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Vividcon vids part one (Challenge, Auction, Club Vivid)
This is half of a very incomplete list of VVC vids basically ones I happen to have downloaded and have thoughts on. Reactions rather than reviews and often meandering off into issues with the shows or surrounding discussions as much as the vids themselves. Links are here for Challenge and Auction and here for Club Vivid
Challenge
Only by Nine Inch Nails (BSG)![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cherryice
Cherry’s editing style is so distinctive, so made for this song and BSG’s trademark camerawork that it’s an OTP of viddiness and motion - just wish I could have seen it con sized. Intellectually though it feels as if I won’t be able to assess it fully until the whole final five arc is complete, all there is to work with so far is just one moment of “fuck, I’m a cylon” coming almost out of nowhere.
Martina by Meryn Cadell (Veronica Mars)keewick
Concentrate of feminist rage, I think this one needs more show context to fully appreciate what it’s saying beyond illustrating the lyrics but this it does with biting precision.
Well, Well, Well by Ben Harper & Blind Boys Alabama, (Firefly)gwyn_r
There should be more Book vids except that this one feels definitive. I loved the way even in his own vid Book keeps to the edges, behind the scenes of his own story. The final sequence is particularly satisfying, giving meaning to the character’s death beyond a simple plot point.
The Other Side by David Gray (House MD)obsessive24
A moving and nuanced portrait of a conflicted soul (but I don’t think I like him).
Auction
People Get Ready by The Frames (Heroes)heresluck
A vid about heroism that makes heroism about love, connection and mutual strength rather than superpowers, will and singular courage. It’s also very shiny.
Falling For The First Time by Barenaked Ladies (Supernatural)sisabet
Sweetness and fun with just flashes of bite, so clever it hurts and lord but that ending kicks a twist. It says something about the sheer entertainment value of this vid and my ‘cest disinterest field that having only downloaded it to see what the ‘kiss’ looked like I completely missed when it happened on first viewing. Did spot it the second time and you know technically, for all the talk about change, is it really so different from other uses of masks and overlays to combine/juxtapose images. Like when Lum fused Angel’s dream with Angel watching in Mr Brightside orkillabeez fading more travelers into the march at the beginning of Woodstock? I suppose there’s some kind of difference in that it creates the illusion of an action that didn’t happen, it’s more of a direct lie than a visual argument. Or maybe the uneasiness about such manips relates specifically to sex (and possibly violence) being made explicit and thereby less sexy/scary, trading emotional anticipation for mere sensation.
Tragedy by The Bee Gees (Buffy)dualbunny
Someone let Spike loose on AfterEffects. Be very afraid.
Club Vivd
Beethoven's Fifth of Gold Digger by A plus D (Gone With the Wind)absolutedestiny
My first thought with this vid was basically yeah, white folks can’t dance. Even with the Beethoven laid over it, the hip-hop beat is a lower body widescreen thing and the GWTW footage is too constrained, too corseted in its academy ratio. However brilliantly cut (and this vid is brilliantly cut) Scarlett’s moves all spring from the shoulder up and like Riverdance, all in one vertical plane. My second thought was to marvel at the layers of disemblement, a college boy singing from a ghetto score, an English rose playing Southern belle, a misogynist’s hymn to a black straw woman once more with irony. If there’s a racist subtext to it, I guess it’s one of omission like the absent Asians in Firefly. But you know, like the man said “I still love her.”
Vogue by Madonna (300)sockkpuppett
There are vids that are better than their source. There are vids that are a thousand times more honest than their source. There’s homoeroticism so narcissistic that it begs to be set to music. And now all is well with the world. Also I never quite picked up from the reviews quite how blatantly racist this movie was. Filthy towel-headed A-rabs being righteously slaughtered while severed black heads fly up like footballs.
Challenge
Only by Nine Inch Nails (BSG)
cherryiceCherry’s editing style is so distinctive, so made for this song and BSG’s trademark camerawork that it’s an OTP of viddiness and motion - just wish I could have seen it con sized. Intellectually though it feels as if I won’t be able to assess it fully until the whole final five arc is complete, all there is to work with so far is just one moment of “fuck, I’m a cylon” coming almost out of nowhere.
Martina by Meryn Cadell (Veronica Mars)
keewickConcentrate of feminist rage, I think this one needs more show context to fully appreciate what it’s saying beyond illustrating the lyrics but this it does with biting precision.
Well, Well, Well by Ben Harper & Blind Boys Alabama, (Firefly)
gwyn_rThere should be more Book vids except that this one feels definitive. I loved the way even in his own vid Book keeps to the edges, behind the scenes of his own story. The final sequence is particularly satisfying, giving meaning to the character’s death beyond a simple plot point.
The Other Side by David Gray (House MD)
obsessive24A moving and nuanced portrait of a conflicted soul (but I don’t think I like him).
Auction
People Get Ready by The Frames (Heroes)
heresluckA vid about heroism that makes heroism about love, connection and mutual strength rather than superpowers, will and singular courage. It’s also very shiny.
Falling For The First Time by Barenaked Ladies (Supernatural)
sisabetSweetness and fun with just flashes of bite, so clever it hurts and lord but that ending kicks a twist. It says something about the sheer entertainment value of this vid and my ‘cest disinterest field that having only downloaded it to see what the ‘kiss’ looked like I completely missed when it happened on first viewing. Did spot it the second time and you know technically, for all the talk about change, is it really so different from other uses of masks and overlays to combine/juxtapose images. Like when Lum fused Angel’s dream with Angel watching in Mr Brightside or
killabeez fading more travelers into the march at the beginning of Woodstock? I suppose there’s some kind of difference in that it creates the illusion of an action that didn’t happen, it’s more of a direct lie than a visual argument. Or maybe the uneasiness about such manips relates specifically to sex (and possibly violence) being made explicit and thereby less sexy/scary, trading emotional anticipation for mere sensation.Tragedy by The Bee Gees (Buffy)
dualbunnySomeone let Spike loose on AfterEffects. Be very afraid.
Club Vivd
Beethoven's Fifth of Gold Digger by A plus D (Gone With the Wind)
absolutedestiny My first thought with this vid was basically yeah, white folks can’t dance. Even with the Beethoven laid over it, the hip-hop beat is a lower body widescreen thing and the GWTW footage is too constrained, too corseted in its academy ratio. However brilliantly cut (and this vid is brilliantly cut) Scarlett’s moves all spring from the shoulder up and like Riverdance, all in one vertical plane. My second thought was to marvel at the layers of disemblement, a college boy singing from a ghetto score, an English rose playing Southern belle, a misogynist’s hymn to a black straw woman once more with irony. If there’s a racist subtext to it, I guess it’s one of omission like the absent Asians in Firefly. But you know, like the man said “I still love her.”
Vogue by Madonna (300)
sockkpuppett There are vids that are better than their source. There are vids that are a thousand times more honest than their source. There’s homoeroticism so narcissistic that it begs to be set to music. And now all is well with the world. Also I never quite picked up from the reviews quite how blatantly racist this movie was. Filthy towel-headed A-rabs being righteously slaughtered while severed black heads fly up like footballs.