Vid: Raise Your Hand (Avengers series)
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butterflySong: Raise Your Hand
Artist: Javier Colon
Fandom: Marvel's Avengers Series
Summary: When you're hurting, it's easy to think you're alone.
.mov file 214.6 MB; zipped
.divx file 44.4 MB; zipped
For Vividcon 2012. Feedback is always appreciated. Many thanks topar_avion for hosting the video.
The password is "team".
Notes
I got into The Avengers because of Joss Whedon. Back when I found out that he was directing the movie, I decided to get caught up.
So, I watched these movies and I was having all these feelings. About heroes and about life and about how very earnest the movies are in believing that being heroic is a good thing. All this was stuff that I thought about for a month or so. In January, I'm listening to my "Songs Kris Allen has performed and/or written" playlist and I go...huh. "Raise Your Hand" sums up my feelings about these characters and why I (pre-Avengers coming out) thought that they needed something like the Avengers in their lives.
My process for this vid went character-by-character. I placed a lot of Tony stuff, then I placed a lot of Steve stuff, then I placed a lot of Thor stuff. Each time I added a character in, most of the structure of the vid would change as I adapted and worked through what I wanted and ripped out everything that I decided didn't fit anymore. Then, of course, The Avengers came out and it was overflowing with potential scenes for the vid. The entire second verse was originally pre-Avengers material and that got entirely switched out for Avengers material. There was a lot of restructuring going on all the time.
Found families is a theme that always resonates with me and I also have a lot of love for the virtue of sincerity and that's something that comes across very firmly to me with all of the movies. There's such heart to them, such a yearning for genuine connections, not just for friendship or love but for a shared understanding.
All the Avengers come by their desire to help people by different roads, but once they're there, they have a similarity of purpose. They're all different characters, but they all go through similar feelings of pain and isolation and loss, and they all want to reach out to help other people. That's what makes them heroic; that they do all realize that it's not always all about them and their own pain. They can look past themselves and, in doing that, they can see other people and those other people can see them. The world can see something worth admiring and remembering, because they see people who were willing to sacrifice themselves for the sake of others and to do it without resentment -- they can see people who are doing the right thing because it's the right thing.
Raise Your Hand
Tired of emotions weighing me down
The fight is all gone from your eyes
The dark skies will open but you're gonna drown
Waiting for lightning to strike
So just look around
And you'll see yourself
And faces you don't even know
And you'll find out that you're not alone
If you've ever felt like you're falling apart
Raise your hand, raise your hand
And if you've ever felt that life's breaking your heart
Raise your hand, raise your hand
Everyone bleeds and everyone hurts
But if you think you're alone, it just makes it worse
So if you've ever felt like you're falling apart
Raise your hand, raise your hand
Frayed at the edges
Trying to take cover
Under the mess that we made
Through all of this madness
The damage we suffered is the one thing we can't escape
So just look around
And you'll see yourself
And faces you don't even know
And you'll find out that you're not alone
If you've ever felt like you're falling apart
Raise your hand, raise your hand
And if you've ever felt that life's breaking your heart
Raise your hand, raise your hand
Everyone bleeds and everyone hurts
But if you think you're alone, it just makes it worse
So if you've ever felt like you're falling apart
Raise your hand, raise your hand
I know that you think that the world just forgets
But look to the sky, and you'll see hand silhouettes
If you've ever felt like you're falling apart
Raise your hand, raise your hand
And if you've ever felt that life's breaking your heart
Raise your hand, raise your hand
Everyone bleeds, and everyone hurts
But if you think you're alone, it just makes it worse
So if you've ever felt like you're falling apart
Raise your hand, raise your hand
Artist: Javier Colon
Fandom: Marvel's Avengers Series
Summary: When you're hurting, it's easy to think you're alone.
.mov file 214.6 MB; zipped
.divx file 44.4 MB; zipped
For Vividcon 2012. Feedback is always appreciated. Many thanks to
par_avion for hosting the video.The password is "team".
Raise Your Hand (Avengers) from butterfly on Vimeo.
I got into The Avengers because of Joss Whedon. Back when I found out that he was directing the movie, I decided to get caught up.
