If you were dead or still alive || Kara & Lee

Based on the fanfic "Signal Fire" written by mintenergy.

I really used to love Kara and Lee from BSG. Their story seemed so epic. And then the finale happened. Such an unsatisfactory ending for this couple! But after I read "Signal Fire", I finally obtained some closure to their relationship. This music video is based off of that amazingly written fanfiction and begins right after the moment Kara leaves Lee standing alone on the hill. (You need to read the story to fully understand what's happening.)

Regular Color: in the present
White & Red: in the past, or a dream
Film Effects/Sepia: in the beggining, it is used to show Kara going back in time to the moment in Maelstrom (she pulls up this time around) where she "died" previously, after that it represents things that happened in the past

Song: "I Don't Care"
Artist: Apocalyptica
Clips Used:
Pulse
Bionic Woman
Battlestar Galactica


Made with: Free Trial Version of Sony Vegas 9
How long to make: 4 weeks

Fanfiction Title: "Signal Fire"
Author: MintEnergy
Where to Read It:
http://community.livejournal.com/paperminty/10479.html

If you liked this video, you will like the story even better.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• kara and lee
• lee adama
• kara thrace
• fanfiction
• battlestar galactica
• signal fire
• music video
• starbuck
• apollo
• mintenergy
• apocalyptica
• i don't care

[KilgoIV]

What was the little song that was played at the end that sounds like the instrumental part to “In this river” by Black Label Society. It has been driving me up the wall! But by the by, a fantastically great video.

[SecretPlaceofThunder]

@KilgoIV It's "You're Not Sorry" by Taylor Swift

[UndecidedFan]

Oh My Gods!!!!!!!! I thought this was an excellent vid. Then I had to go and read the fic by MintEnergy. Now it is so FRAKING INDESCRIBABLY AMAZING. Oh my gods... I have no words. NO WORDS! You did so good matching up what happened!

[SecretPlaceofThunder]

@UndecidedFan Oh yaayyy, thank you so much dear! I'm so excited you went and read my sister's amazing fanfiction to appreciate the music video completely. You're so kind. :D

[UndecidedFan]

Loved this video. I have seen the series and yet a lot of these shots made me question if I had seen that episode. Loved the use of camera angles and such. Great, great vid!

[SecretPlaceofThunder]

@UndecidedFan Oh wow, thank you so much! Sorry for the late response, but I just saw this and had to say thanks because this video took so much time ~back in the day when I made it haha. So thanks for appreciating it! :)

[jnb71976]

this stunned me! just a truly incredible tribute to lee and kara. thank you for sharing!

[nmsan]

Amazing video!

I really miss BSG and Kara &Lee.

[Ailenwildfyre]

What a frakkin' crap ending! What are we supposed to conclude from this---if the most abused womyn of this society of ours die, then we can all continue to live...without changing the basic sexist tenets of our society, thus dooming ourselves to repeat the hellish past all over again?

C'mon, writers! Can't you please pay a LITTLE attention to your own sexist impulses! Y'all really ARE dooming this world to repeat YOUR mistakes, aren't you? BasTURDS. May y'all never have children.-

[SecretPlaceofThunder]

@kag523vid Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed the video and the fanfic. :D My sister did a great job on the story and I hope this video did it some justice. ;)

[kag523vid]

Love this video as much as I loved the fic. FABULOUS! (And lots of sneaky editing, BTW, I actually did a frame-by-frame double take in a couple places) Kudos to you! :>D

[boothsbeltbuckle]

@SecretPlaceofThunder ohhh, that's kara and the old man, right? just noticed the gray temples. okay, and i'll stop analyzing this great vid to death now, sorry! ;-)