New Vid! Levee Breaks

[ash48]

Made for the Sam Celebration 2010 at summer_sam_love


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Title: Levee Breaks
Vidder: ash48
Music: Pet by A Perfect Circle
Category: episodic, character study, angst
Rating: PG13 (language in the song).
Length: 2.27m
Size: 26mb
Summary: This is Sam's hell.



I have rather a lot of people to thank for this vid so I made a dedicated thank you post to them HERE.

Stream: You Tube
Download: Sendspace (.divx) or 4Shared (.avi)

Vid notes:

When the Levee Breaks is one of my all time favourite Supernatural episodes. I love that we got a chance to see inside Sam's head. I particularly love the way it was done.

In this vid I've tried to capture the intensity of that episode and explore a little bit of what Sam was going through. This has more effects in it than I would normally use, but I wanted to somehow portray Sam's confusion and state of mind and this, for me, was the a way of doing that.

There's a lyric in here that sums it all up for me: "safe from pain and truth and choice" The fact that he wasn't safe from those things and was instead confronted by those very things made me (finally) settle on this song for this video.

No money made but comments are awesome, so feel free *g*

Comments

[greyowl88.livejournal.com]

I felt this song was different to the music you used before. Even though there is a wide variety of song types in your vids I still feel that this a little bit different. And the mood of it fits the vid so well. (I notice the mood of a song always before the lyrics, has to do with english not being my native language.)

Like I said before, I love the blurry vision thing. It makes me feel like I'm in Sam's head. Looking through his eyes.

"...away from the window" is pretty grim with Sam trying to open the door from the inside and Dean closing that little window.

0:34 when Sam screams to the music rising. Brrr. Poor Sam! And then you see Dean walking up the stairs with that tortured look on his face. And it appears that it's that bad that even the colour drains out of the vid.*shudder*

I also love the rapid changes from b/w to colour (Sam). It really underlines the confusion.

And the way everybody shows up, fitting with the lyrics, it's creepy.

The part with Sam's (illusionary) mother is also perfect with the lyrics. "Stay with me" *sniff*

And then Ruby! (bitch.lol.) "Lay your head down child.." that hurts...

The moment with Bobby is always a heartbreaker but I love the timing with the music here. And talking about timing: The fight! Perfect editing to make it fit the song. I love it when the music sounds like it's written for the scene.

Ok, have I forgotten anything?...lol.
It's a great vid to a grim and very fitting song.
Oh, have I mentioned that I think this is a great vid? ;)
Thanks for always entertaining us in such a professional manner.
*hugs*

[ash48.livejournal.com]

Wow - thanks for the wonderful feedback honey. <333

Many of the reasons I picked this song is because of the lyrics you pointed out. There were just so many that said "Sam" in this episode.

I'm glad the timing on the fight worked for you. Man, I tweaked that forever. (and the Bobby bit...)

*SMISHES* thanks babe.
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