Vid: Don't U Eva

[bop_radar]

If anyone's been wondering why I've been a little quiet of late, it's partly because Final Cut Pro ate my life. Although its ways are still 99 per cent mysterious to me, I've somehow managed to dredge something out... though it's not what you might expect. I must say that in all my daydreaming about being able to vid one day, I never pictured myself making a claustrophobic, oppressive Kara/Leoben vid. However, with limited footage on my harddrive at the time, I started working on this as a learning exercise and then it kind of grew and grew... and I also realised that there was at least ONE person on my f'list who would like it, if only because it contains CKR! That's right--I'm looking at you, little k! ;-)

So, as a very very early Christmas present for the lovely kristiinthedark:

Title: Don't U Eva
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica
Pairing: Kara/Leoben
Spoilers: up to 3.04
Rating: NC-17 (violence, adult content--duh!)
File format: .avi, 23MB
Download: direct download
Feedback: yes, please! :-)
Disclaimer: BSG is Ron Moore's, the song Sarah Blasko's
Beta thanks: A million trillion thanks and credits to supacat, without whom this vid would not have progressed past the (completely reworked) first chorus. Her three-stage beta kept me going and she prodded me to work on alternating cutting to the beat and cutting to the lyric, which was scary but I do think the final version is better. ::hugs::

If you have trouble with the files or links, please let me know and I'll try and help. Also, I should warn you that if you didn't like the Kara/Leoben plot in early Season 3, you probably won't like this vid... Oh, and I'm sorry it's so dark--blame my lack of skillz as well as that drab BSG cinematography.


Don't U Eva
By Sarah Blasko

You've got a way with words
You've got a way that makes me feel so complicated
Your message meets the floor
The horizon meets your horse and you're deliberating
I'm only clearing my throat

Don't u eva wish for
Just one thing that you might never see
Don't u eva wish for
Just one thing that you might never know
You might never know

You've got a way with words
You've got a way that makes me feel so complicated
A wall keeps you from me
You'd raze the doors down just so you could find the key
The wolves are waiting

Don't u eva wish for
Just one thing that you might never see
Don't u eva wish for
Just one thing that you might never know
You might never know

I'm underground
As the world's just spinnning around
And you hunt them down
Try to pin them to the ground
There'll be no sound as the words just tumble out
And you won't be found by the time you've hit the ground

You've got a way with words
You've got a way with words
You've got a way with words

Don't u eva wish for
Just one thing that you might never see
Don't u eva wish for
Just one thing that you might never know
Oh you might never know...
Don't you eva wish for...
You might never know...

Sarah Blasko is an Australian singer/songwriter who I am greatly enjoying at the moment. I chose this track for its musical qualities as much as for its lyrics--there's an underlying tension and sense of frustration in the music that is almost at odds with the wistful lyrics. I thought that tension would play well with Kara/Leoben.

Now that that's over with, I can get on to vidding the Pretty Shiny Show, aka Smallville! ;-)

Comments

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Here ya go: http://www.sendspace.com/file/gqdn7b
:-)
Enjoy!

[moonwitch.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Yours is uploading now. :D

[moonwitch.livejournal.com]

Here you go!
http://www.sendspace.com/file/lnffop

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :-)

[moonwitch.livejournal.com]

Hmm. You actually only zipped me a song, and it's not from her latest album. ^_^;

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

What?! Man! I must have had my head in the clouds that day! Let me go and sort that out...

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

And this would be the album...
http://www.sendspace.com/file/pka2jk

[moonwitch.livejournal.com]

XD! Thanks, again.

[moonwitch.livejournal.com]

T_T; Sorry for kind of bugging you with this, buuuuut. I downloaded the zip, and everything was fine (it's the right album this time!) but for some reason each song is only 1kB in size. D: I don't know what's wrong. But thanks for going through all this trouble.

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Oh, damn! I'm sorry. I'm also quite baffled. However, no doubt this is because I don't know how to zip properly on my new Mac. Too used to PCs, I guess! I'll look into it over the weekend. I'm sorry to be dangling it in front of you and then whisking it away again. :-(

[moonwitch.livejournal.com]

It's all right! If it's too much trouble, don't bother. Otherwise I am perfectly happy to wait. :)

[moonwitch.livejournal.com]

Oh! Oh! I have figured out the problem. :D Things work fine, now. Sorry to have bothered you.

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Oh goodie! Was it anything I can avoid? As I say, I'm still new to the ways of Macs...

[moonwitch.livejournal.com]

Well I'm not sure if it was something that you did or I did. XD; But within the zip were two folders, (MACOSx or something, and the album folder) and I clicked on the former, which led me to files that were only 1kB. I didn't really notice the second folder (pretty silly, huh?) because, well, I don't know why. But the second folder had all the right information. So! Fixed. Hah.