Vidpost.

[lierdumoa]

At long last.

Title: Teeth In The Grass
Artist: Iron & Wine
Fandom: Firefly
Summary: Danger lurks around every corner.
A/N: Much love to absolut3destiny, boniblithe, sdwolfpup and permetaform for beta'ing. You guys are beautiful.
Extras: Making Of

720x400 Divx AVI 45.8 MB
640x360 WMV 17.8 MB

Please right click and save target as to the link above. If you want to recc this to someone, do not hotlink. Instead, refer back to this journal entry. If you don't have the Divx codec to play the file, you can download it for Windows or for Mac. It is free software.



Lyrics

And when you give me your clothes
And when we’re lovers at last
Fresh air, perfume in your nose
There will be teeth in the grass x 5

And when you give me your house
When we’re all brothers at last
There will be food in our mouths
There will be teeth in the grass x 5

And when there’s nothing to want
When we’re all brilliant and fast
When all tomorrow's are gone
There will be teeth in the grass x 5

Comments

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

DiVX download not working :(

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

Never mind - working now!

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

SO AWESOME. It's so great how you tightened everything up - more Simon, less distracting others :)

I can't express my love for your colors enough, either.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

=D Yay!

I'm finally happy with the colors myself, after an insane amount of tweaking. And thanks so much for your advice on removing all the props distracting others.

[silly-grl.livejournal.com]

This is the first FF vid that I have seen, I really enjoyed it - thanks!!!

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! I'm glad you liked it!

[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

Ohhh! Wonderful. I loves me some Simon, and I loves me some Iron & Wine. Lovely combination of the two here.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

o.0

Just realized I never replied to this comment. Dunno how I missed it. Thanks for watching! Simon is the prettiest. He really ought to be vidded more, I think.

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Outstanding work. This is just gorgeous. Great song choice -- perfect for both fandom and character, capturing the "old west feel" but also the tiny blessings mixed with foreboding, the lurking doom just around the corner, and Simon struggling to find a place for himself within it all.

I love the scratchiness and the sepia filters, which support the rustic sound of the song and somehow personalize the images, make them more intense.

Your ending, the dip to white, it extraordinary. The story doesn't end. It goes on into a bright future we can't see. Yes.

You worked really well with the limited source available. Firefly vids always make me wish there was more of the show, more examples of things, so that we didn't always have to use similar clips. But you have taken care to use different shots. I will admit I struggled a bit with some of your superimpositions, where you dissolved from one close-up of Simon to another, similar one. But I can appreciate that you needed to keep the vid moving and that there just wasn't a lot of material to work with. I'm wondering, though, if hard cuts might not have worked better -- to create a more disturbing feel, for example, like jump cuts. Nevertheless, as a whole I think the vid is extremely successful.

Technical note from a Mac user: I downloaded the DivX version, since I have the most recent codec installed. Quicktime preserved your aspect ratio, but playback was jerky, so I viewed in VLC and then in MPLayer. Both had excellent quality playback, but they didn't preserve the aspect ratio, so everyone was tall and skinny. ): The WMV looked perfect, though.

[absolutedestiny.livejournal.com]

Huh... I wonder why VLC and mplayer would change the aspect ratio...

maybe they actually look for the aspect ratio flags in the avi (which no other programs do, afaik)

[logovo.livejournal.com]

Aww, my poor dead show. Thank you so much, I loved the old movie jumpy quality you did.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Yes, I myself am caught between nostalgia and impotent rage that the show was cancelled.

I'm glad you enjoyed this!

[cofax7]

Came here via Laura's rec.

That was fabulous. Smart and short and thinky and I loved the editing and the color wash. Wow.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

I got recc'd? Cool. =D

Smart and short and thinky

I originally saw that the song was two minutes and thought, "Sweet! I can finish this in a weekend!" And then finished it five weeks later.

It was all that thinking I wasn't expecting to have to do. I'm so glad it worked for you!

[talitha78.livejournal.com]

Pretty Simon! Pretty vid!

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

=D

Yes, Simon is the prettiest. I think I may have trashed this thing if not for that cupid's bow mouth.

[xanphibian.livejournal.com]

Beautifully done and edited. I love the contrasts and similarities of the flashbacks to the real time, and the glares of light -- I especially loved that, visually. Simon's hard to vid, and I absolutely am in love with the way you've portrayed him here, and his relationships to River and the crew.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

I'm glad the vid worked for you. I'm really glad it made sense, because at one point I think I completely lost track of what message I was trying to convey. The pretty is so distracting.

Thankyou so much for this comment!

[revolutionaryjo.livejournal.com]

That was incredible! What a fantastic video. Perfect song for Firefly and you wove it all together so perfectly. :)

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Wow! Thanks! I'm so glad it worked for you!

