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[rivkat]

I think I've done more fannish stuff in the past 48 hours than in the previous 2 months. Go figure. Anyhow, a revised version of Commercial for Lex is up, newly compressed to an almost reasonable size (9 MB), and another experiment wherein I overuse effects but enjoy the result is here (19 MB, sorry). If I had to pick whose voice Brian Molko ought to represent, it wouldn't be Clark, but there you go.

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[permetaform]

fucking hell. watched the running small one.

fucking hell, but that *worked* for me. Excellent song choice, I loved the relentnessness of it, and what I got from it was a sense that even if there was a switch it would still be messed up. painful, powerful, and just. relentless and I think it needed that matrix of evenness that helped with drawing the parallels. Very nice.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I wanted it to seem like Clark wanted to switch because he didn't like his own problems, and I'm glad it worked for you.

Download no go

[(Anonymous)]

not sure why but My computer will only download the song but not the images, what am I missing do you know?

OH for songs I would love song hard rock of some kind, Like "I'm only happy when it rains" or the 3 doors down song "Kryiponite" with some action seq. I find I often see to many head shots and not enough movement plot shots in vids, oh BTW I did get your Lex one to load the other day but the pic so so small and when I tried to make it go full screen it was big a$$ blurry. Have you tried using media player or quick time? I find this download well and show up well. Maybe it's just me.

Lisa Lynn Beattie

Re: Download no go

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Do you have a Windows computer? If so, maybe you don't have the latest Quicktime player. Quicktime is what I use, and although it often looks dark on Windows machines, I think I finally got the compression to work so it wasn't ridiculously blurry. If you got one to load, you should be able to get the other -- I wish I knew what to tell you.

[permetaform]

I wanted it to seem like Clark wanted to switch because he didn't like his own problems

ohhh. See, I didn't get that feeling because you've juxaposed images of Lex hurting with the "swap our places" line, especially with how happy Clark looks in comparison to Lex in some of those scenes. I sometimes got the feeling from the vid that Clark wanted to be Lex to order to help Lex, in a kinda "let me help shoulder your burdens" kinda way. Part of it's probably because I haven't seen the source images (despite keeping up with the plotline), I dunno.

Oh, reading some of the other comments, where the song changes pace and hit's it's climax is at the lines ""C'mon, baby, c'mon darling, / Let me steal this moment from you now." I think if you aim the plot of your story to that point for emotional impact you might lend more tension to the vid, if you want.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty satisfied with the effect I produced -- if you didn't get that feeling, that's okay as long as the vid worked for you. Though maybe it would have seemed a bit different if you'd seen the episode where Clark gets instructed to take over the world by his biological father, which is where some of the last images are from. Anyhow, making it was a real learning experience, and I suspect I'll be back with other vids.