Festivids reveal #1: "Sailboats" (Master & Commander) for rhi

[bironic]

I made two Festivids this year. First, here was my actual assignment.

Title: Sailboats
Fandom: Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World
Pairing: Jack Aubrey/Stephen Maturin
Rating: PG
Music: by Brooke Fraser (edited)
Length: 2:12
Summary: A love song and a lullaby.
Content/physical notes: None, I don't think.
Acknowledgements: Thanks to R. and cinco for watching the first draft and assuring me that the song wasn't too saccharine.
A/N: Made for Festivids 2015-2016 for rhivolution, who wanted some Aubrey/Maturin in love at sea. Originally posted here and here.

Streaming on Vimeo | AO3 | Download mp4 (21 MB) and captions

Lyrics (edited):

We're adrift on a sailboat
My love is the sea
Yours is the horizon
Constant and steady

You set my limbs locked hard afloat
Lifted my lonesome sails
The tide is out, the moon is high
We're sailing

Darling, your love is healing
It makes the bitter sweet
Warms the winter to spring again
Secures the cold's defeat

We're cutting anchor
Casting out
Into the glorious deep
The tide is out, the moon is high
We're sailing
We're sailing
We're sailing



I'd never vidded something this sweet before, which made me nervous; but friends gave reassuring beta feedback, and here we are. The sequence where Stephen pulls the bit of shrapnel out of Jack's neck still feels awkward to me -- I would've preferred something about Stephen's doctoring in general, playing on the "your love is healing" line, including poor little what's his name who lost his arm, but I just couldn't make the available footage work -- but I really like the quiet nighttime sequence, Jack and Stephen's introductions, the crew singing, and, as rhi requested, the clips of their duets toward the end.

Comments and concrit are always welcome as I try to improve my vidding.

Comments

[sanguinity]

Would you ping me here when you have a download available? (I'm snagging one from Vimeo in the meanwhile, but if you put up something higher-res than theirs...)

[bironic]

Sure! Probably tomorrow.

[bironic]

Added it - let me know if it doesn't work for you. MediaFire is tricky.

[sanguinity]

Downloaded without a hitch! Thank you!

[bironic]

Excellent!

[jagienka]

This is absolutely gorgeous and brilliant.

[bironic]

I am so glad you think so. Thank you. It's a lovely story with lovely people in it, and I'm glad to have had the opportunity to vid it this round.

[burnishedvictory]

This is lovely. I love the song choice and the footage you chose.

[riverlight]

Oh, this is so lovely! What a perfect song choice.

[kabal42]

So beautiful and just lovely - I found myself being lulled into the rhythm, and it felt a lot like being rocked on a boat. Wonderful feeling, and a wonderful choice of song :) As always, this canon is a feast for the eyes and you certainly did it justice.