astarte | Deadwood-vid: Alma - Take me home + 10 icons

Artist/Song Title: Thea Gilmore – Take me home
Subject: Deadwood, Alma PoV
Summary: ‘I heard there's a warrant out for my arrest - ’ Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Format: stream and download at stage6 33 MB, permanent download link 720x400 – 33 MB AVI or watch on imeem

Reasons to vid ‘Take me home’? I love Deadwood fiercely for complex characters and unique relationships, so I didn’t need to search for any specific message for a storyline I wanted to fathom. I just needed a song which sounded right and made me think of a character. ‘Take me home’ had me from the first few notes and instantly Alma came to mind.

Lyrical interpretation: The lyrics are graceful and yet restrained, perfect for Alma on every level. Circumstances and her father pushed her into the position of a spouse and then the dumbness of her husband made her a widow. A beautiful jackdaw - Alma is held down in a time in which she couldn’t be independent and strong on her own without inspiring contempt even in a godless place like Deadwood. She struggled with addiction, overcame her habit with Trixie’s help – still not being able to hold the same power as a man in those pioneer times kept her on her guard. Her need for two marriages of convenience speaks volumes about the limitations of her life as wealthy woman. Again making the best out of circumstances she found in Ellsworth the one of the very few kind and sensible men in Deadwood – okay, maybe the only one. Of course happiness never lasts long – first her miscarriage and then relapse into addiction strained her wedding. She overcame her troubles with Ellsworth’s support and even had the strength to dissent Hearst at first. Alma never wished any harm on her second husband - Deadwood still claimed his life.

The Journey? Again short and exciting. I love vidding with

xandra_ptv pushing me to get shit done. I didn’t even need to restrain myself from using transitions; they just didn’t feel quite right this time around.

Technical notes worth mentioning? I am the first one to admit that Deadwood is beautifully coloured as whole series. But I wanted the final to look very bleach and hard - on the edge of uncomfortable without losing all colour. Not beautiful was the goal, but harsh and unforgiving. So I will make the lack of colour up in the next vid – Hopefully.

Final note: Not a happy vid, so totally up my alley.

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Want? Take, but no hotlinking!

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Ooh Deadwood. I love this show. I wanted to try my hand at your last Deadwood vid but my german is almost non-existant. I'll watch this at lunch.

Deadwood just sucks you in – once you get over the first five eps in which everybody looks the same exact shade of dirty. Knowing that I needed half a season to tell the male characters apart, it seems impossible in retrospect, because everybody just has a full character with flaws and strengths and backgrounds and own agendas. I hope you enjoyed the vid, Andrea and I’m glad that I found another fan of the show.

The vid was wonderful Astarte - poor Alma so out o f place there and went through so much, yet she was strong. Deadwood vids are still few and far between but the ones I have seen do credit to the show - yours included.

I think the audio clips at the beginning and end were well chosen, there's Al telling it like it is :) The editing was very fluid, lovely use of crossfades and the song choice was excellent too. I would like to vid it myself but haven't found the right song - It's my husbands favourite show so I guess it would be for him.

I also loved the filter you used - I know the original footage is desaturated anyway but it gave a real sense of bleakness.

I'm still annoyed that they ended the show after S3 - we had heard about a 2-3hr long special to wrap up some loose ends but I don't think it will happen now.

I heard the rumours after discovering the show and looking a bit into it online. I would love to have that special and the upcoming ‘Dead like me’ movie or ‘Serenity’ gives me hope that these promises aren’t just a way to shut up angry fans. It would be a wonderful way to get some closure.

There is really a lack of Deadwood vids, I found five so far and like you I think each of them highlighted an aspect of the show brilliantly. But of course I would be thrilled to add yours to that small collection, so add me to the waiting crowd alongside your husband.

About the source, probably vidding SPN and XF for some time made me appreciate Deadwoods colour scheme very much and has such a rich feel. So I almost felt bad for sucking the colour right out again with that filter.

And I’m delighted that you enjoyed the vid so much and even the audio overlays. Al’s line felt like pure self-gratification and there were probably other statements more appreciate for the mood of the vid, but I simply couldn’t resist. Thank you so much, Andrea, I loved hearing from you, it seems like such a long time.

I've been such a slacker on watching my flist vids and leaving fb - I put it down to being busier doing my awards site. Perhaps a new years resolution.

Anyway with the WGA strike in USA still in full force I think it's time to dust off the deadwood DVD's and enjoy it all again from the beginning - hoping it may prove inspirational for me.

Seems like a perfectly reasonable excuse to do exactly that and maybe even a vid bunny will sneak its way merciless into your head. I sure hope that inspiration strikes like a lightning bolt.

And see, I don’t even have an excuse like an award site, I just scroll through my flist and feel like I have nothing significant to add or drawing blanks when opening the comment box trying to give feedback that doesn’t sound like a shitty remix. But I try to work on this in 2008. In case of emergency with brute violence. Hah.

shitty remix

Heee you kill me!

Yet I think the vidder would take shitty remix each time - even a 'ditto what Bert said' or 'yeah me too'

The sad thing is that I know that and still can’t bring myself to post that. *cringes*

Why do I need to be original even there… It doesn’t make sense.

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