Gift for Mithborien by echan (Portal series)

[fv_poster]

Title of vid: Feel The Love
Recipient: Mithborien
Vidder: echan
Fandom: Portal series
Music: Feel The Love by Rudimental
Summary: Down the rabbit hole for science and cake.
Content notes: Physical triggers (e.g., epilepsy or migraine: strobe lights, bright lights, "stuttery" cuts between 2-3 stills), Rapid camera angle and motion changes
Signed length: 03:26
Signed URL:

Link to signed vid post.

Lyrics
You know I said it's true
I can feel the love
Can you feel it too
I can feel ah ah
I can feel ah ah yeah

Comments

[mithborien]

That was amazing!!!!! Thank you, vidder!!!!!

This just makes me want to open the games and start playing again. I love the section around 1:00 where you start falling through all the portals. That was one of my favourite thing to do in the game.

I also love how many different sources you incorporated. That was another thing I loved about the games, how it inspired people to make so many different kinds of media based off the games.

And I love how you ended with the cake! And I love your music choice! Definitely feeling the love. Thank you again!

[echan]

Thank you!! I was so excited by your request; searching for and gathering all the various sources was a lot of fun. So happy I made what you were looking to receive. :D

[khaiell]

That was a fantastic love letter to the whole fandom! Well done.

[echan]

Thank you! So many folks have taken the portal storyline and vastly expanded the universe, and it was so much fun to show all that.

[nakedbee]

So much love! For this vid, the game, the fandom ... all the love! Yippee!

[echan]

All the love, thank you!

[actiaslunaris]

Awww, such awesome editing, and a great celebration of the fandom and source!

[echan]

I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

[such_heights]

This is fantastic! I mostly know Portal in bits and pieces from friends but I got really caught up in this and the love was palpable. Really well put together!

[echan]

The backstory within the first Portal game is rather minimal, but so many folks jumped in and built so much on it, including Valve w/ the sequel they made. I'm glad to hear this vid showed all that to you!

[settiai]

Oh, wow. This was wonderful!

[echan]

Thank you!

[aris_tgd]

Aha, this was great!

[echan]

Thanks!

[cupidsbow]

That's gorgeous. I love how you've used the source here.

[echan]

Thank you, I'm glad to hear the mix of sources came together and were enjoyed!

[gorgeousnerd]

Oh my gosh, this is amazing. I was really excited for it because Portal - heck, because I love video game vids, but I love Portal in particular - but then I recognized other fan sources I've seen around online. And it kept getting more delightful! (The crafts! The baking!) I love it so much.

[echan]

Thank you! I had fun looking for sources, I found a lot I had never seen before myself.

[hellpenguin]

i am crying right now, because they told me the cake is a lie but your vid is sweet tasty cake to my eyes.

[echan]

The cake is not a lie! You do still have to kill your companion cube to receive it, however... :D

[violace]

Awesome!

[echan]

Woot, thanks!

[purplefringe]

Ooooh this is so cool and well done! I don't know much about Portal (only what I've gleaned from online osmosis), but I love all the fannish joy you've got in here! It's super fun to watch, even for someone who's never played before.

[echan]

Thank you! Really cool to hear how well the Portal glee-fest shown through.

[thingswithwings]

this is so great! It feels like a vid for Portal fandom, not just the Portal games. The cake is not a lie after all! I love how you incorporate all the different games, the lego, the live action fan videos . . . the orientation video! So cute and fun.

[echan]

Thank you! Fun to hear my vid is recursive -- a vid about a fandom, that is now part of that fandom. Enjoy some cake!

[laurashapiro]

This vid makes me want to play the game and be in the fandom and get all these jokes. What a load of fun, and so brilliantly edited!

[echan]

Thank you! The games are a ton of fun, but can be annoying at times with the controller precision required. I have a friend that 'played' by watching me play and we solved the levels together. There's a lot of fan videos that are fun to watch and don't require any more knowledge than "Aperture Science is a company with dubious morals and a portal gun invention."

[laurashapiro]

I'm not a gamer at all, but I like your friend's approach. (: I might check out some of those videos, too.

[skygiants]

This is so great! What an amazing use of footage.

[echan]

Thank you! Using such diverse footage felt risky, I'm happy to hear it was awesome.

[isagel]

I love how this vid tries to encompass everything Portal, that you've vidded not so much the game, but the spirit of loving the game. So very well done!

[echan]

I tried to cram in as much fan squee as I could find space for. I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[franzeska]

Wow! Amazing! I love seeing all this other footage in here.

[echan]

So glad to hear it rocked! My last few hours working on the vid were spent going through all the source I had downloaded and trying to find space for at least one clip from each.