[Equilibrium vid] Words of the Dead

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Words of the Dead | .avi (720x480, 29.9mb)
_{Source: Equilibrium
Song: "The Chemicals Between Us", by Bush
Summary: Preston's dead haunts him still (always).}

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Thanks: Much love to morgandawn, lierdumoa, and laurashapiro, for betas and audiencing and encouragement.


Chemicals Between Us by Bush

I want you to remember
A love so full
it could send us all ways

I want you to surrender
All my feelings rose today

And I want you to remain
The power of children can amaze
I'll try not to complain

I know that's a pisser baby

The chemicals between us
The walls that lie between us
Lying in this bed

The chemicals displaced
There is no lonelier state
Than lying in this bed

I want you to remember
Everything you said
Every driven word

Like a hammer
Held to my head

The chemicals between us
The walls that lie between us
Lying in this bed

The chemicals displaced
There is no lonelier face
Than lying in this bed

The chemicals between us
The chemicals between us
Lying in this bed

We're of the hollow men
We are the naked ones
We never meant you harm
Never meant you wrong

And I'd like to thank
All of my
lovers
lovers
lovers
lovers
lovers
lovers

The chemicals between us
The army of achievers
Lying in this bed

The chemicals displaced
There is no lonelier state
Than lying in this bed

The chemicals between us
The chemicals between us
Chemicals

The chemicals between us


Notes: This vid took both forever and 2 months. Or rather, 2 months stretched over the course of a year. I...gah, I give up. This really should've been done in Adobe After Effects, but I was crazy and stubborn and in the end too lazy to redo my work elsewhere.

My computer had it's revenge tho, in massive export problems. Fun times.

One of the most interesting problems was attempting to make the lyrics more audible with certain cuts. Dunno if the solutions succeeded, but it was an entertaining experiment in any case. Other interesting problems include trying to include massive amounts of relationships in only 4 min., the solution as near as I could make it is to basically have an intro section the length of an entire verse and chorus (PLUS the intro). Usually I'd only story intro during the song's intro, but the world I was trying to include was too big.

I...really really don't want to imagine attempting to remaster this sucker. ::facepalm:: Or at least, not before the next evolution of whatever programs' gonna replace After Effects. Because honestly: way. too. tedious.

I think...this is actually the first vid I posted this year. Wow, I'm lagging. ::wryyyyy::

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Comments

[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

this is amazing. i love that i can tell that there's a story. i'm usually pretty bad about recognizing stories in music videos--of the fan made variety, anyway. but this is great, this is like--the ultimate collage, with no ragged edges and just--ghosts, everwhere (which were so excellently done). what a great way to recontext the movie into a fanfic of sorts.

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::glomps!:: It's always a relief to me to know that my vids are accessible to people who don't know my source; I know I tend to vid obscure stuff and am always trying to make sure people aren't bored despite that.

And yeah, I sorta did imagine this as a fanfic ::bounces::, actually my main inspiration for the vid is laceymcbain's Care In The Holding, and am glad that you found it as having no ragged edges 'cause I was experimenting with toeing the line of AU.

[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

ahahah, i didn't mean to imply that i hadn't seen equilibrium, i totally have! that's part of why i enjoyed it so much, i think, because i can still vividly recall the scenes you've grabbed and spliced together--though in some small way it makes it harder to understand the first time around, because it's been so long since i've seen if that i was trying to remember which bits came from where and not quite paying enough attention.

so, you know. i have to watch it a few more times. ♥ what a hard life i lead.

...i seriously adore how you've drawn all these parallels between, um, christian bale's character and his ghosts. so good!

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ohhh, I see what you were saying now. ::GLOMPS YOU MORE:: 'cause, see, I'm not naturally a narrative vidder, so I'm really glad that you got a sense of story from the vid. I'm glad that the splicing together of the scenes worked, because I know that I jumped around in time, and the structure of the vid (time-wise) is a bit odd and back-forth.

I'm glad that the parallels shows through; it was something that I tried and...well, you never know if something works unless someone mentions it, y'know? =)

Thank you for your feedback, it makes me smile and squee.