butterfly | Vid: Pavlov's Bell (due South; Fraser)

::incoherent babbling noises::

I have to go to work. I can't stay home and watch this forty more times and give you marvelous feedback.

I love this.

Aw, thank you. I'm really glad that you enjoyed it.

Oh holy shit. With the candles! And the glances, and the touching, and Vecchio woven in with Victoria and all of it backstory and nowstory....WOW. This has inspired me to do a set of dS visual media recs, because yeah. Wow.

Thank you!

This partly started when I was watching Call of the Wild and said, "huh, you know, the look on Fraser's face is really reminding me of Victoria's Secret."

Oh, so good. So good! And you've used footage that I haven't seen six billion times and the mood and the pacing and the everything! So much love there. This was fantastic!

Will you put a link up at

ds_noticeboard? Because you really, really should.

*watches again*

Thank you!

I wanted the vid to be more about the little moments, though the big moments are still important. Like Fraser and RayK opening doors together or handing each other coffee and just being there. And it helped that I very deliberately set the vid before their flight up to Canada, because that all gets used a lot in vids and their story is still strong enough without it.

Also, I went ahead and followed your advice and linked to the vid over on

ds_noticeboard.

I wandered over here today and saw this vid. It blows me away. I never ever thought of Victoria and Vecchio in that light before. This is just a great vid.

Thank you!

And yes, the similarities between Victoria and Vecchio and the way they affected Fraser is something that I think about sometimes, so making the vid is also a way of showing people exactly why I think those things.

This is awesome! thank yoU! and thank

aerye for sending me here. *g*

I'm so glad that you liked it!

Oh, hey, are you the same AuKestrel as the one who wrote Near Wild Heaven? I adore that story!

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This is an awesome vid. It's got great pacing, clear pictures, and I love the whole idea of Fraser being afraid, but still taking chances. Thanks so much for sharing. Being the greedy person I am, I hope you do more.

Thank you. I'm so glad that you liked it, and that the premise of the vid makes sense. It's a really big part of how I see Fraser in the series.

Hopefully, I'll do another dS vid. I adore the show. So far, I've done ten vids in nine different fandoms. It all depends on hearing a song that speaks to me of a character or situation.

Oh, this is wonderful. Thank you!

I'm really glad that you enjoyed it. Thank you for letting me know.

That was great! Thanks so much for sharing it! =>}

I'm thrilled that it worked for you, thank you for letting me know.

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Gorgeous vid. Loved the song and the inclusion of Victoria and RayV as part of what's shaped Fraser's view of RayK. That's one of the unique things about Fraser - he's had a lot of ups and downs in his life, has not been lucky in love - but he still retains a big portion of his innocence. Lovely pacing and use of clips, too.

I'm assuming that a lot of this footage is from the fourth season (which I haven't seen yet). I sort of drifted away from dS for awhile, but this makes me want to order the 4th season right away and watch the first 3 over again while I'm waiting for it to arrive.

Thanks!

Thank you!

That's one of the things that I really love about Fraser. He goes through so much, but he still has this inner core of Who He Is.

Quite a bit of the footage is from the fourth season. The fourth season had a lot of shots that felt... intimate in this quieter way (as well as some huge gestures that I didn't put in the vid). Like Fraser going over to the beverage table apparently for the sole purpose of pouring Ray a cup of coffee.

You're on a roll!

I did not watch the whole thing because I've only seen part of S1, but I did check the file.

http://www.paravio.net/vids/Pavlov's%20Bell.mpg.zip

Thank you, I've updated my post.

I am incoherent, *incoherent* with the squee. I especially like the movement and graphic matches you did. Like, oh, when Ray K turns from kissing Luanne to look at Fraser, and you cut to Fraser turning to look at Ray. You do a lot of those type of things and it really helps to tie the vid together. And the narrative! That is my DS canon, for sure. ::fangirls::

Thank you.

I really loved making the vid, because I really love dS and Fraser so much. It was a lot of fun to find connections.

Wow. The greatness of that just totally made me cry a little. Good, happy crying of OTP joy. Thank you so much for doing this and for being awesome at it.

Thank you. That's really sweet to hear. I love Fraser and RayK so much.

I'm hip deep in dS fan fiction, even though I've never seen the show. Your vid brought Fraser and the Rays to life for me. I loved it. Thank you!

