When I'm Up
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| Title: | When I'm Up |
| Creator: | Jill, Lynn, & Kay |
| Date: | 2001 |
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| Music: | "When I'm Up" (Oyster Band) |
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| Fandom: | Once a Thief |
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When I'm Up is a Once a Thief vid by Jill, Lynn, & Kay from the VCR-era of vidding.
It premiered at Escapade in 2001.
Fan Comments
I'd been shown this vid by the vidders some months before, and instantly went out and got tapes for the complete show. Probably the best recruiter vid I've ever seen; certainly the best one I can remember right now! Tight cuts that complement the fast pace of the song, enough literalism to be funny but not enough to drag the vid down to a ploddingly literal or awkwardly self-parodic level (e.g., "get my feet back on the ground" as feet dangle helplessly above the floor -- okay, in context it's an electrified* floor and they don't *want* to touch it, but it still works). Some really nice juxtaposition of clips: the sequence where the sledding down the hill cut to the clinging to the roof of a swerving car cut to something else I can't recall maintained the sense of careening motion through changes of scene and vehicle. And okay, so it's not hard to find clips of Mac and Vic way deep in each other's personal space, but they were used really well. [1]