Video: Your Woman - REMASTERED

[charmax]

Video Title: Your Woman (REMASTERED)
Song Title/Artist: Your Woman – White Town
Show: BtVs/AtS
Genre: AU, Slash
Summary: My original description for this back in 03 was

Spike kidnaps Angel to find out why he never loved him. This vid is like the bastard son of “The picture of Dorian Gray” and “Reservoir dogs”

This remastered version still remains true to that as a concept...
Length/Format: 4.11, (Xvid)

Please do not upload to Youtube or MySpace Thanks!

Download Xvid (640x480 – 34.3MB.)

Notes: This was one of my most popular videos when I made it back in 2003. Even when I took it down I would still get the occasional request for it and so I decided it would be one of a few of my early vids that I would remaster. astartexx you were my main drive on this. You own me, you know that.

I have been able to use some of the things I have learned since making the original. I have therefore tightened up the timing and played more with the colours. I have also been able to use footage that wasn’t available then. I realised quite quickly that most of the last season of AtS would be unusable because as it turns out vampires might not age but actors do. I did use the historical scenes from the later episodes because I figured that people would be so distracted by the dead weasels on Spike and Angel’s heads that they wouldn’t notice.

This remastered version has a number of new clips and the ending has been completely reworked. The main difference between this and the original is in the output quality. It is now much prettier.

Feedback much appreciated.

Comments

[littleheaven70.livejournal.com]

I never saw the original, but I loved this! Liked the noise effect - I've never been able to get that to work very well. Also really enjoyed how you managed to scene-match so many instances where Spike and Angel weren't really together without it looking contrived. Really nice job.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Thanks little heaven. I'm glad you liked it. The noise in the original version was shocking but in this version I actually got it to work pretty much how I had envisaged it. I'm glad you didn't think it looked contrived I know it can be difficult when you know the source well and have to try to see it in a different context.

[littleheaven70.livejournal.com]

I know it can be difficult when you know the source well and have to try to see it in a different context.

That's how I judge the AU vids I watch - when they make me forget about trying to place the source footage and just accept them as what they are showing me :o) I think Aimee's Tourniquet and Astarte's Haunted were the first that ever did that for me, now I can add this one!

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Aimee and Astarte are great at the constructed reality stuff. Aimee's "Resurrection" and Astarte's Angel/Wes vid are also really convincing.

When I grow up I want to be just like Astarte.lol

[littleheaven70.livejournal.com]

When I grow up I want to be just like Astarte.lol

Don't we all? *g* It was she who inspired me to have a go at the AU thing when I did Green-Eyed Monster. There's only two constructed scenes, but I was really happy with them.