[Vid rec] Wicked Amp, "Slot A" [Angel/Buffy the Vampire Slayer]

[thuviaptarth]

I found out today that Wicked Amp had a new Faith vid--well, new to me, anyway; she put it up in February. Like all her live-action vids, it's got the really unusual look of anime techniques applied to live action: odd frames and image cut-out; heavy effects; an unusual focus on internal action and movement; color-tinting, negatives, and breaks to static for emotional effect; probably more and shorter cuts than usual (although not necessarily, compared to, say, sisabet).

My favorite of her vids remains "Break Me Off A Switch," which is probably where you should start if you haven't tried her work before. "Slot A" isn't entirely successful; there are multiple parts where I wish someone had taken away her effects toolbox, and either cut out the effects or made her use a smaller subset of them, because some of the choices look downright silly. But where the vid works, it really works.

And I don't often see new Faith vids which don't feel like they're covering ground I've seen covered before and better.

Her Angel/Buffy vids are here and her anime vids are here. People who got the 2003 Vividcon discs may have already seen one of the latter, "One Million Miles," a Read or Die vid, which back then I found incomprehensible but fascinating.

Comments

[thuviaptarth.livejournal.com]

I think the first section with the individual film strips is a little iffy, but that it really works as a closing image, with the three different cells commenting on each other.

She loses me on some of the polka dot/circular frame imposition stuff.