[saiyuki vid] After Midnight

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After Midnight | .avi (640x480, 30 Mb)
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_{Source: 'Genso Maden Saiyuki', produced by TV Tokyo, Dentsu, and Pierrot
Song: 'I Don't Know What I Can Save You From' by Kings of Convienience
Summary: The rain will stop.}
Extras: Vidder process notes.

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Credits and Acknowledgements: Thank you coffee_and_ink for brainstorming the vid with me and the narrative beta, lierdumoa for listening to me rant and rant and rant some more about this vid and for beatwhoring beta for me, thank you boniblithe for giving me a supplementary beta of it, thank you karose for looking it over and chatting about Saiyuki with me loooooong into the morning and for reminding me of why I was making this along with louiselux, misstressrenet, and ciceqi who were all lovely and rambled about why they loved Saiyuki when I needed it most. Thank you absolut3destiny for introducing me to avi-synth and post processing without which this would have been a granulated mess. In addition, much thanks must be given to coffee_and_ink, ciceqi, and louiselux for hooking me up with some episodes ::blows kisses:: this vid literally couldn't have existed without you!


I Don't Know What I Can Save You From by Kings of Conscience

<sub>You called me after midnight
Must have been three years since we last spoke
I slowly tried to bring back
The image of your face from the memories so old
I tried so hard to follow
But didn't catch the half of what had gone wrong
Said "I don't know what I can save you from"
I don't know what I can save you from

I asked you to come over, and within half an hour
You were at my door
I had never really known you
But I realized that the one you were before
Had changed into somebody
for whom I wouldn't mind to put the kettle on
Still, I don't know what I can save you from
I don't know what I can save you from</sub>


Blarg: I'm calling this done because the thought of working on this any more than I already have is making me want to stop vidding. Frankly this could be improved, and I need to integrate the footage that louiselux was a total rocking babe to supplied me with, but at this point in time and with my other commitments, I don't have the time to work on this. Even more important, I desperately needed the space on my laptop to work on RL projects and my VVC auction vid.

This is, if anything, THE vid that I WILL remaster, if for nothing but to stop me from cringing in dismay.

[edit] alee_gothphyle made Gojyo icons from screencaps from my vid!

Comments

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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. *^_^*

ohhh! ::wibbles and glomps::


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.

Yeah, I'm going to have to agree with you on that one. I was a bit meh on that myself, but towards the end I'd realized I worked on this vid for half a year and enough was enough and set myself a deadline. (Le sigh.)


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.

YES! ::bounce!:: Completely! =D


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.

::nodnodnod::


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

Yay! thank you! I was a bit stumped as to how to show relationship when they're separated, but then just went back and decided to carry through the theme of blocks of frames and fragments.


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.

OMG YES. YOU GOT IT. YOU GOT IT SO MUCH. ::SNOGS::