Words of Wood

To be added to! Here are rough under-the-wire braindumps

[Greeting, gratitude etc]

[I like music with nice lyrics]

The Shape of Water (2017) [SAFETY]
Ok, so I loved the film, EXCEPT for the hand injury stuff, which hit 100% on my squick-meter and I have not been able to rewatch it. So I would desperately love a vid showing the beautiful monster romance while involving zero disgusting hand stuff. That's my only constraint here.


Did I nominate all my favourite Cbeebies shows that my 4yo watches? Yes, I did. I was very restrained in fact and only nominated my top three. I have added a brief explanation of them, partly because I really want the excuse to vid them for someone else and I am hoping other fans may make themselves known in the comments or watch a couple and become fans *eyes* I am really open to any type of vids for these!
Dipdap (2011 UK) [SAFETY]
These are wordless 3 min episodes you can watch at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b00xgpj9/dipdap They are made literally in MS Paint and are line drawings that draw as you watch. They are also GENIUS. Basically an intro to perspective and slapstick comedy at the same time. "Gallery" (no. 50) is my fave.
Sarah & Duck
These are 7 min episodes. They are narrated by Roger Allam, ie Douglas from Cabin Pressure! https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b04drklx/sarah-duck They are about a small child, Sarah, looking after her friend, Duck. Who is a duck. They are supremely gentle and wistful and magical-realism. I recommend episode 12, Big Shop.
Hey Duggee (Cartoon)
These are 7 min episodes, and they are bonkers. They are surrealism for toddlers, narrated by a genteel but gruff military type voice (apparently Alexander Armstrong refused to do any other voice, saying it needed to be this one. I can't disagree) https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b07xdmgk/hey-duggee Honestly I think Can't Stop by RHCP would be a great song choice for this but I'm too intimidated to do it myself.

Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) [SAFETY]
I love the beauty of this film, the slow pace and the gorgeous shots. And Quvenzhané is incredible in it, I'd really love a vid keeping her and her world and view central. (And the aurochs. I love the aurochs.)

Kisima Inŋitchuŋa | Never Alone (Video Game)
This is such a sweet, beautiful game and I'd love any sort of vid about it!

Mortal Engines (2018) [SAFETY]
Here is a confession. I have not actually watched this film. I own it on DVD, but I have not watched it because I love the book so much and I'm worried about the film doing it badly. But I have seen the trailers and the visuals are absolutely stunning!(If you matched with me only on this fandom and are mentally glaring at me now, I can only apologise.)

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)

This is the vid I made for festivids! It's for marina, who indicated that they would like something lady-centric, and I LOVED making it. Aaaaa I love the characters so much.

I think the show did a fantastic job giving us more of Emma than we had in the book, although I was truly sad that for time-constraint reasons we didn't have quite enough of Arabella and Flora as I would like, particularly Flora. (My main regret for this vid is the general lack of really usable clips for Flora -- she tends to get either terrible lighting or she's mainly speaking, which of course is very important story-wise, but not so great for the sort of vid I was trying to make!)

In general, anyway, I really really loved the show (although still very unimpressed with the short shrift Stephen Black got...). It was gorgeous, eery and menacing, and with this gradually opening up view of magic and Fae. And, well, that's pretty much what I wanted to make a vid about! With these three women who are so central and key to everything that happened. And then the ending, which just has so much resonance for me. But she did not offer to go into the Darkness with him and he did not ask her.

All That's Left Are Your Bones (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell) from frith_in_thorns on Vimeo.


Song: Your Bones, by Of Monsters and Men



I hope you enjoy watching my vid as much as I enjoyed making it! You should be able to download the file from vimeo, should you so desire -- let me know if there are any problems.

Hi whoever you are! I'm really delighted you're making a vid for me, I'm going to love it!

My fandoms: Eternal Law, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Jupiter Ascending, Never Alone, Sunless Sea, Life in the Undergrowth, Shark

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