Vid reveals!
Apr. 27th, 2019 03:19 pmEquinox time! I made two vids for Northern Exposure, a show I hadn't seen until I matched with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
valoise and couldn't come up with a song idea for the two other fandoms we had in common. I'd been meaning to check it out anyway, since people seemed enthusiastic about Marilyn and a TV reunion that may be in the works, and this provided a good opportunity to finally see what people had been talking about back in youth group in temple.
valoise asked for character studies of Marilyn, Ed or Chris. Clipping six seasons of material for a character study was more than I had energy (or song ideas) for, especially when Marilyn's otherwise awesome deadpan delivery makes for difficult visual storytelling and Chris is such a complex dude, but focusing on one- or two-episode plots felt manageable.
Conveniently, I fell for the brief and bittersweet romance between Marilyn and "Bob" the Flying Man, played by Bill Irwin, a real-life clown college graduate whom you may know as the voice and invisible manipulator of the robot TARS in Interstellar, among other things. The Norah Jones song occurred to me right away, and then Bob came back for a surprise second episode! So there was enough material to do a proper vid. Editing the song down proved trickier than expected because the transitions between verses didn't match, but eventually the pieces slotted into place.
( Vid #1! Come Away with Me )
I'd had half a mind to do a triptych forvaloise by making little treats with Ed, specifically Ed/Rolf, the punk dude with the terrible attempt at a German accent who comes to town to tune an antique clock and hits it off with the guy his own age, and Chris, specifically Chris/the lady whose pets he kept accidentally killing, but I didn't have a song for the former, and I wasn't sure if the latter, which would've been set to "Another One Bites the Dust," aligned with valoise's humor, and you want to be sure about that kind of thing.
Come deadline day, I was really feeling the itch to do something more, both forvaloise and to make additional use of all the DVDs I'd watched, heh. I thought of the Blood, Sweat & Tears song with the lines, "You make me so very happy / I'm so glad you came into my life," but while it conveyed the right sentiment, the tone didn't feel right. I realized the music was the wrong genre, and that the right genre was, of course, punk. So I literally just Googled "punk songs," and this one, which had "love" in the title, came up in the first set of featured results. I listened to it, decided it would work if I cut out all the verses, and since I'd already ripped the episode just in case, I was able to make the thing in the three-ish hours that remained until go-live. \o/
( Vid #2! Ever Fallen in Love )
I think I broke my own rules about making sure you cut fast enough to match a fast song. But each jump cut meant that much less footage to work with, and less footage would have required the excision of another refrain, which would have been really hard to do with the structure of the end of the song. Given more time, the vid might have been edited better—but then again, I might've fought with it and decided it wasn't good enough to post.
The important thing is there is an Ed/Rolf vid in the world. Considering that the characters only had three scenes together, I think it's pretty good.
(There were no tags for Marilyn/The Flying Man or Ed/Rolf on the AO3! I wonder if there were more back in the day on other sites, now lost to time, or if they were never popular pairings.)
P.S. Ed was the character I'd referred to cryptically in the "Watching" section here. Darren E. Burrows is the son of Billy Drago née William E. Burrows, frequent portrayer of evil hotties. Check it out: Burrows (left) was the spitting image of Drago (right) when they were both young—I gasped in one scene in Northern Exposure where Ed had his hair slicked back and wore a fedora, the resemblance was so strong—yet you'd hardly know it now.
( Two more examples )
valoise and couldn't come up with a song idea for the two other fandoms we had in common. I'd been meaning to check it out anyway, since people seemed enthusiastic about Marilyn and a TV reunion that may be in the works, and this provided a good opportunity to finally see what people had been talking about back in youth group in temple.valoise asked for character studies of Marilyn, Ed or Chris. Clipping six seasons of material for a character study was more than I had energy (or song ideas) for, especially when Marilyn's otherwise awesome deadpan delivery makes for difficult visual storytelling and Chris is such a complex dude, but focusing on one- or two-episode plots felt manageable.Conveniently, I fell for the brief and bittersweet romance between Marilyn and "Bob" the Flying Man, played by Bill Irwin, a real-life clown college graduate whom you may know as the voice and invisible manipulator of the robot TARS in Interstellar, among other things. The Norah Jones song occurred to me right away, and then Bob came back for a surprise second episode! So there was enough material to do a proper vid. Editing the song down proved trickier than expected because the transitions between verses didn't match, but eventually the pieces slotted into place.
( Vid #1! Come Away with Me )
I'd had half a mind to do a triptych for
valoise by making little treats with Ed, specifically Ed/Rolf, the punk dude with the terrible attempt at a German accent who comes to town to tune an antique clock and hits it off with the guy his own age, and Chris, specifically Chris/the lady whose pets he kept accidentally killing, but I didn't have a song for the former, and I wasn't sure if the latter, which would've been set to "Another One Bites the Dust," aligned with valoise's humor, and you want to be sure about that kind of thing.Come deadline day, I was really feeling the itch to do something more, both for
valoise and to make additional use of all the DVDs I'd watched, heh. I thought of the Blood, Sweat & Tears song with the lines, "You make me so very happy / I'm so glad you came into my life," but while it conveyed the right sentiment, the tone didn't feel right. I realized the music was the wrong genre, and that the right genre was, of course, punk. So I literally just Googled "punk songs," and this one, which had "love" in the title, came up in the first set of featured results. I listened to it, decided it would work if I cut out all the verses, and since I'd already ripped the episode just in case, I was able to make the thing in the three-ish hours that remained until go-live. \o/( Vid #2! Ever Fallen in Love )
I think I broke my own rules about making sure you cut fast enough to match a fast song. But each jump cut meant that much less footage to work with, and less footage would have required the excision of another refrain, which would have been really hard to do with the structure of the end of the song. Given more time, the vid might have been edited better—but then again, I might've fought with it and decided it wasn't good enough to post.
The important thing is there is an Ed/Rolf vid in the world. Considering that the characters only had three scenes together, I think it's pretty good.
(There were no tags for Marilyn/The Flying Man or Ed/Rolf on the AO3! I wonder if there were more back in the day on other sites, now lost to time, or if they were never popular pairings.)
P.S. Ed was the character I'd referred to cryptically in the "Watching" section here. Darren E. Burrows is the son of Billy Drago née William E. Burrows, frequent portrayer of evil hotties. Check it out: Burrows (left) was the spitting image of Drago (right) when they were both young—I gasped in one scene in Northern Exposure where Ed had his hair slicked back and wore a fedora, the resemblance was so strong—yet you'd hardly know it now.
( Two more examples )
