mission report by lim (mission report challenge)

[lim.livejournal.com]

Title: Mission Report
Characters: Teyla, Pegasus
Length: 141 words / 1 minute 49 seconds
Rating: G
Notes: Thanks to Ces for everything.
Er. I figured Teyla has an oral culture.

Mission Report [ 2.5mb mp3 ] Zipped.


I can sing this high mind rhyme
The day was long
The sky was fine
We spread our hands and our smiles wide
Our jewels reflected in their eyes

Ragged and thin they took us in
And washed our bodies from their water skins
We took their comfort and gave them toys
We kissed their girls
And beat their boys

Oh, ho, how can we go?
How can we travel with our cloak of woe?
How can we meddle in these hungry lives?
Bellies so full and our clear blue skies

Oh the hearth is cold and the wraith are blue
Ring of the ancestors sky is too

What's done is done
That war is won
And guilt is the indulgence of the favoured son
The day was long
The sky was fine
We spread our hands and our smiles wide


And I made a sort of vid to go with it:

video [ 16mb divX , 10mb .m4v , 57mb .mov ] Zipped.

Many thanks to Oxoniensis for hosting.

Comments

[lim.livejournal.com]

Mainly sharks, sardines and dolphins. It's from a nature programme called The Blue Planet, which is one of the most staggering pieces of cinematography ever created. (I reflexively typed IMHO there, but it's not just IMHO). Anyway! This bit is of a sardine swarm so big it looks like a coral reef. The sharks cut these bloody passages through the swarm. The birds dive and snatch. The dolphins leap and...you can't really see it but the dolphins totally look like they're galloping through the waves. The sardines are totally buggered, basically.

I think I could have made it better but the cramp in my hands was killing me so I thought I'd better post it to prevent myself from fiddling with it obsessively.

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

and after last night's ep, the shark/dolphin thing is even *more* on the mark!!!!

now i wanna see the real thing (b/c the avi file i d'loaded wasn't that clear i thought...off to get the mov one]

[lim.livejournal.com]

Yes. I suspect all this sction is not really apparent in the vid. So I helpfully recap! :)

I had all this Blue Planet footage because I wanted it for another project - the Ancient weapons are simple projectile paths with shoals of fish displacement-mapped over them, as far as I can tell... But my copy of After Effects doesn't support displacement mapping and to do it in Photoshop would be an arse-and-a-half so until I can figure out a solution I just have all this PRETTY. *plays with it*