astartexx made me do it and it was fun.

[charmax]

Video Title: Protège Moi
Song Title/Artist: Protège Moi - Placebo
Show: Supernatural
Summary: What's black and white and red all over?
Length/Format: 1.22, (Xvid)
Notes: This is the first part of a vidlet challenge that I've got going with astartexx. The style is inspired by film noir/Sin City.

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Comments

[martoufmarty.livejournal.com]

Oooh, that was cool. Did I see it hint at Sam/Dean a lot?

I love the black and white and the hints of red.

Oh, that was so cool.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Thanks Steph.

Yep Astarte wanted wincest so that's what she got.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

My version of wincest anyway. *g*

[jezdenly.livejournal.com]

Oh. Oh. OH MY GOD!
I have an obscene amount of love for this video.
Just wow. The song is perfect - I loooove Placebo and the lyrics just fit like they should in every vid.
Plus the effect you used is the coolest thing I've ever seen. My mind just kept repeating "red like sin, red like sin, red like sin".
I can't wait for the next vid you make, now I'm gonna be your stalker!

[kitakatzz.livejournal.com]

Is it like 'OMGTHERELOVEISSOTRUE' kinda wincest or... brotherly-maybe-not-at-all wincest?

[astartexx.livejournal.com]

And astartexx is immensely proud that she made her do it and now wants a motel room to take care of the two brothers and Dean’s death wish!

AWWWWWWWWWWWW! RAWWWRR!

Sorry, my coherency isn’t back yet after watching this babe twenty-five times on repeat, I get back to you in two hours or so… Because DAMN! And FUCK ME! And H-O-T! Oh and teh pretty! But overall? RAWR!

[astartexx.livejournal.com]

It comes across as the 'We die each day not only a little bit but for real, because we can't have the other the way we truly want to'-type of Winchest, but maybe that's my red-tinted glasses at the moment....

[killabeez.livejournal.com]

Oh, my god. That is possibly the hottest thing that ever was hot. I. Have no brain. *is melted*

I'm going to watch this an obscene number of times, and it is going to make me so very happy every single time. You know I'm your hugest fan, right? *tries to look non-scary and non-stalkery*

Thank you for this.

[glitterdemon.livejournal.com]

i love this so much. and i haff recced it in my journal, here (http://glitterdemon.livejournal.com/545223.html).

[obsessive24.livejournal.com]

OMG! Protège Moi!Wincest! My heart just exploded and hey, I haven't even started downloading yet. :P

*downloads*

Fookin' hell, woman. You really outdid yourself on this one. Oh my god! Everything is just... perfect! The internal motion is out of this world. Look at the pan on the intro! That light at 0:04! The head movement at 0:05! The hand at 0:13, the eyes at 0:14, that incredible shot through the blinds at 0:16, the fact that the car door would slam on the beat at 0:18 even though you don't see it, the "visage gris" lyric match, the light on the "maison" sequence. Given my inadequate knowledge of source, the whole "maison" segment lyric match also seems really on-point.

I love the way the light flares on 0:38, the way the flashlight moves at 0:40, that double shot of on-beat movement around 0:47, that beautiful brightness at 0:53, the wink at 0:59, and generally how the crossfades really took centre stage toward the endgame there. The religious iconography! The ending! WHEEEE!!!

Oh, and the colour effects. Just as an afterthought. ;) It's seriously beautiful. Brain-picking time again, if you don't mind sharing your secrets. :D You and Astarte are really upping your game tech-wise and I'm incredibly envious and awed.

[thedothatgirl.livejournal.com]

I really want to watch this but I am only ep5 into S1 and I don't want to be spoiled - but you can bet I'll be back for it very soon.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Very few people seem to be immune to SPN so I don't think it will take you long to watch all the eps!

[hope]

Awesome!! I love the colour :) I am totally putting this on my SPN recs list :D

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Thanks for commenting and thanks for the rec.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

If you squint at it really hard you might get away with it being about Dean's death wish.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for the feedback. I'm glad the lyrics were a good match because honestly my French is apalling and I just guessed from the words I did recognise that the lyrics were similar to the English version. I also suspect Babelfish was lying to me when it told me it had something to do with Malaysians!:D

[charmax.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you like it. I think making the vid has converted me to Wincest (just a little bit). Seriously, who looks at their semi-naked brother like that!

[charmax.livejournal.com]

It is hot isn't it? It didn't start out that way. It was originally just Dean getting thrown around a lot then I realised that was hot in itself and from then on the vid just seemed to have a mind of it's own.

[bradcpu.livejournal.com]

Wow. I've never seen a single episode of the show, but that was just beautiful.

*watching again*

Beyond the tech skills and motiony goodness (which abounds and is so obvious I feel like I'm pointing out that the sky is blue for even mentioning it), the clip selection here is brilliant. The mirror at :08, the blinds at :15, the old man at :18... it just goes on and on. The flashing police lights, the scamper down the steps, the wink, the crossfades on the pained expressions, the candles, the airplane, the gun... it's all so evocative, and all so expressive of the music.

Just so beautiful in so many ways. This is truly a wonderful video. I mean - just look at it!

[thedothatgirl.livejournal.com]

I'd have done it all by now but RLife keeps getting the way....

[lostandalone22.livejournal.com]

Love the coloring you do in the video, and the message in the song is nice. Love the video.

[nanakomatsu.livejournal.com]

whoa, really great job :D I loved it, loved the song, loved the scenes, loved the colors and the effects you used. Amazing :)
Thanks for sharing!

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Why have you not jumped on the SPN bandwagon yet? *wags finger*

It means a lot that you like it especially as you don't know the source that well. I'm glad you picked out a couple of the things with lights. Lighting was really important to this vid and I abused the lighting effect tool in premiere pro 2 remorselessly to make the shots as moody as possible.

The colour effects were done a couple of different ways. A number of them were done using the Leave Color tool which I think was an After effects tool that I plonked into the premiere plug-ins folder (I did that with a bunch of stuff ages ago so I could be wrong) I did try premiere's color pass tool but-oh the ugliness.
The bed, hat and hotel sign were done by exporting them as a sequence of stills and selecting the red by hand in photoshop. The woman with the cross was done by changing the colour, then color passing, then keyframing a light on it. All in all it was a huge pain in the arse and definitely not something I would want to do for a 4 minute vid.

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Curse that pesky real life!!

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Thank you it is always nice to get a rec.