Vid: Not My Lover (The One)

[deelaundry]

Title: Not My Lover (The One)
Vidder: Dee Laundry
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Irene Adler
Rating: Teen
Summary: Dance, on the floor, in the round.
Content Notes: Violence and strategically covered nudity.
Notes: bironic issued a challenge for a non-Reichenbach Sherlock vid, and well, here we are. Thank you to her for the beta.
Source: Sherlock, "Scandal in Belgravia"
Music: "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson (trimmed)

"Not My Lover (The One)" (Watch on Vimeo)

Comments

[indigo_8]

Oh, I like this vid! It's ...well, I don't wanna say *fun* because this song always puts me into a melancholy mood, but the vid works so well!

Also, I liked the sped up and sped down switches.

[deelaundry]

Thanks so much! The sped-up and sped-down effects are from the source vid; I enjoyed hooking them to the song, along with so much of the action from the episode being "in the round."

[shallowness]

Really good marriage of source and song!

[deelaundry]

Thank you!

[flywoman.livejournal.com]

Fun! The song is kind of creepy in this context and works really well. I especially liked the bit to "and showed a photo my baby cried his eyes were like mine..." ;)

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

I've always thought the song was kind of creepy, but yes, in this context, even more. When I decided on the magnified eye for "eyes were like mine," it made me giggle. :D Thanks!

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

That was... unexpected, lol. But fun, and I particularly liked the 'twiddling montage' in the middle. That could probably make an entire vid in itself!

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

BC mentions the twiddling on the episode commentary but I didn't realize until making this vid that he does it six times throughout the episode. I couldn't resist a montage. :D

Some day I will finish my crossover fic but perhaps we'll have Sherlock Series Five by then...

Thanks!

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Crossover with ... House, I hope?

Love the vid!

[hibernia1.livejournal.com]

Like it!

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Yay, posted! I still say gold star for having neither the off-the-"cliff" nor the "Sherlocked" shots. Admirable restraint. & will say again that the use of motion here is excellent.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the help! Learned something new today -- when Vimeo has made a vid too dark, adjusting the gamma helps to make it better. (Although I may have gone a bit overboard the other way, but it's better than it was.)