A fic preview in vid form!

[sholio]

The help_haiti fics are supposed to be done by Feb. 14 ... *coughcough* notgonnahappen. Since my fic is currently floundering in the throes of massive POV and plot woes, I decided to give astridv a vid preview of it instead! I hope this will tide you over 'til I get the actual fic done.

The story behind the vid is that the fic I'm writing is an AU, and I realized as I worked on it that I imagined it as a sort of '80s TV show, with lots of explosions and car chases and such. And an '80s TV show needs ... cheesy '80s credits! (Yes, this is why I was asking for clips of Sam in civvies. :D)

I guess the best way to describe this thing is "Birds of Prey meets the A-Team". :D The music is the theme song for Airwolf (anyone remember that show?). So, astridv, if your fic (tentatively titled "Finders") was a TV show, these would be its credits.

MP4 format (29 Mb), zipped. Clips from SGA and SG1.

[Right-click and download.]

(After the previous conversation about vidding, I know that some people prefer streaming vids, so I intend to start offering streaming versions of mine when I can -- but there's a learning curve, so it's still download-only for now. However, if MP4 doesn't work for anyone, please let me know and I'll see what I can do!)

Comments

[crashbarrier.livejournal.com]

The music is the theme song for Airwolf (anyone remember that show?).

*ahem* would it show my age to say I do.. :) :/

I can't play it.. ...*grrr*

[lavvyan.livejournal.com]

Have you tried the VLC player? It's free, it's stable, and it plays just about everything.

[lavvyan.livejournal.com]

Hee, cool! :D

Wasn't Airwolf the show that ran out of money in its second season and developed the most hilarious special effects?

[crashbarrier.livejournal.com]

It had three seasons with excellent helicopter stunts, Jan Michael Vincent and Ernest Borgnine, then for the "4th" season everyone left and they reset it all with stock footage and Barry Van Dyke, Michelle Scarabelli and Gerwaint Davies.. wasn't quite so good by that point:/.. kinda like Galactica 80 was to original Battlestar Galactica..

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Whee! Okay, that was fun, and what you did with Rodney was super cool. I also find it hilarious that making a vid for a fake TV show was less work than the fic itself. (I am much looking forward to the fic, too.)

[astridv.livejournal.com]

I also find it hilarious that making a vid for a fake TV show was less work than the fic itself.

No kidding! LOL. Man, if I made a vid like that I'd feel accomplished for at least half a year.

[aelfgyfu_mead]

I'm so glad you told me where you got the music, because otherwise I'm pretty sure I'd have sat there the whole time and thought, "Where do I know this from?" (Then I'd probably have replayed it, then called in Brilliant Husband—and he wouldn't know it because he didn't watch—and then I'd probably resort to asking you.)

I love the clips! Your story looks like fun! Det. John Sheppard and Det. Ronon Dex!

[sholio]

Hee, thanks! I'm glad you liked it -- I *so* want to watch this show now, which is unfortunate because a) it doesn't exist, and b) I have to write it. *g*

[astridv.livejournal.com]

o_O How awesome is this??!!!! OMG!!!

Take all the time you need with this fic, seriously. I'll be over here, rewatching my vid over and over.

I got a vid. ♥

... heh, have to edit some more. I watched it a couple times more and I'm so intrigued by what you're doing with the characters, all of them! I'm really curious now.

[sholio]

Heeeee~! I'm so delighted that you like it; I'm kinda going off your prompt, but I think I know enough of your reading tastes by now to have a general idea of the sort of thing you like, so I'm going with that too. :D And the idea of Rodney as, basically, Oracle was just too much fun for me to say no to myself. :DDD

One thing that there was just no way to get across in the vid is that the whole "series" is based around Sam having a metaphysical ability to "read" objects and locate their owners (or find a missing object itself). That's what she and her team do -- they find missing things and people, using her ability.

[crashbarrier.livejournal.com]

Got it to work.. very nice..

[sholio]

Yay, I'm glad you got it to work! I know MP4 is a bit of an obscure format, but it's the only thing iMovie seems to be willing to produce for me right now ...

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

I WANT THIS SHOW RIGHT NOW.

*waits patiently*

WHERE IS THE SHOW?!?

*waits more*

Is Rodney in a wheelchair? Is he Barbara Gordon?!? MY JOY NECESSITATES CAPSLOCK!11!!!

[astridv.livejournal.com]

I KNOW RIGHT?!

WHERE IS THE SHOW?!?

It's been running on channel 01 in my brain pretty much non-stop since I saw the vid. :D

I keep wondering what's happened to Rodney? And could Sam be any more badass? (I think not.) Teyla and Jennifer kick ass and look damn hot while doing it! And John and Ronon as detective partners! And Jeannie all badass with technology! Heeeh.

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

OMG!
I WANT TO WATCH THAT SHOW PLEASE!!!!!

