fv_poster | Gift vid for Kass (Slings and Arrows)

Title of vid: Is There a Ghost
Vidder: Scribe
Recipient: Kass
Fandom: Slings and Arrows (TV)
Music: "Is There a Ghost" by Band of Horses
Summary: I could sleep/when I lived alone/is there a ghost in my house?
Content notes: No standardized notes apply.
Length: 3:05

Password to view: ghost

Crossposts: http://fv-poster.livejournal.com/42367.html

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From:

kass

omg, festividder, this is so beautiful! I love the way you began with stills -- that's not something I see often, and it gives the opening moments of this vid a really stark, powerful feel. The music is a perfect fit for the show, tonally, and I love the way you're highlighting the many wonderful, sorrowful, sweet, complicated relationships between the characters. I can't wait to watch this again (sometime when my toddler son is not trying to distract me *g*) but wanted to pop in right away to say oh, wow, this is awesome!

From:

sage

HOMG ILU. This is so, so perfect! *flails*

From:

petra

The transition from the stark, painful stills that crystallize Ellen and Oliver and their fuckups so beautifully to the movement that rushes them all along gets me *right here.*

From:

sdwolfpup

Oh this LOVELY. I really like the stills at the beginning, they add such a great atmosphere to the start of the vid. I also loved how you juxtaposed the older and younger couples, not just romantically but theatrically. Beautiful!

From:

cofax7

Oh, yay. That was quite wonderful. And really interestingly put together: I've never seen stills used quite that before.

From:

isis

I liked this!

From:

serrico

Ooo, nicely done! Like everybody else, I really enjoy your use of stills at the beginning; they show Oliver and Ellen's malaise so clearly, and the transition to moving video when the music kicks up makes the restlessness of Geoffrey's theatre life pop. Great vid!

From:

nancybrown

Wonderful!

From:

zulu

Yay, I enjoyed this: especially all the different ways people are ghosts. Oliver for Geoffrey, of course, but also Geoffrey for Ellen as he comes back into her life, shown by all the partial views we have of them watching each other...really well done!

From:

theleaveswant

This is really cool. The stills kind of unnerved me at first, because I wasn't sure when or if they were going to give way to video, but now they're my favourite part, especially because for that eye-blink stuttering first minute it's not Oliver who's the ghost--it's Geoffrey.

From:

skywaterblue

I love the way you really worked the metaphor of ghosts in terms of this show - Geoff is to Oliver, as Oliver is to Geoff. The young lovers meet the way the older couple did, etc. Nice work.

From:

ua_the_terrible

Gahhh! There is almost too much awesome here! I love how the vid shifts from the independence of the characters (with the stills) to the interdependence of the characters (with the clips). Also, Band of Horses FTW \o/

From:

ghost_lingering

Oh! I really love this, especially how--in the beginning--they are ghosts to each other even though they aren't really dead (yet).

From:

blueswan

This is great! I love how the characters are haunted by each other, even if it's only Oliver in the end who is a ghost. This in one of those vids I'll keep coming back to watch.

From:

heresluck

Oh wow -- I really like this. I especially like how it's not just (or even mainly) Oliver who's the ghost: Oliver and Ellen are both haunted by Geoffrey, and Geoffrey himself is haunted by his own past -- his past with both of them, but also his past as an actor; and all those pasts play out in new versions with new players in Hamlet, in Romeo and Juliet. And when he takes the stage again it's a way of laying those ghosts to rest...! The thematic integration of all three seasons makes me really happy.

From:

laurashapiro

What she said. (: I really enjoyed this, and I thought it was very original -- a different take on the show, but also a new way to approach vidding. Really cool.