wheee!! LOM vid!!!

It's a very fun and pretty show to vid, let me tell you.

I wish I had some useful feedback to give, but my tired brain can only manage I LIKE IT! Oh, and your editing is really good. Is that constructive? ;-)

They're both nice to hear. :D Thank you!

YAY Life on Mars!

Great vid, hon. I have a few comments but I'd rather give them in person or via email. I'm leery about giving these particular comments when my first vid hasn't even been beta'd yet.

How's about getting together for coffee or something this weekend?

This weekend is packed full for me already, but I'm free next weekend. Although I'd be interested to hear what you have to say if you want to email your comments! :) And thanks!

Next weekend I have plans on one day, but if I wait that long I'll likely forget what I had to say. ;) I'll email you.

Ooooh, I really liked this. I liked the way the 'you' in the vid kept changing, as did what the cars meant. Very cool.

I'm glad that that came through. Thanks!

I was so excited to see you post a LoM vid, then I remembered I still havent had time to watch the last 2 eps (DAMMIT!!!). Can I watch your vid, or should I wait until I've seen everything? (I'm downloading it now, regardless *g*)

(Is ripping from a DVD something easy/free? 'cause I help out, if it is :D)

You should wait until you've seen everything!

Ripping from DVD is free and moderately easy, but the file sizes you get are enormous. Um, I'm gonna email you about something though. Heh.

Oh my God. I rarely - okay, never - leave feedback to vids, through great forgetfullness, but I really had to leave some for this. I loved this. It was every bit as kinetic and mind-bending as Life on Mars is at its best; the song choice was excellent, even though I've never heard a U2 song in my life. The progression was great, and the editing was extremely well done.

See? I'm reduced to feeble gushing. That's one damn good vid.

That wasn't feeble at all! Thank you so much, that's really great feedback to get.

Awesome vid, dude. I'd go on, but I'm in the process of con-packing right now. Can I give you an IOU for lengthier feedback next week? *g*

Of course! I thought you'd already left for the con, hee. Have a great time! And thanks. :)

*flails*

All I needed to see was the song and I was right-clicking so fast my head was spinning. Fast Cars is one of my all time favourite U2 songs and see it vidded to one of favourite shows was like one of those Easter eggs with chocolate inside - double the pleasure.

The vid itself was truly amazing. Especially the clip of car hitting Sam coupled with the "will do me no good" - that I though was perfect. Enjoyed this whole heck of a lot, thank you very much for sharing.

"Fast Cars" is a great, great song, it was a lot of fun to vid. I'm so happy that you liked what I did with it! Thank you for the comment!

God, that *beat* -- it's irresistible, isn't it? and you do such great stuff with it. I love the back-and-forthiness, if that makes any sense, the way your cutting is aligned with the syncopated rhythms. And I love the mood of the vid, the way it's somehow cheerful in spite of everything.

Gah, I have more to say, but ::wibble:: I'm too happy. Must rewatch!

The beat was utterly irresistible. It drives and drives and drives and then they just give you that emotional climax where the music changes and becomes all swoony and then the song almost pauses. I love this song. Heh.

Anyhow - yay! I'm so glad you like the vid, thank you so much! And I'm glad that it's still cheerful; I think Sam is more cheerful by the end, so I'm glad that came through.

He really is starting to feel better about everything. I hope S2 makes him miserable again. (:

Great vid. It's got excellent pacing to go with the music. It's always fun to watch everything compressed like that, all the angsty moments thrown together. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for watching and commenting. :)

Downloading and looking forward to watching when I have a free moment!

Woo, cool! :)

Very cool--I'm going to have to watch it a few more times, but off the top of my head, I liked the effects, the use of "present day" footage (which I haven't really seen much of so far in LoM vids, aside from Sam getting hit by the car), and the inclusion of Annie. I liked your intercutting--what you chose to juxtapose, the meanings you created. Will there be commentary on this?

Thank you! It was actually really fun to use the present day footage; it's very, very different in color and lighting (Sam is more washed out, and the overall feel is not as warm).

I hadn't planned on doing commentary but I'd be happy to.

Easiest video EVER to beta. I did nothing but watch because it was perfect already.

STILL love, love, love it. You are my beat master. And I mean that in a non-dirty way, no matter how it sounded. ;)

HEE. Thanks, darling. And HI!!!!!

Wow -- this is just the right combination of relentless and swirly, if that makes sense. Great song choice -- "don't you worry about your mind" indeed. I especially like all the circling motion at the beginning, the jump cuts and little flashy-displacement effects (poor Sam -- so lost!), the way the fast cars go from literal to metaphorical, Sam crumpling the paper, Sam and Gene jumping over the desk to that weird vocal yelp, and the way you cut away just *before* the moment of impact in a couple of shots right near the end (that sense of incompleteness, of things still getting ready to happen).

