Gift for absternr by danegen (Attack the Block)

[fv_poster]

Title of vid: Council Estate
Recipient: absternr
Vidder: danegen
Fandom: Attack the Block
Music: Council Estate by Tricky
Summary: Can't take what you are
Content notes: I prefer not to give content notes (viewer proceeds at their own risk: could be anything)
Signed length: 02:21
Signed URL: http://danegen.livejournal.com/139281.html

Comments

[kiki_miserychic]

Great vid. I'm def going to rewatch this movie. So good.

[laurashapiro]

Terrific. Great song choice!

[echan]

Holy crap how did you manage to get so much into such a short vid?! The way you set up and showed the kids' culture and how they interact with the police and 'normal' people, that first verse is magic. The hero action that starts with "superstar" lyric and the fireworks ammo, you had already made the kids our friends and you could have stuck with the hero story of them saving the day, but you kept showing their battle with the other human folks too. The intro set it all up, and the way you cut back to it at various points was brilliant.

I don't have a better word for it than 'culture clash', I LOVE how much of that you put into this vid, while keeping all the individuals relatable and sympathetic. I super love this vid.

[fairestcat]

This is great!

[leanwellback]

Ahhh, that was SO AWESOME! I love the focus on the human struggle and how the aliens are almost just a backdrop to that noise. John Boyega's faaaaaace. Your editing is fantastic, I take my hat off to you :D

[valoise]

I love the working class kids v. alien invasion theme of the movie and this brings that home perfectly

[sasha_feather]

This is amazing, it gave me chills. Well done.

[goodbyebird]

Omg it's the Attack The Block vid I've been waiting for :D

[silverhare]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, that was awesome!

[axiom_of_stripe]

wow, this is so gorgeous with so many emotions! wow.

[amathela]

I loved this a lot.

[talumin]

Wow!

That was fantastic!

[ghost_lingering]

This is fantastic! Heart in my throat the whole time.

[grammarwoman]

This is so powerful and driving; that beat is relentless, and your clips never let up. Awesome!

[were_duck]

Such great sense of motion in this, the tense restraint in the end of the vid with the slo-mo scenes was SO GREAT :D

[brownbetty]

Excellent, very strongly gives the feeling of the movie without um. Retreading it? I don't really have a vid vocabulary.

[no_detective]

I love that song and got SO EXCITED that it was used for a vid, especially in this fandom, and HOLY SHIT YOU MADE A MASTERPIECE. I love the strong focus on the kids, the community, the culture and the struggle; and your editing is PERFECT. <333

[(Anonymous)]

This was fantastic. Really excellent song choice.

[odessie]

Loved this! Great energy and fabulous editing.

[livrelibre]

This was fantastic!

[futuransky]

PERFECT song choice for this film. The editing is crisp and fantastic and brings out everything that made the movie so great, with the fight against the aliens becoming an extension of everything else the main characters are up against.

[shadowkeeper]

That was awesome.

[cantarina]

Love this! Now I need to rewatch the movie.

[starlady]

Great editing, great song choice, great vid. I need to watch the movie!

[nicole_anell]

Absolutely brilliant clip choices and editing! I love this.

[sanguinity]

That was fabulous. Wonderful music choice -- he is a superstar! -- and gorgeous editing. I'm going to have to watch this lots more times.

[talitha78]

Awesome!

[bingeling]

love, love, love, love it! Tricky is the perfect song choice, and I especially liked the movement and flow of your vid.

[heresluck]

This is fantastic. Love those opening shots -- the slow pan up on Boyega's character intercut with the shots of the estate tower: where we are and who we're rooting for. I haven't seen the movie (though it's now EVEN HIGHER up my list of things to watch), and I love how this vid gives me a sense of what's at stake in the movie: it's very much a character study, not just a recap of the movie's action.

And oh, wow, the editing. The weapon drop at 0:17, the knife flick at 0:27, so perfectly timed to those eerie vocalizations. Love it.

[sol_se]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh! So awesome!

[franzeska]

Fabulous choice of music! I feel like this vid recounts the whole movie yet without totally spoiling it.

[ironed_orchid]

Seeing this listed reminded me I'd been meaning to watch Attack the Block for ages. Now that I've done that, I finally came back to watch the vid and it is brilliant. Excellent song choice and really smart editing.

[skygiants]

Great vid! It draws out the themes of the movie incredibly well.

[gwenfrankenstien]

Masterfully edited, and what a perfect song choice!

[naye]

I only just found this amazing film, and the vid made me grin with joy and recognition - it's everything I loved about it, in two minutes and 21 seconds! Fantastic, thank you so much.

[kabal42]

Oh yeah, that was great! Loved all the panning shots in the beginning and perfect song choice.

[morgandawn]

is there anyway to get a copy of this? it no longer working.

[danegen]

It's posted at my lj and dreamwidth. Here's the mediafire link: http://www.mediafire.com/download/l4j3mx1pizrt73l/danegen_council_attacktheblock.avi

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you!