[Supernatural] VID: Low Red Moon (Remaster)

[thuviaptarth]

Title: Low Red Moon
Fandom: Supernatural
Music: Belly, "Low Red Moon"
Length: 4:47
Notes: Notes for the original, including beta credits, are on the original post. Notes on the remaster are below.
Feedback: All feedback welcome. Thank you!

Summary: Ruby character study, Season Three. And the moon became as blood.

Streaming password: badmoonrising

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Music: Belly, "Low Red Moon"

Length: 4:47

Thank yous: To counteragent, giandujakiss, and laurashapiro (still not her fandom) for beta, and geekturnedvamp, nestra, and oyceter for cheerleading 

Originally posted 11/24/2008; remastered & slightly revised 3/22/2010.

Download AVI 848x480 (87MB), AVI 640x360 (56MB), Subtitles (2KB)

How to use subtitles
The subtitles are "soft subs": They'll show up in supported media players, such as VLC, as long as they are downloaded to the same directory as the vid and named the same name as the vid file.

Right-click to download, save to the same directory as the vid, then rename thuviaptarth_spn_lowredmoonLgORSm.srt to match the large or small download.

Lyrics
So, what, you think this is usual?
Strange moon
Strange land
Strange man

Low red moon
How can you sleep like a baby?
Sleep like a baby?
When you shine so different on another
You shine different on another

I ook up and then I see
the raising of an old hope,
brave and tattered
A shining knight with shining eyes
he shines around me brightly

So now I say this is beautiful
I think you are strange

Low red moon
How can you sleep like a baby?
Sleep like a baby?
When you shine so different on another
You shine different on another

Strange moon
Strange land
Strange ...

Now I've got strong arms
Strong arms for a skinny girl
and I say
he belongs to me
he belongs to me

He's a human bed of roses


Notes on the remaster
The red moon in the original and the remaster is taken from the NASA-hosted photographs of lunar eclipses by amateur photographers. (It didn't occur to me to just recolor stock footage until people commented assuming that was what I'd done. Oops?)

For the remaster, I replaced the S3 downloaded footage with DVD footage, changed some coloring decisions, fixed some timing issues, and replaced or put in new clips to support timing fixes and clarify meaning in a few places.

Comments

[arliss]

It's exquisite. The video clarity is amazing, and the music and the way you've cut the clips you chose work with the music all seems inevitable. I can definitely tell a difference between the versions, and I know some of the cuts are different, you say some clips have changed as well. But basically the clarity is startling, and the way it's cut against the music, it all works wonderfully.

[thuviaptarth]

Thank you! It was hard to decide what to change and what to leave alone, but finally I decided I wanted to do an improved version of the original, not an entirely different vid. I've also decided to be pleased I've learned so much rather than distressed there were so many problems I couldn't fix. :)

[wordsatourbacks]

I second the commenter above - taking a little time out of filing taxes, and I'm glad I stopped by. I love being reminded of how much I loved the original. I'm delighted by how sharp the remaster is.

[thuviaptarth]

Thank you!