Blaze of Glory Fan Video (Serenity spoilers)

POSTED BY: Fayleigh
UPDATED: Tuesday, May 9, 2006 19:38
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FAYLEIGH

Saturday, January 21, 2006 3:28 AM

Hi All,

I've been inspired by some of the nifty videos out there to try to do one of my own...

Please check it out if you like...major Serenity spoilers and Firefly episode spoilers too.

https://home.comcast.net/~fayleigh/

Fayleigh

ZAPHODB

Monday, January 23, 2006 2:05 AM

Nice.

Industrial Looniee & Madness - http://www3.telus.net/vchrusch

GOR

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 7:25 PM

Hey I like this a lot.

Perfect song for the show!

Thanks for sharing it with us.

"These are stone killers, little man. They ain't cuddly like me."

PHAEDRA

Friday, January 27, 2006 4:02 AM

That was AWESOME!! Thanks for sharing.

Phaedra (a bad luck name)

MOUNTAINBOY

Friday, January 27, 2006 11:12 AM

wow pretty tight cues and music is great.

The Kilted Browncoat

SERENITYFOREVER

Friday, January 27, 2006 12:51 PM

F*cking Awesome.

I've got goosebumps.

And now I need a tissue.

JIMTWILLEY

Friday, January 27, 2006 2:33 PM

I've never really been a Bon Jovi fan, but Blaze of Glory is my favorit song by them. And about the video. . .

That

Was

Awesome.

Great job!

PIRATENEWS

Friday, January 27, 2006 3:02 PM

That's why I made my own Little Damn Movie, or at least a FF music video. I'd rather watch than work, but at least I had to learn how to do widescreen and convert PAL to 29.97fps. Learn something new every day, if you're not careful.

http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/01/8310.php

"You can't stop the signal!"
-Mr Universe, STM, Pirate TV

WILDHARE

Friday, January 27, 2006 3:12 PM

That was awesome.. Thanks for sharing

"They tell you 'never hit a man with a closed fist,' but it is, on occasion, hilarious."

- Capt. Malcolm Reynolds

CYBERSNARK

Friday, January 27, 2006 3:23 PM

Yeah, that was awesome. Good job!

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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

SHINY1

Saturday, January 28, 2006 12:39 AM

NICE!!! I got goosebumps watching. Perfect song. I think my player was messing up though, cuz some shots seemed dark. Will have to watch it again on a better computer. Excellent Job!!!

I love my captain

COPILOTLEONARD

Saturday, January 28, 2006 12:48 AM

It's loading right now, I'll tell you what I think later (time now 7:45) Uh my computer is freezing up...I'll watch it tomorrow

"Oh no what could it be? We're all going to die. Who's flying this thing? Oh right, that would be me, back to work"

SERENITYFOREVER

Saturday, January 28, 2006 12:49 AM

I didn't want to go into all of the details, because I was just warming up my PC at work when I saw this thread, but that was one damn fine piece of work.

I'm very, very glad that I get in to work earlier than most, because I was in tears by the end of it, and I would have been mortified if one of my coworkers had seen me.

One hell of a job!

CAPTAINSGAL

Saturday, January 28, 2006 6:38 AM

Damn...You're Good!

SLAYER730

Sunday, January 29, 2006 2:39 PM

OMG, I loved it! Although part of me is ashamed to admit it, "Blaze of Glory" is my favorite song. I'm not even kidding. So to mix the song with Firefly/Serenity, one of my other favorite things of all time....it's just so SHINY!!! You did an incredible job with the cuts and each scene really connected with the lyrics. Great job!

(My fave part is the end when they are moseyin' on up to the Heart of Gold Bordello. I always liked that shot because it's one of the few times you see everyone together...and it has a cool gunfighter's feel.....)

***Never judge a book by its movie***

LINDLEY

Sunday, January 29, 2006 4:57 PM

Nice vid, but it froze up on the action-heavy bits. wmv files tend to do that, I've noticed. Any chance of an alternate encoding?

