hazelk | New BSG vid

Title: Safe From Harm
Artist: Massive Attack
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica
Spoilers: Miniseries through to S3.04 (Exodus)
Characters/Pairings: President Roslin
Format: DivX
Size: 38.3 MB

Summary: Laura dreams

Big big thanks to

laurashapiro for betaing.

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DivX (Right click and Save Target As)

Lyrics
Midnight ronkers
City slickers
Gunmen and maniacs
All will feature on the freakshow
And I can't do nothing 'bout that, no
But if you hurt what's mine
I'll sure as hell retaliate

You can free the world you can free my mind
Just as long as my baby's safe from harm tonight

You can free the world you can free my mind
Just as long as my baby's safe from harm tonight

Tell us what it is dangerous
Friends and enemies I find it's contagerous
And they're spreading through your system like a virus
Yes the trouble in the end it makes you anxious

I was lookin' back to see if you were lookin' back at me
To see me lookin' back at you
I was lookin' back to see if you were lookin' back at me
To see me lookin' back at you

But if you hurt what's mine
I'll sure as hell retaliate
You can free the world you can free my mind
Just as long as my baby's safe from harm tonight
You can free the world you can free my mind
Just as long as my baby's safe from harm tonight

Short Notes
I had two ideas starting out with this vid, one that “what’s mine” for Laura was humanity and, two to use the image of the peace treaty blowing away in the wake of the Cylon bombs to represent the destruction of the colonies. Other than that and the narrative device of Laura dreaming her past and her future I more or less began at the beginning and let it flow from there.

Feedback all welcome

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Ack! Ack ack ack! I watched this, was so bowled over that I had to set it on the "rec now, feedback later" pile (and believe me, there ain't many vids in that pile), and then life exploded and I just realised that I never got around to sending you feedback at all. Much apologies.

Even now I can't put the love into words. It's just too perfect, too amazingly executed to be broken down. I am only capable of loving it as a whole, which sounds like a cop-out but it really isn't. It's so rich and textured, as is your wont, and... gah. Words escape me completely at this point. I think it's by far your best work to date, which is saying A LOT.

My favourite part is the genius snake-shot of Balter, and the wonderful POV switch in the 3D vocal segment around the 1:50 mark. God, so awesome.

Life is a black hole from which we emerge blinking from time to time :-) And I never thanked you for the rec.

It definitely felt like stepping up a gear with this one, adventures in overlays and I think it holds together as one thing much better than anything I've done before (so it's good that you don't break it down*g*).

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