Sweet jesus I think it's done

[sapote]

I am _never_ doing this again.

*already planning next project*


Title: Backdrifters
Song: "Backdrifts (The Honeymoon is Over)" by Radiohead
Vidder: sapote3
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating/Warnings: Let's say R for violence and makeouts. Slash, het, potentially third-catagory aliens.
Summary: Angsty everybody/everybody, hopefully Gwen's POV.

password: brink



My laptop is named La Poderosa, and it has been to five countries. I love the damn thing. It is six years old. It is kind of slow. It is slow enough that I can't see my changes without rendering the whole video.

That would be why this took a really long time.

Since I can't run WMM, I used Blaze MediaPro to cut up clips and Debugmode Wax to put them back together.

There are plenty of beginner's mistakes in this video - the letterboxing, the DivX logo, a bit of choppy audio editing. I know that even though it looks done to me now - after a day and a half of proofwatching - there are things in there that I'll decide later need fixing. Still, for a first attempt, I'm rather pleased.

This vid turned out quite sad and angsty, which fits the lyrics, but this song is actually in my life because I fell in love to it on a trip to Florida years and years ago. I associate it with camping in orange groves and watching alligators jump after ducks on the river. Why has none of this bucolic mood made it into the vid? I do not know.

All comments and concrit welcome.

ETA: No matter how much I nag her she won't get an lj, so I'm going to go ahead and give the lovely and talented caffieninni credit for some early betawatching and also for enduring two months of nonstop vid talk. And for being the only Gwen/Owen shipper I know.

ETA2: April 01: New yousendit link!

Comments

[sol-se.livejournal.com]

Wow! That was absolutely gorgeous! I am so impressed that that's your first video! It has a great moody atmosphere that really works well. Really beautiful. Do you mid if I rec this?

I am _never_ doing this again.

*already planning next project*

Yeah...that pretty much sums up vidding. *g*

[sol-se.livejournal.com]

mid mind

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, thank you so much! Please, rec away!

[giandujakiss.livejournal.com]

That was so lovely - and so beautifully constructed. I particularly loved the J/G opening sequence. Gorgeous!

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

Their screen-UST makes it awfully fun to vid them. You know, it's probably been said before, but Gwen/Jack may be the first instance of "We're not straight, we just love each other." The awesomeness of that can barely be contained.

Thank you so much for the compliments! Your vids were on the list of things that made me think "hey, I should try doing that." So thanks!

[giandujakiss.livejournal.com]

Gwen/Jack may be the first instance of "We're not straight, we just love each other." The awesomeness of that can barely be contained.

LOL! That's fantastic!

Post-het het!

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

Ain't it though?

I sort of linked to this frivolously like the big n00b I am so I feel like I should at least expand my thoughts: to me Jack reads as gay, maybe because Jack Harkness tends to blur with John Barrowman in my mind. Gwen, on the other hand, comes across in strictly-read canon as straight, but there's something off about that to me. The little Gwen/Cariss bit in the vid came from some thinking I was doing about the actual resonances between their respective characters and situations, resonances that I think could well have resolved into real emotional/physical attraction. There's also something in Susie's crazycakes obsession with Gwen that Gwen reflects back at her in interesting ways (though the whole trying-to-kill-her is probably outlet enough for that particular tension).

So, in short, to me Jack is gay, mostly, and Gwen is straight, but only sometimes, and around all these other entanglements, attractions, and complications is their relationship with each other, which doesn't rule out the other relationships but rather encompasses them.

The WNG trope is having a rocky time on the internet right now, for good and thinky reasons, but I love the note of amor vincet omnia that lies at the center of it. Maybe in a post-heteronormative world (which Torchwood tries to be, not 100% successfully) love would always be an exception, a coup de foudre, the thing that makes all the sense in the world and no sense at all. And I get just the start of that sense from Jack/Gwen: it could be an exception. It could be interesting. It could even be downright subversive. And thus, I am all about it.

That is my Jack/Gwen thesis, by god. I'd be interested in thoughts.

Re: Post-het het!

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

okay, that had better be a post of its own (http://sapote3.livejournal.com/10105.html). Oops.

Re: Post-het het!

[giandujakiss.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I tend to agree that the WNG trope appeals from the perspective of people overcoming their ordinary -- tastes, really -- to come together in True Love. And I don't think that every use of the trope is as homophobic as some in fandom believe it to be; it depends on how the story is written.

Metafandom had a link to an interesting post positing that as homosexuality becomes more accepted, the WNG idea has less force because "gayness" represents less of an obstacle to overcome. And there are some people who have a "flowers in the attic" incest kink for that reason -- although, as the commenters pointed out, in other instances it doesn't seem to be so much that people actually prefer the incest as it is that in some fandoms, the central "pairing" is a sibling one, and so you're kind of compelled to use incest to get to Teh Sex.

Anyway, the link is here: http://makesmewannadie.livejournal.com/300134.html?style=mine

[dualbunny.livejournal.com]

This is lovely! And also a bit creepy, which seems a wonderful fit for the show (of which I've only seen a couple of eps). Glad you endured the difficulty of making it so that you could share it. :D

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Making it was a lot of fun. Unexpectedly lengthy fun.

The show is so creepy, usually when it doesn't mean to be, which gave me plenty of inspiration.

Thanks again for the feedback. It means a lot.

[justabi.livejournal.com]

Eeei! You did a fantastic job. *bounce* Torchwood! Yay!

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

Hi! Hi! I FINISHED IT OH MY GOD.

Thank you!

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is wonderful! If you get a new YSI link, will you let me know? I'd love to download it.