New vid: In Te Domine

[ash48]

This is my ao3vidders auction vid. It's for my winning bidder yourlibrarian


Banner by secretlytodream *smish*

Title: In Te Domine
Vidder: ash48
Music: Gloria, U2
Characters Castiel and ensemble
Category: Character study, meta
Length: 4 min
Size: 44mb

Stream: You Tube
Download: Sendspace (.dixv) OR 4Shared (.avi)

This also fills a vid_the_grid prompt secondary characters \o/



Thanks
First off, HUGE thanks to yourlibrarian not only for her bid, but for her detailed brief and valuable input while I was working on this. I truly hope this is close to what you envisioned for this song hun. Many thanks again. <3

To my wonderful beta _sharvie_ who came back on-line just when I needed her most. *smishes* as always honey. And to greyowl88 for some much needed hand holding. <33

Notes

The idea:

I admit to freaking out just a bit when yourlibrarian sent me the song and her ideas for it. Mostly because I've never really given Castiel a lot of thought and didn't really have the first idea where to begin. She said she wanted Castiel to be given a "clearer arc", than what we saw on the show, especially in his search for God. We agreed that even though he never found God as such, his journey helped him discover more about who he was. I decided to basically start at the beginning and work through his journey over the 2 seasons. My main focus is his connection to Heaven, the other Angels and to Sam and Dean. I wanted to draw out his sacrifices (his and Jimmy's), his betrayals, his loyalties, his doubts and his convictions.

Something we both discovered in the making of this was how much of what he experienced in season 4 made him what he was in season 5 and that is more aggressive, self assured, and determined. (BAMF as we discovered). I've tried to draw that difference out in the vid. I also discovered, to my surprise actually, that the Castiel that we started with - arriving with power and conviction, is the Castiel we ended with. So, full circle.

Lyric Interpretation: (found by _sharvie_ on the U2 site)

What does "In Te Domine" mean in the song "Gloria"?

It is a Latin phrase meaning "In You, Lord". In = In, Te = You, Domine = Lord. Also of note is that "Gloria", the title of the song, is the Latin word for "Glory". [AC]

In Latin, the beginning of Psalm 31 is "In te Domine speravi..." "In you, O Lord; I take refuge." As for the other Latin bits in "Gloria," "exultate" and "miserere" -- these are the beginnings of Psalms 33 and 51, respectively: "Exultate iusti in Domino..." "Exult, you just, in the Lord." And "Miserere mei Deus..." is "Have mercy on me, O God..." Source

In many ways this guided me in some of my choices. I wanted to play with the idea of the angelic experience, for both Jimmy and Castiel, as one that is not particularly merciful. It's fraught with pain, indecision and heartache. It also requires sacrifices.

It's been an interesting and challenging vid to make. Also a first for me (working with someone else's song choice and idea) but I loved doing it.




All comments are appreciated and cherished and if you want to meta Cas to me GO FOR IT! I dare you! I'm soooo up on Castiel now!

Comments

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

This is great all around, but my favorite part is how you did the relationships between Cas and Anna and Uriel. There are few fics that deal with this, and no vids at all that do. It's canon that Cas and Anna 'have history' between them, and my personal canon is that Cas and Uriel were good friends until the apocalypse started. It was very satisfying to see this played out in this medium, and that even through their changing alliances and differing agendas, they're still siblings and the relationships between them are complex and fraught but oh so vital and inevitable.

I also like the parallel of Jimmy gleefully looking at his hand because of the angelic protection, and Cas looking curiously at his hand because of its human limitation.

[ash48.livejournal.com]

Hi there,

Thank you very much. I'm so glad you liked the Anna and Uriel sections. I felt that they were a very important and motivating force in shaping Cas. Making him query, challenging his beliefs etc.

Thanks again for your thoughtful comment. :D