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The Message of Bonny Portmore
Saturday, March 27, 2004

Hiya, fellow browncoats!

Haven't been in in a while (I skipped a whole week) due to family emergencies and work on a first time project of mine.

I was sitting at work one day listening to Bonny Portmore on the headphones. That's from Highlander fame for those of you who don't know. Well, technically, Highlander III . But anyway, as I was listening to it visions of dramatic moments from Firefly came into my head. Key moments, really, in slow motion. And suddenly I thought, "This would make a great video."

So, since I have no experience in this area I've been working on it with a friend of mine who is experienced in such matters. Matter of fact, it's the same friend who pointed out to me for the first time Firefly reminded him of Cowboy Bebop .

It's been quite a circus. I finally realized that trying to take scenes from the entire series was just too big a bite for me to try and chew on my first tasting. Instead, I'm taking scenes from "The Message" and kind of doing a whole 'telling of the story with video and playing it to music and cramming it into six minutes' kind of thing.

We've got half of it done so far and I'm very pleased with it. I've been thinking of sending it to Joss himself when we're finally through to get a blessing kind of thing from him. I want it to be clear that I'm in no way trying to get money, infringe on any copyrights, or disrespect the series in any way. I love this show and for the first time in my life I'm doing something creative in this form of medium to try and get a fraction of that across to others.

I was wanting to put it here since this is like my home page and all. I'm not sure if the site would accept it. I've never seen any video of any kind here, but I also have a really old and crappy PC that doesn't have video or audio capability. That and I wasn't exactly sure how it would be taken. If it's a success, however, I've already got a follow-up that would focus on the humor and action the same as this one's focusing on the drama. The song's "Hair of the Dog" by Nazareth .

Well, let me go and try and finish this thing by next week so's that I can be praised or flamed for it. I'm doing my best not to let anybody down.

Give me some feedback and let me know what you think of the idea, anyway.

COMMENTS

Thursday, April 06, 2006 2:50 PM

MARIC


Does anyone know if this video can be found anywhere anymore? The link in the article doesn't seem to work.
-maric

Sunday, March 28, 2004 12:20 AM

LEMAT


This is just something that I have been wanting to mention whenever I see the word "copyright." THIS SHOULD NOT be taken as a criticism of your endeavour, ShadowVessel, or of anyone else who creates these movies or pictures and shares them with us.

I hate to say it, but pretty much any use of an image, video, text or sound, within 50 years of the death of the copyright owner (possibly longer in the case of a corporate copyright holder, like Fox or Disney) is a violation of civil copyright law; maybe you should not send it to Joss.

That having been said, they probably will not care about you making the video unless you try to make money off of it (in which case you would be in violation of criminal copyright law), or you distribute large enough portions of the work (by this I mean some portion of Firefly itself) to cut into the commercial viability of Firefly (people download this and end up not buying the DVD's because of it).

That said, I hope your video turns out well.


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