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

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Great, quietly understated opening and great titles too. I love 1:08-1:11 with Willow in "Fear, Itself" (?) going back and forth with her in "Restless". And then at 1:19, the dear and Tara. Good clip slection all around. Amazing and thoughtful interpretation of the lyrics and such interesting parallels. 2:10 - Love the snare beats. Where the music picks up in the early 2:00's works wonderfully. And the way it all wraps back in on itself with Xander and Willow walking and Willow and Buffy sitting.

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

Thank you for coming back. And with time stamps! And someone else who thought Tara was the deer :-)

The Fear Itself/Restless section was something I knew I had to do for the first "Keep me hanging on" but it took a lot of tweakng the motion and the lighting to get right. Thoes snare beats were a gift though. And yes I like the description wraps back on itself. At one point I was going to make it much harsher on Willow but the strings start up again towards the end and that gave me the idea that "reap what you sow" can mean good karma as well as bad. She did make good friends.