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Festivids #1: Lantern
Soooooo Festivids revealed vidders last night and of the three MASH vids in the collection - surprise! - two of them were by me. Probably not the best choice given everything going on in my life right now, combined with the fact that I haven't made a vid since 2021 ... but I set out to treat every person who had requested it, and while I only managed two of the three, the other MASH requester got a vid by someone else, so it all worked out for a win!
As it happened, by a total "what are the odds?" coincidence, the other vidder and I vidded the same song! (Different versions, but still. Seriously, what on earth are the odds?) So if you like Josh Ritter, or MASH, or this vid, I strongly encourage you to go watch the OTHER Lantern vid by![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
cosmic_llin. It's set to a lovely acoustic version of the song (I have both, I just happened to go with the other one for mine), it's soft and teamy and lovely, and it's just really an interesting exercise in seeing how two vidders can take the same source material, song, and theme, and end up with really different results! I adore theirs and I want to watch it over and over again forever.
Anyway, here we go - vid #1, Lantern by Josh Ritter. This is a song I've wanted to vid for ages, thought about doing it for Agent Carter but really didn't have enough footage from 2 8-episode seasons to feel like it would really work (this is a song that definitely rewards having a long canon to work with), and also felt like AC doesn't quite have the darker edge that I wanted for this song. But MASH was really perfect, it's got just the right mix of darkness and light to fit the song well, and I had a fantastic time contrasting the sad with the sweet through all of this, and putting in so many of my favorite scenes.
Song: Lantern
Artist: Josh Ritter
Length: 2:50
Lyrics can be found here.
Also posted on AO3.
I'll do downloads and subtitles and stuff like that when I'm back home.
(In other random behind-the-scenes details, it turns out that while the MASH font looks like a perfectly ordinary stencil font, it is actually REALLY HARD to match! The one I used on both of these vids is the closest I could come up with among the internet's free fonts and the ones I already had.)
As it happened, by a total "what are the odds?" coincidence, the other vidder and I vidded the same song! (Different versions, but still. Seriously, what on earth are the odds?) So if you like Josh Ritter, or MASH, or this vid, I strongly encourage you to go watch the OTHER Lantern vid by
Anyway, here we go - vid #1, Lantern by Josh Ritter. This is a song I've wanted to vid for ages, thought about doing it for Agent Carter but really didn't have enough footage from 2 8-episode seasons to feel like it would really work (this is a song that definitely rewards having a long canon to work with), and also felt like AC doesn't quite have the darker edge that I wanted for this song. But MASH was really perfect, it's got just the right mix of darkness and light to fit the song well, and I had a fantastic time contrasting the sad with the sweet through all of this, and putting in so many of my favorite scenes.
Song: Lantern
Artist: Josh Ritter
Length: 2:50
Lyrics can be found here.
Also posted on AO3.
I'll do downloads and subtitles and stuff like that when I'm back home.
(In other random behind-the-scenes details, it turns out that while the MASH font looks like a perfectly ordinary stencil font, it is actually REALLY HARD to match! The one I used on both of these vids is the closest I could come up with among the internet's free fonts and the ones I already had.)
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I feel it indicates something about the song.
(The first song I ever heard by Josh Ritter was "Girl in the War," which I have in some kind of live acoustic version whose source I have never been able to identify and which I still love more than any of the album versions because it's just Ritter and a guitar and it's quiet and so angry: "Because the keys to the kingdom got locked inside the kingdom / And the angels fly around in there, but we can't see them / I got a girl in the war, Paul, I know that they can hear me yell / And if they can't find a way to help her, they can go to hell.")
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Here!
(All of its identifying information belongs to the acoustic demo from the 2006 Girl in the War EP but is not that version. It is my favorite and I have no idea.)
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You're welcome! I'm so glad!
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I love the choices you made at the "lost sheep grow teeth" moments, and the way that it applies both to Hawkeye and to the Koreans who are caught up in this mad place with him.
The first chorus is lovely, with the acts of watching and care--I'm strangely affected by the clips of Hawkeye on one cot with people watching over him, and then of Charles on another cot, with people watching over him. Nice parallelism, there.
And the idea of writing their own book of jubilation is really nicely laid out in their moments of celebration that--when you know their context--are carved out of pain--Frank's departure via madness, the bonfire, the cave as both a safe space and a phobic one, the toast to Potter's lost comrades--and it's the togetherness that is able to tip that darkness toward light.
This is lovely. I really like it.
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I love the choices you made at the "lost sheep grow teeth" moments, and the way that it applies both to Hawkeye and to the Koreans who are caught up in this mad place with him.
YES, that was exactly what I was going for, I'm so glad you mentioned it! And also yes, the sadder underside of many of the surface-happier clips worked very well with the theme, because what makes it happy at all (any of it, all of it) is them, and everything they bring to each other, and give to each other; and that's very important to me.