Vid Rec: We Can Make the World Stop

[swissmarg]

Music Title & Artist: We Can Make the World Stop - The Glitch Mob
Vidder: bloodism / Deductism on YouTube
Pairing or Character: All cast, gen
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Link: Here (on vidder's LJ)
Reccer's Comments: Spoilers for all of series two. There is no special story to this video apart from the three episodes themselves, and it does not focus on a particular character or pairing. However, this is a highly skilled vidder at their best.

The energy in this video just keeps coming. The scenes are edited to match the heavy beat of the music with razor-sharp precision. The vidder uses quick cuts and stuttered cuts (where a single scene has just a few intermediate frames cut out, to give the effect of a 'stutter' in the motion) to keep everything moving forward, but it never ends up feeling jerky, disjointed, or disorienting. The addition of effects such as overlays of multiple scenes on top of each other, text, and animation, adds layers of nuance and meaning so that you'll want to watch this more than once to catch everything. Finally, the use of filters for much of the video gives the images a texture and atmosphere that makes them seem new, even though we've seen them dozens of times already (if you're like me, at least, and have re-watched all the episodes multiple times!).

Comments

[numberthescars.livejournal.com]

WOW. After watching that, I literally just sat in front of my computer stunned. Thank you so much for reccing this--it was definitely one of the most amazing vids I've ever had the pleasure of watching. So, so good. And the music! Okay, I'll stop now, but HOLY COW was that stunning.

[swissmarg]

Yeah, awesome work. I wish the vidder would do more in this fandom.

[evila-elf.livejournal.com]

I remember seeing this one. Very cool and I think it gave a good feeling towards the episodes, though not as fond of Hounds as I was by the other two.