A Spike vid

[hazelk]

I just don't know what to do with myself
The White Stripes

Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Format: XviD
Size: 25.7 MB

Summary: Spike needs a woman in his life. Or something

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Comments very welcome

Comments

[ann1962]

You know what I have never imagined before, images of William followed right by images of Seeing Red Spike. That was especially powerful. Really well done! Thank you.

[obsessive24.livejournal.com]

Oh my god! I was just listening to this song on repeat today, thinking of Kate Moss and a pole and how it would take a vidder much better than I to pull it off in a vid of goodness, and then I come onto vidding and there you are. And this is awesome - it's a really, really wonderful piece of work. The visuals are so well strung together thematically, and I LOVE that the common thread all through is his women. The way you presented it is just so defining for the character.

I particularly liked the movement in the sequence with the round-and-round shot with Drusilla starting around 0:58, and how you kept cutting away and back to it. The "summer rose" lines are great - the Drusilla bit was slightly more literal than the Buffy bit, and both are excellent clip choices and I particularly liked the conscious use of red as a point of connection. The faster cutting toward the end of the Dru segment, the way his attention switched to Buffy, was wonderfully done. And the ending is brilliant, with the growingly manic beat-oriented cutting and all his past just rushing up toward him and he's driving away from it all. LOVED the ending shot - it's very context-based, in that if you aren't a Buffy fan you're not going to know what's going on - but that felt v. intimate, and really brought out the question as to why exactly Spike was going to all this trouble to get a soul. This vid is a great character study, I loved it.

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It felt almost dirty cutting the rape imagery to fit a beat, very Clockwork Orange. Although I mostly cheated and used the flashbacks so ME had done most of the work. I don't think I could do their job.

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! It means a lot to get such detailed feedback from someone whose work you respect.

thinking of Kate Moss and a pole
I really, really wanted to include a shot of "calls-herself-Sunshine," but couldn't quite ditch Lurky for her.

Those S2/Lover's Walk parallels are just a gift from the show, I loved making that section and I'm so glad you picked up on the rose colour connection.

and all his past just rushing up toward him and he's driving away from it all
That's exactly what I was hoping to convey and you put it so well. The ending is a bit of a 'gotcha' but funny and , I hope, true. I can't guess what someone who didn't know Buffy would make of the whole thing. Probably still be wondering what the Billy Idol wannabe has to do with the Victorian gentleman with bad hair :-)

[whatdanidigs.livejournal.com]

Oooh, Love this vid.

[amalthia]

nice vid. :) thanks for sharing.

[yourlibrarian]

I downloaded and all I seem to have is an audiofile. Is there something I'm missing to open it?

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

Ouch, does it play in the VLC player (download from http://www.videolan.org/vlc/)?

Alternatively XviD codecs can be downloaded from:

http://www.xvidmovies.com/codec/

Hope one of those works.

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

You're welcome {g}

[yourlibrarian]

Ah, that's better!

That's a really interesting theme you've chosen, and the video held together really well. Spike's intentions all going awry, interesting to see it get played out. Thanks for posting it!

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

Relief - I'm glad it turned out visible in the end. This was the first time I've had a really clear idea of the structure before starting so I was a little afraid it was going to be too much of a video essay set to music. Poor Spike, I hope the thing with Lurky works out for him :-)