{"id":190,"date":"2017-10-19T16:48:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T06:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/video.deslea.com\/site\/?p=190"},"modified":"2017-10-19T22:00:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T12:00:05","slug":"toy-soldiers-by-deslea-krycekmarita-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/video.deslea.com\/fmv\/toy-soldiers-by-deslea-krycekmarita-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"Toy Soldiers by Deslea (Krycek\/Marita), 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"kgvid_kgvid_0_wrapper\" class=\"kgvid_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div id=\"video_kgvid_0_div\" class=\"fitvidsignore kgvid_videodiv\" data-id=\"kgvid_0\" data-kgvid_video_vars=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;kgvid_0&quot;,&quot;attachment_id&quot;:0,&quot;player_type&quot;:&quot;Video.js v8&quot;,&quot;width&quot;:&quot;320&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:&quot;228&quot;,&quot;fullwidth&quot;:&quot;true&quot;,&quot;fixed_aspect&quot;:&quot;vertical&quot;,&quot;countable&quot;:false,&quot;count_views&quot;:&quot;start_complete&quot;,&quot;start&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;autoplay&quot;:&quot;false&quot;,&quot;pauseothervideos&quot;:&quot;true&quot;,&quot;set_volume&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;muted&quot;:&quot;false&quot;,&quot;meta&quot;:true,&quot;endofvideooverlay&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;resize&quot;:&quot;true&quot;,&quot;auto_res&quot;:&quot;automatic&quot;,&quot;pixel_ratio&quot;:&quot;true&quot;,&quot;right_click&quot;:&quot;on&quot;,&quot;playback_rate&quot;:&quot;false&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Toysoldiers.mp4&quot;,&quot;skip_buttons&quot;:[],&quot;nativecontrolsfortouch&quot;:&quot;false&quot;,&quot;locale&quot;:&quot;en&quot;,&quot;enable_resolutions_plugin&quot;:false}\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><meta itemprop=\"embedUrl\" content=\"http:\/\/video.deslea.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Toysoldiers.mp4\"><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"http:\/\/video.deslea.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Toysoldiers.mp4\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Toysoldiers.mp4\"><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Video\"><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2017-10-19T16:48:56+10:00\">\n\t\t\t\t<video id=\"video_kgvid_0\" playsinline controls preload=\"metadata\" width=\"320\" height=\"228\" class=\"fitvidsignore video-js kg-video-js-skin\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<source src=\"http:\/\/video.deslea.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Toysoldiers.mp4?id=0\" type=\"video\/mp4\" data-res=\"Full\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/video>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div style=\"display:none\" id=\"video_kgvid_0_meta\" class=\"kgvid_video_meta kgvid_video_meta_hover kgvid_no_title_meta\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"kgvid_meta_icons\">\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"kgvid-download-link\" href=\"http:\/\/video.deslea.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Toysoldiers.mp4\" title=\"Click to download\" download><span class=\"kgvid-icons kgvid-icon-download\"><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma;\"><b>Toy Soldiers (2002)<br \/>\nPerformed by Martika<br \/>\nTheme: X Files Krycek\/Marita Post-Existence Angst<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma;\"><u>Summary:<\/u> A Krycek\/Marita angsty piece set post-Existence. Marita remembers Alex and mourns.<br \/>\n<u>My Rating:<\/u> Three stars. It&#8217;s not bad. I don&#8217;t think this one is quite on a par with some of my more recent favourites, but still a good piece. It really derives all its impact from knowing their story, though. In that sense, it&#8217;s much more narrative-based than, say, Gravity Of Love.<br \/>\n<u>Geeky Things To Note:<\/u> This one is composed entirely in Premiere, and I&#8217;m now finding that less frustrating than for previous videos. I&#8217;ve worked out how to get most of the effects that I used to get in other programs now. As with Return To Innocence, I&#8217;m now using a footer with my signature and the title, like a music video on TV, rather than the titles and\/or trailers I&#8217;ve used in the past. In particular, the fifteen-second closing trailers I had on a few videos &#8211; while lovely &#8211; began to irritate even me. So this system works a lot better. I&#8217;m sticking with the techniques I&#8217;ve used for a clean finish since Pray &#8211; thin top-and-bottom black border to mask signal noise, for instance. I really notice that on my earlier vids now that I&#8217;ve found a way to mask them. I&#8217;m also cropping out titles (credits and translations) from the bottom of the screen. This particular video uses footage of Laurie Holden in Outer Limits, where she sits alone in a restaurant, quietly crying and smoking. I used that to bookend the clip to suggest that this occurs not long after she learns of Krycek&#8217;s death. I had to crop that footage pretty severely, because in fact, her character suicides in this scene by quietly downing a bottle of pills while she drinks (I actually considered including this for about five seconds before deciding that wasn&#8217;t Marita). There&#8217;s one part where the cut is a bit more jarring than I&#8217;d like, but I think it still works. This vid is very narrative based &#8211; I don&#8217;t think it has really any atmosphere or impact without the context of their story &#8211; so that&#8217;s a negative for the casual viewer. Marita likens they way they&#8217;ve been manipulated and used to them being toy soldiers, and she clearly blames herself for Alex&#8217;s path (it&#8217;s true I did extend the invitation\/I didn&#8217;t know how long you&#8217;d stay), and understands their downfall against the backdrop of the mythology (bit by bit, torn apart\/never win\/and the battle rages on). The other thing that niggles me about it is that it&#8217;s a slower-moving song than I normally work with, and that was awkward for me to work with initially. Still, overall, I&#8217;m happy with it.<br \/>\n<u>Programs Used:<\/u> Adobe Premiere, Paint Shop Pro, CoolEdit, VCD Cutter, RealProducer.<br \/>\n<u>Sources:<\/u> XF to Existence, Outer Limits.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toy Soldiers (2002) Performed by Martika Theme: X Files Krycek\/Marita Post-Existence Angst Summary: A Krycek\/Marita angsty piece set post-Existence. Marita remembers Alex and mourns. My Rating: Three stars. It&#8217;s not bad. I don&#8217;t think this one is quite on a par with some of my more recent favourites, but still a good piece. 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