New Willow vid

[hazelk]

Long time in the making.

Title: Perfect Day

Artist: Lou Reed

Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Format: XviD

Size: 40.3 MB

Summary: SuperWillow comes at a price.

Big thanks to yourlibrarian for betaing.

Download from here (Right/control click and Save Target As/Download Linked File).


I’ve always loved this song. It was great to vid because the music builds as if there’s a story but the lyrics don’t seem to insist on a specific narrative. I have to admit that initially the idea of using it for a Willow vid came from the obvious drug connection but I’ve tried to keep that non-explicit. Heroin, love, Tara, magic it’s all the same story really. The one about chasing after happiness, sacrificing innocence and finding there’s a cost. Initialy, I just had Tara pegged for doe-eyed and deer-like but then Wellcome to the Hellmouth was playing and there was Willow caught in the headlights. It all flowed (or mostly trickled) from there.


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Comments

[bradcpu.livejournal.com]

Here via obsessive24. Very nice! I love the concept for the vid and the narrative, and you carried it out extremely well with the linear progression. You can tell a lot of thought went into it. Visually, it's at the same time gentle and very powerful. Love the Tara-Glory-brainsuck, Willow-Taramindspell parallel and how you presented it.

Nicely executed.

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I am terribly linear, I really envy people who can make vids like your Spike one that tell stories without being so bound to the chronology. Although I have a very achronological idea for my next vid (and it scares the bejesus out of me) :-)

I'm so glad the gentle came across, it's a deceptively non-violent story and song. And you spotted the brainsuck/mindspell! I was afraid it might just come across as explosions. Not that there's anything wrong with explosions.

[bradcpu.livejournal.com]

Personally, I envy linear vidders. Seems so much more difficult to make comparisons when you can't jump around. Good luck with your next project. I'm sure you'll do wonderfully.

There were lots of other great things about this vid that I didn't mention (the deer-knife-stab-to-Tara's-blood-splash chief among them), but just generally it shows that you have great instincts for pacing and insight. Plus, ooh pretty explosions! Thanks again for sharing it.