Vid for elwinglyre: Sleepless Nights, Empty Days

[holmesticemods]

Title: Sleepless Nights, Empty Days
Recipient: elwinglyre
Artist/Vidder: pagimag
Beta: sanguinity
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Rating: moderate to explicit graphic violence or depictions of non-sexual mature themes
Warnings: alcohol abuse; suicide; character death
Summary: John Watson doesn’t function very well after Sherlock Holmes jumped from Barts.

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Comments

[rachelindeed]

Wow, this is just beautiful! I fell in love during the opening montage (those shots of the dust motes are so lyrical, and you used the shots of John's troubled sleep to create an atmosphere of half-dream, half-waking that seemed to me to set the tone for the whole vid. Gorgeous!)

I love the delicate intercutting and overlapping images you've created throughout, which generate a powerful sense that Sherlock is living in the shadows of John's mind, barely glimpsed and just out of reach. I also liked the way you allow the voice of the song to hit its most direct and emotional declarations -- the chorus of "I love you!"s -- while pairing those lyrics with images of John being completely silent, unable to speak. It really drives home for me the disconnect between what's going on inside and what he is able to express.

I admire the grace notes you've hit, too, like the way you've edited the strike of John's fist against the table to match the percussion in the music just before the end of the vid. It all works together beautifully to create a sharp portrait of John's anger and grief and the way those two emotions sometimes overlapped and became indistinguishable.

Lovely, lovely vidding! Thank you so much for sharing this!

[elwinglyre]

Again, what you said above is so right on. This is beautiful!