Vid: Construction Time Again (Firefly)
Jul. 15th, 2009 12:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beer_good_foamyIt's been a while since I posted a fanvid, but I finally got around to finishing this one.
You know how sometimes a song and a movie/series just seem made for each other? I made the connection between these two a while ago and just couldn't shake it. So here it is.
Title: Construction Time Again
Author: Beer Good (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
beer_good_foamy) AKA YouMadeABear
Rating: PG13
Fandom: Firefly/Serenity
Music: "Burnie" by Midnight Oil
Summary: Because serenity isn't something you just find.
Disclaimer: Clips from "Firefly" and "Serenity" are © Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, FOX et al. "Burnie" is © Midnight Oil (Moginie/Garrett). All rights belong to the copyright holders. This video is for entertainment/parody purposes only and I make no money off it in any shape or form. Buy the DVDs. Buy the music.
Download link
The basic idea here was originally very simple: the lyrics just seemed to fit the series perfectly (sometimes a little too literally; I quickly abandoned the idea of having the line "We're all sinking in our own mud" match the clips from "Jaynestown"), so basically, take the song and find clips that match the mood of what Peter Garrett sings, with broodiness in the verses, hope in the pre-chorus, and triumph and defiance in the chorus. But having thought a bit about it, I decided to include some basic plotting; follow the general arc of the series (and movie), start off with Mal and Zoe alone, and then let it be the story of the search for - and construction of - serenity, both the state of mind and the ship. (Hence the title.) So at first we have our heroes building their own perfect world - but as wanted criminals and rebels, far away from any other world; I deliberately set most of the first verse and chorus either on board, out in the black, or on the way there. Except eventually they cannot isolate themselves, and so the second chorus finds them with "no more running" left to do; having to touch down, tear down what they've done in order to build anew, and ending up lifting off from a home rather than running from a hostile world. It's quite basic, really, but I think it works. (Any similarity between the Firefly arc as presented here and the Season 8 storyline is probably pure coincidence; since when does Joss repeat himself? ;-) )
My next vid will be a lot less linear. Also, this is the last time I use Windows Movie Maker. Grrr.
Things I deliberately didn't include:
- Lots of firefights. Like the fight scenes in Buffy, they can be awesome but ultimately are just about the resolution of issues set up by the characters.
- Reavers, Hands of Blue, and most other antagonists (The Operative and Jubal Early make brief appearances, because they're just that awesome and also heavily representative of the regular characters' issues)
Burnie
(Moginie/Garrett; taken from Midnight Oil's 1990 album Scream In Blue, original version found on 1981's Place Without A Postcard)
Brought up in a world of changes
Part time cleaner in a holiday flat
Stare out to sea at the ships at night
No anaesthesia, I'm gonna work on it day to day
No zephyr no light relief it seems
But maybe it's a dream
I'm lying back in a row of timber cases placed out
On the dock with nightmare faces looking at me
And I can see now, and I wanna be free now
This is my home
This is my sea
Don't paint it with the future, of factories
I want to stay, I feel okay
There's nothing else as perfect
I'll have my way
We're all sinking in our own mud
Brought up in a world of changes
Waste product, pedestrian, limb from limb
Short changed by the surfing priest again
Two children in the harbour
They play their game stormwater drain
Write their contract in the sand, it'll be gray for life
But you can draw the blind
But you can't stop the sun
From shining on and on and getting you there
Tide forever beckons you to leave
But something holds you back
It's not the promise of the swell or a girl
Just a hope that someday someway it'll be okay
So you stop and say
This is my home
This is my sea
Don't paint it with the future of factories
This is my life
this is my right
I'll make it what I want to
I'll stay and I'll fight
You know how sometimes a song and a movie/series just seem made for each other? I made the connection between these two a while ago and just couldn't shake it. So here it is.
Title: Construction Time Again
Author: Beer Good (
beer_good_foamy) AKA YouMadeABearRating: PG13
Fandom: Firefly/Serenity
Music: "Burnie" by Midnight Oil
Summary: Because serenity isn't something you just find.
Disclaimer: Clips from "Firefly" and "Serenity" are © Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, FOX et al. "Burnie" is © Midnight Oil (Moginie/Garrett). All rights belong to the copyright holders. This video is for entertainment/parody purposes only and I make no money off it in any shape or form. Buy the DVDs. Buy the music.
Download link
The basic idea here was originally very simple: the lyrics just seemed to fit the series perfectly (sometimes a little too literally; I quickly abandoned the idea of having the line "We're all sinking in our own mud" match the clips from "Jaynestown"), so basically, take the song and find clips that match the mood of what Peter Garrett sings, with broodiness in the verses, hope in the pre-chorus, and triumph and defiance in the chorus. But having thought a bit about it, I decided to include some basic plotting; follow the general arc of the series (and movie), start off with Mal and Zoe alone, and then let it be the story of the search for - and construction of - serenity, both the state of mind and the ship. (Hence the title.) So at first we have our heroes building their own perfect world - but as wanted criminals and rebels, far away from any other world; I deliberately set most of the first verse and chorus either on board, out in the black, or on the way there. Except eventually they cannot isolate themselves, and so the second chorus finds them with "no more running" left to do; having to touch down, tear down what they've done in order to build anew, and ending up lifting off from a home rather than running from a hostile world. It's quite basic, really, but I think it works. (Any similarity between the Firefly arc as presented here and the Season 8 storyline is probably pure coincidence; since when does Joss repeat himself? ;-) )
My next vid will be a lot less linear. Also, this is the last time I use Windows Movie Maker. Grrr.
Things I deliberately didn't include:
- Lots of firefights. Like the fight scenes in Buffy, they can be awesome but ultimately are just about the resolution of issues set up by the characters.
- Reavers, Hands of Blue, and most other antagonists (The Operative and Jubal Early make brief appearances, because they're just that awesome and also heavily representative of the regular characters' issues)
Burnie
(Moginie/Garrett; taken from Midnight Oil's 1990 album Scream In Blue, original version found on 1981's Place Without A Postcard)
Brought up in a world of changes
Part time cleaner in a holiday flat
Stare out to sea at the ships at night
No anaesthesia, I'm gonna work on it day to day
No zephyr no light relief it seems
But maybe it's a dream
I'm lying back in a row of timber cases placed out
On the dock with nightmare faces looking at me
And I can see now, and I wanna be free now
This is my home
This is my sea
Don't paint it with the future, of factories
I want to stay, I feel okay
There's nothing else as perfect
I'll have my way
We're all sinking in our own mud
Brought up in a world of changes
Waste product, pedestrian, limb from limb
Short changed by the surfing priest again
Two children in the harbour
They play their game stormwater drain
Write their contract in the sand, it'll be gray for life
But you can draw the blind
But you can't stop the sun
From shining on and on and getting you there
Tide forever beckons you to leave
But something holds you back
It's not the promise of the swell or a girl
Just a hope that someday someway it'll be okay
So you stop and say
This is my home
This is my sea
Don't paint it with the future of factories
This is my life
this is my right
I'll make it what I want to
I'll stay and I'll fight
