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saw119


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Well, spurred into action by fred I finally finished my Wickerman film. It's not without it's faults (as I hope you WON'T point out). No, but seriously any constructive criticism is more than welcomed. I don't want to go into a massive parsing exercise and dissect the film, you just need to take it as it comes and realise that at times it takes the same kind of artistic licence that the song itself does but that 98% of the photographs are all mine taken over the course of almost a year. One other thing, I am afraid that the file is rather large still (but a third of it's original size) but that once downloaded it's yours for life.

 

http://www.sendspace.com/file/g7a4p5

Now also available to view on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_rTKzB_7ak&feature=youtu.be

 

Stephen (p.s. that's me in the cafe at Forge Dam)

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-- Edited by saw119 on Sunday 9th of September 2012 04:39:44 PM

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Hmmm, my computers threatening to take 5 hours to download. I do have the worlds worst wifi though.

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Brilliant, downloading now. It's saying "four hours" but that's par for the course round here. Have you thought about putting it on youtube or vimeo?

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Yeah I did think about that and I might still do so if it takes people a lifetime to download it.

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Mine's downloaded fine here while I had breakfast. I really enjoyed it, not just the locations but all the touches with signs and imagery. the cup of tea on the table, the ordinariness of the bus stop, the moodiness of the dark underground arches, the deep water with strong currents imagery of the end works perfectly with the song and the "Danger! Keep out" sign. You've got a couple of those archive pictures of the Wicker in there, love the old cars! Great job saw.



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Wow! I've been waiting all day for a quiet moment to watch that.

It felt like I was listening to the song again for the first time. It's probably my favourite Pulp song but like with any song if you listen to it enough times you forget what it was about it that blew you away originally. There was a danger (that I think you were conscious of) that the video could have made the song seem ordinary - taken away the ethereal quality - but quite the opposite has happened.

I love seeing all the parts of a city that you don't normally see, the parts that the main paths and the shops and roads carefully guide you away from. I think of it as the backside of the city (in all meanings of the word) the places you see when you decide to wander (when you go under the bridge rather than over it), or when you look out a train window at the backs of buildings.

Great imagery - even if they weren't laid over the song.

And I love all that arty graffiti you see in such places.

A fantastic job, nice one.

 

(did you have to explain to the person in the cafe what you were up to?)



-- Edited by fredthe3rd on Sunday 2nd of September 2012 06:05:58 PM

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shotoki wrote:

It won't work for me, my computer thinks its a virus

 ...well, the installer has messed up my Chrome by installing a load of sh*t. It's a browser hijaker. Nothing too insidious, just unsolicited!

A search suggests that Spybot is required to remove it, which I suppose puts it in the category of malware...



-- Edited by superchob on Monday 3rd of September 2012 08:05:47 PM

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Well I really enjoyed that Saw! Having never been to Sheffield it makes a great insight as to what the locations look like that are mentioned in the song. It only took me 5 minutes to download too.

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Just a quick note; all the shots of the underground bits are the genuine underground parts of Sheffield where the river genuinely does flow which were kindly donated to me by a chap who goes undeground to do that kind of thing for fun.

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Oh, oh, genius! Did you slip 20p into the horse ride? How was the music?

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It won't work for me, my computer thinks its a virus

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http://botcrawl.com/how-to-remove-the-mystart-by-incredibar-browser-search-redirection-virus/



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No such problems with Firefox

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Watched it last night, very impressed, brilliant work saw. How many photos were in there? Must be at least a hundred.

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Thanks for the kind comments all of you. I have to admit to really enjoying the whole project. Amazingly, the cafe happened to be empty while I was there so I just snapped away, the horse does play a very mournful tune it's true and I've probably got 3 times as many photos as I used in the film, haven't counted but it will be alot.

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Wow. that was really good. Stunning in fact.

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If you untick the box on the first screen and then click the "click here to download from sendspace" it should just download the film with no add-ons

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Saw - are you ok with me sharing this? I have already uploaded it to YouTube as a pvt video for a mate to see. She loved it as much as I did!

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Yeah that's ok I suppose. I was quite wary uploading it, for completely irrational and paranoid reasons, but if it's private that's ok.



-- Edited by saw119 on Wednesday 5th of September 2012 11:31:13 AM

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I have put it on YouTube to show my friends but you need the link to view it (it's not public) I hope that's ok.

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Yeah, of course it's ok. In fact, can you pm me the link?

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Me too please. I can't download it cos sendspace has so much shitty bogus links and popups.

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Well done Saw - great job! I very nearly missed my train home by taking pictures of the 'is the river really beautiful or is it just the gradient of the land?' graffiti when I last visited Sheffield

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I have now uploaded the film to youtube. Here is the link if you wish to view it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_rTKzB_7ak&feature=youtu.be



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Brilliant! Last time I went to Sheffield I popped to a few places from the song but was with a none fan (yes they exist!) who was confused at my excitement over a river. This really enhanced the song, thanks :D

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