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Vid Title: One Day
Band/Artist: Bjork
Characters: The Operative and River
Spoilers: Serenity (the movie)
Size: 11.6 MB
Format: XviD

A short vid about the Operative. About utopianism with a side order of paternalism. About the desire to make people safer being projected onto one girl. About hunting her down and finding the whole beautiful dream crumbled to a bloody dust.



One day: Bjork

one day
it will happen
one day. one day
it will all make sense

one day, one day
you will blossom
one day, one day
when you're ready

an aeroplane
will curve gracefully
around the volcano
with the eruption that never lets you down

i can feel it
i can...



Thanks to stultiloquentia for betaing.

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Comments very welcome.

Comments

[obsessive24.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed this video! Thanks for sharing. My favourite part is around 1:07 with the reaver rearing up just as the vocals scale a peak, that was wonderfully done, and I loved your cutting (as usual!).

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

Thank you! That shot of the reaver was so visceral in the movie I'm glad if I did it justice.

[stultiloquentia.livejournal.com]

You ought to edit your post to include the lyrics. I liked having them to read before I watched.

Good changes. What a great River-face you found for the end. I keep noticing new clever bits elsewhere, and recalling the context of other shots and being startled and amazed ... River shedding her coat ... what the Operative's talking about when he gives that smug little smile on the viewscreen. This repays my close attention.

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

Good point. After vidding a song it gets to the point where you'll be muttering the lyrics long after you've forgotten your own name. Other people not so much.

I was really happy with the River-face, you were right it did need to end with them facing each other. Plus in that clip her skin tone is almost the same as the Reaver's, a gift from Joss! I think here's luck said somewhere about Serenity being visually so dense it's a joy to vid, there's something to use in almost every shot.

That middle part with the viewscreen-coat shedding is kind of the turning point, the last time the Operative is completely sure of his beliefs. I wanted to match shots of him and River, both face to camera but she's real and a little battered where he's a smug shiny hologram.