Vid: This Year (Doctor Who)

[fictional]

I made my first vid, you guys! It was on Windows Movie Maker, which I found to be a little bit like trying to make a painting with a rock instead of a paintbrush. Er, not that I've ever done that.

ANYWAY. Here it is. (On youtube. God only knows for how long. Aren't they yanking vids like crazy? What streaming site are people using these days? Are there any?) Concrit & tips very, very much appreciated.

Song/Artist: This Year by The Mountain Goats.
Vidder: kalichan
Fandom: Doctor Who
Summary: Every waking second, he can see: what is, what was, what could be, what must not. And he's gonna make it through this year if it kills him.
Spoilers: Through The Next Doctor.
Pairing/Characters: Mostly gen with hints of Nine/Rose, Ten/Rose, Ten/Simm!Master, and a smidgebit of Nine/Jack. Also features Martha, Sarah Jane, and Donna.

lyrics:
i broke free on a saturday morning
i put the pedal to the floor
headed north on mills avenue
and listened to the engine roar

my broken house behind me
and good things ahead
a girl named cathy
wants a little of my time
six cylinders underneath the hood
crashing and kicking
aha!
listen to the engine whine

i am going to make it through this year
if it kills me
i am going to make it though this year
if it kills me

i played video games in a drunken haze
i was seventeen years young
hurt my knuckles punching the machines
the taste of scotch rich on my tongue

and then cathy showed up
and we hung out
trading swigs from a bottle
all bitter and clean
locking eyes
holding hands
twin high maintenance machines

i am going to make it through this year
if it kills me
i am going to make it though this year
if it kills me

i drove home in the california dusk
i could feel the alcohol inside of me hum
pictured the look on my stepfather's face
ready for the bad things to come
i down shifted
as i pulled into the driveway
the motor screaming out
stuck in second gear
the scene ends badly
as you might imagine
in a cavalcade of anger and fear

there will be feasting and dancing
in Jerusalem next year

i am going to make it through this year
if it kills me
i am going to make it though this year
if it kills me

Comments

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

I LOVE YOU LIKE THERE'S NO TOMORROW! :D :D :D

concrit: spotted a couple of flashframes(but with wmm it's easy to not see those when you're editing and often difficult to get rid of them)

i'd dial down on the random effects (they seemed a bit out of place and there for no reason)

the sequences at 2:10 to 2:15 and approx. 2:30 to 2:40 were beautiful and very well blended together :D

also MOUNTAIN GOATS!!!
that's why i married you

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

YAY!

flashframes: yes. will work on.

random effects: I was trying to communicate the Doctor having think-y thoughts. Black & white = past and done. Color, washed out = future. But I'm learning that this is harder to communicate in vidding than in stories! Heh.

But yay yay yay. Thank you SO much. =D

[rm.livejournal.com]

This is good. I agree with Kel that I wasn't sure about the use of the black & white old film effects after the intro, but I also suspect you I know what you were doing there and a second watching might change my mind (it's the shit that's really over -- the earth, 9/Jack -- did you do that on purpose?

The song, which I've never heard before since I don't really do current music without prodding, is AWESOME.

ALso, because I know you, I was like "oh fuck! crycrycry!"

But dude, now you can make vids. Vids! For our shit. VIDS!

[rm.livejournal.com]

Also, favorite moment? The Martha shot from JE. So good.

[oncomingscone.livejournal.com]

That is shit hot. Thank you for making it.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Thank you for watching!

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

I'm really not much of a fanvid guy, but this did a lot for me. Also, I think I really like that song.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I am totally imagining a Ianto vid to the same song now.

lovely...

[hofnarr.livejournal.com]

Hey you,

I love how you finished it, and the intro still totally makes me all weepy, even on the 5th viewing! Also the "hurt my knuckles punching the machines" part makes more sense on this viewing, so good on ya there. Now, quit painting with rocks and get a real damn program, your skills are mighty, only your tools are lacking!

Re: lovely...

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm glad you liked the end! Eeep. Thanks for all your help, sweetheart.

[elynne.livejournal.com]

Directed here by rm. It are lovely. Poor Ten.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!

And yeah. I want to give him a hug.

Nice vid! Now I'm hooked!

[nisaa.livejournal.com]

I came here via a link from rm. I've only seen a few Doctor Who eps here and there but have watched all of Torchwood. I'm gonna have to start watching Doctor Who now thanks to your vid. But where do I begin? A friend guided me to watch Stargate SG-1 and skip all but the last two seasons (because I was really only interested in seeing Claudia Black and Ben Browder.)

Re: Nice vid! Now I'm hooked!

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Well... I'm not, perhaps, the best person to ask, as I adore all of New Who, so I'd just start with Series 1 of that, and work your way through. But I guess I could give a more specific list of which of those to watch? And I will sometime when I'm not rushing off! Watch this space.

[valancy-joy.livejournal.com]

lovely. all of it. although I always tear up when ten leaves sarah jane... not sure why ... but anyway visceral.

*claps delightedly* *makes popcorn for reviewing!*

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

I know! Sarah Jane! *sob*

I'm so glad you liked it. Eeeep!

Thank you, really.

