Strict Machine

by mresundance

Summary:

"Cover me in you." Will/Abigail/Hannibal. Music by Goldfrapp.

Premiered at Vividcon Club Vivid 2013.

 

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https://vimeo.com/65012225

Password: hannibal

Also on Youtube: http://youtu.be/0k5bBeNbLyE

Notes:

Lyrics

 

 

I get high on a buzz, then a rush
When I'm plugged in you
I connect when I'm flush
You get love when told what to do
Wonderful electric, wonderful electric
Wonderful electric, cover me in you

I'm in love, I'm in love
I'm in love with a strict machine
I'm in love, I'm in love
I'm in love with a strict machine

When you send me a pulse
Feel a wave of new love through me
I'm dressed in white noise
You know just what I want so please
Wonderful electric, wonderful electric
Wonderful electric, cover me in you

I'm in love, I'm in love
I'm in love with a strict machine
I'm in love, I'm in love
I'm in love with a strict machine

I'm in love

I'm in love, I'm in love
I'm in love with a strict machine
I'm in love, I'm in love
I'm in love with a strict machine
I'm in love, I'm in love
I'm in love with a strict machine
I'm in love, I'm in love
I'm in love with a strict machine

 
Notes

So this vid started as a Hannigram vid. I had an entire narrative arc planned, and the vid was supposed to be laden with Cool Symbolism and Shit Yo. I had about 70 % of the vid finished, well ahead of the Club Vivid deadline, and just needed some extra footage to fill in some gaps.

Then episode three and Abigail happened. And she destroyed my entire narrative arc in a mere 42 minutes.

With a week left on the deadline, I found myself restructuring and redoing the entire vid. I laughed my way through it; a laughter which was half panicked and "what the fuck am I doing" and half exhilarated, because I have literally never had something like this happen in the middle of vidding. Then again, I don't usually vid a series until a whole season is done.

So it was an educational experience, mostly in telling myself to calm down enough so I could get useful vidding work done, and to let go of my usual perfectionist tendencies. I told myself: look dude, just get the vid done. Just get it done. If it's not perfect, no-one will really notice. And if they do notice, no-one actually died in the making of this vid, so it's not a big deal.

Thusly I vidded like the wind and guess what? Everything turned out okay after all. This is rougher than my usual work, less refined, but I made a choice to finish the vid and not revise or tweak it further, because that would have entirely defeated the purpose of the whole exercise.

I know in the Vividcon programming booklet the summary says "Hannibal POV". I think it is sort of his POV, but also not at points. Think of it as a close third person POV that occasionally pulls back enough to see glimpses of other people's perspectives.

Also: apologies for the gross pixilated text on the opening and closing credits. Sony Vegas is the happy little Moon-Moon of text rendering sometimes. No matter what I tried Vegas decided that the text would turn out gross and pixilated. I think it had something to do with the slow zooming. *shrug*

Series this work belongs to:

• Part 2 of the Hannibal Vids series
• Part 21 of the Fanvids series