Life On Mars Vid

[charmax]

Video Title: Club Foot
Song Title/Artist: Club Foot - Kasabian
Show: Life On Mars
Summary: This vid did my head in beyond belief. It contains footage from all 8 episodes but does not spoil any big plot points. It focuses on the relationship between Sam and Gene and therefore plays up the buddy cop aspect of the show. I call it a slash vid or you could just say it is Sam and Gene kicking ass.
Length/Format: 2.30, (wmv, Xvid)

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Comments

[fahrbotdrusilla]

wow, that was awesome. I must admit I had no desire to vid Life on Mars despite loving the show till I watched Lum’s and your vids. Now I think I might need to find a song.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Lum's is an excellent vid and I can see people being turned on a lot by that. I'm very pleased that you like what I've done with mine.

I think it would be great to see more videos for the show so go for it.

Thanks!

[martoufmarty.livejournal.com]

*gasp!*

I was planning on just checking my LJ and then going to sleep (2am! WOOT!) but then I saw this. Squee. Why sleep when you can watch awesome vids? :P

Oooh! That was so awesome. I just love that song (Kasabian rocks my socks so hardcore). I loved how you just timed everything perfectly.

Damnit, you make me want to just forget about sleep and watch the last three episodes :P

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Yep I'm the same. I say one more video then before I know it another 3 hours have past. *grin*

Thanks Steph and I agree Kasabian rocks!

[yorkshirewench.livejournal.com]

I'm a huge Life on Mars fan and this video was just wonderful. So beautiful to look at despite the sometimes distubing/angsty content. Loved all the punch/music beat match-ups. In fact, loved it all - thanks!

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Thanks very much. It is kind of angsty which is surprising really because I love the humour in the show. Also I had to drop Annie out of the vid which is a bit of a shame.

[apieceofcake.livejournal.com]

Squee!!!! A Life On Mars vid :-) Loved it, thank you!!!!!!!!!

[charmax.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. :D Thanks for your comment.

[przed.livejournal.com]

OMG, this vid is just so awesome! The song seems tailor-made for vidding and the way you've cut the action to it is sheer perfection.

Now I'm even more eager for the DVD release so I can finally see the show.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Cheers very much! As I was making this I was wondering if you would like the show or not, I know you are a big fan of The Professionals and this has a lot of similar qualities to it. The dvd is out in the UK May 15th. Not long! I hope you do like it because it's a great show with a lot of potential.

[talitha78.livejournal.com]

Wow, fantastic. The timing and movement here are just spectacular. A real feat of editing genius. Brava!!!

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Thanks talitha, I'm flattered.

[obsessive24.livejournal.com]

I've never seen this show, but after seeing this vid I'm so sold. Such fabulous editing! I love the internal motion and the way you used those gorgeous shots of the sunlight through the trees. Yay!

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Cheers Obsessive. I keep telling people to watch this show so I'm going to say the same to you. You must watch it! As for the tree shots - they really are not something I could have left out.

[psycho-tabby.livejournal.com]

Wow. I really liked this vid. I thought it was very well cut to the music and used really great shots. Well done!

Do you mind me reccing it to some other friends who are just getting into LOM? I just don't know what your bandwidth limits are bad.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for your feedback. And I don't mind at all you rec'ing this. :D

[luminosity]

EXCELLENT!! BRAVA!! I love the way you've gone through the entire season and distilled Gene and Sam's relationship. All of that touching fighting (thinks about Annie Savoy's take on it all). You gave the vid a marvelous sense of *time*, not to mention timing.

And this show? Has just bent my brain in much the way Farscape does. There are no paradoxes, only unrealized realities. (pats back in sympathy)

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Cheers Lum.

I love the way the show plays with the 70s cop show cliches. I just couldn't resist the car chase complete with cardboard boxes!!

I've only seen the odd ep of Farscape but if it is going to mess with my head the way this show did then I will definitely have to check it out.

