New vid: Man or Animal - BtVS Oz/Angel/Xander/Spike - Audioslave
Vid Title: Man or Animal
Artist/Song: Audioslave - "Man or Animal"
Duration: 4:02 wmv
Characters: Oz/Angel/Xander/Spike-Willow/Buffy/others
Summary: Passion turns the guys of BtVS into animals.
Download the M4V
This is just an elaboration on the running "guys in love/lust become animals" metaphor of the series. There are specific episodes that really went with it - The Pack, Innocence, Passion, Beauty & the Beasts, Wild At Heart, etc. But it was more or less a running thread throughout that the guys were all reluctant primal slaves to their passions, and because of that they were always destined to hurt the object of their affections.
The passion=primal storylines pretty much dominated S1-early S4, so that's where I got most of this footage. The exception was Spike, whose S4-S6 arc mirrored the earlier seasons for the other guys, so his scenes are from later in the series.
I was shooting for an over-the-top Jekyll & Hyde/Island of Dr. Moreau type of look for the vid. To that end, I tried a lot of new things with transitions, overlays, use of black, sound mixing, time toggle, coloring, custom effects, stills... you name it. I'm not at all comfortable with this amount of manipulation of source footage, but I'm satisfied that this is how the vid wanted to look. So blame it, not me. Oddly, I wound up with an uncut, effects-free 8-second shot as the climax of the action. It just seemed to fit, so I saw no reason to change it.
There's a short sound effect from "Jekyll & Hyde: The Complete Work" at the beginning along with a bit of the score from Hush.
The song just fit this theme so well that I felt like I had to do it, and it seemed like the right time to dive into this because it feels like a "goodbye to summer" thing.
Lyrics:
Man or Animal - Audioslave, Out of Exile
You give me a heart attack
You look like the summertime
You call me an artifact
But I'll save that for another time
I could be rich or poor
I don't need anymore
Keep your love inside the kitchen
You can't feed me anything
Keep the feathers on the chicken
Peel the leather from your skin
I could be young or old
Sweet or sad, hot or cold
Man or animal, I don't care at all
Find the antidote underneath the dose
Man or animal
Obedient, out of control
I will love you more than money
I will breathe you in the smoke
I will drink you in my honey
Sweet and golden down my throat
When you're right, when you're wrong
Head is near, eyes are gone
You can drown my appetite
I will sip your tears at night
You can tie me to a chair
Skin and bones, I don't care
I could be rich or poor
I don't need anymore
Hope you enjoy the vid. Please share your thoughts.
Artist/Song: Audioslave - "Man or Animal"
Duration: 4:02 wmv
Characters: Oz/Angel/Xander/Spike-Willow/Buffy/others
Summary: Passion turns the guys of BtVS into animals.
Download the M4V
This is just an elaboration on the running "guys in love/lust become animals" metaphor of the series. There are specific episodes that really went with it - The Pack, Innocence, Passion, Beauty & the Beasts, Wild At Heart, etc. But it was more or less a running thread throughout that the guys were all reluctant primal slaves to their passions, and because of that they were always destined to hurt the object of their affections.
The passion=primal storylines pretty much dominated S1-early S4, so that's where I got most of this footage. The exception was Spike, whose S4-S6 arc mirrored the earlier seasons for the other guys, so his scenes are from later in the series.
I was shooting for an over-the-top Jekyll & Hyde/Island of Dr. Moreau type of look for the vid. To that end, I tried a lot of new things with transitions, overlays, use of black, sound mixing, time toggle, coloring, custom effects, stills... you name it. I'm not at all comfortable with this amount of manipulation of source footage, but I'm satisfied that this is how the vid wanted to look. So blame it, not me. Oddly, I wound up with an uncut, effects-free 8-second shot as the climax of the action. It just seemed to fit, so I saw no reason to change it.
There's a short sound effect from "Jekyll & Hyde: The Complete Work" at the beginning along with a bit of the score from Hush.
The song just fit this theme so well that I felt like I had to do it, and it seemed like the right time to dive into this because it feels like a "goodbye to summer" thing.
Lyrics:
Man or Animal - Audioslave, Out of Exile
You give me a heart attack
You look like the summertime
You call me an artifact
But I'll save that for another time
I could be rich or poor
I don't need anymore
Keep your love inside the kitchen
You can't feed me anything
Keep the feathers on the chicken
Peel the leather from your skin
I could be young or old
Sweet or sad, hot or cold
Man or animal, I don't care at all
Find the antidote underneath the dose
Man or animal
Obedient, out of control
I will love you more than money
I will breathe you in the smoke
I will drink you in my honey
Sweet and golden down my throat
When you're right, when you're wrong
Head is near, eyes are gone
You can drown my appetite
I will sip your tears at night
You can tie me to a chair
Skin and bones, I don't care
I could be rich or poor
I don't need anymore
Hope you enjoy the vid. Please share your thoughts.