Vid!!!!!!

[lierdumoa]

Title: Smells Like Teen Spirit
Artist: Tori Amos
Fandom: QaF
Spoilers: seasons 2 and 3
Summary: Brian; Brian/Justin
Warnings: Gratuitous overusage of between scene fading, fade to black, and reduce to half speed.

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Lyrics

Load up on guns and bring your friends
It's fun to lose and to pretend
She's over bored and self assured
Oh no, I know a dirty word

Hello (x6)

I'm worse at what I do best
And for this gift I feel blessed
Our little group has always been
And always will be until the end

Hello (x6)

With the lights out
It's less dangerous
Here we are now
Entertain us
I feel stupid
And contagious
Here we are now
Entertain us
Yeah

Hello, hello, oh...

With the lights out
It's less dangerous
Here we are now
Entertain us
I feel stupid
And contagious
Here we are now
Entertain us, yes
A mulatto
An albino
A mosquito
My libido

A denial (x4)
Yes, a denial



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Comments

[estella7.livejournal.com]

Good stuff! Don't shoot, but I always felt like Tori butchered that song, even though I adore her. The song works for me in this vid, though. In fact, it was extremely effective paired with the images you chose. And, lets' hear it for gratuitous overusage of between scene fading, fade to black, and reduce to half speed!

Thanks to Rhi for hosting your vid. I couldn't download your others, except for one and that was due to dumb luck. *feels like an ass*

Will be watching this one again and again. Thanks! xoxo

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

I always felt like Tori butchered that song

*gasp of horror!*

LOL -- but seriously. Very flattered that you liked my vid in spite of the music.

*preens*

[chiquis5784.livejournal.com]

LUV the vid AND song! I'm fairly new with Tori Amos's music, (started getting into it with Rhi's vids)...anyways, I really luved it. You can feel the emotions going on....Hope there's more on the way! :D

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked! There won't be more for a while. I'm going to be doing some vidding in another fandom.

My next QaF vid is going to be humor, though. Not serious at all. I have it somewhat planned out.

[bea-nonymous.livejournal.com]

Aw, that was quite lovely! I'd never heard that version before, so I'm glad you vid to it. Liked it muchly:)

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

*curtsies* Glad you enjoyed it!

[rhiannonhero.livejournal.com]

Yay for gratuitous half-speed. I really liked it. In fact, your use of half-speed may be my fave thing about the video, it really adds to the drag the music puts out. I don't know if that made sense to anyone but me. :)

I really liked the long shot of Brian in the blue-lit back room while the piano plays. There's something really desperate about it. Lovely.

Also love the shot from 308 with Justin in the bar after Brian has walked off. The look on his face goes so well with the pace of the music and the sense of deep sadness in her voice.

The 308 sex scene in slow? That's what I was talking about in the first paragraph. Very nicely done, imo. It just fits the music and the tone. Sometimes I think it is about tone. Um, I am sleepy and obviously need to go to bed since I'm now talking about TONE for god's sake.

Oh, and I really love the merge between Brian dancing alone and the 309 opening sequence. That's just really nice and I've not see that combo before. It struck me as rather fresh.

BTW, your source for 310 is so much prettier than mine. If you're ever willing to share, I'd kiss your pretty feet. :)

Oh, your 311 source is so much prettier than mine, too!

I love the end. I like the scenes you chose for the repetition of denial...I can't explain why. I'm losing words tonight, but it seems like they fit because...there just seems this hint of inevitability to that scene that lends it to feeling, for lack of a better term, desperate, when set against this music.

Thanks for the vid! I liked it so much! :D

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

it really adds to the drag the music puts out

LOL -- no you're totally right. The song's so freaking slow. A lot of scenes were just moving too fast for the song.



I really liked the long shot of Brian in the blue-lit back room while the piano plays.

That scene just makes my heart hurt. Of course, the reason it's a long shot is because it's at half speed. I think the majority of this vid was at half speed.



Also love the shot from 308 with Justin in the bar after Brian has walked off

I really liked making that part. "Our little group has always been and always will be until the end." That in contrast with Justin just standing there alone an disillusioned.



The 308 sex scene in slow? That's what I was talking about in the first paragraph. Very nicely done, imo.

Personally my favorite part of the vid. I'm so glad you liked it!



Oh, and I really love the merge between Brian dancing alone and the 309 opening sequence. That's just really nice and I've not see that combo before. It struck me as rather fresh.

That's exactly the reaction I was hoping for! While I was making that part I was kind of worried because *everyone* uses those scenes in their vids. I thought maybe if I spliced them it would seem more original.



there just seems this hint of inevitability to that scene that lends it to feeling, for lack of a better term, desperate, when set against this music

I decided early on that I was going to use this set of scenes for the ending. Brian and Justin didn't really have this beautiful happily-ever-after reunion. They were both still really damaged from the breakup. There relationship was still kind of fucked up. I think the reunion sex was a reprieve from all that. They were both just pretending everything was okay for a moment. Have sex now. Fix relationship later. So in my mind, it just fit to put that scene to those words.

Gah. Philosophising again.



I'll have highspeed again within a month. I can't send you the whole episodes until then, but if you want clips of my pretty source I can make clips for you to send sooner.

Thanks so much for the detailed feedback! You can see from my equally detailed reply that I very much appreciated it.

;o)

[tehshiny.livejournal.com]

*loves*

I love it. Half-speed is like...wow.

The pace of the music, the scenes and just everything go so, so perfectly together.

