Christmas vid gift

[charmax]

Have a fantastic Christmas astartexx!! Thank you so much again for my gifts. *mwah*
I hope you like the vid. ;)


Video Title: Destiny Calling
Song Title/Artist: Destiny Calling - James
Movie: Multi (X-Men, Spiderman, Superman, Daredevil, The Incredibles, Fantastic 4, Batman)
Summary: A pick 'n' mix of superheroes. A smorgasbord of leather and lycra. For Astarte!! Merry Christmas!!
Length/Format: 3.45 (Xvid)

Download the very big and pretty (960x400 - 70MB)
Download Xvid (736x304 - 45MB)
Med stream at imeem (very tiny picture)

Comments

[halcyon-shift.livejournal.com]

EeeeeeeeeEeeeeeEeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Man, that was fantabulous! I loved the parallels especially and some of the clip-to-lyric choices were all kinds of inspired. And you keep the energy going all through and even made is build at the end and wow I'm stopping now before the flail overfloweth. Beautifully done.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Thank you LD! I'm glad you liked it. Going into the project I thought it would be a doddle but no! multi-fandom vidding is haaaard.

I just saw your rec too! Hee! It's a big compliment seeing as you don't do it that often.

[killabeez.livejournal.com]

Awesome, my dear, absolutely amazing. Not that I am the least surprised. :-) The blue border was very smart! And Bobby as the cute one who is usually gay made me laugh out loud. But most of all, just a wonderfully conceived and realized celebration of why we love them all.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Thanks Killa!

It's always great to get a compliment from you.

The blue border served to give it a comic book touch and more importantly disguised the fact that all the films were slightly different sizes! Definitely a case of making a virtue out of necessity.

Bobby is just soo gay. *g*

[przed.livejournal.com]

Holy Cow, that's good. Nay, great even. Perfect song choice, genius structure and the way you've got visual tropes flowing between all the different sources is beautiful. And just when I think it can't get any better, it does, with a shiveringly good climax.

Brava!

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

It was a fun vid to make in a masochistic, swearing at the screen sort of way. I don't think I've ever been so glad to finish a vid in my life. :D

[messyjessie58.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD!!! that was so much fun!!!! you are my god oof gods haha
i might have to show that vid to, oh, everyone ive ever met :D

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Jessie, thank you! "god of gods"? Nah... wow (I'm a little embarrassed by that) heee but cheers! :D

[tyrell.livejournal.com]

Here via lithium_doll: That was awesome! Love the similar scenes in different movies, fab.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Thank you and thanks again to lithium_doll!

[martoufmarty.livejournal.com]

Oh, that was awesome! Love how you matched up similar scenes (costumes, running, train stopping, super swank dodging).

Too cool!

[charmax.livejournal.com]

When watching the films you don't realize just how many similarities there are, I had so much great footage to choose from. Sadly I had to leave out some of the other themes I was wanting. But - there is only so much room! *ponders about the next multi-fandom*

Thanks Steph!

[thirdblindmouse.livejournal.com]

Thank you for making that; it was excellent! Just when I was in the mood for superheroes and multifandom vids too. :)

[charmax.livejournal.com]

I'm very pleased you enjoyed it, thanks for the feedback!

[bipagan.livejournal.com]

I watched this before work this morning and here is the best compliment I can give:

I've been thinking about how cool it was all day.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[obsessive24.livejournal.com]

OMG WORDS CANNOT DESCRIBE TEH AWESOME!!!!!! I LOVED it so much and have rewatched like ten times already. The parallels are just amazing and I'm in awe of how one fandom just flows effortlessly into the next with the use of amazing connections all through. Absolutely amazing.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Nicky.

This was my first attempt at using multiple sources. I was totally unprepared for how frustrating the tech was going to be but on the other hand I did get some great visuals to work with.

[ficbyzee.livejournal.com]

This filled me with *so much joy.* I love, love, LOVE comic book movies, and this vid pinpoints all the reasons why. I am so incredibly impressed with the way you tied all of these different movies together! The way you used motion was especially awesome. (And the 'usually gay' line almost made me spit tea all over my keyboard.)

