RAS, I LOVE YOU! Once again you've wiped my mind blank with awe! You've made me think I should retire from vidding! You've made me keel over backwards with amazement! THIS - VID - KICKS - ASS!
Oh HRS, thank you!!!!!! And you're not retiring, 'cause you're a vidder that continues to awe and inspire me..all the time!! Thank you so much for your enthusiastic response here..it means so much! (and it was great incentive knowing you were 'waiting' for me to finish this vid...thanks for all your encouragement!)
Tell me, I beg you, how you got the clips to do that cool jittery, shaky thing? I have Vegas too, so pleaaaaaaaaaaase! I want to know!
I love it I love it I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE IT!
I'm so glad you liked that portion! It was one of the earliest sequences I put in and I am relieved and thrilled to know it seems to be effective. I wanted that sequence to feel pretty frenzied, befitting the slight insanity of that LGM moment and that crazed bit of music seemed like a gift tailor made for that scene. It's just some heavy ghosting, one shorter overlay clip on top of the other. John and Scorp were slightly frenzied/shakey there anyway, so I think that helped some. (Poor John's hand, holding the rod, continues to shake there even after the ghosting is finished.)
Thank you so much, HRS....your shining reply was a complete joy to see so immediately after I posted this ...just can't thank you enough for all your wonderfully enthusiastic comments!!
Cool vid, great editing job.
Besides Scorpy is my hero.
We are so pleased, we are going to watch it again
Thanks sooo much, Scarran Pimpernel! Scorpy is such an incredible character and it means so much that you enjoyed this vid about your 'hero'! Thank you again for commenting!!
Ohh... I was vidding this too Oh well wasn't gonna get done anyway... off to download.
Hope you had a chance to see it...and I'd like to see your version, too!
Excellent Scorpy vid. Nice use of long fades and overlays to really set the mood.
All around excellent. The timing was wonderful and the clip choices couldn't have been better. I especially loved the ghosting to the discordant part of the song. That was a great choice to accentuate the music.
Awesome job.
Thanks so much LTG!!
Glad you enjoyed the clip choices and especially that little 'insane' moment with Scorp trying to get John to put the coolent rod in, I'm so happy you felt that scene matched the frenzy of that bit of music. I don't think I realized it fully when I first began vidding this, but now each time I hear that part of the song, it seems to reflect for me the very essence of Scorp and John's entire crazed relationship. Thank you LTG for your wonderful reply! (ETA: So sorry, I just now edited this response to you back in, AOL threw me off before I was finished posting and I lost parts of this message and had to write much of it again)
It's done!! Yay! I've really been looking forward to seeing this and you did such a fabulous job with it. Starting with a great song never hurts, and I *adore* this one. Aside from having lots of great musical texture to which you matched the editing so well, it's lyrically ripe for exploring some of the vulnerability and uncertainty in Scorpy as a character -- the fact that he's obsessed with John/wormholes like it's a physical addiction, and the references to his parentage/upbringing. Some moments I loved were the first chorus, with the rush of Aurora chair visuals, the nasty brain-snacking and the clip of Scorpy implanting the chip for the "coming at your for a little more" lyric. That sequence had such impact. Then I found myself perversely enjoying the blood pact scene to the "never needed anybody like this before" line -- dunno if it makes sense, but I love how primal that scene feels when set to Shirley Manson's vocal (versus a male vocal).
Chasa, YESSS..finally got it finished (well, at least up to this stage. I still feel it's a rough piece of wood I am forever sanding! Sighh...so the editing probably will continue as I am still worried about my timing in many places as well as some transitions )
Thank you sooooooo much for all your wonderfully detailed comments...just knowing you found enjoyment in this vid and that you felt it worked with this incredible song means so much!!!! (I adore the song like mad too, you need only to have seen me sing this in my car over the last few years to know that for sure!
) I'm glad you enjoyed the strech of Aurora chair visuals, 'brain-snacking' (great term!) and the chip insertion. It took me a long while to build that up, so it means a tremendous lot to hear from you that it holds such impact, that is what I was striving for! And Boy oh boy do I agree 1000% about the blood pact scene feeling wonderfully primal set against Shirley's amazing vocal vs a male voice, you bet it makes sense, oh yes. That was one of my favorite sections to work on, so I'm thrilled to know you like it! The ghosting of the LGM clips during that frenzied patch of music was something I had put in way before other parts of the vid were even filled. That music was cryin' for an insane moment and I really thought that one fit the bill, I'm so glad you found the sequence effective! Thank you Chasa for this terrific reply!!
Very cool Scorpie vid. Me likes.
Thanks, Brent!! I'm so glad you thought it was a cool vid for Scorpy. It was quite a challenge for me to do my first Scorpius vid, he's so amazing!!
This was a very well done vid. I really liked choice of visuals in the overlays and how you messed with their timing, even pausing some. This was a very well edited vid.
Thank you, AOM! I do have an odd assortment of visuals and tried a few things...so it means alot to know you felt it all worked and that you enjoyed the vid! Thanks so much!
This was terrific, RASun - very compelling Scorpy/Crichton/wormhole story! Loved the part that started with John on the operating table and your overlay of scenes ending with him in the Aurora chair. Wonderful vid!!
Thanks so much Li Moss! I'm so glad you enjoyed that DMD operating table sequence overlaid with the Aurora chair and wormhole clips. It was a section I worked especially hard on... it's wonderful to know you found it so enjoyable! Thank you for commenting!!
Is there a smaller version to this? I would love to see it, but I have a rather low daily download limit here at school and that size would just blow it.....
Jag, I replied to your PM. I hope you've been able to see the vid now!
i love the way you played around and experimented with the clips to get the best result. this is a very well done video.
KICKASS!!!!
Thanks Cordelia!! I did do a lot of first time experimenting here, so it makes me so happy to hear you felt things worked so well and that you enjoyed it! Thanks for coming to comment!
Totally creepy and kickass vid! Excellent music choice as well.
Thanks so much fallingangelz! I am very happy you found it creepy, that means some of the things I tried did work! I just LOVE this song too! It seemed so suited for Scorpius, it almost felt like a vidders gift! Thanks for your comments!
Radiant Aeryn Sun, you did a fablulous job. I bet you worked so hard on this, well everyone works hard on their vids. You did great! I loved it, a really great choice of song. I love that song. Also the lyrics matched so well with your vid. Thanks!
Thank you so much Zhaanstar!
I know how much you love watching videos and you have such a super eye, knowing you like my vid so much means a whole lot!!! Thank you for your wonderful reply!!