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New BSG vid
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
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laurashapiro for betaing. Download:
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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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I love Massive Attack and trip hop in general. I’m not sure if it’s particularly hard to vid, it is dense but I like that. I always figure if you can dance to it you can vid it, the two feel connected in some way. When I first had the idea for the vid I thought I was going to have to learn a whole bunch of special effects skillz to generate the kind of movement it would need but then it was all pretty much there in the source. I did get to play with different compositing functions for the overlays though and that was fun.
That’s a really interesting point about violence and freedom. Really interesting. When I was editing the final section, I did deliberately intercut the return to power with explosions and I also had in mind the similarity between the footage of her reclaiming Colonial One and Six marching in at the end of LDYB. It all relates to the tension between doing whatever it takes for the human race to survive and not losing its soul in the process that’s such a big theme of the show. Another thing I was thinking about, particularly with the Olympic Carrier, was how violence breeds violence and creates choices that would never otherwise have had to be faced. I also wanted to use the treaty, the Olympic carrier note, voting papers, the piece of paper that Duck took to the suicide bombing as a running motif because, Laura being a politician, her old world was built around agreements on bits of paper and the negotiations that they represent. Then the cylon attack was the complete antithesis to that world, just blew it away, war as the opposite of civilisation.
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Oh, cool! I don't have a sharp enough eye to see what was effects and what was source--it all looked very slick to me.
the tension between doing whatever it takes for the human race to survive and not losing its soul in the process
Yes, that's exactly it!
violence breeds violence and creates choices that would never otherwise have had to be faced
I think that came through: I got a strong sense of Roslin having to come to terms with living in this violent world, where inevitably more violence would follow, and where, as you describe the civilised control of treaties, and democracy is being swept away. War as the opposite to civilisation is a great angle to take. I loved the way the floating pieces of paper were mirrored by Cylon raiders--both hang in space, can't be pinned down. There's a loss of control. Within that context, the violent explosions have a dual quality--they are both a return to control (a directed action), and a loss of control (giving in to the cycle of violence).
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