Gift Vid: Safe as Houses - for Nicole Anell

[chaila]

Title: Safe as Houses
Recipient: Nicole Anell
Vidder: chaila
Music: Deb Talan/The Weepies, "Safe as Houses"
Summary: "Will he still reach for you if the only dream you ever shared with him was a nightmare? Would he know my love runs through him like blood?"

Link: Link to signed vid post.

Comments

[sanguinity]

Oh, this is lovely. Your use of motion is beautiful; even with all the percussive, syncopated cuts, there is no distraction from the emotions and faces. They just got emphasized. (Sometimes I watch a vid and think, "I have so much to learn!" I have so much to learn.)

And oh, this just rips my heart out. So much strain in protecting her son, and nearly impossible to do much more than keep him alive. The Savannah-John-Riley sequence is brilliant, and the leaving+hugs montage at the end...

Just, lovely.

ETA: And I almost forgot to say! Don't throw stones at other children! Yeah, Sarah! Don't throw stones at Weaver! :-D

[chaila]

Thank you! I basically made the vid and then went through and took out every fourth clip or so, so yay I'm glad the motion enhanced rather than distracted! (I'd say you already know rather a lot). I felt almost emotionally manipulative with all the ~feelings in this, but I couldn't help it. Connors hugs and leaving each other, what else am I supposed to do with that?

Don't throw stones at Weaver! You don't know anything about what she's up to. *spits on Fox*