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

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

l3tm31n

Here, have an internet.

*is tickled*

[oxoniensis.livejournal.com]

That is truly amazing work. I was thrilled to see that you'd made a new vid, and wow, yes! It's so in keeping with Teyla, words and song and the imagery in the video. You are truly multi-talented!

[ratcreature]

Wow, this is so cool!

I liked the song and the vid and it's a very original idea for the mission report.

[norah.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh, lim, lim, limitless liminal lim lim lim, I LURVE this. Didjoo really sing that yourself, you talented one? AWESOME. Just, awesome.

[mgunby.livejournal.com]

wow.

awesome.

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

i am so utterly impressed with your creativity!!! lovedlovedloved the multimedia lim ;-) the song and the lyrics were great and very teyla, and the vid was beautiful, very fitting, and interesting in the way the sea and the fish (eh, dolphins at times?) overlaid everything. i especially loved the puddle jumper/dolphin imagery as well as the mild femslash i saw lurking there, maybe??? ;-)

thank you!!!!

[swanswan.livejournal.com]

Fascinating! Loved the mixture of formats. This... what'll I call it... this *presentation* made me see how powerful great fan work is in fandom. Because something like this sparks people's imaginations, wakes them up. I don't think you'll find many people who dislike Teyla, but still she's so hugely unrepresented in fandom, and I love that something like this was created around her, because it's an inspiration, really. Lovely! Sharks and Sora and the everyday...

[owleyes-arisen.livejournal.com]

Beautiful.

[ana-grrl.livejournal.com]

Wow! Here by way of oxoniensis's rec, and this is amazing. Love the song, and the vid is beautiful. This is so wonderfully original. Thank you :)

[denynothing1.livejournal.com]

What an utterly cool idea, to take hints (the little, teeny, tiny ones we get, wah!) about Teyla's culture and really, really *run* with it. Awesome.

I'm still downloading the vid (on dial-up, but I'm motivated), but I've already listened to the song a couple times and love it. Thank you for sharing this!

[purna.livejournal.com]

Wow. This was excellent. I loved all the ocean imagery in the video. I first thought the song was a commercial release and went looking for the artist and album name, because I really liked the sound of it, but then I realized it was yours! Amazing.

[aurora]

Wow. That was just beyond awesome - the lyrics and dude, you have a great singing voice. And what a creative interpretation of the challenge! I'm impressed.

Also, the vid is incredibly vivid. Spot-on Teyla. I like the clips and effects you used, especially the colouring in the first SGA scene and that blend of Atlantis and John.

[pollyrepeat.livejournal.com]

Awesome. See, right here, this is why I love fandom. Very creative, and the song was amazing! Hope to see more stuff from you soon.

[cincodemaygirl.livejournal.com]

Damn, you're amazing!

[panisdead.livejournal.com]

What a fabulous idea! I enjoyed both the song and the vid.

[proserpina-kore.livejournal.com]

I love your voice - it's an amazing response to the challenge, the whole thing, the vid and the song. Thanks for sharing it.

[laurakaye.livejournal.com]

I'm very impressed! What a creative take on the challenge- not to mention, you got this done so fast! I'm amazed at your talents! SO very cool.

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

Incredible.
The song is haunting, and very, very Teyla. Wonderful.
::flails for words::

[bibliokat.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow! I *LOVE* the lyrics and the way you sang it and your voice! It's absolutely fantastic and I plan on listening to it over and over again;)

The vid is beautiful and amazing and I need to watch it again and again to really get it.

A very creative idea that makes perfect sense!

[kuepo.livejournal.com]

Such a creative idea-- I love it! The vid is absolutely mesmerizing, and the song is perfect for Teyla.

[clairshadows.livejournal.com]

I loved this to pieces both the vid and the song, it's alien and has a sense of history and everything. I especially loved the theme of life running through the vid, which is something that I think a culture such as Teyla's preyed upon by the Wraith would treasure.

[miriad.livejournal.com]

Oh noes! It says the dowloading limit has been reached! Help!

[danceswchopstck.livejournal.com]

Wow, this is gorgeous, both to listen to and to watch! Did it take you a long time to figure out how to overlap the vocal parts? Did you use a (piano-type) keyboard to figure out the arrangement?

I can guess that a lot of time went into this--I set one of copperbadge's poems to music, a few months ago, and it was way fun to do but not quick, and that was a lot simpler, musically, than this, and no video, either!

I particularly liked how you mingled the shark and dolphin visuals--lots of symbolism, right there--age-old enemies, differences and similarities, not easy to tell which is which in the first few seconds of encounter...yeah!

Also, I'm curious about the instruments you used--acoustic or electronic? Sounds a bit like a hurdy-gurdy and what Ursula Le Guin called a "handhitter" in Always Coming Home, but those are just guesses.

Very, very cool. *applauds* :D

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow! That's just phenomenal! I'm just blown away.

Wow.