[scribewraith.livejournal.com]

here from psycho_tabby - this is a great vid! I really like the pacing and its such a good song ;)

[charmax.livejournal.com]

It is a great song! I'm glad you enjoyed what I did with the vid. Many thanks to you and also psycho_tabby for pointing you here. :D

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

mmm... concentrated sam/gene love, all that slamming into walls has left me slightly breathless. Loved the vid, very smooth.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you've gotta love the rough and tumble between those two. They so want each other! Mmmm. lol

Thanks for the feedback - glad you enjoyed it!

[luciamad.livejournal.com]

Huh, two LoM vids in as many weeks. I could get used to this. First off, love the use of the crash with the first big beat, such an oddly amusing way to start a vid. I love how rough they are with each other, and how the vid emphasizes that. Sam really is something of a rag doll. Fantastically in love with the way you cut together the dancing scene from the club with Sam cuffed to the bed, very slick. Not to mention hot. Aside from that, the timing and pacing in general are spot on. Loved it.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Thanks Lucia. I'm glad you liked it. Yes, poor Sam pushed around by Gene during the day and by the creepy testcard girl at night.lol

[halcyon-shift.livejournal.com]

I haven't actually seen LoM yet but somehow it's rapidly becoming my new favourite show. This may be your fault. Fantabulous vid, loved the pacing and the timing to the music, wonderful use of the action in the clips :)

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Many thanks lithium doll. I can really recommend LoM. I have been pimping it like mad to anyone who will listen and I'm happy my vid is helping to spark people's interest in the show. Thanks for taking the time to comment.

[http://users.livejournal.com/exitmusic__/]

I can't believe I forgot to comment on this. It's such a wonderful vid. The editing is fantastic. After I viewed it, I just had to watch this show. So far I've only seen the first episode and I love it. So thanks for introducing me to a new show.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Thanks for commenting. I'm sure you will love the rest of the eps. I'm glad you liked the vid and it's nice to hear another person is recruited!

[http://users.livejournal.com/oceana_/]

Wow, this vid is absolutely wonderful. Love how you use the music and the cuts to match the action. Brilliant song choice. I really enjoyed this very very much.
Would you mind if I recced it at my recs lj oceanas_recs?

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Thank you for such compliments! :D Please, by all means go rec.

[m-phoenix.livejournal.com]

I tend to go through phases of watching vids intensively, (I'm going through one at the moment,) and I just wanted to say that your work is totally blowing me away, which makes me very happy. I only wish I could download faster. I'm friending you btw, hope that's okay.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Thanks for commenting. I'm glad you're enjoying the vids. I'm not updating LJ much at the moment but you are more than welcome to friend me. I'll add you back.

Oh and I saw your comment on Bronze Ambition and I want to thank you for that as well.

[halotolerant.livejournal.com]

Oooooh! Love this love this love this! You've matched the song perfectly to the show and the clips perfectly to the beat, plus drawn out the heavy but subtle eroticism in the Gene/Sam relationship. Watched it about three times in a row and now whenever I hear this song in a club I smile twice as much!
More! More! More!

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Thanks, i'm glad you liked it. That song is everywhere and now I always see Sam and Gene dancing in the club whenever I hear it!

[bakednudel.livejournal.com]

I hope you don't mind a longish comment; I'd like to rec this video on my blog (alas only about 5 people read my blog...) and I wanted to tell you in detail why I love it so much. Especially since I read how it 'did your head in'...

1. Brilliant music choice. There are many cliched choices you could have made, but this music is perfect. I liked Club Foot so much I bought it from iTunes.

2. High quality source material. Nothing I hate more than looking at bad aspect ratio caps, much less a whole vid that's wrong.

3. Fantastic editing: just a few specifics, I like that you flipped Sam's entrance to left-to-right (generally I hate flipped scenes) because it works visually; like the use of the 'stop-motion' effect in several places; only one very brief shot with unheard dialogue and it was essential to the vid; I like what you did with the blood in the kitchen scenes--did you slow it down? I saw a lot more in your vid than I did in the episode!