FAYLEIGH

Monday, January 30, 2006 3:57 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by slayer730:
OMG, I loved it! Although part of me is ashamed to admit it, "Blaze of Glory" is my favorite song. I'm not even kidding. B]

LOL. Don't be ashamed. It's one of my favorite songs and IS my HUSBAND's very favorite song. :-) I'm so glad you liked the vid! Thanks for the feedback.

FAYLEIGH

Monday, January 30, 2006 3:58 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Lindley:
Nice vid, but it froze up on the action-heavy bits. wmv files tend to do that, I've noticed. Any chance of an alternate encoding?

I'm brand new to this, so I'm not sure. I'll definitely look at the output options. There are a few little things I wanted to fix anyway. Thanks for the recommendation!

CHOZZEN

Thursday, February 2, 2006 7:38 PM

That was great.

THEPISTONENGINE

Saturday, February 4, 2006 1:44 AM

Excellent video! May I ask how you got such good quality with low file size? What program did you use, what encoder?

THENCDUCK

Saturday, February 4, 2006 2:04 AM

Sweet video! Thanks for sharing it. Like the song goes good with the western flare of the verse.

EARLYSUMMER

Sunday, February 5, 2006 4:47 AM

Awesome video. Perfect song for our BDHs. Thank You for sharing.

Wash: "Didn't she shoot you once."
Mal: "Everyone's making a fuss."

MIR

Tuesday, February 7, 2006 7:40 AM

Absolutely the perfect song! You did a GREAT job putting this together.

DREAMSMITH

Wednesday, February 8, 2006 3:22 AM

Excellent, outstanding, VERY well done.
And I liked it, too.
^_^

NEEDY

Wednesday, February 8, 2006 4:53 PM

I love it to bits!

Actually, when I first thought about doing a Firefly/Serenity video, the only song that came to mind that would be a perfect match was... you've guessed it, Blaze of Glory

I never did do one and so its like I've got my requested video and didn't even have to put any work into it

Plus you made it a hell of a lot better than I imagine I could have done

Needy. Male Companion a.k.a. First Boy Whore of Destiny

FAYLEIGH

Tuesday, February 14, 2006 4:21 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by ThePistonEngine:
Excellent video! May I ask how you got such good quality with low file size? What program did you use, what encoder?

Thank you! I can't take credit for the file size/quality because I was pretty clueless about what I was doing. After a bazillion attempts to burn my DVD's to my laptop as avi files (which Windows Movie Maker uses), I was pretty frustrated. I think I had tried about 80 million "free" programs from the web.

So I thought..hey..somebody else surely has gone thru this. So I did a google search and found the whole series was in avi format, but it was something called a bit torrent. (Something that sounded strange and mysterious and possibly a bit evil.

So I read up on what bit torrent was and decided to go that route to get the avi files. That took a goodly long time, and at first I was dismayed when all I could hear was audio on the files. But a co-worker told me I probably just needed a free codec (at which point I said, "hey, what's a codec?" and a long discussion ensued.) He directed me to a site to get the free codec. That was peachy because I could then SEE the files that took agonizing hours to download.

After that I just imported them into my Movie Maker clips gallery, made the movie, and saved it with the recommended format.

Anyway..long story short...I can take no credit for accidental file size/quality. But THANK YOU SO MUCH to everyone's positive feedback about the video!! It makes my day.

Fayleigh

FAYLEIGH

Tuesday, February 14, 2006 4:26 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by NEEDY:
I love it to bits!

Actually, when I first thought about doing a Firefly/Serenity video, the only song that came to mind that would be a perfect match was... you've guessed it, Blaze of Glory

I never did do one and so its like I've got my requested video and didn't even have to put any work into it

Plus you made it a hell of a lot better than I imagine I could have done

Needy. Male Companion a.k.a. First Boy Whore of Destiny

Thank you, Needy. That's so cool we had the same idea. I've been wanting to do this video for a long time, and the first time I saw Serenity in theatres I was hearing lyrics at certain parts. (When I wasn't hearing my own gasp of dismay and subsequent CRYING, of course. We all know the part I'm talking about. It's in the video.) I'm very glad you like it.

