Words of Wood

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.

For cienna, Festivids 2013 Original festivids post

Title: Stars
Fandom: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Music: "Stars" by Heather Dale
Length: 02:59
Warnings: None
Beta: sholio

Description: The ship is their home.



( each night on the ocean's a story to tell )

Look, I made a vid! I think I wanted to celebrate the start of Easter Vac by doing something completely different from of my usual time-wasting pursuits. So I've been obsessively making this all day... and now it's 2am. Whoops.

Title: Crashing Down (song by Heather Dale)
Fandom: Avatar: the Last Airbender
Characters: Azula (and Zuko), gen
Summary: Azula vid, set to the best villainess song ever.

Like the firebird from the ashes,
we will rise to lead the masses;
the strongest will emerge to wear the crown...

Azula - Crashing Down (A:tLA) from frith_in_thorns on Vimeo.