4. As someone said above, there's something about the way you edited the dancing scene that I find to be an amazingly erotic couple of seconds (!) *is embarrassed*

5. The meshing of music and visuals is stunning...I can't pick a single example since the whole video is perfect in that respect--which to my mind, it the whole point of a vid. You don't just match movement to music but also the action seems to suit the lyrics (what I can hear of them) and the different sections of the music.

I'm going to hold off just a bit before I send my friends here, because they haven't seen the whole series and there are two iconic moments included in the vid that I think are best seen first in the episode. (However that hasn't stopped BBC America from including them in their 'Sneak Peek at LOM' on their website! what's up with that?)

BTW, your vid blows BBC America's out of the water--of course, they're trying to explain some of the story and capture new viewers.

A very professional job! Thanks again for this treat.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

I don't mind longish comments at all. I am grateful for any and all feedback. Feedback is love.

I'm pleased you didn't think the music choice was cliched because I have to admit that I keep hearing it everywhere now, in film and tv trailers etc.

I swapped some of the clips and took out a camera flash in the blood in the kitchen scene which I think gives the impression of it being slower plus I think I grabbed a clip from earlier in the ep.

It is good to know that you will be encouraging people to watch LOM. If my vid attracts anyone to the show that would be great. I'm glad you liked the vid and even more so that you like the show.

Thanks again!

[lynnmonster.livejournal.com]

I can't believe I never commented on this before! I adore this vid so much, it's a little embarassing. I can hardly ever watch it without watching it again right away. You're brilliant! The timing is *incredible* (especially from the point at which the music changes about a minute from the end, but your sense of pace thrills me throughout the whole thing).

Thank you so much for making & sharing this!

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Hey thanks so much! No need to be embarrassed either it's a great compliment that you need to watch the vid twice in one sitting. I don't get many people saying that!

I'm glad you are enjoying the vid and you've told me so.
Cheers.

[ficbyzee.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed this. The vid has a great sense of movement, and what a fantastic look at Sam/Gene. Very sexy. (The song choice sounded a little *too* modern to my ears to really work for Life On Mars, but mostly that's my issues with song choice.)

[charmax.livejournal.com]

I always thought the song had a kinda retro twang with a modern twist... just right for the two worlds Sam is caught up in. We all hear songs differently though. Anyway, I'm very glad you could enjoy the vid despite the song not quite being right for you. *g* Your comment is much appreciated!

[sarkastic.livejournal.com]

This was so cool! You really captured the hectic state of Sam's mind.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much!

[faith-girl222.livejournal.com]

i can't believe i didn't leave you feedback for this back in may! i really, really like this video. it manages to capture the strange dynamic very well, and the timing is phenomenal.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Feedback at any time is fantabulous so many thanks!

[bunnythenavia.livejournal.com]

I know, I know, I'm late.
This is my favourite vid of yours. It has a smooth creepy feeling (in a good way) and I can watch it over and over.
You know what? I realised I don't have it on my computer now, so I am downloading it again.


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[charmax.livejournal.com]

That's weird, I was sure you had already commented! Anyway, thanks! Out of all my vids this is one of my favourites too.

[culf.livejournal.com]

Bloody brilliant! The editing was one of the best I've seen, but then, I'm pretty sure I remember your name from some Buffy vids a couple of years ago, and I remembered that it was some fantastic buffy vids as well.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It's great to hear you enjoyed the vid. LoM is a fantastic show. it's also really nice to hear that you remember my Buffy vids with affection. I don't get many compliments on those these days.

[i-love-me.livejournal.com]

Wow, I can't believe I still haven't commented. This is my favourite LOM vid, and I came here second time this week to give a link to my another friend, and then I noticed that I still haven't commented.

This video is truly brilliant, so fast-paces, so crazy (in a good way) and so gorgeous! I think it truly creates a very strong LOM vibe - the one you get while watching th show. And it's so precious, because when the show is over you always feel sad (me, anyway), but you vid revives LOM everytime I watch it. Brilliant!!!

Thank you so much for making it!!!

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Oh well, better late than never. :D

The vid revives LOM for you is a lovely thing to say. It's such a shame the show is over, I do miss it a great deal.

Thank you so much for letting me know how much you enjoyed the vid.