New vid: Orange Crush, Captain America movies

[gwyn]

Pretty much every person I've told this idea to looked at me as if I'd gone mad. But I really wanted to make it, and I like how it turned out. Hopefully someone else will, too.

Orange Crush
Artist: R.E.M.
Fandom: Captain America movies
Summary: Time to serve your conscience.
Streaming

"orange crush - Captain America Winter Soldier" (Watch on YouTube)

HQ download at the link on the title.

Tumblr post -- reblogs are lovely!

Thanks to feochadn for the beta!!

Comments

[ratcreature]

I enjoyed this a lot. I liked especially how you used a focus on Steve's shield sometimes.

[gwyn]

Thanks! Yeah, the shield is very much a centerpiece for something like this.

[gblvr]

I've watched this three times now, and I think it's brilliant....

[gwyn]

Oh yay!!! I'm so happy to hear that. Thank you!

[goodbyebird]

oooh I really like this!

[gwyn]

Thank you! I'm so glad -- I've been struggling with the Steve vid of my heart, so I thought this might help me refocus and go back to that.

[sineala]

This is really lovely; I can tell I'm going to be watching it a lot!

[gwyn]

Thank you so much! I was really happy with how it turned out (and that I lucked out with the dvd rip being dumped onto the internet literally the day I was finishing making tweaks to it).

[monanotlisa]

Oh, I always like your videos so -- downloading this one...

[gwyn]

Yay -- I hope you'll like it!

[musesfool]

Wow, that was excellent.

[gwyn]

Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it.

(BTW, thank you so much for the kind rec of the MM/CA story -- my stuff usually dies a slow quiet death, and there were a few people who came to read it because of seeing it on your site. Really made my month!)

[devilc]

It's nice to see a non-woe and angst Cap video.

[gwyn]

Hah! Well, I'm glad I could help in the non-woe department (although usually that's my jam!). :-D

[dine]

god, I love this! I watched it several times yesterday, and am watching it again while I dl a copy. great concept and a fab vid

[gwyn]

I'm so glad!! I really was starting to think maybe I was crazy so it's nice to know a few people have been on the same crazytrain with me.

[elz]

Yay, I really enjoyed this!

[gwyn]

W00t! I'm so glad! Thank you for saying so! <3

[sholio]

I really loved this! I like the song choice; I think it works really well.

[gwyn]

Thank you so much -- that means a lot to me, because your fic has been one of my favorite things in this fandom. I really appreciate it. ♥

[talitha78]

Oh, wow. You drew so many amazing visual parallels here--great eye! Also, I love how you used every scrap of footage available to you, even the deleted scenes. We definitely need to work in time to discuss this vid at VVC. There's so much to unpack. For now-- *applauds*

[gwyn]

YAYAYAYAYAY! I'm so thrilled you liked it. Max feels, baby -- you know that's what we're all about. I had thought about mentioning it to you when we were talking about the panel, but I wasn't sure if a) I could finish in time and b) anyone would like it since people were SO confused whenever I talked about it.

[kass]

OMG, I love this so much.

There's so much here to adore -- obviously motion and pace (those rapid-fire cuts on the rapid-fire drumbeats) and "got my spine" matched with weaponry and and and -- but the thing that made me gasp out loud and clutch at my heart was the cut between Steve getting into the chair to be given the serum, and Bucky settling back into his chair to be wiped. OH MY HEART.

[gwyn]

Oh, sweetie, thank you, I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I had been trying to make this vid of my soul and it just has not been coming together for me, and so I took a lot of what I wanted to do in that and used it here -- the clips of Steve lying back and Bucky being forced back, for instance, and it worked so much better. Really if the song had been longer, I probably could have just done nothing but parallels.

[marycontrary]

This was lovely, thank you! I like the paralleling of Bucky and Steve.

[gwyn]

Thank you very much!! I'm so glad you enjoyed it, yay!

[movies_michelle]

Loved this SO much! Beautiful cutting, as usual, and I loved the metaphor of the serum as Agent Orange. Well done!

[gwyn]

Heee! Yay, I'm so glad you liked it. I'm glad I persevered with it, after all, because it was fun to do.

[renay]

This was so excellent! :D

[gwyn]

Thank you so much!!! I'm super happy you liked it and thank you for letting me know!

[meri_oddities]

Wow. This is excellent. I really enjoyed it.

[gwyn]

Aw, thank you, honey! I really appreciate hearing that!

[kuwdora]

oh, REM. Yeah, I'm so here. also the editing is very lovely and I'm completely fawning over the way you transitioned from the Cap to Bucky section at 1:07-1:11 with the guitar string noise/sound/thing, that is just so great. love it lots and lots!

[gwyn]

Aw, sweetie, you have no idea how happy this makes me to hear. ::wishes you could have been at VVC so I could have smooshed you::

And thank you a million times for sending your freaking awesome vid to our room party. I can't tell you how much fun that was and OMG YOU USED EDWIN STARR OMG. That gave the room so much energy, too!

[tehlime]

This vid is fantastic, I absolutely love it!

[gwyn]

Yay yay yay! Thank you so much, I'm thrilled to hear that you enjoyed it!

[minim_calibre]

I TOTALLY MISSED THAT YOU MADE THIS BECAUSE I WAS OUT CAMPING. YOU MADE THIS!!!!!!!!

And, hey! Actual literal chills, which are a pain when one hasn't shaved in a couple of days.

[gwyn]

I did! I made the thing! Of all the skeptical looks, yours was the most diplomatic, I have to say, and I found that encouraging. ;-) I'm really glad to hear you enjoyed it, because there are a handful of people I've kept in my mind in this fandom when I'm creating things, and you're one of them.

[sophiap]

This is amazing! All those lovely, lovely parallels...

[gwyn]

Thank you so much! I had a ton of fun making it, and I didn't even get 1/4 of the parallels I wanted to put in there. Honestly, I could have made two vids just for those.

[nwhepcat]

Wow! I am in LOVE. Wonderful--need to see it a few dozen more times now.

[gwyn]

I'm SO THRILLED you enjoyed it! Honestly, there's nothing more wonderful than making something you love and making other ppeople happy with it. Especially people you know!

[cass404]

This was amazing. I think I need to watch it twenty more times and then, maybe, I can explain why without just flapping my hands ineffectually. So good.

[gwyn]

That is incredibly awesome to hear! Flapping hands is always good! I am thrilled to hear I made something someone has flappy hands over!

[embroiderama]

Wow, wow, this is awesome!

[gwyn]

You are awesome for saying so! Thank you so much!

[domarzione]

Oh, this was good. Well-edited, too, not only for the themes but also for the little (relatively) things like matching the helo sound effects to the visual. Brava.

[gwyn]

Oh wow, thank you so very much. That means a lot to me, coming from you! That helo effect was the thing that cemented my need to do this -- every time I listened to the song, I just kept seeing that Steve/Sam/Natasha takedown and I pretty much had to make it.

[glitteryv]

Very cool vid. I love the parallels between Steve and Bucky and how they're together (emotionally) even when they're apart. :)

[gwyn]

Thank you so much! Yeah, in my mind, even when they don't know they're a part of each other, they are.