for myself, though I think I "got it" on a deeper level right from the first. Strange, because a lot of it is there in the lyrics -- the not quite connecting at first, despite wanting to connect, but the past was too much in the way. Then realizing how much they meant to each other when they were separated and Gojyo thought Gonou was dead -- and *that* scene was also so very well done, especially the way you used the frames to fragment and juxtapose and layer things -- then once they were together again they kept trying to save and protect each other, and failing, and finally realizing that they can't save each other from their pasts, and they certainly can't save each other from themselves, but they can be there for each other and they can accept each other completely and that's what matters most.
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Meantime, on my first watching of this, the moment when the petal hit the surface of his wine and the ripples spread just so lining up with the heartbeat sound in music was the exact point when this vid completely broke through my rational mind going "so hey wow this is a vid, huh? never seen one before but it seems really interesting..." and *connected* and my heart jumped up into my throat, and I just watched and felt and breathed and reacted to the rest of the vid on a much deeper more involved level -- which of course is harder to put into words. *^_^*
The use of colour, especially red, was so amazing. Often made even more effective by playing up the saturation and brightness to make it the most intense thing in the scene, although if you don't mind a bit of concrit from a vid-watching newbie, it seemed in a couple of the nighttime scenes in the woods from the Chin Iisou arc, Gojyo's hair was a bit too bright and saturated to look like part of the scene, when everything else was so dull and either dark or washed out, and there seemed to be too much contrast with the shadowed parts of his hair so that it was jarring rather than connected. In dim lighting like that I'd expect even bright red to appear dark and dull, like a burgandy or maroon colour. On the other hand it stands out like the blood droplet and ripples on the plain black background after the greysclae flashback and manga scenes of his mother's death. The symbolism more important than realism, and maybe a message of the meaning they attach to it being too extreme and disconnected from reality at that point in the narrative?
One other part that really struck me, before I forget, was the echoing of Kanan's knife with Gojyo's scars, and with the beam of Iisou's puppet shooting at Gojyo, how they flash one after the other almost like subliminal messages (like how you first worked in the Gaiden images too, with the eyes), and even the angles line up and echo each other. Not a connection I'd made before consciously, and you make it so powerfully here each time, as if Kanan's knife and Gojyo almost getting killed those two times cause the same pain, all tangled up together in Hakkai's messed up emotional state.
It was on subsequent watchings that I was able to put the "story" of the vid into words for myself, though I think I "got it" on a deeper level right from the first. Strange, because a lot of it is there in the lyrics -- the not quite connecting at first, despite wanting to connect, but the past was too much in the way. Then realizing how much they meant to each other when they were separated and Gojyo thought Gonou was dead -- and *that* scene was also so very well done, especially the way you used the frames to fragment and juxtapose and layer things -- then once they were together again they kept trying to save and protect each other, and failing, and finally realizing that they can't save each other from their pasts, and they certainly can't save each other from themselves, but they can be there for each other and they can accept each other completely and that's what matters most.
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