[mellacita.livejournal.com]

I know absolutely nothing about vidding, but this was great.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I'm really delighted you enjoyed it. I'm addicted to fanvids, and it's taken me SO long to start working on them...

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Loved it! I adore fanvids. The beginning montage was great, and the music is fabulous.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Me too! (Adore fanvids I mean.) I'm really glad you liked it. And the music... I STILL like it, even after listening to it a gajillion times, so that says something.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Here from rm. This is great! The opening didn't work as well for me as the later stuff, but I totally got what you were doing with the b&w/washed-out stuff on the first viewing and loved it. Great song choice too.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you liked it! The beginning is definitely a little slow, and I can watch my learning curve with the program as it went forward. *g* Hopefully I'll get better. Thank you so much for watching and commenting!

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Oh, my lovely Mountain Goats! Terrific video, nice fit with the music.

I could see a Doctor/Master to No Children...

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Aren't they awesome? So emo and Ten-like!

*grins* I think my next one might be a Jack/Doctor, but the temptation to do Doctor/Master is high!

thank you so much!

[greenpear.livejournal.com]

Ahh, you're hooked now.

In all my reading about putting in effects they say put them in - go away for a day or two - come back and watch it again. If you think the video still says what you wanted, and could be done without the effect, then remove it.

That's helped me quite a bit.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's terribly addictive! There goes any hope of being productive in a non fannish sense EVER AGAIN. woe!

*grin*

Thanks for the effects tip; it makes a lot of sense. I'll just have to try and be less impatient about "finishing".

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Wow, well done indeed.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm delighted you enjoyed it.

[dsudis.livejournal.com]

I have loved that song for years now (I, um, used to sing it to myself in the morning at work while waiting for the copy machine to warm up) and, OH, the Doctor! Oh the years he has gotten through lately! OH THE FEASTING AND DANCING IN JERUSALEM. ♥

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

*blush* I fangirl all your works like whoa, so this is amazing. I'm thrilled to bits that you watched it. Thank you!

And yeah, I find myself singing it like a mantra from time to time myself. It's, um, cheery. Like the Doctor! *grin*

[such_heights]

Aw, I really like this! Oh Ten. I love the stop-motion type effects you used for some of the flashback sequences, I thought they worked really nicely. And how excited am I to see you start vidding? Very, let me tell you. :D

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

As excited as I am to have you watching & commenting? I THINK SO! And I ended up really liking the stop motion too, so thanks for that!

*grins* I think for the next one, I'll try and use some other, better software. This one has this weird issue and I couldn't figure out if it was a glitch? Like... the audio track only plays correctly from the start. If you pause and then hit replay from a later point, it no longer lines up? But if you play it through from the beginning, it's fine. It made making things line up rather, erm, complicated. Does other software do this?

[hafital.livejournal.com]

That was lovely! Jus the right pick-me-up for a tuesday afternoon. Thank you. :D

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

*grins* Thank you so much! I'm glad it brightened your day. =D

[sonatine.livejournal.com]

I love this song so much and I love this vid. Thanks for reminding me why I watch this show.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm thrilled, really, if even an iota of my fannish love came through. And after recent events, I wanted to remember that. Thank you so much.

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

This is a very nice character vid about Nine and Ten,

However, I would suggest you change your Character/Pairing description because the / implies shippyness and maybe there is a little Nine/Rose and Ten/Rose, but mostly it's a gen vid and it's definitely not shippy with any of the other characters. Use commas, or if you want to indicate gen relationship the & is your friend.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Thank you! The vid is definitely more gen than shippy, but I guess the ones where I listed "pairings" (9/R, 10/R, 10/S!M and 9/J) as opposed to just the list of character names (Martha, Sarah Jane, Donna) were ones that I saw as more romantic than friend-y. However YMMV, and I'll try to be more clear in future. Thanks for watching and commenting!

[julesndairyland.livejournal.com]

I am no expert but this is simply awesome.

Great Vid!

*loves*

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Yay! *does a little dance* Thank you so much!

[bookcat.livejournal.com]

oh, man, this is one of my favorite songs and one of my favorite shows and they work exactly. awesome!

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Exactly what I was hoping for, thank you so much.

[sage]

I have watched this a LOT in the last couple of days and I really adore it. Thank you for vidding!

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

What a fabulous compliment! Thank you for watching.

[magnetgirl.livejournal.com]

Fantastico! I already kvelled to you on the phone about this, but now I want to join the throngs of fans you've managed to accquire in like, 5 days? Seriously, magick on a stick-that's YOU.

I love the beginning-it's so beautiful and I haven't seen it show up in ANY vids yet, so you have the corner on that clip market in my eyes! I love the B&W on the doctor dances-I feel depressed and yet happy everytime I watch that part, and your olde tyme film flaws on the B&W just MAKE it!

I also love the crazy colors, the vworp vworp (PERFECT level of sound on that one-a little easter egg for those of us who watch vids like 5000 times and use them as medicine to heal our broken fangirl hearts!!! Please tell me that's not just me...) you are just awesome, and I can't wait to work with you partner. Looks like you'll have to show me the way as per usual!

The song is so fucking perfect, I didn't realize how much until I saw your vid. And I've heard that song many times by now...your middle name is awesome sauce.