FAN VID: THIS IS YOUR LIFE by pyrotechnic86
VIDEO: This is Your Life
SONG: This is your life by Switchfoot
MAKER: pyrotechnic86
FANDOM: X-Men
CHARACTERS: Pyro, Rogue & Iceman
{ xxx } Such a haunting video, I tell you. Out of nowhere it -the song, mainly- appeared into my head last night after I'd already gone to bed and it wouldn't leave me alone. this is your life, this is your life, this is your life, over and over and over again and so, I started thinking about the actual video; it's structure and all that and I realized that really, it's my damn duty to recc this one too.
I wasn't originally gonna recc it, yeah, because I wasn't sure what to say about it... I kinda feel like I'm just repeating myself with these reccs... it's always more or less ryro, character study and emotional. Those are three words I keep repeating, but what can I say?. That is the kind of stuff I love and like to recc. Oh well ::shrugs::
But this one, oddly, isn't a shipper video (horror!) but more like something that tries to show us the actual relationship between these three characters that took place *in* the movies - which is why I'm not listing it under PAIRINGS, but as general.
At first I wasn't so sure about the song choice, but the more I listen to it and the more I watch the video while doing so, the more I see how nicely the two actually fit together. The song is, as said, haunting, bittersweet and so is the vid, definitely.
I feel that as a vid maker Pyrotechnic86 has got the kind of style that really hits home with me - I have, indeed, recced other stuff by the said maker before.
The lyrics are, as I like to put it, and stay in tune with the scenes and it tells us that the clips haven't been randomly edited together to look cool, to be flashy. They're actually trying to tell us how these characters feel - and damn, it manages to do it, too. Whenever the pace changes, the pace of the scenes does too, which personally, is my favorite thing about the video - it efficiently keeps the vid from becoming boring, looks good and makes your heart beat a little faster, too. So, yeah, I like it a lot. The effects are nifty too and all in all the editing is done really beautifully. With patience, definitely ::bows::
Favorite bit: 1.14-1.55 --- I don't know, I think that bit just says it all. Young Marie always breaks my heart... and bitter, frustrated and angry Pyro always tickles me the right way.