NEW VID: SHERLOCK...The Sound of Madness
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rabid1stTHE SOUND OF MADNESS
Sherlock PoV
Vidder: Rabid1st
Beta: Dualbunny
Spoilers: All of S1
Song: Sound of Madness
Artist: Shinedown
Summary: Sherlock as Alpha Sociopath, explaining things to the criminal classes. If you end up wanting to watch this show...my work here is done.
Disclaimer: This is a fanvid for fair use entertainment purposes only. I encourage everyone to watch Sherlock and buy Shinedown if you love this music.
Download: Full Size WMM file 23MB – www.megaupload.com/?d=L8347PAS
Streaming Version--plus lyrics and notes on my process--under this cut
Sound of Madness
Yeah, I get it,
You're an outcast.
Always under attack.
Always coming in last,
Bringing up the past.
No one owes you anything.
I think you need a shotgun blast,
A kick in the ass,
So paranoid. . .
Watch your back!!
Oh my, here we go...
Another lose cannon gone bi-polar
Slipped down, couldn't get much lower.
Quicksand's got no sense of humor.
I'm still laughing like hell.
You think that by crying to me
Looking so sorry that I'm gonna believe,
You've been infected by a social disease.
Well, then take your medicine.
[Chorus:]
I created the Sound of Madness.
Wrote the book on pain.
Somehow I'm still here,
To explain,
That the darkest hour never comes in the night.
You can sleep with a gun.
When you gonna wake up and fight...
I'm so sick of this tombstone mentality,
If there's an afterlife,
Then it'll set you free.
But I'm not gonna part the seas
You're a self-fulfilling prophecy.
You think that crying to me,
Looking so sorry that I'm gonna believe,
You've been infected by a social disease.
Well, then take your medicine.
[Chorus]
I created the Sound of Madness.
Wrote the book on pain.
Somehow I'm still here,
To explain,
That the darkest hour never comes in the night.
You can sleep with a gun.
When you gonna wake up...
When you gonna wake up and fight...
[Chorus]
When you gonna wake up and fight... for yourself? [x3]
NOTES ON THIS VID
I must begin with a special thanks to Jan, my S.O., who watched about 19 versions of this vid and after the first three never saw any difference in them. There were differences, major ones, but to the non-vidder it was all just sound and fury signifying nothing (aka days of me hunched in front of the computer wearing headphones).
Now, on to the process, I decided to do a Sherlock vid after the second episode of the show. My first problem? I wasn't going to do a shippy vid or try to tell a story. I wanted to do a character piece. I only have three other character driven vids to my credit, two about Kara Thrace and one about Lee Adama. Show of hands from anyone who remembers Effortlessly. Nobody? That's what I thought.
Anyway, I wanted to explore the alienation of Holmes, view him as a sociopath. But not in a melancholy way. I wanted a sense that he was defiantly, willfully, superior. I agree with The Moff when he says that Holmes rejects his own humanity. And yet, I needed to let the Watson friendship come through, because that is also part of who Sherlock is.
With all of that in mind, I went looking for a song. LOL! And I learned that I don't have much in the way of “sociopath's in polite society” music on my hard drive. I toyed with the idea of yet another Sister Hazel song. World Inside My Head or Fortress maybe. But in the end, YouTube led me to Shinedown and eventually to this almost perfect song. It's definitely not something I would listen to by choice, (I'm more of an Owl City girl) but I think it works for Sherlock.
The song, itself, created another problem. I'm a lyrical vidder. I don't know nothing about no rhythm, but the driving beat in this song called for much faster cuts than I had ever attempted. Faster, in fact, than I was comfortable doing with my old WMM from 2007. I considered switching to the Sony Vegas or the Adobe Premiere. But I am a novice with both programs and very slow to digest instructions these days due to drugs, pain and sleep apnea. Struggling with an unfamiliar program was not going to work for me. So, I chose to soldier on with WMM. And it only crashed about 6 times total. The amazing Dualbunny gave me some great advice and, in the end, I was happy with the combination of fast and slow clips. The pace of the show is much like the song and I believe this vid captures what I was hoping to achieve.