Man. SO AWESOME. :D

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Cheers! Thank you so much for the rec as well.

My goal was to make an uplifting multi-fandom video. I was originally going to use more sources but in the interests of the structure I dropped some of the suckier movies which, unfortunately, meant losing most of the women. Oh well!

[caia-comica.livejournal.com]

This is so very much awesome. You put so many different stuff together and it *worked* and I get the sense that there's *depth* there that wasn't necessarily apparent my first time through but I'm telling you how awesome it is NOW because otherwise I will probably forget.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the feedback. As far as I'm concerned - nope! no depth just fun so you can stop looking. lol

[deconcentrate.livejournal.com]

Oh, that was wonderful, all shiny and sparkly and leather-pantsed and super.

Bobby as "usually gay" = GENIUS.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Your feedback is much appreciated. Heee I love the idea of a leather-pantsed vid.

[vagabond-sal.livejournal.com]

ficbyzee sent me here, and--wow, I am so glad she did. I don't really have a vidder's grammar, so I can't articulate any thoughts on the technical process (Though dude, that stuff you did with the fire transitions and the images nestled within one another? Awesome!), but the heart of this vid is just...oh, wow. You've reminded me why I love the capes.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Thanks for commenting and thanks again to ficbyzee for pointing you here. I'm glad you liked it and the feelgood aspect of the vid is the important bit all the rest is just window dressing.

[ratcreature]

Here via ficbyzee's rec...

Wow, this was very pretty and all around awesome, even though I've only seen some of the movies!

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Thanks again to ficbyzee!

I'm so pleased you enjoyed the vid, I really wanted it to appeal to people generally, it's just a fun uplifting vid with lots of shiny so the context of the movies is not that important.

[dualbunny.livejournal.com]

I am seriously running out of excessively excited adjectives to cover how wonderful vids are, and this one just makes that *so* clear to me. :D

You've distilled the essence of why comic movies are just so irrestible. I don't even want to think about how much work had to have gone into combing through these, and more importantly, having to stop pretty scenes to move onto the next clip and to have to cull things. I mean, there is one thing comic movies always do well and that's the pretty. Having to be concise with that over so many sources had to be agony. ;) But wow, so clearly worth it.

And it's not just pretty! The intro is ridiculously clever and there is so much enjoyment of the source. And the structure! Giving each movie it's time and knowing *when* to do that. And then to so seemlessly go back to moving between them all. Just--wow. That the movement and parallels are equally wonderful go without saying as far as I'm concerned.

Gah, the whole thing just puts a big grin on my face which is extra happy making to me because I didn't even *like* some of those movies, lol. ;D

[charmax.livejournal.com]

There has been a ton of wonderful vids recently - I cannot keep up! How many more ways can I say wow. :D

You're right it was quite painful to stop and move on leaving a ton of cool footage out.

[gloss]

I've just watched it, and I should wait to watch it several more times before leaving you feedback, but -- I CAN'T. This is marvelous, such a wonderful panfandom Xmas present, full of hope and flying and awesomeness. ficbyzee's absolutely right that it makes me want to run around in a towel-turned-cape and *play*.

Also, you've done a fantastic job of bringing together the common elements from such very *disparate* universes -- the Xmen and Batman and *Superman*....and the Incredible! *loves on you*

Thank you so much for this.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

I'm pleased you liked it. I'm glad it has such an uplifting effect on people. I'd lost sight of that a bit when I was working on it but eventually I hope to be able to enjoy it too!!

[virium75.livejournal.com]

woooooooooooooooooooooah. that wass oooo fantastic it was just...well FANTASTIC! the editing was sooo awesome! how you faded into the different movies while ina scene from another movie (if that made any sense at all haha) the song was great. the clip choice was PERFECT and just wow. im blown away!!! GREAT...no...PERFECT job Charmax!

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Jessie said how you watched it frame by frame and really enjoyed it. It's good to know it stood up to such scrutiny. lol

Thanks for the feedback.

[bunnythenavia.livejournal.com]

Superhero mega-mix goodness. So, come on, how can it not be delicious? And the colours are so vivid. It's dreamy!

z

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Cheers Zohar!!