I'm not sure I'm ever going to be a huge fan of LoM, but wow, it is yielding up some *terrific* vids. Whee!

It was fun to actually have a reason to use flashier effects, I'm glad they worked for you. Thank you for the feedback! :)

I knew this was a gorgeous show, but for some reason this vid is making that hit home more even than the others I've seen.

Love the humor, both the blacker and the more obvious physical stuff. I'd probably pick up even more if I'd gotten around to watching yet. ::hides:: And damn, you make that beat work its ass off! :D And there's that dreamy feeling underlying the song that just fits the premise of the show so incredibly well.

It also builds really beautifully from the frenetic beginning to the dreamier second half, then does a great little pick up tone-wise to the end. It's just so very very engaging on, like, every level. :D

Hee, it's not like you don't have plenty of other things to watch. I'm glad the moments of humor worked; the song has a dry sense of humor so I wanted to play with that a little.

Thank you so much!

Oh, awesome. I only recently finished watching the first season, and I was thrilled to see this vid pop up. This is great! And the song is a great match. Thanks for sharing this!

Thank you! I'm so glad you liked it.

You have this vid to thank for getting me motivated to finally finish the series. And I loved both of them so thank you! And yay for it being posted on my birthday too.

I loved the song choice with the driving beat (heh driving=cars) and how you used it so well to show Sam's world. I think it's a law that every LoM vid has to start with the circling shot of Sam but it certainly works here. The "calling" lyric fits perfect and I think the "crawling" clips works really well with the music as it has this frustrated, angry quality to the music. The literalness of the CNBC totally works for me here too, just another thing that's off in Sam's world. I liked how you put a human connection element in "all I want is to get to you" and how that explains Sam's violent actions after the chorus. Nice parallel with Gene being violent as well. Also the whoosh for "fast cars" and its clip matched up so well, so very cool.

The next chorus is really defined by me by Sam putting his hands on the tv, great image to show his desperation along with the rest of the clips. "Fast cars" as almost dying and Sam being on top of the building was a great parallel. I love all the motion clips you used and how throughout the video, you keep the pace of the song. I really liked how you put in the family aspect of Sam's mind in the slower, more emotional part of the vid to show the softer side of the situation. It was great how you show Sam changing with him looking up, first alone and then with Anne and giving the gun to his father, dropping the paper, dropping the gun on Gene and holding Anne's hand. I love that sequence, great turning point for the vid and leads right into Same and Gene working together. My favorite clip was definitely both of them jumping over the desk with the whoo type words, so perfect.

I loved how the end showed Sam getting used to the situation, the lyrics worked really well for the show. And seeing him enjoy his time with Anne, Gene, his dad and his mom made me feel so happy for him, that he finally had some peace. And the ending two clips were perfect, I just knew you were going to use a sky clip :) I definitely loved the vid, so fun to watch and it really sucks me in and let me watch it over and over again.

My goodness, I'm sorry this has taken me so long to respond to! I was so gleeful to receive it, too, so I feel extra-bad for being so slow.

Yay for enjoying LoM! It's a quirky show, but fun and so, so pretty.

I think it's a law that every LoM vid has to start with the circling shot of Sam but it certainly works here

Hee. I had intended to not use that clip very deliberately, but I couldn't find anything else that worked as well! It was annoying to me to have to use it, but I just like it there so much that I'm ok with it now.

I'm happy to hear the turning point worked for you. Really, thank you so much for the fantastic feedback. I'm thrilled! You picked up on things I hadn't even consciously realized. Hee.

Ooooh. I wish I was more awake right now, so that I could leave a coherent, intelligent comment - but, well. As it is all I can manage is:

COOL. I really liked that. =D Imma re-watch this one, definitely.

Thank you for the comment, I appreciate it!

Wow. Just...wow. I love your vids, generally, and I love 'Life on Mars,' but this was just exceptional.

The timing was just beautiful: the scenes were put together so that they moved with the song in an emotionally meaningful way, but I love that they weren't literally *following* the beats of the music. (Does that make sense at all? It was a visceral pleasure to see how you made the music and motion fit together but didn't pound home the beats of the song with images, but that's hard to articulate in words.)

Just, wow. I guess that's teh best I can do. Thank you.

Does that make sense at all? It was a visceral pleasure to see how you made the music and motion fit together but didn't pound home the beats of the song with images

That makes perfect sense and I'm really pleased that you mentioned it. I really wanted to get at the speed and off-centeredness of the song without giving in to the repetitive drumbeats, so I'm really happy that worked for you.

Thank you for the wonderful comment!