There's gold in them thar hills! Eureka!

[gwyn]

Thanks to the help of laurashapiro, I managed to get a workable large-window, manageable file size, Divx avi file of my new vid, and finally, after many cranky emails with the annoying new web hosts, get this vid uploaded. I may still tweak some settings and try for a less jerky QT file, or maybe even give 3ivx a try at a future date and see if that will improve image quality, but overall, outside of some stuttering on the action scenes, I'm pleased with how this turned out and especially pleased to be able to make it available in a more viewable format. It's not perfect, especially in movement scenes, but different players may help that. In the long run it was only 6 more MB than a smaller window, so I didn't make the smaller size available, because at that point, it doesn't seem that much worse to just DL the extra.

Anyways. The vid is called Loaded Gun, the song is by Hednoize, and the fandom is of course The Fast and the Furious. I know no one is interested, but I will post later about my thoughts while making it and the process, more for my own amusement than anyone else's, I'm sure. The DL is 29.1MB, and this one is MILES better in VLC than viewing in a regular QuickTime window, so follow the links on the vid page and grab VLC media player if you haven't already. VLC really brings out the vibrant colors, smooths the jerky action scenes, and pixelates the fast edits way less. I don't normally attach lyrics, but there is a link there for some if you need them -- whoever transcribed lyrics and has passed them around the Net was, IMO, utterly demented and hearing impaired, so I've provided them here since I don't want people to get mistaken ideas about what the vid is saying.

If you have any troubles DLing, please let me know. I had to use a different method (mutters darkly about the new web hosts) this time so I'm not sure how well everything uploaded. As always, feedback of any kind is welcome.

Comments

[movies-michelle.livejournal.com]

You got the avi file fixed. Yay! J'adore le vid! *g*

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

So glad you got it uploaded! I will grab it this afternoon/evening and take a look.

[par-avion.livejournal.com]

Whee! New vid!

Between you and lierdumoa I have finally bought TF&TF, it just arrived a few days ago! I will have to watch the movie and then watch your vid!

[sdwolfpup.livejournal.com]

Wow that was great! I only know TF&TF through your and lierdumoa's vids (and what she told me of the movie when I was confused), but it's enough to appreciate what you've done here. You really put Brian in the driver's seat for most of it and then it switches very smoothly into this sense of tension where Dom is in charge and that last shot actually gave me chills. My favorite parts were the quick cut sections, especially the first one at the end where you have them shifting. Very cool.

The quality is great. I may have to corner laura on AIM and ask her to help me figure out why my DivX isn't working. :)

[mlyn.livejournal.com]

Squeeeeee!

I'm going to watch it without the VLC player because I have things to do and really shouldn't be spending more time on the computer this morning, but I'll download the player and get the better viewing experience later. And then watch it again. And again and again.

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

Oooooooooh! Gwyn, that was awesome! It made me want to drop whatever I'm doing and go watch the damn movie again, after I've watched the vid another, oh, fifty times or so.

I loved the intensity, the almost subliminal cuts (gay male porn tableaux, I'm talkin' to you!), the fit of lyrics. Interestingly, I think my favorite part was the bridge, with no words, just music and clips. It's just...gorgeous.

Happily off to watch it again.

[maubast.livejournal.com]

Any chance of getting it on DVD, gwyn? *hopeful* Will gladly cover costs.

Shiny!

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

I'm just breathless, Gwyneth. How wonderful it is! I love the way you wove the fast-car-splody-action with the contextual storytelling bits -- not knowing the film, I couldn't follow the story very closely, but I appreciated what you were doing with the vid's structure, giving emotional wait to all the pretty-shiny-fast stuff.

That motion blur effect as the cars take off -- that was you, right? (:

The thing I liked best was the way you used color. I love how the first verse is all acid green and feisty, like that green car, and it's green green green until the bridge, and then things get emotionally dark and the color changes to red. Blood, damage. And then in the final section, it's both red and green, alternating in some places. I thought it might have also been your intention to associate each color with a character, one being green and the other red, but I wasn't 100% sure on that. Even if not, it's a fantastic device, because it makes me really pay attention to the song and the way you're using its tonal shifts.

Really cool stuff. I'm so glad you got it posted!

[paris7am.livejournal.com]

Wonderful wonderful work. You pick up all of the unspoken emotional communication and condense it into an amazingly dense gift. Really enjoyed it.

[dine.livejournal.com]

ooooh, this is fabulousness. fast, spiffy, shiny, and just wow.

I don't know the technical language of vidding, but think the way you crafted this completely conveys the feel of the movies - it's a love story to the film, and makes me want to rewatch it again tonight.

[wistfuljane.livejournal.com]

I really love the beginning intro and the transitions in your vid, all the sudden changes and intro flow with the song choice as well as fit to how I see the movie and street racing.

[(Anonymous)]

just saw the vid. loved it. very cleanly, prettily done. the sound of the song is perfect. the effects fit in well. in particular i liked all the sequences involving driving - it fit in seamlessly with the song. i'm off to watch it again. thanks! - tally

[keiko-kirin.livejournal.com]

Saw this last night at a DSL-enabled friend's house, and WOW! Best F&F vid I have seen (coming from someone who hasn't seen the films, but has seen several F&F vids). Why? Because of the song choice -- it seemed perfect for the material -- and because it actually told me something. I could follow along without knowing the source material, and I totally got into the vid's storyline. Plus, beautiful editing. This blew me away, honestly! I love it!

[thevetia.livejournal.com]

This vid was really something! And I speak as one who has not, yet, seen The Fast and the Furious. But the wonderful song choice, the way it illuminated the *feel* of the clips you chose, told a story that pulled me right into the universe. I loved the change in pacing in the vid, the way the change in the song changed the focus of the clips, so that the clips of the car stunts that in some other F&F vids have looked like, well, like clips of car stunts, in this vid looked like symbols of things deeper and darker between the characters. (Geez, don't ever do a usage post on the mis-use of the comma splice, please? I'd never write again.) So much to enjoy in this vid!

[permetaform]

Heya! I just saw this and then I saw it again and then saw it again...I think I played it on repeat for half an hour! Very neat, I love the structure of it, the way you showed the complicated feelings and the complicated relationship they had with each other. It's a repeititive song, lyric-wise only, at points, but the singer makes each repetition slighly different and I love how you showed the difference in the constantly flickering and changing emotions between Dom and Brian. I love how you revisited scenes of them, showing the scenes in one light, and then it looks different when you revisited it further along in the song, like the way a memory might change it's 'tone' when you reflect on the past.

This is lovely work with motion and color, and really awesome use of the source; even though I've seen the source alot, it caught my attention in a whole new way, and then again and then when I didn't think it could get anymore intense it DID and towards the middle I was holding my hands to my mouth and going "OH MY FUCK".

I'm very glad to have been able to see this; I wasn't able to before because I'm on dial-up but I'm sound-testing the dvds for bascon. Thank you so much for submitting this, thank you so much for creating this in the first place! ::GLOMP::