New BtVS vid

[hazelk]

Title: Just
Artist: Radiohead
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (and not a little Angel)
Characters/Pairings: Faith
Format: DivX
Size: 49.5MB
Summary: Back to the start

Download here (Right/control click and save target as/download linked file)

Extreme thanks to bradcpu for betaing (it’s a Faith vid – who you gonna call)?

Feedback really hurts (but in a good way)


I can't really remember when I got the idea that “Just” was a Faith song. I know that at first it was more about the music than the lyrics, it had that mixture of inchoate self-directed rage with moments of extreme stillness in the aftermath that seemed very Faith. But a vid needs something a little more specific than that, and this came initially via an outtake from the VVC vid yet to premiere. I’d put together a sequence of falling glass/falling knife that I really liked but in the end had to admit didn’t fit anywhere. Not being able to let it go I had the idea of matching it to “Hanging out the 15th floor” in the second verse of “Just.”

That was a start, still a vid is more than one lyric/image match so I starting thinking around the song for more and got a little stuck on the first line “Can’t get the stink off.” Which is such a direct match for the 'out dammed spot scene' from Consequences that it seemed too obvious and with an AtS season one sequence in the next verse I kind of felt that if I started that way what I’d end up with would be just a summary of the story rather than a vid. The real breakthrough came with the idea of matching that first line not to Consequences in S3 but to the shower scene in Release and from that the whole idea of telling the story in reverse, funneling it down to Finch’s killing rather than branching up from that point.





Can't get the stink off
He's been hanging round for days
Comes like a comet
Suckered you but not your friends
One day he'll get to you
And teach you how to be a holy cow

You do it to yourself, you do
and that's what really hurts
You do it to yourself, just you
you and no-one else
You do it to yourself
You do it to yourself

Don't get my sympathy
Hanging out the 15th floor
changed the locks three times
He still comes reeling through the door
one day I'll get to you
And teach you how to get to purest hell

You do it to yourself, you do
and that's what really hurts
You do it to yourself, just you
you and no-one else
You do it to yourself
You do it to yourself

You do it to yourself, you do
and that's what really hurts is
You do it to yourself, just you
you and no-one else
You do it to yourself
You do it to yourself, yourself, yourself.

Comments

[dualbunny.livejournal.com]

This is wonderful! :) Going backwards made each layer that was uncovered feel particularly insightful. I think you added an amazing amount of weight to your narrative with that choice.

And musically speaking, when the bodyswitching section hit I swear I got goosebumps. :D Loved those red flashes as well!

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

Thank you! The bodyswitch is the vid in its purest form but it took quite a few tries (and help from brad) to get that break in the music right. The template for the flashes comes from the show (but I feel I can still take credit for matching two frames of blipverts to its source).