TXF-vid: Scully PoV - Matches to Paper Dolls

[astarte]

Artist/Song Title: Dessa - Matches to Paper Dolls
Subject: The X Files, Scully PoV, Scully/Mulder
Summary: ’Built like a moth you see - I still get chills when you talk to me.‘ Truth is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Length: 03:31 | Size: 59 MB | Format: 720x400 - AVI - zip
Links: megaupload, mediafire, permanent link

So uhm, I think I broke my speed record on vidding TXF - under a week. Not bad. Perhaps one day xandra_ptv will stop making fun of me. The song was a gift, I discovered Dessa through giandujakiss amazing Nikita video Seamstress, because vids are the way to go to discover unknown artists, fandoms and shows. After listening to the album on repeat for four days, 'Matches to Paper Dolls' suddenly hit me as perfect Scully song. One week later I have a finished vid. I love when creativity strikes.

Comments

[xandra-ptv.livejournal.com]

Totally fab, babe. You know how I feel about our lady Scully. You know I love you. And I'll always make fun of you, like you will mock me for my own faults. But totally love the vid, and can't stop listening to the song.

[lytab5.livejournal.com]

Amazing! ♥
The song is definitely something different but it's working perfect. And the scenes you used work so well, in particular because those aren't the overused (though still loved) ones seen in almost every vid.

What I'm trying to say here: thank you so much for sharing! :-)

[giandujakiss.livejournal.com]

Oh this is gorgeous! You have such incredible clip choices - each one is so unusual and evocative and you put them together so beautifully. I'm glad I could introduce you to Dessa :-).

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

This is great! It really brought back for me all the love and disaster that was the XF and Mulder & Scully.

[sol-se.livejournal.com]

This is fantastic!! <3

[miriad.livejournal.com]

This vid is amazing! We're doing a full series re-watch right now, so everything was fresh for me and boy, did this hit hard.

And the song choice was just DEAD ON. Thanks for introducing me to a new artist.

[counteragent.livejournal.com]

Very cool--sharp but shiny and great use of Jillian's lovliness and strength.

[tree]

this is a fantastic song choice and gorgeous vid. as someone else said, i love when vidders choose less familiar scenes to vid with. i really like how you used some scenes to highlight certain lyrics, too, especially 'between love and cholera', 'tried dynamite' and then 'back to the battle site', 'you flash some fang and i bat my lashes'. oh and the funny little change of expression from bad blood for 'uh'. i'm sure if i watched it several more times i'd pick up others, but i didn't want to spam you too much. :) thanks for sharing this.

[thingswithwings.livejournal.com]

This was fabulous. Your Scully POV is amazing . . . her intelligence and self-knowledge and need all come across so beautifully. And it's such a great portrait of the realities of the Mulder/Scully relationship, where it's powerful and enthralling but also destructive as hell and full of stops and starts. I love this vid.

[tearful-eye.livejournal.com]

oh my god, this is so gorgeous <33

[wendelah1]

Here via a rec from amyhit. I loved everything about this vid, and you are right, "Matches to Paperdolls" is a great Scully song. Thank you.

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

I'm actually here about your vid cover, rather than the vid itself. Did you do the coloring on the main image of Scully? If so, can I ask how you got it to look so gorgeous and pastel? It's absolutely lovely, and I love how it makes her eyes stand out like that. I am new to Photoshop, and I'd love to learn to do something like that.

[williwawz.livejournal.com]

Beautiful vid and beautiful song. I too, am introduced to great new music through the vids that vidders make...and I really like the artist you chose, though I have never heard her before. I loved the use of fire and explosions as allegory in the vid...not just...explosions.

[write-out.livejournal.com]

Here from amyhit's rec- I LOVE LOVE LOVE this vid. "Clear the Area" was #1 (which I also found through amyhit), but I think this one will take over the top spot. I'd never heard of Dessa before this; this song is marvelous and the lyrics are perfect for Scully. You were spot on with matching up the clips to the lyrics too. There just isn't anything I don't like about this. I love that people are still so into this fandom!

Friending you, if that's okay? I don't want to miss any more of your work.

This is going straight in my Vid Hall of Fame folder.

[badforthefish.livejournal.com]

Wow. Oh wow! Right, I'll try to be a bit more articulate. This video simply blew me away. Even more so when I checked the lyrics in more details. This vid embodies so perfectly the wonderful and damaged push and pull mess that is the Mulder and Scully relationship. My golden standard for XF vid has always been Giandujakiss's "Hell of a Place". I never found a vid that summed up the show in such a subtle precise way, or that sent such chills of glorious nostalgia down my spine. Until today.

Bravo. I know I'm late to the party but I'm so, so glad I was rec'ed this.

[runawaynun]

This is an amazing vid - I never thought of matching this song with the show, but it works so very well for Scully.