BSG Vid: "Bizarre Love Triangle" by New Order

[boomqueen]

The first vid of my offical schools-out hiatus vid-athon! This one is for supershineygirl for the anders_lee challenge--I hope you like it S :)

Song: Bizarre Love Triangle by New Order
Vidder: jcathm
Spoilers: Up through the end of S3
Pairing: Mainly Anders/Lee, but also some Kara/Lee and Kara/Anders (it IS a triangle after all...)
Summary: Another crackish slash vid for these two pretty pretty boys.
A/N: Crazy love for my fabulous beta nebakanezer and her awesome help!

Download the .mov file here

ETA: the streaming version was eaten by YouTube but the download is still working :)

Comments

[nebakanezer]

And crazy love back at ya for your fabulous vid skillz! You are teh awesome at telling new stories with footage that we know so well. Love the little changes and the end. It's perfect. :D

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

Thanks, D! It's straight on to bright, shiny future pilots now :) P!nk FTW!

[nebakanezer]

Can't wait! :D

[supershineygirl.livejournal.com]

Hee! Once again this is total fabulousness ! :) I love how you used all of my fav moments and got the lyrics to link up so well with the clips and yay you had OT3 moments ;)))

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

Thanks again Sage :) Very very happy-making that you like it so much!

{And I can't wait to see your pretty animated icons full of yummy A/L slashy goodness!}

[latteaddict.livejournal.com]

*CLAPS WILDLY* Fantastic!!

You are are master manipulator! Plus I love New Order (shows my age) and the end sequence was rather fabulous!

my brain kinda short circuited with all the pretty, pretty flesh...

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

You are are master manipulator

Thanks darling! *grins* That's part of the fun of slash: it's really hard to play with scenes/clips that are just SOOOOO pilots and attribute them to another pairing. But wayyyy fun--definitely my kind of challenge :)

Plus I love New Order (shows my age)

LOL, me too :) Nostalgia for fun, dancey 80s music just attacks me sometimes! (And certain bands just sync up so well with different characters and pairings: Depeche Mode always makes me want to vid Lee, and NIN and P!nk always make me want to vid Kara, LOL!)

end sequence was rather fabulous

Hmmm...perhaps I shall do a vidlet of nothing but flashing clips of halfnekkid manflesh? Sounds yummy...

[nytel.livejournal.com]

So awesome!! This rocked. :D

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[dionusia.livejournal.com]

*giggles* I meant to come back and ocmment on this a long time ago...YAY YOU!

Perfect song! Oh, Lee/Kara/Sam would be so lovely. Quads are boring. Triangles are teh awesome.

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

Yes, prettiest triangle evar!!!

I did start some Lee/Sam/Kara smutfic last week and then got side-tracked. I might have to see if I can revive the muse for that one ;)

[millari.livejournal.com]

I was wracking my brain for a while watching this trying to figure out why clips from a show made in the 21st century could look so much like an 80s Mtv music video (and yes, the music helps, but that wasn't it).

I realized that you really picked up on two features of 80s videos that are not so true about music videos today:


1. Many of your clips in this one (unlike say the Knight Vipers one I just commented on) are relatively long. This is something that isn't done so much in Mtv-style music videos anymore. It seems like 2 seconds is about the tolerance level these days in a video before there must be a seemingly disconnected jump cut. ;)

2. Whenever 80s videos weren't just boring performance recordings of the band, they tended to try and tell coherent stories using clips to tell a lot of story in a few minutes. Today's videos are far less likely to tell stories, and are more likely to use their 4 minutes creating postmodern pastiches of random images that connect in completely decentralized ways. Here, you are clearly trying to use a bunch of disparate clips, from shows far apart from each other in the timeline, to tell a pretty clear story that also evokes the lyrics of the song. Very 80s approach, IMHO. And you know? I bet a newbie to BSG could get the basic gist of the Lee/Dee/Kara/Anders angst from watching your vid. That's a compliment.

Anyway, I don't know if you were purposely trying to evoke an 80s video, but in my mind you did, which works real well with the 80s song. So great! Keep up the great vids!

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

Wow, I'm literally blushing after such effusive praise. I'm so pleased that you really enjoyed this vid!

I wasn't consciously going for the 80s video vibe, but I'm sure I am most strongly influence by that era of music videos as I did most of my MTV watching in the late 80s and early 90s.

And in trying to create a video for a non-canon slash pairing/triangle, I did have to get pretty creative with mixing clips from different episodes and points in the series timeline to tell the "story" of Anders/Lee (and their tangential relationships with Kara).

Again, thanks so much for leaving such detailed feedback and a complimentary review of my vid. I'm going to coast for the rest of the day on my warm fuzzies now :)