Source: The Good Wife
Song: Change
Artist: Poets Of The Fall
Spoilers: S1
File Size: about 45 mb
Download links: megaupload
Youtube: here
Notes:
I think it's the first *full* non-Battlestar work I managed to complete and it's different from what did before in terms of both editing and clipping. Since I'm not as familiar with the source as I'm used to, it seemed appropriate to stick to a more or less linear narrative approach and focus on sheer editing choices, not so much effects.
The song is a classic first season Lee/Kara composition and I wish I could make a BSG video to it, but turns out it still requires tremendous emotional efforts from me to vid anything that has to do with the show, especially when the song is so optimistic and "flying" as Change. Who knows, one day I might produce another vid to Change just to see if I can turn around the way this music may be perceived and interpreted - after all, Poets Of The Fall is a band that creates with what seems like Pilots' level of profoundness when it comes to lyrics and melody.
Meanwhile, I present you an ensemble Good Wife video, one I've been thinking of since the show went on hiatus after it's first fine season. I meant this vid to be an ensemble piece but it changed my plans to a certain extent when I was halfway through and now I could say it's an exploration of many characters around Alicia's crucial journey through her first year at Stern-Lockhart, reflecting her attempts to find a balance between, to steal from the song - conformation and renewal, to see if she even needs such balance. Kalinda plays one of the central roles in the vid 'cause personally, I think she deserves a full character study vid and even though I couldn't allow myself to delve into her story as much as part of me would like to, I couldn't turn a blind eye to the influence she has on people interacting with her (her relationship with Alicia first of all), the way some of them affect her own seemingly impeccable facade. I think there's a distinct feeling of Alicia/Will rightness in this vid too, the chemistry and friendship they share since their first years at college is one of the things that attracted me in the show and I think I make it clear visually without reservation, so you've been warned :-) And also? I think there couldn’t be a better song to capture many aspects of Good Wife’s first season; it was a season of change indeed…
Feedback is very appreciated.
Lyrics under
Change
You say you feel a chill in the season
Like something is falling apart
You say you can't hold it together much longer
And I should look after your heart
But I feel a change coming on
Rolling out of the blue like a storm
And it's bending your will like a willow tree twisting
Trying to regain its form
How does it make you feel
When you remember the times the two us lay here
In the arms of the world on the doorstep of heaven shining down
Do you feel a change coming on,
Rolling out of the blue like a storm,
And it's throwing your dollhouse world in disarray
So you can rebuild or conform
How I wish you'd only see
How your own choices make your dream
Come out shining true before it can leave you
I wish that you could see
How your own choices make your dream
Come out shining true all around you
My worth is the look in your eyes
My prize the smile playing tricks on your lips and I wonder again
Do you ever dream of the world like I do
I too fear the change coming on
Rolling out of the blue like a storm
Can you hear it scream at the hurt that I knew
How I wish you'd only see...
What is this chill at my heel
That makes the protections I've built around my pseudo world premiere
Tearing my utopian fiction apart as it happens to just pass along
I feel a change coming on
Rolling out of the blue like a storm
Crashing against my delirious thoughts where humanity's waiting alone
How I wish you'd only see...