Vid: Calling the Moon (BtVS; Willow, Willow/Tara)

[butterfly]

Calling the Moon
by Dar Williams

Summary:
Love, magic, and a moment of grace.
(spoilers up to Buffy the Vampire Slayer 7x22 -- Chosen)

(divx file 42.6 MB; zipped
smaller zipped wmv file available here)

Many thanks to paraviondeux for lending space and to jic for support and advice. Feedback is always appreciated.

I know what it's worth
to tug at the seas
and illumine the earth.

Comments

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the detailed response (you're really good at those!).

The changes you made to the song for the purposes of your video threw me off. I honestly can't say if the changes weren't perceptible to anyone who can't recite the lyrics off the top of their head because to me the modifications were extraordinarily jarring. Each time, with every viewing, it takes me out of the video for a few seconds.

I know how you feel. There's an extremely good vidder who picked one of my favorite songs to use with a character that I love... and they switched around two of the verses and it throws me out every time that I see the vids, at least for a little while. Because I know how the song should go. What I do with my vids is play around with the audio editing until it sounds all right to my roommate, who is my General Audience.

That aside, you have done a beautiful job putting these images of Willow and Tara while doing justice (or at least so I felt!) to one of my favorite songs of all time. The three times I've watched this, tears did not fail to spring to my eyes at the transition of the warm oranges to Willow in black, "don't make sense of me, night." Willow's grief comes across so clearly... and I think I liked the changes in coloration that you did with the segments of Tara after she died (to highlight the fact that she's gone)-- it certainly made me feel all the sadder.

Thank you! I actually cried a bit while I was collecting the footage, which impressed me, as I was doing it with no sound. Willow's grief for Tara just aches.

I'd be interested in hearing why you made the choices that you did for this video! :D

I hope to write some notes up on it (and the other vids that are note-less) at some point. It's definitely on my to-do list (sadly, my to-do list is very overpopulated -- I need to stop liking things!).

Thank you again for pointing out everything you liked and all the things that threw or confused you. It's all very helpful. Thanks!

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Thanks for the detailed response (you're really good at those!).

Entertainment isn't fun until I've analyzed every square inch of it. :D

I'll look forward to the notes~.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Entertainment isn't fun until I've analyzed every square inch of it. :D

It can make things much more enjoyable!