Vid: What We Had [Doctor Who]

[cherry]

Title: What We Had
Fandom: Doctor Who
Music: What We Had - Handsome Furs
Summary: Martha, Jack, Mickey. It's all just empty space. For the VividCon 08 "Fuck You" Challenges vidshow.

Links: Download (39 MB, DIVX, zipped) | Stream (BAM) | Stream (Blip)

What We Had
It's cold
a plain diamond
nobody's here, just empty space
It's all moving, breathing
stuck to the ceiling, don't mean a thing

and what we had don't mean a thing
and what we had is already gone

it's all
a plain diamond
nobody's here, just empty space

they're all our eyes are saucered to see
as if hands might float right down from above
and change this place
nobody here, don't mean a thing

and what we had don't mean a thing
and what we had is already gone

I sit outside with the rain now
and time rolls slow
I sit outside with the rain
and time rolls slow
but they may never shut off
but they may never shut off


This vid would not exist in its current form without the ever-fantastic obsessive24, who kicked my ass until this was in shape. elynross graciously helped out with the final polishing touches. This vid has been in progress, on and off, since December, so it feels good to get it out of my system. There's a lot I could say about what my intentions where, about where I was coming at this vid from, but I'm hoping that I've done my job correctly and it can speak for itself.

Comments

[groovekittie.livejournal.com]

AMAZING work, hun! LOVED IT! Loved the song too!

[sol-se.livejournal.com]

Oh my god! I can't even put into words how much I love this video! I feel like I've been waiting for this exact video and didn't even realize it. I'm speechless. Just...yes, this! Excellent! (More coherent feedback to come later!)

[akamarykate.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's a-MAZ-ing! I love this look at what the Doctor can do to the people around him. What a perfect song, and your cuts work so well with it.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

This vid worked really well for me! All of the emotions felt by Mickey, Martha, and Jack were so vivid.

[counteragent.livejournal.com]

This was gorgeous and heartrending.

[topofthepiano.livejournal.com]

Wow, this absolutely floored me. I cannot even begin with how intense and fantastic it was. The emotions that come through kill me and they're just so vicious. At 1:20 I actually gasped at the image of Jack getting drained next to Rose being saved by having the vortex gently pulled out of her. It's painful then how The Doctor chooses a few to take care of and everyone else just gets left giving and giving and giving and getting nothing back. It's so unfair. Beautiful, thank you for making this.

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Love love love OMG so much love. ::hugs vid::

[danceonstardust.livejournal.com]

just awesome I love the song and how it suits everything! GREAT JOB!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/]

Oh, wow. Very powerful. As much as I love Ten (mostly because of his flaws, actually) it's not the ones he loves best who get better, is it? It's the ones who get better in spite of him. *goes to download so I can watch it a bunch of times*

[varymydays.livejournal.com]

Oh, God.

Oh God this broke my heart. :/

I would love to hear your intentions even though I think the video showed it perfectly, I just want to see if what I got from the video matches up with what you wanted to portray.

Totally not necessary though. There was so much in this.

Ow. Gorgeous and painful and perfect.

[hollywoodgrrl.livejournal.com]

Here via sol_se's rec and yeah, words fail me at the moment. I was just utterly blown away by the perfect rhythm that you told your story in. It matched the song perfectly, and the singer's voice was the perfect translation of that "coulda, woulda, shoulda" feeling that these characters evoke. (I must scour the interwebs for that band now.) So it all just blended so well together. TASTY!

I've gotta mention 0:38-0:59. This is when I truly went nutters about this vid. Particularly when you juxtaposed Jack getting shot with Ten/Rose on the apple grass. But then 0:55 happened. That shot of them scrubbing the floor...it strange to say but I think it's my favorite bit out of the whole vid. It just says so much and the motion is so fluid.

I've watched this now like three times and I made both my roommates watch it. THAT'S how good it is. *bows to you*

Edited cuz I forgot to say how orgasmic 1:20-1:28 is. Nghhhhhh...

[lorem_ipsum]

*flail* Wow. *flail* Wow. *mcflailypants* WOW.

[lorem_ipsum]

P.S. What topofthepiano said.

what we had = wtf?

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

There's such balance in this vid, which is a counterpoint to the inbalance portrayed in the vid. The characters are carefully placed and there is not a single frame misused.

From beginning to end I was floored. The difference in what the Doctor takes the companions to see was drastic. Martha is the one usually off by herself cleaning up the Doctor's messes, while others have their hands held. Jack gives his life and the Doctor runs from him, while the Doctor holds Rose and dances with her. The Doctor doesn't even register that Mickey has given up so much and become a different person.

The Doctor is looking up with his mind in the stars, while they have to watch where he's going.

At the end of the vid, I'm left empty myself because these characters give so much, yet the Master is the one comforted. WTF?

Re: what we had = wtf?

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

IAWTC 100%

The amazing thing is that Martha, who was treated the most shabbily, has come out of the four seasons as the strongest and most independent and capable of the new Who companions. She's walked away from the Doctor twice, head held high, and gone on to be fantastic without him. And if he was to be perfectly honest, Ten would admit that he needs Martha far more than she needs him these days.

Re: what we had = wtf?

[sol-se.livejournal.com]

Yes. This.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I was thinking of this vid long before I started it, and finding this song was what finally got things off of the ground. It's pretty much what I would have custom-ordered in a song, if I had that power.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you! In a way, this vid feels much more personal to me than any other I've made, so it's such a relief to hear that it works for others.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thank you for watching! I am still incredibly grateful that I found this song -- a lot of the time, I find I ended up using a piece in which either the lyrics or the musical dynamics are what I'm going for, but this got both, at least for me. I'm glad you liked it.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm so glad you liked it.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thank you ever so much.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you! I held back on vid notes because I wanted to draw the comparisons and let others make their own conclusions from that -- but for me, it's exactly what you said, it's not fair, and it's about how some get treated in comparison to others, no matter their individual actions or impacts.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thank you, hon. *snugs*

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I knew, going in, that this probably wasn't going to be the most popular reading of the text, so I really appreciate your watching. I agree that Ten is a fascinating character when he's treated as flawed and sometimes frightening, but that's not the easiest on all of the people who love (or could have/should have loved) him.