The scene with the reddish-blonde woman was particularly well done too, not just because it was beautiful and lined up so well with the music, but the emotion of the scene itself was already powerful and you heightened it even more, and the use of the manga to remind us of his mother again too, and yet the black around the bright colours of the woman and Goyjo and the window and the silhouettes and everything made it very strong as the "darkest point" of the video, with the blackness closing in on everything and choking off possibility for life and love and positive connection, only negative connection of echoing the past and associations with hurt and death.
And then the way you followed that with opening everything up with the silhouette of the bell-ringing for sunrise and leaving the full frame open and bright and renewal and sunlight, closing in again around Hakkai in isolation and then Gojyo goes and throws an arm around him and everything opens completely again. Acknowledging the pain of the past and letting it go, moving forward into simply accepting and being there for each other and finding that to be far more powerful than trying to protect each other, shown with full-frame shots, the full picture, the full experience, layered again with the helping each other towards the open doorway to summarize but still using the whole screen and they're always together not cut off from each other anymore by the framing, and then open and outside and ready to travel on.
I think I'm not very coherent anymore, repeating myself and forgetting to say other things, but it's really hot and humid here and my brain is melting.
And I can't re-watch with the sound turned up because nekonexus has work tomorrow and is trying to sleep, and the headphone jack on my computer isn't working. Grr...
Overall: so amazing. Like the best fanfic, gives me new insights into the depth of their characterization and relationship, makes me appreciate canon and fanworks much more because of it. Simple enough to connect strongly on the first viewing of it and get me all choked up and grinning, powerful enough to evoke that reaction on later watchings, and complex enough that I see something new every time I watch it again.
Now you see what I meant when I didn't think my one paragraph of response to your fic counted as "extensive feedback"? Heh, when I get extensive, I get really extensive. Hope you don't mind!
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The scene with the reddish-blonde woman was particularly well done too, not just because it was beautiful and lined up so well with the music, but the emotion of the scene itself was already powerful and you heightened it even more, and the use of the manga to remind us of his mother again too, and yet the black around the bright colours of the woman and Goyjo and the window and the silhouettes and everything made it very strong as the "darkest point" of the video, with the blackness closing in on everything and choking off possibility for life and love and positive connection, only negative connection of echoing the past and associations with hurt and death.
And then the way you followed that with opening everything up with the silhouette of the bell-ringing for sunrise and leaving the full frame open and bright and renewal and sunlight, closing in again around Hakkai in isolation and then Gojyo goes and throws an arm around him and everything opens completely again. Acknowledging the pain of the past and letting it go, moving forward into simply accepting and being there for each other and finding that to be far more powerful than trying to protect each other, shown with full-frame shots, the full picture, the full experience, layered again with the helping each other towards the open doorway to summarize but still using the whole screen and they're always together not cut off from each other anymore by the framing, and then open and outside and ready to travel on.
I think I'm not very coherent anymore, repeating myself and forgetting to say other things, but it's really hot and humid here and my brain is melting.
And I can't re-watch with the sound turned up because
Overall: so amazing. Like the best fanfic, gives me new insights into the depth of their characterization and relationship, makes me appreciate canon and fanworks much more because of it. Simple enough to connect strongly on the first viewing of it and get me all choked up and grinning, powerful enough to evoke that reaction on later watchings, and complex enough that I see something new every time I watch it again.
Now you see what I meant when I didn't think my one paragraph of response to your fic counted as "extensive feedback"? Heh, when I get extensive, I get really extensive. Hope you don't mind!