New vid: Past the Feeling (Once Upon a Time)

[anoel]

Title: Past the Feeling
Music: "The Suburbs" by Mr Little Jeans (Arcade Fire Cover)
Fandom: Once Upon a Time S1-2
Focus: Regina, Regina/Emma
Summary: Sometimes I can't believe it, I'm moving past the feeling.
Content Notes: None.
Notes: Premiered at Vividcon 2013 Premieres. Thanks to killabeez for help with the audio editing.
Download Link: Past the Feeling (80 MB AVI)

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So this is the vid I started after I fell in love with Regina/Emma and OUAT back in September 2012. I heard this song and thought it was beautiful and the lyrics fit Regina so much. Even though the song is less emotional than my usual choice, I was excited to get a chance to focus more on aesthetics and work on fading clips together more like bradcpu does which I've wanted to do for awhile. I set down some clips in the fall and had fun vidding it without a deadline. Of course then the OUAT exchange and Festivids happened so I stopped working on it and then OUAT annoyed me and took away my precious Swan Queen and I was not feeling like finishing it. But the S2 finale was super, super shippy for them and re-energized me so when my Premieres idea didn't work out and I ended up having less time than I expected, I thought finishing this would be a great vid to submit for Premieres. I didn't have as much time as I hoped as I spent most of it on my Auction vid but I'm glad I got to practice a different style than my usual and I'm really happy with some of the things I did in this. I still would like to get a good beta and improve the vid but not sure when/if that will happen.

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Comments

[shati]

THIS WAS GREAT I liked the visual echoes and the creepy fades into things spinning/falling on the ... echoey ... sounds ... deep thoughts, by Shati.

[giandujakiss]

This is lovely. Really great, unusual song choice, and I loved how you used fades/overlays, and the interesting camera angles of the source.

[revolutionaryjo]

I only know enough about OUAT to be dangerous, but this vid really makes me feel what the appeal of Regina/Emma is. Really gorgeous. Love it! :)

[zeborah]

I must have got this off a list of Vividcon vids a while back, but I've watched it over and over and feel it's about time I commented.

Firstly, I've mentally nicknamed this as the "Henry has two mommies" fanvid, because obvious reasons. On the show I find Emma portrayed as a bit too much of a one-note every-woman character for my tastes, but this vid really brings out the best of the complicated relationship between her and Regina: the commonalities and the conflicts.

Butandalso all the parallels. I love parallels. The daughter/son verse just took my breath away the first (few (dozen)) times I watched. But surrounding that, the whole arc of her hating and then becoming her mother - and finally having to move past all that to work together with Emma in that last sequence.

You mention the music is less emotional than your usual. It works super well for me; I'm a real sucker for emotional restraint as a way of heightening the emotional power. The reason I'm watching the video again tonight was that at choir practice this evening one of our songs started with a certain four notes and I was trying to figure out why I suddenly had all the feels, and yeah, it was those four long notes from the intro to this vid.