Taking Control: A Supernatural FanVid
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kricketsTitle: Taking Control
Fandom: Supernatural
Characters: Ensemble (Sam, Ava, Jake, Andy, Lilly, Rosie, Max, Webber, Scott, Bobby, & Dean)
Summary: Explores the dark and unfortunate path of the chosen children.
Song & Artist: We Are by Ana Johnson
Length & Size: 3:53 minutes & 13.5 MBs (HQ: 58.27MBs)
Note: Shown at the 2007 WinCon VidShow
Watch it: here @ everydamnthing.net
AWARDS:
Driver Picks the Music Round 7
Best Ensemble RU at Driver Picks the Music
Best of the Best Round 1
Fandom: Supernatural
Characters: Ensemble (Sam, Ava, Jake, Andy, Lilly, Rosie, Max, Webber, Scott, Bobby, & Dean)
Summary: Explores the dark and unfortunate path of the chosen children.
Song & Artist: We Are by Ana Johnson
Length & Size: 3:53 minutes & 13.5 MBs (HQ: 58.27MBs)
Note: Shown at the 2007 WinCon VidShow
Watch it: here @ everydamnthing.net
Driver Picks the Music Round 7
Best Ensemble RU at Driver Picks the Music
Best of the Best Round 1
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Date: 2007-09-15 06:40 am (UTC)Great and brillant job.......
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Date: 2007-09-15 10:15 am (UTC)I also - I love the psychic kids, I really do, and as much as I liked the finale I hated that it was basically 'hey, look at all these neat characters! Whoops, they're all dead now', and this is a great - well, sort of a tribute video? To all of them, and I like that you brought in as much scope as you could, like the baby of the woman Sam saw on the ceiling in his vision, and the guy Ava sees being stabbed in the parking lot. And the victims of each psychic kid - directly or indirectly harmed, and each kid's responsibility in it. (Did we ever get a better name than psychic kids/chosen children? It seems a little demeaning for a bunch of twenty-somethings, but I can't think of anything else. *grins*)
I also really, really like the overlay of the 'I will not kill' lines, and the lyric/clip choices here, like the 'my oh my's, and the 'you wash your hands' iteration at 1:58 with Sam and then - oh, god, this would be so much easier if I could remember anyone's name - the matching movements of Sam and - uh, Andy? All the moments like that, there's some wonderful internal movement here, like Ava and Sam being killed on the hard beats at 2:44-2:48-ish, and the occasional staccato cutting (like Ava in bed with her husband), which I'm always a sucker for. Sam's revival and return to the fight is really, really seamless, and I like that Dean wasn't highlighted there, this being really just the psychic kids' stories. Mary's death in the beginning is also very neatly, seamlessly done - that's cut between the Pilot and the, what, second season finale, right? It looks wonderful, and is a great introduction to a vid that really is the tying-together of a lot of disparate stories told in different episodes and timelines and often from different viewpoints.
The ending image, of Sam entirely alone in the dead town - ah, that's wonderful.
This is a really, really great vid, and I absolutely adore it. Thank you so much for making and sharing it!
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Date: 2007-09-15 12:58 pm (UTC)Ah, I'm sorry! You can download the video from zshare! Above the player should be a link to the download. I forget sometimes that that's not very clear.
I also added the HQ download above (about 58mbs). Here are those links so you don't have to go back searching:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5NKYQSVY
http://www.zshare.net/video/3657740d8f9fe9/
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Date: 2007-09-15 01:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-15 01:47 pm (UTC)Wow. Your coloring on this vid is off the charts! But the thing that, I think, truly creeped me out was how you put the "I shall not kill" over Sam's shooting Jake. That literally gave me the shivers!!
I'm snagging the HQ DL for my own enjoyment, because this is truly a work of art! Wonderful job! :D
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Date: 2007-09-15 02:49 pm (UTC)*stops making with the exclamation marks and breaks out the headphones*
Wow. That was awesome! I know I'm probably missing some significance in the whole scheme of things because I don't watch the show. However, I don't care. My favorite part was the sequence of close-ups of different characters in the beginning of the video.