(although at that one clip near the end my brain said "hello Daniel's arm!")

Still, seriously, brilliant! and awesome! And it totally looks like a different show. And wow.

WIN!

[sholio]

Thank you very much! I WANT THIS SHOW LIKE BURNNIIIIIIING! *whimpers pathetically*

(although at that one clip near the end my brain said "hello Daniel's arm!")

heehee, I know! (There's actually another clip near the beginning of the vid from a little earlier in the same scene, where she shoots the bookcase over Daniel's head...)

[cofax7]

Oh, this is TOTALLY AWESOME. I want to see this show!!!!

You are brilliant.

[sholio]

Thank you very much -- and thank you for the rec as well! :) I want this show too ...

[miss-porcupine.livejournal.com]

Oh, that was clever. The role reversal in general was nice, but I really just liked that it was clips of the ladies being badass (and Teyla totally looking like she belonged in BoP) and competent and put-together and, you know, masters of their own agency in a way that the shows never allowed them.

(And if Elizabeth were to exist as as a kind of Charlie/Pete Thornton/Higgins-type person...)

[sholio]

Thank you very much! Yes, that's exactly what I was trying to do. And that scene in Prodigal with Teyla fighting Michael is so very BoP that it pretty much inspired her role in the AU ...

And that's a good idea with Elizabeth! I can totally see her being their State Department contact who knows everyone and can get anything ... but with her own agenda as well.

[writerjc.livejournal.com]

Great vid! :) Can't wait to read the story!

[sholio]

Thank you muchly! :)

[horridporrid.livejournal.com]

Eeeee! I WANT TO WATCH THIS SHOOOOOOOW!!!! like, a lot. :)

[sholio]

Thank you! I want it tooooooo ...

(Say, which episode is that icon from? I was just noticing the rings around the planet and trying to think when they visited a planet with rings...)

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Wow, can't wait for the fic now. Awesome! Where can I see this show?

[sholio]

It's airing right after the new episode of Firefly, on the Wishful Thinking Channel ... *g*

And thank you very much!

[juliekarasik.livejournal.com]

ohmigod i love it!

[sholio]

Thank you! :)

[esther-a.livejournal.com]

I would totally watch that show, and I look forward to the story. The music is perfect. I actually watched Airwolf on Hulu last summer during the book indexing project of doom.

[sholio]

Thank you very much -- and hee, really? I didn't even know Hulu had it. I had a happy nostalgia moment when I watched the theme song on Youtube in preparation for making the vid ... I haven't seen episodes of the show since I was a kid. (All the characters seem so much younger to me now than I remember them!)

[kuwdora.livejournal.com]

omg DO WANT

[sholio]

ME TOOOOO! (And thanks!)

[leesa_perrie]

Oh wow! That'd be a great TV show!!! But I'll make do with a fic, once it's done! But, WANT NOW!!!

[sholio]

Thank you! :) (Now I just have to write it!)

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

Surfed in via cofax: awesome TV. Want.

Great work. Oh, 80s TV.

[sholio]

Thank you very much! :) (I ♥ the 80s, in all their cheesetastic glory.)

[alessandriana.livejournal.com]

Dude, it looks awesome, and I can't wait for the fic. :D

Although I get the single weirdest error while playing it in VLC, which I have screencapped for posterity (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v375/alessandriana/Snapshot2010-02-1222-34-51.jpg). The entire video played like that-- tilted, split, and oddly-colored. I was like, gee, that's an... interesting... editing choice. Then I thought to play it in Quicktime, and it plays normally there. Not sure if it's the video or my computer or what.

[ticiathethief.livejournal.com]

It did the same thing to me in (my outdated version of) vlc, but quicktime played it just fine.

Maybe I should update vlc and see if it works, eh?

[winter-elf.livejournal.com]

I can't play it :( and my laptop usually has no problems with anything. Except apple stuff. *sigh*

[sholio]

Oh no! Do you have VLC? Apparently that's been working for people, particularly the newest version.

Let me know if it just doesn't work and I'll see about making another format available if I can.

[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

Who, that is awesome. :D

[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

my VLC played it without any problem... perhaps other people are not using up-to-date VLC versions? *puzzled*

[rydra_wong]

*is dead from awesome*

[sholio]

*revives you* :D Thank you!

[frith_in_thorns]

Ooh, that is so awesome and now I absolutely cannot wait to read this story!

[sholio]

Thank you very much! :D

(I can't wait to read the story either. Unfortunately I have to write it first!)

[ladyhalbourne]

Wow, it looks really great!

[sholio]

Thank you very much! :)

[naye]

I WANT YOUR SHOW. I want it so bad. It would rock.

I will settle for fic and I will squee about it! ♥

[sholio]

HI THERE YOU! ♥

I want it tooooo~! I want it to be a real show so bad! SIGH.

And thank you! :)