So, I watched these movies and I was having all these feelings. About heroes and about life and about how very earnest the movies are in believing that being heroic is a good thing. All this was stuff that I thought about for a month or so. In January, I'm listening to my "Songs Kris Allen has performed and/or written" playlist and I go...huh. "Raise Your Hand" sums up my feelings about these characters and why I (pre-Avengers coming out) thought that they needed something like the Avengers in their lives.
My process for this vid went character-by-character. I placed a lot of Tony stuff, then I placed a lot of Steve stuff, then I placed a lot of Thor stuff. Each time I added a character in, most of the structure of the vid would change as I adapted and worked through what I wanted and ripped out everything that I decided didn't fit anymore. Then, of course, The Avengers came out and it was overflowing with potential scenes for the vid. The entire second verse was originally pre-Avengers material and that got entirely switched out for Avengers material. There was a lot of restructuring going on all the time.
Found families is a theme that always resonates with me and I also have a lot of love for the virtue of sincerity and that's something that comes across very firmly to me with all of the movies. There's such heart to them, such a yearning for genuine connections, not just for friendship or love but for a shared understanding.
All the Avengers come by their desire to help people by different roads, but once they're there, they have a similarity of purpose. They're all different characters, but they all go through similar feelings of pain and isolation and loss, and they all want to reach out to help other people. That's what makes them heroic; that they do all realize that it's not always all about them and their own pain. They can look past themselves and, in doing that, they can see other people and those other people can see them. The world can see something worth admiring and remembering, because they see people who were willing to sacrifice themselves for the sake of others and to do it without resentment -- they can see people who are doing the right thing because it's the right thing.
Tired of emotions weighing me down
The fight is all gone from your eyes
The dark skies will open but you're gonna drown
Waiting for lightning to strike
So just look around
And you'll see yourself
And faces you don't even know
And you'll find out that you're not alone
If you've ever felt like you're falling apart
Raise your hand, raise your hand
And if you've ever felt that life's breaking your heart
Raise your hand, raise your hand
Everyone bleeds and everyone hurts
But if you think you're alone, it just makes it worse
So if you've ever felt like you're falling apart
Raise your hand, raise your hand
Frayed at the edges
Trying to take cover
Under the mess that we made
Through all of this madness
The damage we suffered is the one thing we can't escape
So just look around
And you'll see yourself
And faces you don't even know
And you'll find out that you're not alone
If you've ever felt like you're falling apart
Raise your hand, raise your hand
And if you've ever felt that life's breaking your heart
Raise your hand, raise your hand
Everyone bleeds and everyone hurts
But if you think you're alone, it just makes it worse
So if you've ever felt like you're falling apart
Raise your hand, raise your hand
I know that you think that the world just forgets
But look to the sky, and you'll see hand silhouettes
If you've ever felt like you're falling apart
Raise your hand, raise your hand
And if you've ever felt that life's breaking your heart
Raise your hand, raise your hand
Everyone bleeds, and everyone hurts
But if you think you're alone, it just makes it worse
So if you've ever felt like you're falling apart
Raise your hand, raise your hand
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Date: 2012-08-12 06:16 pm (UTC)::slinks off, sniffling::
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Date: 2012-08-13 01:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-08-13 08:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-08-13 03:32 pm (UTC)And, yes, they really are! ♥
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Date: 2012-08-13 02:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-08-13 03:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-08-14 08:41 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-08-14 02:17 pm (UTC)You had me from the parallel images of Tony's and Thor's bruises. And then I was just riveted by how seamlessly you connected all the sources and storylines, right up until the sequence of Tony+Pepper-->Natasha+Clint-->Bruce+EVERYONE, which made me clutch my chest.
I'm so glad all of that worked for you.
And as if that wasn't enough in the feels department, you totally killed me with that segue right around 03.00 with Steve's ship crashing and the cut to the book and the report and the lyrics and AURGH; perfect use of the musical mood!
Steve in Captain America just breaks my heart so much. I can't even.
And I'm not done becuase I was so invested in those lyrics and how even though they were all working together they were still separated and things were still falling apart and then Tony was FALLING OUT OF THE SKY and everything was really tense, and idk for a moment I actually forgot that the Hulk would catch him so when he DID it felt exactly like seeing it for the first time. HULK CATCH!!!
That is awesome! I'm thrilled that I could give you that moment again like that and have it still be tense and a surprise.
♥
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Date: 2012-08-14 09:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-08-14 02:18 pm (UTC)