Spinning on that dizzy edge

Title: Level Up
Source: Spy (2015)
Music: "Level Up", Sway ft. Kelsey
Vid Download Link: 65 MB at Sendspace

AO3 link.

Summary: Susan Cooper: Analyst. Secret agent. BADASS.

A Festivid for awkwardlyary

Notes: I was feeling cocky about how easy my assignment came together, and how much time I had left to make some treats. Then I saw several posts asking for pinch hits and thought it would be nice to help out. On awkwardlyary's list was "Spy", which I hadn't seen but had heard many enthusiastic reviews about, and given it was a lot of the same people involved as "Ghostbusters", I had to try it out.

I loved the movie, from the humor, to Cooper's evolution and build to total badass, to the fact that the star was a woman of size and yet there were no fat jokes. Such a basic thing, yet such a revelation to witness! I googled for songs about leveling up to see what felt right; the first hit wound up being the one I used.

I had fun pulling together the opening credits. I got to learn all sorts of new tricks, from tinting to splitting and freezing. I may yet graduate to using 5% of all the options available in Sony Vegas Pro. :) Everything came together pretty smoothly, aside from having to mess with the speed of several clips. Filmmakers just love their slo-mo moments of awesome, but they don't translate very well to fast-paced vids.

I'm pretty pleased with how it all turned out, considering it was basically a week from claiming the pinch hit to finishing up the vid.

Many thanks to the wonderful comments on the original Dreamwidth and LJ posts.

( Vid here! )

( Level Up Lyrics )