CUB'S BLOG
New River video
Wednesday, April 19, 2006 10:09 AM
Just passing along the latest River vid, which is set to Sia's "Breathe Me." Details:<i>Duration:</i> 4:42 wmv
<i>Characters:</i> River/all
<i>Episodes:</i> All + movie
<i>Summary:</i> River just wants to be like everybody else, but she can't stop being River.
Three file sizes, all You Send It.
Full-sized - 856x480 (44MB)
http://s44.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3BE27R39K5H4W2ARW09AXRYD98
http://s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0FZB7D7YC3V0725B3F7NB00IE0"
Big w/crappy bitrate (33.7MB): http://s44.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1J0WDINBKWJGA2D8R6FQLTEEP9
Small - 480x240
http://download.yousendit.com/F2F070A14C0ACF30
Sorry about the big files. Effects-heavy plus long equals many megabites. Let me know if any of the links expire and I'll pass along new ones.
The video is meant to show River's desperation, how she's disconnected from the love, friendship, and happiness all around her and doesn't understand why - until the end of the vid.
RinnyPJ requested the song and character, and I decided to do it as a River POV. The idea was to see the series and movie from her perspective; in a warped, cracked sort of chronological order, all mashed up and running together. I always pictured pre-Miranda River as seeing life as a kind of waking dream that never ends, and that's the look I was striving for. I tried a few new editing tricks for that reason.
There's lots of symbolism here - some fairly obvious, some less obvious than I'd like - and rapid-fire visual information that picks up speed as the vid goes on. It might seem confusing or even a little random at first (hopefully not), but there was definitely a purpose behind each image. I tried to build it in layers so that repeat viewings can offer something new each time.
This was my final Firefly character study and my final request. The others can be found <a href="http://bradcpu.com/videos.html"here</a href>. Please share any thoughts, and thanks for watching!
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