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Date: 2007-09-15 04:00 pm (UTC)*wishes SO bad that I could've been around last night for this*
So, you know the first thing I did was download the nice, big, prettiful version.
I'm feelin the urge for a play-by-play with this one? That gonna work for you?
Okay, first of all I LOVE the beginning of Mary, definitely one of my favorite parts and a perfect way to start the vid! The blood dripping on the beat just makes me squee everytime! And I love the zooms in on each character after that.
'Time is ticking'?! Dude I really like the way you changed that. The watch looked cool, but those clocks look even more cool! Awesome!
0:33 I had to keep rewinding that part like a gazillion times because I just love the beat use there lol!
0:38 Oh Dean...oh the roadhouse...home?! Gah! Love that part! Also, I love that whenever you make a vid, there's just so much more behind it than a clip. Everything goes so much deeper and you interpret the lyrics in a way that no one else would ever be creative enough to do! That always blows me away when you make a vid!
The one minute mark, the first 'enemy's within'..love the clip you chose of Jake because, boy does he have some shit goin on in there! :D
1:33 - That 'lining up for the grand elusion', that's another one that's definitely one of my favorite parts, because you couldn't have chose a more perfect scene for that, it just gives me chills!
1:41 - ANDY! NO! But omg wonderful beat use, I love the back and forth between the close up and the regular shot and then the blood on the window at the end!! Ahh!
2:18 - That second part with Max, dude..just, and he fires the gun on the beat and it gives me crazy chills and that's another part I have to rewind and watch again because it's just so awesome!
2:45 - LOVE that part! love love that part, I especially love the way you cut Sam being killed, it's just that little tiny splice that makes all the difference, it just looks so awesome!
And you edited that ending part, with all the crazy like twelve different voices singing different melodies all at once, you edited it perfectly! I LOVE the 'will not kill' overlays, so so perfect! That was another part that I like squeed, pretty much out loud, cuz they look so cool. I love Sam killing Jake, again how it goes back and forth between the close up and not, and him ending up alllll alone. Oooohhhh.
The texture/coloring, that's a given, because I mean...absolutely amazing!
This vid...KC!! I love it!
You know what makes me sad though, I'm not gonna be allowed to vote on it at SVS. *sigh*
Anyhoo, I love you! :)
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Date: 2007-09-15 07:09 pm (UTC)darling, that is frigging amazing, no other words, I was mesmerized all the way through. seriously. I love what you did with the texture, so awesome.
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Date: 2007-09-16 03:43 am (UTC)Thanks hon!
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Date: 2007-09-16 03:48 am (UTC)Dude I'm stoked you noticed the overlays of "i will not kill." It was kind of a last minute idea and I am REALLY very pleased with the way it came out. So thanks for mentioning it!
And yes, the opening sequence is cut from both the pilot and AHBL Part 1. It was REALLY fun putting that together. Kind of gives a more complete picture of the whole thing.
I can't thank you enough for such a lovely thought-out comment. It means very much to me that you took the time to type all that out! That you noticed some things I hoped would come across etc. *feels very validated* Heheh.
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Date: 2007-09-16 04:11 am (UTC)I gotta say, the beginning was really fun to put together. At first, as you know I just had clips from AHBL I, but then I got the idea to go back to the pilot to add some more and YEAH. It was like a whole new world then!
Yeah, I was sad to say goodbye to Ash's arm. But you gotta do what you gotta do. That clip is actually taken from Simon Said, Andy's ep.
Re: Home/Dean/Roadhouse/MyGeneralAwesomeness, aw, baby, you know I feel the same way about you hahaha. Seriously. I think that is the ONE thing that kind of distinguishes my style so it makes me all gooey inside to know that that's your favorite thing about my vids. *squishes you*
Oh, Jake! I wanted you to be good!
I really love the way that Andy part turned out! Kind of an experimental, let's try this thing that worked better than I could have imagined.
Poor teary-eyed Max. We hardly knew ye!
Will not kill = last minute decision that I am SO glad I made. Yay for taking chances!
I love you too! (God, we are sick. LOL.
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