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seekingferretTitle: Redemption Song
Fandom: Star Wars Series
content notes: Violence, torture, slavery, character death
responsible for the lack of consistency in title block from vid to vid: seekingferret
Song: "Redemption Song" by Angelique Kidjo
Length:3:39
Thanks to:bessyboo and starlady, and theletterelle for betaing.
Premiered at:![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
wiscon_vidparty 2019.
This started out last summer as a Chewbacca vid to Bob Marley's "Redemption Song", inspired by the new additions to Chewbacca's story in Solo. I thought that perhaps there was now enough source to create a full Chewbacca vid that traces out his whole arc, and that "Redemption Song" would work to tell that story. I still think there might be enough source for a full Chewbacca vid, but I concluded that the original "Redemption Song" doesn't get me the places I needed it to get me. But I liked some parts of the Chewie vid, so at our December NY Metro vidding day I spent some time hunting for covers and I found Angelique Kidjo's amazing cover... but it was not quite right for a Chewie vid, so I started expanding the scope to make it work.
Solo had also given us L3 and the first serious narrative of droid liberation in the filmic Star Wars saga, and I started adding some L3 scenes to the vid, and then over the next six months the scope of the vid expanded quite a bit. The idea became that Chewie's narrative- Enslaved and broken down until fate and luck emancipates him, he eventually comes to the realization that his own liberty is meaningless unless he is fighting for the liberty of others- is one that is echoed throughout the Star Wars saga. Singing a Redemption Song because their own redemption is not enough is the motivation for a lot of the Rebellion. I really like how this vid turned out. I think it tells a Star Wars story we don't tell often enough. I hope people at Wiscon enjoyed it.
Fandom: Star Wars Series
content notes: Violence, torture, slavery, character death
responsible for the lack of consistency in title block from vid to vid: seekingferret
Song: "Redemption Song" by Angelique Kidjo
Length:3:39
Thanks to:
bessyboo and starlady, and theletterelle for betaing.Premiered at:
wiscon_vidparty 2019.This started out last summer as a Chewbacca vid to Bob Marley's "Redemption Song", inspired by the new additions to Chewbacca's story in Solo. I thought that perhaps there was now enough source to create a full Chewbacca vid that traces out his whole arc, and that "Redemption Song" would work to tell that story. I still think there might be enough source for a full Chewbacca vid, but I concluded that the original "Redemption Song" doesn't get me the places I needed it to get me. But I liked some parts of the Chewie vid, so at our December NY Metro vidding day I spent some time hunting for covers and I found Angelique Kidjo's amazing cover... but it was not quite right for a Chewie vid, so I started expanding the scope to make it work.
Solo had also given us L3 and the first serious narrative of droid liberation in the filmic Star Wars saga, and I started adding some L3 scenes to the vid, and then over the next six months the scope of the vid expanded quite a bit. The idea became that Chewie's narrative- Enslaved and broken down until fate and luck emancipates him, he eventually comes to the realization that his own liberty is meaningless unless he is fighting for the liberty of others- is one that is echoed throughout the Star Wars saga. Singing a Redemption Song because their own redemption is not enough is the motivation for a lot of the Rebellion. I really like how this vid turned out. I think it tells a Star Wars story we don't tell often enough. I hope people at Wiscon enjoyed it.
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