Fanvid: Story in Your Eyes (Doctor/Sarah)

[dbskyler]

Fanvid is finished! I decided to start out by posting it at Vimeo:

Title: Story in Your Eyes (Doctor/Sarah)
Characters: The Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith
Clips from: Doctor Who, Sarah Jane Adventures
Music: "Story in Your Eyes" performed by The Moody Blues


Link to video: http://www.vimeo.com/22349177
Password: story


By the way, I realized something last night. My very first Doctor Who fanfic -- "Miles from Aberdeen" -- was about Sarah letting go of the Doctor. This fanvid -- my first -- is about the Doctor letting go of Sarah. Someone could probably psychoanalyze me for their dissertation, couldn't they? Anyway, I hope you enjoy it!

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

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(That is me smiling widely a lot here.) That was brilliant!!! The Classic Who clips look an awful lot better in this than they do in a lot of people's vids - did you do something, or is it just being legal paying off? Anyway, I love the song, the mood of it, the clips. Wow. It was fun to hear about the progress - and then finally get to watch the result, and it sounded like it'd be a cool vid - and it was. Well done!!!

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Oh, yay, I'm glad you liked it!

did you do something, or is it just being legal paying off?

Well, if I did something clever to enhance the video quality, it wasn't on purpose, and I probably couldn't replicate it. *g* But I suspect that it's simply because all the clips are straight off my DVDs. It stands to reason that if you're collecting clips from various sources, those sources might be of variable quality. However, I do think I probably should've de-interlaced "Pyramids of Mars" and "Hand of Fear" after all to improve the quality of those clips. Oh well, next time.

[thisbluespirit]

:-)

I've found it on YT now as well and favourited it in my bookmarks. And, lol, now you can be all smug and virtuous about how crime never pays, or something...

Now, didn't we have a conversation about this in which if you learnt, I was going to request a fanvid off you? ;-D (LOL. Do not fear. I'll have to learn, too, won't i?)

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

You favorited it?? Wow, you really do like it! :D :D

Now, didn't we have a conversation about this in which if you learnt, I was going to request a fanvid off you?

I remember that. Didn't you want Five/Tegan? I'd be happy to do that for you as soon as you purchase all the DVDs and mail them over to me to keep forever. ; )

(But honestly? If I can do it, you can do it! Especially since you're already better at graphics than I am.)

[thisbluespirit]

Heh. And, yes it was. Sounds a fair bargain to me - I'll just wait until Frontios is out, as I want clips from that, definitely. ;-D

I wouldn't mind having a go at a fanvid - I once made something similar for media studies using many moons ago an editing suite and video and cassettes and that was fun. It took ages, though. Days and days. However, I would need to download software and rip stuff onto my pc and put it together, and while I have done a slide-show thing (it didn't really work out, but I mean to have another try sometime), I think my pc would die. It copes well with most things, but it groans a bit sometimes when I screencap and make icons. I dread to think what it would do if I tried to play about with moving pictures on it...

Edit: Also you mentioned the slowness of ripping and leaving your pc on all night to do it. It was at that point, I realised I could never make a fanvid. I switch off all the lights, and the Tv, and EVERYTHING obsessively. Plus, my pc is in my room. :lol:

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I thought I had a pretty good computer, but it didn't like all the ripping and importing. Then once the vid got to be over two minutes in length, it started disappearing out from under me whenever I made a change to it. Fortunately it always came back, and anyway I kept making back-up copies at every step -- which was very helpful, by the way, because it made it easy to go back to the last "I like this" version. In fact, I had alternative versions of scenes at several points, and I would play first one and then the other to decide which I liked best.

I still hope you give vidding a try someday, though! I'd kind of like to see that Five/Tegan vid. : )

[thisbluespirit]

I still hope you give vidding a try someday, though! I'd kind of like to see that Five/Tegan vid.

And so would I, so who knows, I suppose? Also it is one it would be hard to explain, because this is the song I have in mind (by Aimee Mann):

Nothing was saving our day
There was nothing to say,
But you said something anyway
Claiming I stepped out of line
Which forced you to leave me,
As if that idea was mine.
[Chorus]
Oh, you stupid thing
Speaking of course as your dear departed
Oh, you stupid thing
It wasn't me that you outsmarted,
You stupid thing
Stopping it all before it even started

I bet you knew it would come
That's just like you, to sit back
And just play it dumb
One word of warning would help
But that sacrifice was made
Trying to save yourself
[Chorus]

Maybe that's just how I am
To fall where I stand,
Or I'm weak for that kind of man
One who looks helpless and brave
But you turned into a coward
I don't care for the parts you saved.
[Chorus]


Which sounds as if I'm being really mean to Five, but I'm just kind of thinking of Resurrection and stuff... So, yeah. Except there is the technical side, not killing my pc and the fact that I want to do family history and writing and... :-)

Your example is very inspiring, tho'!

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's a great song for Five/Tegan! I don't think it's being mean to Five at all, especially considering it's Tegan thinking those things. The first two stanzas could actually work in either direction -- Five to Tegan, or Tegan to Five, couldn't they?

[thisbluespirit]

:-D I doubt it'll ever exist, but it makes me happy to know that someone can see why the song brings them to my mind! (I don't usually tend to do that with songs much. It is usually the other way round - people make fanvids, and then I see that song as being connected to the show.)