Vid: Dark Room [Merlin, VVC '09 Premiere]

[cherry]

Title: Dark Room
Fandom: Merlin
Music: Dark Room - Sarah Slean
Summary: Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. VVC '09 Premiere.

Links: Download (25 MB, DIVX, zipped) | Stream (Blip)

Notes: Many thanks to elynross for beta.

Comments

[serrico.livejournal.com]

Ooh. Pretty and angsty and *very* nice.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thank you kindly.

[kuwdora.livejournal.com]

That is utterly breathtaking. Oh show... and god, I never get tired of Morgana fighting with a sword.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Morgana in a rumble is one of the show's great pleasures. Thank you so much for watching.

[buffyann.livejournal.com]

Live commentary :

obsessive24:3
obsessive24:2
obsessive24:1
obsessive24:go
obsessive24:oh I remember this song
obsessive24:instrumental, bold
kiki_miserychic:the pretty colors with the eyes, thingy, and fire.
obsessive24:fantastic mood
kiki_miserychic:like all the flames
buffyann:yes, fire seems to be a theme, I love the use
kiki_miserychic:nice morgana and merlin suiting arthur up
obsessive24:really subtle sophisticated editing
kiki_miserychic:understated
kiki_miserychic:loved merlin's lowered head
kiki_miserychic:the tension
buffyann:that's not your usual merlin's vid
buffyann:I like this
obsessive24:I'm getting a love triangle vibe?
kiki_miserychic:ohhh, i love the spinning, so good in vids
obsessive24:maybe love rectangle
kiki_miserychic:rombus
buffyann:love te helmett shot
obsessive24:love rombus ftw
kiki_miserychic:familial maybe even
obsessive24:swords
obsessive24:omg!
obsessive24:great strings
kiki_miserychic:that fade!
obsessive24:really fantastic mood
kiki_miserychic:oh yes
obsessive24:things are afooot, tragedy lurks
kiki_miserychic:always.
buffyann:oh the look on merlin's face
obsessive24:shit this is making me sad
obsessive24:blue
kiki_miserychic:they break. love the use of the hands and how they deflate.
obsessive24:of awesome
kiki_miserychic:wow
obsessive24:wow that made my heart hurt
buffyann:I was lost content wise, but that's always the case in the first watch
kiki_miserychic:love the instrumental use
buffyann:that was very subtle, editing wise, I agree
obsessive24:I need to rewatch, but I'm getting a vibe of this being a grown up version of Unsteady Ground
buffyann:the use of instrumental is really interesting here
obsessive24:bold move, worked very well, methinks
kiki_miserychic:i think lyrics wouldn't have worked for what she wanted to create
obsessive24:agreed
kiki_miserychic:would have clogged it up with words
obsessive24:nicely put
kiki_miserychic:more about atmosphere and feeling than about what the words mean
buffyann:yes, I love instrumental for that
buffyann:lyrics are another layer of interpretation
buffyann:without them, it makes the images more raw and the music is just guiding the feelings, I don't know
kiki_miserychic:maybe she thought people trying to "get"the lyrics would have muddled it.
kiki_miserychic:or maybe the song just felt perfect to her and i'm reading in too much
obsessive24:she didn't need it to make the point, which is what matters
buffyann:yes

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

A great many thanks to all of you. I'm so glad that the love rhombus angle came through and worked well.

[bm1893.livejournal.com]

Oh. I don't know what to say. This is completely beautiful and breathtaking.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thank you ever so much.

[0mindthegap0.livejournal.com]

Haven't seen Merlin, so I can't comment on content, but this is so gorgeous and brimming with emotion and ouch.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

With your not having seen the show, that is high praise indeed. Thank you.

[coffeejunkii.livejournal.com]

this was really beautiful. to me, it underlines that despite all the silliness on the show, everyone carries some heavy burdens and continuously faces very difficult decisions.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thank you kindly. Merlin is so much fun that it can be easy to forget the events we know are coming.

