The Beatles’ music video for Strawberry Fields Forever inspired the first fan vidder, Kandy Fong, to combine Star Trek images and recorded music/audio to tell a new kind of fan story.
Fong says she got the idea to set images to music this way from the Beatles.
Well, the Beatles did a video called Strawberry Fields Forever, and they’re doing all kinds of very strange things like jumping out of trees, and they had this deconstructed piano that the wires just go up…And they’re just doing all sorts of unusual images. And to my mind I look at this, going, “Okay, we’re disconnecting the actual playing of the instruments and singing the song with the images we’re seeing. So I can take a song and use images from somewhere else to tell my story—oh, Star Trek, oh, of course, Star Trek!” And that’s where I got the idea.
From Francesca Coppa’s Vidding: A History (2022) | Chapter 2: Early Vidding and Its Precursors
Here are the outtakes of Jenna Coleman's photoshoot at the BIFA Awards in early December! Below is the picture that was eventually published. Unfortunately, I've only been able to find these outtakes at a lower quality, and with the watermark. I'd love to see the originals!
Bonus: The one clip in the music video where the deep fakes are not properly synced to the guy's faces (Well except for Wes. His was the only one where the deep fake was applied to for some reason. Must've been a missed glitch in editing of the video.)
This is Beckett's song. This is the song that encapsulates his entire being from childhood to adulthood (where the story will take off). I literally don't have the words to tell you all how very Beckett-coded this song is without being spoilery but...god... all I'm going to say is that it actually makes my heart hurt and my eyes sting to think about how much he would relate to this song.
I'm about to step away from the computer because I've been sitting here scanning 35mm film of my younger brother's high school graduation (roll after fucking roll, and I have yet to see any of my own grad!) and come across this series taken at a parade that my sibs and father were in. I think that means my mother took them, and she's more a 126 Instamatic than 35mm Real Camera person. My brothers and sister are on a flatbed with a hot tub as a float for the summer swim league, and my father is in a convertable with the City Council. For some reason, while the shots of the swim team were taken from the road, the shots of my dad and crew were taken from the sidewalk -- through trees and people.
I decided not to save any of the pictures where you saw half a car through the bodies, but this lower left fragment of one of those, of this woman gawking at the camera which was behind her, cracked me up so I'm sharing it with you.