Fanvid: Any Other World

[falafel_musings]

Fandom: Orphan Black
Description: A tribute to Sarah and her clone sisters in their worlds gone insane.
Characters: Ensemble but Clone Club centric.
Music: 'Any Other World' by Mika
Length: 3.40mins
Warnings: S1 & S2 spoilers. Mild violence.
Beta: Thanks eternally to my vidding sestra cylune9.
Author's Note: During the last few stressful weeks, vidding

Comments

[cylune9]

I love everything about that vid! It has such an emotional resonance. I had tears when I first saw it and doesn't fade after more viewings. I love your choice of focusing first on Sarah and then floor us with all the other characters. Their reveals was so well edited! I also liked that you also included other characters than the clones (Delphine, Felix and Donnie... I especially like that shot of Donnie you added toward the end and the clips of Felix you selected were heartbreaking! Poor Felix). And the last clip was haunting and perfect.

The show and the characters deserved such a great vid!

[falafel_musings]

Thanks so much for your beta, Lune! Your concrit was all on-point and I feel a lot happier about the video now. It was always my idea for it to start as a Sarah-centric vid and then introduce Helena, Cosima and Alison in the second verse. Since I knew I'd be ending with the clone club dancing I wanted to include regular snippets of honorary members Felix and Kira too (Felix especially since his loft has become Clone HQ!) I got the idea to add Donnie at the last minute. I think Donnie definitely earned his clone club badge in S2.

Glad you liked the ending (and thanks for advising me to change it). It came to me at the very last minute. Thanks as ever for a great beta. Do you have any upcoming vidding plans at all? Or did your last BrBa vid finish you off?! *hope not*

[cylune9]

My pleasure and ANYTIME!
As for other vids, never say never but I doubt I'll be inspired enough to start another one (or have the energy. My last vid took so long...).

[selenak]

What a marvellous tribute to the Clones. And what a great song you've found for them! I love this vid.

[falafel_musings]

Thank you, selenak! And thanks so much for reccing my vid on your own LJ.

[falafel_musings]

Thanks so much for the lovely comment. I'd been planning to make an OB vid with this song since S1 but it was the S2 finale that gave me the perfect ending. The song sounds very uplifting at the end and that clone slumber party in Felix's loft did show that something positive had come out of having their worlds turned upside-down.

[ever_neutral]

I LOVE IT. Wouldn't have pictured Any Other World for this fandom but it works so well! Especially with the way you've juxtaposed the lyrics with certain images. Very nicely edited, too. This vid is good job. ♥

[falafel_musings]

Thanks so much. This one was fiddly to make so I'm pleased if it came out right in the end.

[waltzmatildah]

if badly treated in canon So bitter about this, tbh!!

[waltzmatildah]

But I feel like they re-wrote it in season two? Well, explicitly, in the last ten minutes of season two, anyway! I feel like Paul was utterly ret-conned and that it changes so much about what I ~thought I knew about he and Sarah...

I'm past squeeing (actually, I don't tend to squee, I'm not a very big shipper in general - it's just, the more dysfunctional something is, the more I'm likely to be all over it, and kitchen bench sex between clone and dead clone's boyfriend? And then ~deliberate, all knowing (though, apparently not) hooking up? YES, MORE OF THIS!). But now I'm firmly in WTF JUST HAPPENED territory!

I'm with you regarding wanting it explored (read: explained!) in season three, though!