[obsessive24.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed this vid. You worked incredible things with no lyrics, and the whole thing reads like a slow, inevitable descent into hell for all involved. I've always loved that the show bears hints of what is to come; Morgana looking so righteous in her assassination plot; Arthur's brief friendship with Lancelot; Gwen looking so innocent and painful at the death of her father; Morgana sheltering Mordred; and Merlin in amongst it all, desperately trying to stop things from coming apart at the seams. I especially loved the torch at 0:22, the dual poisoned chalices at 0:54, the sword connection around 1:40, the fantastic shift in tone at 1:43, and the amazing way the water slows down on the string crescendo at 2:21. It's all incredibly beautiful.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thank you ever so much -- you're always much too kind to me. *G* To me, one of the most compelling things about this show are the threads of inevitability already running through the happy/crack.

I was a little nervous about working with an instrumental for a vid like this, but the texture and the tenor of the music were perfect, so I'm so very glad that it worked for you.

[kathyh]

That was beautiful and so haunting. The way the darkness looms over all of them was wonderfull done and that ending was just stunning.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thank you ever so much.

[bradcpu.livejournal.com]

I think I told you this at the time, but the pacing and flow of this was just lovely. I also adore how it's bookended by that terrific shot of Merlin, which says so much.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thank you ever so much. I know I mentioned my concerns regarding the flow of clips and music to you, so I'm so glad to hear that it worked for you.

[jarrow.livejournal.com]

Haunting and gorgeous - I love what you've created here!

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thank you kindly.

[vonniek.livejournal.com]

I've only watched the first 4-5 episodes of Merlin so I'm not sure what's going on (at least I know who these people are!), but the song choice and the beautiful cross-fades really flow well together to create a sense of longing and regret. A gorgeous vid.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thank you ever so much.

[tearful-eye.livejournal.com]

so beautiful!

this vid feels so prophetic - it's like a vision or a dream, everything they do is tinged with darkness & they slowly get dragged under by it. or something. really gorgeous!

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Merlin is such a fun show that it can be easy to forget that they're already tearing down everything they have yet to build.

[mint-amaretto.livejournal.com]

This is just amazing. I thought you conveyed the feeling of slow, inevitable descent into tragedy perfectly. Simply haunting!

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thank you ever so much.

[archaeologist-d.livejournal.com]

Very atmospheric. I liked how the vid was cut.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[mattyroh07.livejournal.com]

Very lovely. Great synching/mixing of the clips with the music. :D

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thank you kindly.

[visionsbeyond.livejournal.com]

Mesmerising! Wow you took such an unsual song choice and did a brilliant job! I have no words but EXCELLENT!

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thank you ever so much.

[heather.livejournal.com]

That was gorgeous and heartbreaking, and I love the OT4-ness of it, even though it's the angsty kind. Beautiful work.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thank you kindly.

[randomalia.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, this is wonderful. Such lovely editing, it's all so twisted in together. Great stuff.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thank you ever so much.

[cherish4.livejournal.com]

Wow, that was intense. I like it. I love how incredibly powerful a piece of instrumental music can be.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thank you -- working with instrumental pieces provides an almost-frightening flexibility.

[ender24]

this was so sad , destiny will catch them, and your vid had kept on tugging at my heart!
*sniffs*

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thank you ever so much for watching.

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

That was beautiful and heart-rending. Very well done :)

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thank you kindly.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Dark and lovely.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[westingturtle.livejournal.com]

You have hit my "inevitable hand of Fate" king absolutely perfectly. And I have an inordinate amount of love for the shot of the underside of Merlin's jaw as he searches through the trees.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your kind words.

I have an inordinate amount of love for the shot of the underside of Merlin's jaw as he searches through the trees.
It's a beautiful shot.

[tehlime.livejournal.com]

This is a really amazing video. The motion, and the emotion that it caries with it, are both so beautiful and so clear.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thank you ever so much.

[zempasuchil.livejournal.com]

WOW. I'm a little late to the party, I see, but I found a link to your vid when looking through someone else's lj, and this vid is astounding. It's the most tragic and OT4 (OT5?) vid I've ever seen, but the most amazing part is how you pretty much told their whole story using only clips from season 1, the beginning of everything! By the end it's Morgana and Mordred and Merlin and dungeon bruises, and Arthur vs Lancelot and Arthur and his sword fallen in the lake - wow. This blew my mind. Great, great job - beautiful selection of clips and music, beautiful transitions and really creative combinations of images.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Thank you ever so much. The show certainly has given us lots of gorgeous imagery to work with.