Fayleigh

STARSONG

Sunday, February 19, 2006 3:29 PM

Oh... that is SO incredibly awesome!

Aweful neat how you managed to find a scene for just about every lyric -- that's some work right there!

(I think the sepia-toned horse riding and "everyone walking together" are my favorites. Nice work! )

FAYLEIGH

Saturday, March 18, 2006 1:58 AM

Hey ya'll...I'm just tickled. I entered the Fireflytalk podcast article-writing contest and won 3rd and 4th place. My articles were read last week (Episode 21) and this week (Episode 22), and in this week's article I shamelessly plugged my own video, this one. It was weird and cool to hear it read on the air. Go check out the podcasts if you haven't!
http://www.fireflytalk.com

Sandi (Fayleigh)

DREAMSOFTHESPIDER

Saturday, March 18, 2006 3:32 AM

there were some very awesome cuts on that! The flash as the music kicked in was sweet.

You definitely have an ear for the beats, which not a lot of vidders have, so props! However my complete enjoyment was spoiled by one thing (and I mean this in a constructive way so that you can make more and better vids!): the literal depiction of the lyrics.

I say this as a viewer of vids as well as an editor: it's annoying.

The vid had such potential, and I'm really sad that this is bothering me. To explain (and hopefully not sound arrogant or pretentious), song lyrics don't usually have the best story structure (unless it's a ballad), and a vid is essentially a little story. So in trying to match each lyric perfectly, the visual story is lost. Sometimes the stars align and the clips match the audio, but to do it for each and every stanza takes me out of the vid.

Song choice rocks, editing is spot on (except for a slipped clip near the end), it kinda floundered during the musical interlude, and I liked the bookends of the grainy sepia film.

Thanks for this first vid, and I hope it's not your last!

~Tzegha

ETA (rereading this, I really sound like a jackass. Sorry! I don't mean to. I'm trying to do that thing that I wish people would do to me, which is be honest and tell me how I can be better, but I'm usually too chickenshit to do it myself.)

INDYBLUES

Saturday, March 18, 2006 3:23 PM

Nicely done. THIS would make anyone that hasn't seen the show(blasphemy)make it a priority to do so.
'Blues

BOOKSWORD

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 9:58 PM

Good Job !!!

Thumbs up.

BOOKSWORD

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 9:58 PM

Double posted ] Sorry

VERASNEWOWNER

Wednesday, April 12, 2006 10:15 PM

I have been waiting for a Blaze of Glory video to be done. I dont posses software to do these videos so i havnt done one my self.

That track by Bon Jovi for young guns is one of my all time favourite tracks, and the lyrics almost preciesely describe Serenity and crew, especially Mal.

The lyrics describe aspects of the show/movie really well.

Basically saying;
*They keep moving on
*No-one knows where they are apart from god

etc etc.

Nice one.

CHINDI

Wednesday, April 12, 2006 10:46 PM

ABSOLUTELY.SHINY.

WOW this fan base is so very very talented!! THanks for sharing.. I will be passing it along to friends.. the link I mean..

Chindi

NUCLEARDAY

Friday, April 14, 2006 1:57 AM

Quite an apt video. Double-plus shiny! (And I usually don't even like Bon Jovi... think it's the hair :) Real nice fit, some of the sequences there gave me chills.

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You can take my hope when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

MISSKITTEN

Friday, April 14, 2006 2:55 PM

Great vid! I love the song and I think it fits really well with the show. Great choice, great editing! Thumbs up!

*~*~*

"Joss, if you kill him now I'll stuff a compression coil up your ass sideways!"
~ Kaylee, "Serenity in 2000 words or less"

Kaylee's the perfect woman!

RAYDR

Saturday, April 15, 2006 8:32 PM

This was probably the best fan video i've seen, the song choice sensational. Now this is the type of thing that studios should be seeing, how much the people want the series or the trilogy to return. Shiny stuff.
Firefly will keep flying.

VOLK564

Friday, April 28, 2006 6:28 AM

Awsome! GREAT editing - the "shot" parts were done exceptionally well, I though. Plus the black and white/grayish effects at the end were shiny. Keep it up bro!