[vid: strange & norrell] A Tune Like the End of the World

[frith_in_thorns]

Oops. I lost track of everything happening online. In my defense, I was ill with two different bugs one after the other and then spent a chilled half term with my inlaws in The North, mostly disconnected from the internet. (It was lovely and I actually feel human again now.)

Anyway, I utterly missed the reveals for festivids. And had failed to actually upload a signed version of my vid anyway. So here it is, a week late.

My recipient asked me for a Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell vid, preferably about John Childermass. I was very pleased with this, since it's basically the mirror (sorry) vid to the one I made last year about the women :D Maybe next year I'll make one about the actual title characters??

It's six minutes long. I know, I know. But it was really hard to find a fitting song! Then I remembered this one and I loved it, so I just went for it. And actually, I think it's very much the best vid I've made so far. It's also much more haphazard than usual -- in the past I've been obsessively matching every lyric and beat to a clip, but I made a much more meandering thing this time, and I think it worked for the song/theme/atmosphere/whatever. I'm pretty proud of it, anyway. I'd really appreciate you watching!

A Tune Like the End of the World: a John Childermass vid
Song: One More Mazurka by Telling The Bees
for actiaslunaris
CN for mild violence
Thank you sholio for the beta help!

A Tune Like the End of the World from frith_in_thorns on Vimeo.

(You can download from vimeo)

Comments

[actiaslunaris]

I really enjoyed the approach you took for this vid. Thank you for the download! Will you make this available for Tumblr, as well? (I very much want to reblog it.)

[alatefeline]

Stumbled over here via network. This is really cool! Makes me want to reread - and watch, which I haven't yet for some inexplicable reason.

[frith_in_thorns]

Thank you so much! I really do recommend the TV series, it's brilliant. (It really does short-change Stephen though, which is my only complaint -- there's such a lot going on that he gets pushed somewhat to the edge.)

[sophia_sol]

I have watched this vid a lot since I first found it, you did such a great job of capturing the atmosphere of JS&MN and sometimes when I just want to wallow in my love for the book I come back to your vid and rewatch it since that's so much faster than rereading 1000 pages :P