Matrix vid
Song: "My Own Summer" by Deftones
Vidder: bananainpyjamas aka dragonchic
Fandom: Matrix Trilogy
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Neo character study
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64.9 MB Zipped XviD
35.3 MB Zipped XviD
27.9 MB Zipped WMV
Stream:
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Special thanks to bradcpu for the beta and to mranderson71 and frivolity65 for help with sourcing Revolutions.
This is essentially the Matrix vid I've been wanting to make for over a year now. It was only recently that I finally got a hold of enough non-buggy source for the third film. Narratively speaking I wanted to follow Neo on his journey with some special attention paid to his relationship with Agent Smith. Their spiral into mutual destruction is both intriguing and of course visually spectacular. In an visual sense, in addition to the standard Matrix action fare, I wanted to highlight the more science-fictiony aspects of the trilogy in order to give the vid a unique visual flavor.
The biggest challenge in making this came after I sent a rough draft to Brad and he told me to stop cutting so much on the beat. Anyone who has followed my work knows how strong my instincts are in this respect, and for a while I wasn't sure if I could pull it off. It didn't help that I decided to forgo a full beta and wrestle with it myself. Though the revisions were quite painful, the end result was decidedly not so. :)
I'm also linking the lyrics since the Deftones lead singer loves to mumble.
Enjoy! I'd sincerely appreciate any and all feedback, and would doubly love you if you posted comments to this entry over any comms I might've x-posted to. =)