Vid: "The Body Breaks"
Title: The Body Breaks
Fandom: ER
Music: Devendra Banhart
Summary: Romano/Corday. It whispers at first, but it ends with a shout.

High Quality (avi, 35.7 MB)
Low Quality (rm, 9.5 MB)



Devendra Banhart is, I think, a weird choice for vidding and common vidding sense would've told me to stay away. This is an odd, unsettling little ditty that hasn't much in the way of arc or climax to work with. I chose it for the lyrics and for the sheer oddness, which seemed to fit with the pairing and the focus character, Romano. I wasn't sure whether I was vidding for an audience of vidders -- people who probably haven't been into ER for years and who were probably never into this particular pairing -- or people who are actually into Romano, which is a fairly small demographic, but I mean, the narrative shouldn't be too hard to figure out: Guy gets chopped up by copter. Guy then gets smushed by copter. In any case, the hard thing about vidding to this was the lack of material to really work with; I was going on lyrics a lot instead of music or the beat, which probably adds to the generally disorienting nature of the song. I sort of see why a lot of people don't use songs like this. On the other hand, it was a fun experiment, and only a two-and-a-half minute video that took six days of work to make (generally they stretch into weeks and months).


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