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Title: Skin (download here)Fandom: Casino Royale (2006 James Bond movie) Music: Skin Is, My by Andrew Bird Stats: DivX (55.4MB) and WMV (29.6MB), 3:40 Double-0 status confirmed; it's a pity MI6 doesn't supply the skin to go along with it.It's Not Easy Bein' Green Bond. Additional notes under the cut, and if it's of interest to anyone, I've written up a separate commentary on how the spot color effect at the end of the vid was achieved in After Effects. I didn't see Casino Royale until well after it was released. And it's interesting, because most of what I heard/read about this new Bond incarnation was how brutal and cold and ruthless he was. I actually think his defining characteristic (at least in this movie) is recklessness. He goes from a state of emotionally detached body-count-stacking-uppage to completely losing his heart and being willing to quit the whole spy gig to float around the world for the love of Vesper. If that's not utter recklessness, then I don't know what is. That's really what appealed to me about Casino Royale. I've seen other Bond movies and sure, many have been fun, but none really made a lasting impression on me. Perhaps because Bond himself was too flippant, too suave, too polished, too far removed from anything ever impressing itself upon him. Hooray for origin stories and the opportunity to get a look at what shapes a character when they're still all fresh and malleable! So, hmmm...I talked more about the movie than the vid, but it's all part of the same :) I guess the summary here is that there's a journey to becoming that "Bond, James Bond" of legend, and it's filled with pain -- physical and emotional. Armor is built and stripped and built again. It's a bloody process. And Bond + Vesper = dooooooomed true love that pushes all my buttons, goodnight. Lyrics: my skin is
white as parchment
drier than a downtown office building
where the air is tight
there's time spent
resting on her bones
waiting for the telephone to ring
ba-ring ba-ring ba-ring
ba-ring ba-ring ba-ring...
bo-ring bo-ring bo-ring
bo-ring bo-ring bo-ring...
my skin is
cold as her toes on the bathroom floor
run back to bed and slam the door
oh what a lovely sound
oh how it shakes the ground
oh what a lovely sound
oh what a lovely sound
oh what a lovely
skin
is my
it's the only thing
that doesn't really fly in my land
and love, oh love
is my love is
it's the only thing that
butterfly in Thailand
let it be printed on every t-shirt in this land
on the finest of cottons and the hippest of brands
in bolder letters than the capital I
that it's the only thing, it's the only thing
it's the only lonely
ohhhhh
my skin is
white as parchment
drier than a downtown office building
where the air is tight
there's time spent
waiting for that
macrame bird of prey
to come down and sing
la-ling la-ling la-ling
la-ling la-ling la-ling...
la-ling la-ling la-ling
la-ling la-ling la-ling...
oh what a lovely sound
oh how it shakes the ground
oh what a lovely sound
oh how it shakes the ground
oh what a lovely sound
oh what a lovely sound
oh how it shakes the ground
(repeat to end)Feedback, if you're so moved, is genuinely appreciated. Tags: vids, vids [movies]: james bond
Current Mood:  satisfied
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This. was. amazing.
I mean, obviously I didn't expect any less from you in terms of editing and musicality (I'll return to that in a bit), but the sheer skill that you display here is like a gigantic, scrumptious buffet of goodness that just keeps giving and giving and giving. The effects work, in particular, is fantastic. I can see how the work you spent in AE on Dance With Me has flowed through to your work here, though obviously you're not using exactly the same sparklies. The black and white flashes! The blurs! The split screens and wipes! The colour selection in the end! OMG! That red dress has never looked more iconic.
I haven't seen many Bond films, but of the ones I've seen Casino Royale definitely comes in very superior. Most of that is due to the emotional resonance, which I thought you captured extraordinarily well in under 4 minutes. The song is a fantastic choice, offsetting the grit with an ostensibly upbeat mood all through.
Back to cutting and musicality. I'm not sure if this is one thing or two things, but I've recently realised one of the main reasons why I'm so mesmerised by your work is because you know exactly when to cut spectacularly fast, and when to not cut to let the clip play out, whether due to content or source motion.
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From: bradcpu |
Date: November 2nd, 2008 04:06 pm (UTC) |
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Schnikes.
Aside from being some of the best editing I've ever seen, period, that is just an overwhelming experience as a viewer. What really strikes me about your vids is how you take a song/concept and mold the source to it in a way that looks so completely natural and honest. Like it was always there and we just didn't see it. Which, I guess is the real nature of vidding.
In this case, I think you've tapped into the pulse source in virtually every way possible. The combination of the song, your editing style/musicality, and the concept... watching it feels so dangerously *immediate* and delicate, even though it's such a sure-footed construction. I think your use of b/w stills goes a long way toward achieving that.
All of the layers of musicality here and the way you addressed them. Wow. Is that just instinctual? It's so complex and perfect, but it doesn't look like you're *trying*, you know? It like it just *is* the way it's supposed to be.
A few favorite moments:
:15 - When the second layer of guitars kicks in here and the pace suddenly unfolds to the bullets and message at :19... right away, I'm just breathless.
:36 - Beautiful transition there
:48 - Love the ext. motion on the electric guitar here.
1:30 - Adore the pace of this whole segment and the little speed bump on the drums at 1:35
1:45-1:46 - That transition is the first time a bit of editing has made me *curse out loud* it was so good.
1:55 - Jump cuts of awesomeness
2:41 - Again with the amazing transition. How do you do that?? It's something about the motion... *picks it apart*
2:57 - Raindrops. This is one of many examples (a particularly brilliant one) of how the internal motion reflects the music *in addition* to your cutting, so it becomes layers of musicality.
The final segment is just magical, of course. Love the use of the crumbling building for a metaphor(!!!!) and the coloring through this. Also, the way the building's collapse reflects the drums here (see above, re: Raindrops).
Wow.
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From: dafnap |
Date: November 2nd, 2008 07:00 pm (UTC) |
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Man. Man. I didn't know I needed something like this until, you know, I saw it. I love, love, love how you contrast the stylish cool of Bond's job, with the crunchy, bone-breaking, bloody cost. And the little bit of meta-editing at the end, with the buildings shaking to ground, as "oh what a lovely sound" fades out on repeat: brilliant.
Love. LOVE.
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I love, love, love how you contrast the stylish cool of Bond's job, with the crunchy, bone-breaking, bloody cost.
Ahhhh, THANK you for watching and for the kind comments! I love an origin story, love that we see a Bond in Casino Royale who only *thinks* he understands what it means to be a double-0.
And as I mentioned in a comment recently, a big thanks to you for music pimping, as that's part of the reason I stumbled across Andrew Bird! Who would have thought this was a Bond song? It definitely doesn't sound that way initially, but the theme that kicks in around at about 0:53 in the vid? I sat up really straight when I heard that!
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From: chasarumba |
Date: November 19th, 2008 06:12 am (UTC) |
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Hey, thanks so much! When I heard this song, I thought it was "stealth Bond"...maybe not so obvious out of the gate, but then later on (0:53ish in the vid, for instance) I was all, WHOA, echoes of the Bond theme, almost. I'm thrilled that you enjoyed the vid, the editing and so on (and your rec was very kind)! It was really enjoyable to edit and to build up my own excitement for Quantum of Solace (which I'm totally ready to vid RIGHT NOW, plz send DVD).
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go back go forward 