Delicious is a very flattering way of describing it. Thanks for that it made me smile.

[cassiee.livejournal.com]

Eeee! GOing to download so I can watch on the plane ride to NY. Plus, bigger screen on the laptop, so I can enjoy teh pretty!

Hee!

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Thanks Cassiee.

Have good flight I hope you enjoy my in-flight movie. *g*

Enjoy the holidays.

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

How beautiful and how utterly satisfying. ::beam:: Thank you so much! I feel a superheroic love that I never knew I had.

Great use of parallelism to highlight the heroes' similarities and differences, and I really liked the way the first verse introduces them all with humor as well as affection. Great stuff. Go you.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

The tongue in cheek aspect was so important to me because although I have a huge soft spot for comic book movies I can never take them seriously. A couple of these films focus too much on the heavy stuff and lose sight of how much fun running around in a cape should be.

Cheers Laura! Oh and it's good to see you up on imeem.

[little-sparks.livejournal.com]

Absolutly fantastic as always hun! Keep up the good work, seriously

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Well, I have no plans of stopping any time soon I can tell you that now. :D Vidding=♥

Thanks!

[amarin-rose.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. That was...yeah. Superheroes at their superbest and superworst and just...super.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

It's super that you liked it! *g*

[tallulah71.livejournal.com]

charmax + vidding = OTP

I love it. There are many great moments, but the one I really like is the cut from Superman and his flowing cape to Storm and her flowing cape. Thanks for sharing.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Thanks Katheryn. It's particularly nice coming from you since you are the queen of multifandom vidding.

Oh I so need a comic book icon. I'm getting a bit fed up of looking at that cheerleader's arse!

[astartexx.livejournal.com]

You’re my vidding goddess and superhero, plus my drug of choice!

I can’t get over the SQUEE! Seriously, I’ve started several feedbacks by now and they stutter themselves through too many exclamation marks and OMFG!!1!one!!!! So embarrassing, that I won’t object you to one of those, although I wanted you to know that I love this vid with every fibre of my heart, you captured the reason why superhero flicks rule so fucking perfectly. They’re awesome to watch, the essence of the Pretty and from the special effects alone, but also the freak aspect they all have in common.

Being outside the norm, being able to do great things and the responsibility that comes with their power is pictured so incredibly amazingly in ‘Destiny Calling’. Your narrative in this work of arts just brings out so many parallels and levels, ties them together seamlessly like all of these chapters of epic hero tale’s are finally bound in one volume and it goes deeper than leaps from buildings and dodging bullets, but that stuff is just awesome to watch and there is no use in denying it.

The feel good vibe you packed the whole vid in and wrapped it up in victory and being grounded in the world they protect, makes this such a joy to watch and is the reason for me sitting here dumb folded and unable to get over the shire glee you inspired, these guys kick artfully ass and we love them for it. And I love you for making me feel like the biggest fool every time I comment on your vids, because I can’t get any rational thought out and there is just so much love that needs to be expressed and I always feel like just scratching the surface.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

It's such a relief to know you liked it. I know this probably wasn't what you had in mind when you requested a multi-fandom vid but once I'd come up with the idea I just couldn't let it go in favour of some mashed up "Lost" and "Supernatural" clips.

I haven't vidded movies for a while and I'd forgotten how pretty super widescreen footage is. It makes me sympathise all the more for the fact that you had to edit 4:3 footage for the Scully vid. (I forgot to mention that in your lj. 4:3 footage is such an arse to work with).

For me the vid is about celebrating difference and embracing your inner freak. If you can have fun running around in a silly suit at the same time as saving the world so much the better.

You don't have to worry about only scratching the surface of this vid it is pretty much all surface, shiny, shiny surface. lol.

[katie-aimee.livejournal.com]

That was AWESOME! So much fun and I love seeing all of those movies together. Your editing and clip choice was excellent too. I love it!

-Aimee

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Hi Aimee. I'm glad you liked it and that you took the trouble to come on lj to leave feedback. It means a lot.