SPN vid - 'Echoes & Silence' (Sam)

[zimshan]

Don’t even ask where this came from. The thin blue sky? I HAVE NO IDEA.

’ECHOES & SILENCE‘ (Sam)
Song: ‘Home’ by Foo Fighters
Vidder: zimshan
Length: 2:20
Episodes: Up to 3x16
Summary: As the last hours of Dean’s life draws near, Sam would do anything not to lose Home again. [An unintentional companion to my last vid, ‘Home’.]
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LYRICS:
Echoes and silence, patience and grace
All of these moments, I’ll never replace
No fear of my heart, absence of faith
All I want, is to be Home

Let’s not even talk about how in the hell I end up vidding ANOTHER Winchester vid to a song called ‘Home’. Seriously, God, what are you trying to do to me?

QUICK COMMENTS:
I knocked this out in hours, fixed it up in a day, processed it in another. Just a little vidlet of Sam’s quiet determination and nostalgic celebratory mourning. If there is such a thing. Arose out of thoughts from THIS POST when I last watched the pilot. Mostly Sam's 'Home' exchange with Constance and his obsession with control.

I’ve been searching for a song do a Sam vid to all year. This is NOT that vid. (I can not BELIEVE I actually vidded a piano ballad. To SAM of all things. *facepalm*)

Instead this is an...exercise, really. An experiment of sorts. I wanted something that I could play around with completely visually and work with some colors to get a sharper, brighter picture than I had in the past.

My first full length vid relied too rigidly on structure, plot, the IDEA. And it suffered visually. I did ‘Home’ with very clear idea, but made myself loosen that up in order to work on it visually abit more. Still, both of them, before I laid ONE clip, I knew almost clip by clip, lyric by lyric, note by note what I would be lying down. THIS ONE? I had no idea what I was doing. Quite literally, out of curiosity, I cut up the song to the part I like, spliced another little bit together, was surprised how much it worked, and sitting there with only pilot and finale clips cut, proceeded to throw things together and see what they looked like. The concrete concept arose out of playing with that. So it was really a different way of approaching vidding for me.

The end concept that resulted, there actually are a number of further things I would have liked to work with, bringing in other episode clips, to tighten things up to my OCD liking. But I kinda wanted to keep this a S3-finale-Sam’s Pilot look back, and so I resisted and kept it simple, as is.

I hope you all can enjoy! Any comments or feedback you could give would be more than appreciated!

Comments

[evergleam83.livejournal.com]

I can't watch this until I get home, but oohhhhh, do I love you for vidding this. This song has been my Sam-n-Dean song about Sam dealing with the deal since way the hell back when Fresh Blood aired, and I even tried to vid it a little but I couldn't get it to work because of the fact that it's Sam and a piano ballad. ;) Can't wait to watch this and see what you did with it!

[zimshan.livejournal.com]

Ha-ha! SO I'm not completely crazy then to associate this song with Sam. Good to know! Well, just a little bit crazy to actually follow through with it. I swear, I've accumulated a whole list of those songs this season, and out of all of them, this was probably the last one I ever thought I'd actually USE. I'll just blame it on Lack-of-Internet Fatigue and keep it at that.

Anyway, I hope it can live up to your expectations for the song!

[hellopoe.livejournal.com]

I am AT WORK, and the last ten seconds of that completely made me tear up. Oh, my God. Poor Sam, poor Dean, THOSE POOR BOYS. (So, basically: AWESOME. Heh.)

[bellanut.livejournal.com]

*weeps*

[the-muppet.livejournal.com]

Beautifully done =)

Don't forget to submit this so I can add it to your page (http://the-impala.co.uk/editors/061) - thanks =)