Another vid about John's face. But a different John.

[purplefringe]

(22)1BR/1BA
edited by purplefringe
fandom: Sherlock (BBC)
characters: John/Sherlock
music:1BR/1BA - Vienna Teng
summary: soon as this wall in my heart comes down, I'm gonna make it feel like home
content notes: Spoilers for all 6 episodes of Sherlock
notes: John, after the Fall.

Thank you, como siempre, to such_heights for her extremely patient beta-ing and encouraging comments.

download: 41MB @ mediafire

password: fall

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(22)1BR/1BA from Phoebe on Vimeo.

Lyrics
1 bedroom / 1 bath, hardwood floors with view of trees
1 bedroom / 1 bath, parking space for extra fee

My little flock of boxes and I
Surrounded by a painted-white unknown
Soon as this wall in my heart comes down
I'm gonna make it feel like home

1 bedroom / 1 bath, A/C was fine till yesterday
1 bedroom / 1 bath, 89 degrees today

My upstairs neighbours are making sounds
That I never want to hear
I hope they're just moving furniture around
And really liking their ideas

Comments

[silverhare]

Ohhhh, lovely. :)

[endeni]

OMG, what an original vid! (Yay, Vienna Teng!)
That bit with the violin string at 02:08!! ♥
So fluid and moving... almost claustrophobic, you can feel John slowly suffocating with grief.
And the (hopeful?) ending... Sigh...

[harpers_child]

i'm waving my hands at the computer screen. i have to go make a cup of tea. i wish to pet john on the head and feed him cookies.

[stardust_rain]

Oh, this is gorgeous and so quietly heartbreaking.

I love the match of the newspaper headline and the gravestone to "surrounded by a painted white unknown".
Brilliant editing when the music picks up 1:38-2:17. The musicality and movement and the chaos of their lives together brings such a sharp and poignant contrast to the stillness and emptiness in the house and the rest of the vid. Also, love the tray slamming down ending the clip of Sherlock's fall at 2:29-2:30. Oh, John. Throwing tea at the nightmares.

I've always considered this a hard song to vid, but my goodness this is lovely.

[rae1013]

Despite the storyline this vid was fun. The use of movement and how you utilized the music was so entertaining to watch and I honestly can't express how much I enjoy this vid. It's really wonderful. <3

[revolutionaryjo]

I'm a bit late to the party here, but how fantastic is this! I love how you've recontextualized scenes of just John to make this a post-Reichenbach story. They were all used to great effect! And then, the ending bit with Molly, and Lestrade, and Mrs. Hudson really got me.

[woldy]

Oh man, I love this! The understatement of John on his own is perfect, and then the way the strings segue into the stream-of-consciousness flashback, with all those wonderful disorienting images. And then the epic awkwardness at the end, as they try to get used to the space without him. Great work!

[frayadjacent]

Oh, what a wonderful vid! I hope you don't mind, I was seeking out a vid for the "new to me" challenge at vidrecs, and I'd like to post this there.

[regan_v]

I ought to have more words for this than I do. But it's brilliant---the editing is so polished and adroit that it makes most other vids look amateur, and I adore how you used Vienna Teng's music here. Wonderful!

I will definitely be recing this (and the other Teng/Sherlock vid you posted today) on my next recs update, on my LJ. Thank you!

[lolabobs]

Wow -

I followed a link here from the Connotations site on lj and am so glad I did - this is a stunning vid that tells a heartbreaking story so beautifully. The ending, so bittersweet. so true and so moving.

[lauramcewan]

That was very nice, moody, well done with the music and edits!

[cleflink]

I really enjoyed how you put this together; it tells an amazing and tragic story of John's suffering after the fall. I wouldn't have thought to put this song into a vid about grief, but it works incredibly well.

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Wow, this was astonishingly well done. Thank you so much for sharing it!