New BSG vid

[hazelk]

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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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

Comments

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

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.
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).

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly that ambiguity :-) There's an intoxicating aspect to war/violence/power that characters like Admiral Cain have completely succumbed to and everyone is tempted by. But it's not something you can 'just say no' to either because then they'll just shoot you down like a dog.