Vid: No Light, No Light

[bop_radar]

Title: No Light, No Light
Artist: Florence and the Machine
Source: Battlestar Galactica
Summary: "Tell me what you want me to say!" - Kara
Acknowledgments: Without

Comments

[workerbee73]

I love this. I love this vid, I love this song, I love the way it's cut and edited, and the way you capture the emotion so unbelievably well. And I love your words most of all because they ring so damn true. You are not alone in feeling this way (so not alone!) I share a really similar view of Kara and I guess I also come from a Lee perspective (as much as anyone really comes from one perspective or the other). Point is, I've found myself doing a similar amount of deflecting and deferring over the years, but also becoming resentful of the Starbuck caricature and the Starbuck ideology. And it took me a long time to kind of be able to own my feelings about her and feel validated inside my own head (as weird as that sounds.)

ANYWAYS... long comment is long. Point is, YES. So much yes to everything you've said here. I'm fangirling you like hell right now.

**applauds**

[bop_radar]

Wow, I'm blown away! Thank you! I'm so grateful too to hear from someone that understands this phenomenon of sidelining one's own vision. It's great that you also have been able to own your feelings about her!! It's harder that it might seem!

So touched that you like the vid!!

[scifishipper]

Gorgeous and painful! You've captured their "almosts" so well, the times they tried and tried and failed to be together. It's filled with angst but also with genuine pain and longing and strife. It's perfectly pilots. Thank you so much for taking the time to make it and share it with us.

[bop_radar]

Wow, thank you so much for watching and leaving such lovely feedback! It means a lot to me that you found it very fitting for pilots! :)

[bop_radar]

:) :) :) I hoped you would be pleased! I think this song will be vidded a lot, I'm sure, and no doubt there are many many ways to vid it also--it's an incredible song! So I had a momentary worry about not having the 'right' vision to match it, but once I started making it those faded away as I had a clear feeling how it wanted to be in *my* incarnation of it anyway.

You know... I really hope that I will be able to deliver such a vid, but I worry. I don't love GoT the way you do, and I'm not thrilled with the promo shots of Brienne ... a lot will hinge on whether I click with the actress I think.

[bop_radar]

Oh yeah! It was a great choice of a trailer track. :) Gah! Florence is so amazing!

[bop_radar]

((((hugs)))) Wow! That's an amazing compliment! Because of course each vision is personal...

Apart from the ending, which m_a_r_i_k_s helped a great deal with (practically created!), I vidded most of this without thinking very much at all... just letting the images flow from my subconscious, so it's amazing and gratifying to hear it's a vision in tune with someone else's!

The song seriously haunted me once I first saw you mention how good it would be for them!

[m_a_r_i_k_s]

You know the first draft I saw left me speechless for two days until I could pull myself together and give some vaguely coherent feedback, start commenting as beta is supposed to, not burst into tears at every rewatch and my realisation that this is exactly how I see Kara... and this is exactly why Kara runs... :-)

[callmeonetrack]

I'm so glad you made this vid. *hugs*

What I love most is how you completely capture the duality of Kara and how each sequence of where she lets someone in or feels something too deeply is immediately followed by her pushing them away or walking away or intentionally frakking it all up (mostly with Lee) when the pounding chorus of "no light no light" comes back. I do totally see the "inner turmoil" and "constant in-your-face-ness" that Kara's experiencing plain as day with the way you've cut and edited this vid. <3 (I also really love that it begins with this quiet introspective moment for Kara just herself, just alone, when she doesn't have to put on an act or make herself be any particular way because it's a totally unguarded moment. And I love that there's the breakthrough groundbreaking night footage of Lee upsetting her apple cart at such a powerful break in the music before the pounding chorus comes rushing back. And I love that the end is the slap-kiss--because what better represents Kara and her complicated feelings towards

[bop_radar]

Oh, Tara, I'm so thrilled and amazed and humbled that you like this so much, and that you see your Kara in it!! Thanks so much for reccing it as well! ((hugs))

And yes, I DO SEE HER TOO!!!! *twirls* It's really thrilling for me, actually, it's like discovering the whole show over again... and in a more complete way, because it makes the picture much fuller when I can connect openly with Kara's perspective too.

The credit for the ending should go to m_a_r_i_k_s who suggested the slap-kiss! I agree it works really really well. I'd been playing with some other footage but when I tried this it was immediately apparent what a great choice it was for summing up.

I'm super-thrilled you like the night footage. :) I really pushed out the length that shot was held for but it was such an amazing opportunity to show how uncomfortable Kara is. ;)

it's with him that we get to see that deepest self of her I think, that chewy emotional center I think so too! Of course there is some wonderful material of her with other people too... even not necessarily

[m_a_r_i_k_s]

Those glimpses of that buried self are so compelling, aren't they? They're a treasure!

Did you ever try to imagine how it would sound, what kind of "picture" it would create if you take all those moments when Kara says Lee's name out loud with different intonations - put them together and just "watch" attentively with your ears? :-)

[bop_radar]

Oh, that's a lovely idea!! :)