*loves*

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Hee! I'm so proud. Glad you liked it.

:D :D :D

[tehshiny.livejournal.com]

liked?

No, I love

<3 Lama!

[spaggel.livejournal.com]

Oh, Lama.

You finished your pretty vid.

Okay, loved the first chorus.

Oh no, I know a dirty word

Brian's dirty word is so "regret". Or "longing". Anything to do with Justin. The hustler scene is a good choice. It could be taken so many ways.

All the "hellos" looked so painful. Like the greeting they give each other are. Good choice of the first one. It's the shocked look on Brian’s face that gives all the "hellos" that feel to them.

The second set also struck me as a resignation for Brian. Another painful realization for him. That Justin wasn't with Ethan anymore, but he can't have him back even though he wants too.

And I agree with Rhi on the backroom piano spot. It’s such a needy thing. Like Brian keeps on getting punched in the gut every time he encounters Justin.

With the lights out
It's less dangerous

Feels poetic and very emotional.

And Brian dancing alone and with Justin. Dream like. From Brian’s POV.

I love in the end, for every denial, it cut to the blurred glass scenes. It fit because of what they could have, shown in between, from what they are giving themselves. A blurred perspective. That it was here and now it's gone. That they can't get it back, when they really can.

I <3 it Lama

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Oh, Syd! You gave pretty, pretty feedback.

:D


The hustler scene is a good choice. It could be taken so many ways.

Yeah, the scene seemed to fit those lyrics. I guess because there is something a bit dirty and guilty about sleeping with someone because they look like the person you really want.



All the "hellos" looked so painful.

The first set of hellos kind of stand out from the rest of the vid. Everything else is slowmoving. I thought about redoing it, but ended up liking the contrast it made.




The second set also struck me as a resignation for Brian.

I think I picked that scene for the second set of hello's because it was like they were seeing each other in a way they hadn't seen eachother in a while. Kinda like a greeting.

There is that sense of frustration about it, though. Closer than they were, but still not close enough to touch. Explains the resignation.



And Brian dancing alone and with Justin. Dream like.

I didn't think of it that way when making it, but now that you mention it -- it is kind of dreamlike. Like the reality is Brian dancing alone, and the dream is Brian dancing with Justin.

Cool.



I love in the end, for every denial, it cut to the blurred glass scenes. It fit because of what they could have, shown in between, from what they are giving themselves. A blurred perspective. That it was here and now it's gone. That they can't get it back, when they really can.

<3 <3 <3

[tinyblondeone.livejournal.com]

Wow, really enjoyed this. Such a haunting feel to it. The 'half-speed' (is that what they're calling it these days? *adjusts wire-rimmed glasses*) worked perfectly for me - gave the whole thing a languid, aching *smoothness* for lack of a better term.
The slowed-down scene of Brian in the backroom, clearing his nose of nasty drugs and even nastier pain over the piano solo was pure magic.
I've always been a little confused by some of the lyrics in that song, so I liked what you did with them, especially the "i'm worse at what i do best" over Brian and the trick - his pain over losing Justin is permeating even the things he *does* do best; and the "our little group has always been..." over Brian and Mikey, and then Justin, all alone.
So many places where the lyrics really fit with the clips used - I'm vewwy impressed. :)
And I had a mini-squee over every "Here we are now..." because of the clips you used. My beautiful boys, together.
As for the song, Tori does it for me in a way that no-one else can, so that was pure bliss. <333

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

is that what they're calling it these days?

Hee! I have no idea. It's what I call it. I sometimes have to make up my own terminology when I'm yelling at WMM for crashing on me repeatedly.



The slowed-down scene of Brian in the backroom, clearing his nose of nasty drugs and even nastier pain over the piano solo was pure magic.

*blushes*



I've always been a little confused by some of the lyrics in that song, so I liked what you did with them...So many places where the lyrics really fit with the clips used - I'm vewwy impressed. :)

Hee! The thing is, this isn't really a Brian song, or a Brian/Justin song. The lyrics don't fit. But I really, really wanted to make a vid out of it, so I told myself I'd find a way to make the lyrics fit if it killed me.

I'm glad I succeeded, for the most part, anyway.



As for the song, Tori does it for me in a way that no-one else can, so that was pure bliss.

Tori is the shiznit, yo!

[brittcakes.livejournal.com]

Here. Now you don't have to save it.

Buffyfan9005: That was gorgeous.
Buffyfan9005: Brilliant. It went beautifully with the words.
ericafawai: leave a comment!
Buffyfan9005: I cant lol. I'm not an LJer anymore.
ericafawai: sure you can
ericafawai: I accept anonymous comments
Buffyfan9005: Haha. I still have my buffyfan journal. It's just the principle of it lol.
ericafawai: so by this principle you won't comment at all?
Buffyfan9005: Lol no. But I do love the video. It's beauitful. It was linear and flowed beautifully.
ericafawai: so instead you're going to put all your feedback in this conversation, forcing me to save it
Buffyfan9005: Yes. I am. Deal. lol.
ericafawai: picture me sticking my tongue out at you
Buffyfan9005: *pictures* Nice.
ericafawai: that was not the effect I was hoping for

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

<3

[ohyeah36.livejournal.com]

Wonderful vid. And I should have commented earlier.
The song's wonderful too. The lyrics fit great with the pictures. Well done =)

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Yes. You should have. So I didn't have to coerce you into doing it.

:D

[lynnska75.livejournal.com]

really liked the vid.