Gift Vid: Strange Angels - for beccatoria

[chaila]

Title: Strange Angels
Recipient: beccatoria
Vidder: Sanguinity
Music: Laurie Anderson, "Strange Angels"
Summary: Heaven is a world that doesn't need you.
Notes: canon-typical violence

Link: Link to signed vid post.

Comments

[beccatoria]

Thank you! :D

I love how you use the black and white to create a motif an then bring in the old movie footage too - really interesting! And it's also a really intriguing (and effective) song choice. It's got a tone that both fits and exists in total tension with the character and her journey. Particuarly evident when the song shifts gear at the same time Sarah puts the gun to her head. Great moment there.

I like how when the singer shifts into a more "spoken word" style, you cut to appropriately...candid shots? (That's not the word I'm looking for but I'm sure you know what I mean - you capture the tone of "talking" without having to use talkyface shots). It added a sense of levity and poignancy to see them so human.

Thank you, anonymous vidder person!

[sanguinity]

I'm very glad you think the song works! Parts of it -- the intro, the choruses -- are very Sarah, while other bits are so anti-Sarah as to run toward cracky. But I hoped it was possible to highlight Sarahness via anti-Sarahness: this is what Sarah's version of old college friends dropping by and chatting all night looks like!

The musical switch from heaven!lighthouse to the onslaught of days was one of my favorite moments in the process of vidding it.

I'm glad you enjoyed the vid, and you're very welcome!