Enjoy!
Sherlock PoV
Vidder: Rabid1st
Beta: Dualbunny
Spoilers: All of S1
Song: Sound of Madness
Artist: Shinedown
Summary: Sherlock as Alpha Sociopath, explaining things to the criminal classes. If you end up wanting to watch this show...my work here is done.
Disclaimer: This is a fanvid for fair use entertainment purposes only. I encourage everyone to watch Sherlock and buy Shinedown if you love this music.
Download: Full Size WMM file 23MB – www.megaupload.com/?d=L8347PAS
Streaming Version--plus lyrics and notes on my process--under this cut
SherlockMadness from Laheyla Rae on Vimeo.
Sound of Madness
Yeah, I get it,
You're an outcast.
Always under attack.
Always coming in last,
Bringing up the past.
No one owes you anything.
I think you need a shotgun blast,
A kick in the ass,
So paranoid. . .
Watch your back!!
Oh my, here we go...
Another lose cannon gone bi-polar
Slipped down, couldn't get much lower.
Quicksand's got no sense of humor.
I'm still laughing like hell.
You think that by crying to me
Looking so sorry that I'm gonna believe,
You've been infected by a social disease.
Well, then take your medicine.
[Chorus:]
I created the Sound of Madness.
Wrote the book on pain.
Somehow I'm still here,
To explain,
That the darkest hour never comes in the night.
You can sleep with a gun.
When you gonna wake up and fight...
I'm so sick of this tombstone mentality,
If there's an afterlife,
Then it'll set you free.
But I'm not gonna part the seas
You're a self-fulfilling prophecy.
You think that crying to me,
Looking so sorry that I'm gonna believe,
You've been infected by a social disease.
Well, then take your medicine.
[Chorus]
I created the Sound of Madness.
Wrote the book on pain.
Somehow I'm still here,
To explain,
That the darkest hour never comes in the night.
You can sleep with a gun.
When you gonna wake up...
When you gonna wake up and fight...
[Chorus]
When you gonna wake up and fight... for yourself? [x3]
NOTES ON THIS VID
I must begin with a special thanks to Jan, my S.O., who watched about 19 versions of this vid and after the first three never saw any difference in them. There were differences, major ones, but to the non-vidder it was all just sound and fury signifying nothing (aka days of me hunched in front of the computer wearing headphones).
Now, on to the process, I decided to do a Sherlock vid after the second episode of the show. My first problem? I wasn't going to do a shippy vid or try to tell a story. I wanted to do a character piece. I only have three other character driven vids to my credit, two about Kara Thrace and one about Lee Adama. Show of hands from anyone who remembers Effortlessly. Nobody? That's what I thought.
Anyway, I wanted to explore the alienation of Holmes, view him as a sociopath. But not in a melancholy way. I wanted a sense that he was defiantly, willfully, superior. I agree with The Moff when he says that Holmes rejects his own humanity. And yet, I needed to let the Watson friendship come through, because that is also part of who Sherlock is.
With all of that in mind, I went looking for a song. LOL! And I learned that I don't have much in the way of “sociopath's in polite society” music on my hard drive. I toyed with the idea of yet another Sister Hazel song. World Inside My Head or Fortress maybe. But in the end, YouTube led me to Shinedown and eventually to this almost perfect song. It's definitely not something I would listen to by choice, (I'm more of an Owl City girl) but I think it works for Sherlock.
The song, itself, created another problem. I'm a lyrical vidder. I don't know nothing about no rhythm, but the driving beat in this song called for much faster cuts than I had ever attempted. Faster, in fact, than I was comfortable doing with my old WMM from 2007. I considered switching to the Sony Vegas or the Adobe Premiere. But I am a novice with both programs and very slow to digest instructions these days due to drugs, pain and sleep apnea. Struggling with an unfamiliar program was not going to work for me. So, I chose to soldier on with WMM. And it only crashed about 6 times total. The amazing Dualbunny gave me some great advice and, in the end, I was happy with the combination of fast and slow clips. The pace of the show is much like the song and I believe this vid captures what I was hoping to achieve.
Enjoy!