[bitterbyrden.livejournal.com]

That was just gorgeous. I loved the effects, the fact that you used Iron & Wine and the shifts in context/time. Really great. Really beautiful. Loved the ending.

Can you just piece together the old episodes and make a whole new season? Please?

(Linked over from SDWolfpup, I think.)

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you liked it. And w00t! Reccage!

Can you just piece together the old episodes and make a whole new season? Please?

Beyond my abilities, methinks, but thanks for the vote of confidence!

[f1renze.livejournal.com]

The pretty! I cannot stand. And what perfect match in song/source atmosphere. Lovely.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Simon's Pretty is unbearable. He was like, "Vid me, for I am the prettiest," and I was like, "But it hurts," and he was like, "Do it!" and I was like "Okay."

I'm so glad you liked it! Yay for atmosphere!

[annaalamode.livejournal.com]

I love this vid. I really love what you did with the colors and the image quality. You made it very Firefly-like. Very worn in.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Awww, thankyou! I'm glad the filters worked. I really love that you took the time to tell me how much you enjoyed it!

[dualbunny.livejournal.com]

I really dig how focused this was on Simon. And the sound of the song really was a great fit for the show.

I also liked how the aging and coloring filters sort of faded in and out. The rest of the footage looks to have been adjusted colorwise, but I like that the stronger brown/spotlighted overlay was used to emphasize rather than just placed over the whole vid. Keeps your eyes on their toes and definitely added to the sense of complexity.

And perhaps most importantly--it's very very pretty. ;)

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

I really dig how focused this was on Simon. And the sound of the song really was a great fit for the show.

Hee! I loves me some Simon Tam.

I like that the stronger brown/spotlighted overlay was used to emphasize rather than just placed over the whole vid.

I'm glad that worked out. I think it's somewhat against my nature to have any one effect last a whole vid. My attention span's too short for that.

And perhaps most importantly--it's very very pretty. ;)

Ah, well, good to know I got my main point across. *g*



Thanks for the lovely compliments!

[voleuse.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous, gorgeous vid, and I love the song. Thanks for sharing this!

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

I got the song off an old roommate when she was playing it on her iPod one day. I heard it and just had to vid it. I'm so happy you liked how it turned out!

[way2busymom.livejournal.com]

What a absolutely lovely vid. I love love love the sepia tones. You did a great job interweaving them in the story, and the entire color palatte blends so well together. It has a certain glow to it.

Wonderful choice of song as well. I was just thinking the other day that someone really needs to vid Firefly to Iron & Wine (was actually thinking of Dearest Forsaken) and lo & behold...a vid pops up.

Great job!

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

I had no idea this many people knew of Iron & Wine! Thankyou for the lovely feedback. The color tinting and aging filters were the biggest challenge of this vid, so I'm happy it worked out.

[overworked.livejournal.com]

That was absolutely wonderful. You drew me into the story you where telling and kept me there.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm so glad you liked it!

[tehshiny.livejournal.com]

Me likey. And it also makes me twitch because I do not have Firefly and now I want to rewatch it.

I like the faded photograph efffect thingy you did, fits the song and for some reasons, I thought they looked better in this light/tone/color (?) than the actual one.

I cannot do vid!talk to save my life, so I'll stop now.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Me likey.

Yay!



Yeah -- I kept looking at the source and thinking the color was off. And then there was much color tweakage.

[celli]

That is so great. I have to go watch it again.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

::bounces::

Yay! Glad you liked!

[burntspaghetti.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. That was just gorgeous. The colours are lovely, and the music is perfect. I love the way you linked the music so well to the visuals, especially when the hologram above River fades on queue. I'll probably be reccing this in the next day or two.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Hee! I'm get kind of scarily obsessive when it comes to timing. And yay! Yay for reccage!

[river-boat.livejournal.com]

Absolutely beautiful. I loved it, especially the section with the cutting between the basketball game and CT scan at the hospital, and all the Simon/Kayleigh stuff near the beginning (which I have been dying to see vidded). The way you used colour was also, of course, wonderful. I'll definitely be watching this one again.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm so glad you liked! And yeah, I debated in the beginning whether I wanted to make this slash, and in the end decided to stick with canon. Plus, Kaylee rocks, and deserves to be vidded.

[simonesa.livejournal.com]

Such a great vid. I have been waiting so long for someone to make a Simon vid. The song is perfect and I love the old west look of the vid.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm glad you liked. Thanks for commenting!

[halfway2home.livejournal.com]

That is beautiful. I love the rustic, Western look. You blended the scenes so nicely; I almost didn't realize there were cuts.

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I tried really hard to get the right atmosphere for the song. I'm glad you liked it!

[sol-se.livejournal.com]

Beautiful work! I love the colors, movements, song choice...It made the video feel like it had a real kind of texture to it. If that makes sense at all. Anyway, great job!

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I really wanted to create an atmosphere that fit the song. I'm glad it worked out!