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Title: Not the Doctor
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Co-Vidder: periru3
Music: "Not the Doctor" by Alanis Morissette
Length: 3:45
Summary: I don't want to be the glue that holds your pieces together
Notes: Part 9 of Jagged Little Slayer

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Title: Voice in My Throat
Fandom: Sense8
Music: "Voice in My Throat" by Pearl & The Beard
Length: 2:58
Summary: 

I walk down the road and I'm alone again but | All these years I've travelled down a lonely pathway
You will be the voice in my throat | You have been the voice in my throat

Notes: Made for colls for fandomtrumpshate 

I've been lowkey obsessed with this song since I first heard it a couple years ago, and have long thought it could be an amazing vid song but also that it might be unviddable, so was so excited when I thought of it for this project. I was a bit trepidatious going in, because I wasn't sure I would be able to pull off my vision for this vid technically — I wanted to capture the song's polyphony visually, creating the feeling of characters going through their lives separate but connected, and finally coming together as the voices of the singers merged. In the end, I think I was able to achieve that with the split screens and dissolves that I used. The unexpected gift of the song was its use of chimes, which were wonderful for making important moments pop and which I was able to use to evoke the feeling of being alone but hearing something or seeing something out of the corner of your eye as the Cluster first become aware of each other.

Most of my vids for this show have been big messy joyful ensemble pieces and that was the vibe for this one as well, but to set it apart and to give myself a hook I focused in on a) moments where the sensates act or speak through one another, supporting each other with their special skills and strengths and b) one-on-one scenes between all of the characters in the Cluster, particularly those not romantically involved with each other (or at least treating the romantic pairings as equal and equivalent to every other pairing). In the end, I think only Kala/Nomi and Sun/Wolfgang didn't get exclusive moments together, and that's only because I cut a Sun/Wolfgang scene I liked so much to instead start building to large group shots and I couldn't work it back in later.

This was such a pleasure to make!