Oh, neat. Thank you, I'm really thrilled that I could do that for you. Though if you get the chance to see the series, you should, because it's absolutely wonderful.

Wow. Just...wow. Incredible, incredible vid. I've watched it over and over several times now, enjoying it even more each time. The first time I watched it, I was really enjoying the references to first Victoria and then RayV as Fraser's past (failed) romantic history - and then you did the mix of Fraser thinking he saw Victoria/RayV, chasing them, and then coming face to face with them - and I had to pick my jaw up off the floor. That was *genius*, absolute genius. The parallels just blew me away. I had tears in my eyes at several points. And then the Fraser/RayK interactions, the ups and downs reflecting the singer's doubts about romance, but coming together at the end - *satisfied smile and mushy sigh*.

Thank you.

Part of it comes from the fact that I actually do like Victoria. I think that her character makes sense and that she did care about Fraser, if not as much as she cared about herself and her revenge. So, I was open to comparing her to Vecchio, who I also like quite a bit. I don't think that either of them was at all right for Fraser, but I do think that they showed us a lot of important things about Fraser and that they each taught Fraser very different, but still important things, RayV about friendship and trust, Victoria about the dangers of trusting the wrong person and about the way love can burn too hard and painful.

And then, with RayK, passion and trust could merge, be in the same person.

This is *wow* - really great. The pacing with the song, and the parallels that you're drawing between Fraser's relationships with Victoria, RayV, and RayK; very insightful, and like someone else commented, this feels like 'my canon'. Bravo.

Thank you.

I'm so glad that you liked and that you felt like it was true to the characters. This is really, in a lot of ways, exactly how I see Fraser... romantic heart, as it were, and the whys of Fraser/RayK, how it's all tied up in what happened before.

What everyone else said! The vid is just incredible! Omg, I love the Victoria-Vecchio parallels. Fraser catching glimpses of each, running after both of them. And the way Vecchio getting shot in CotW echoes Fraser getting shot in Victoria's Secret. I'd never made either of those connections before. *adores wildly* Thank you!!

Thank you.

I'm really fond of those parts of the vids, too. It's something that I saw in the show, but had a hard time articulating, so getting the chance to use music to illustrate just what it was that I was seeing was a great opportunity.

Wow. This was just amazing. I absolutely adored this vid!

Thank you, I'm really glad that you like it.

::flail::

I caused flailing!

*is unsure whether she should simply be pleased or attempt to help, in some way*

Also, I adore that icon. Fraser does look guns in the face quite a bit.

I *finally* downloaded this ~ WOW. Great job, great choices :)

Thank you kindly.

I actually realized as I was rec'ing this vid that I got so caught up in watching it last night that I forgot to comment and tell you I *finally* had a chance to download and watch and wow! I owe you feedback on this - but so much worked for me here and? It sucks to be Fraser. Bless him.

Aw, thank you!

And yes, I love Fraser so much, and he just gets a lot of emotional pain throughout the show.

Wow, that was tight. I haven't seen this show in forever, and clearly I need to. Damn you for adding to my needed fandoms list!

It helps that I adore that song. :)

Thank you!

It's a great song, definitely, and when I heard it, I blinked and went, "that makes me think of Fraser... huh".

I just saw sisabet's rec. I don't know how I missed this when you first posted it. May I ask for a refresh of the link? Excited about a new Due South vid!

Here you go: http://s13.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3MBTSHX76RG0O0LYQVU7R4HRW3

I'd love to know what you think (and yeah, sometimes I'm surprised at what slips by -- the way posting works and the way time zones work don't always work together).

I'm just at the beginning of watching Due South, but I know enough about the series to really enjoy this vid. :] Very nice. You really know how to illustrate emotional impact. :D

Thank you.

And enjoy the rest of the series -- it's such a wonderful one.

I just remembered that I haven't given you feedback on this vid, which is a shame because it's *wonderful.* So, so perfectly Fraser, and the clips you used--every single one of them packed a punch. the sequence of Fraser running after Victoria against Fraser running after Vecchio especially. Great vid!

Thank you!

The Fraser&Victoria/Fraser&RayV was a lot of fun to figure out. Because I knew that they could together and I had to work the details. The whole vid was a lot of fun to make, though.

Oh, wowowowowowowowowowowowow!

::becomes even less coherent::

It's... WOW!

Thank you!