New vid: Freedom (Underground 2016)

[frayadjacent]

Title: Freedom
Fandom: Underground (2016 television series)
Song: Freedom by Beyoncé feat. Kendrick Lamar (Lemonade film version)
Summary: By any means necessary
Premiered at VidUKon 2016

Content Notes: This attempts to be a recruiter vid but some spoilers are inevitable. Fast cuts and flashing lights, speed changes. US network television-type violence. Some violence against African-American slaves is shown but that is not the primary topic, and there are no Black character deaths. Animal harm. Feel free to ask specific questions about content.

Download: Download with subtitles

Subtitles are included in the download .zip files. You can delete the .srt file if you don't want subtitles.

Update-- the Critical Commons embed doesn't seem to be working, so here's a direct link to the streaming vid.

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Comments

[sol_se]

So good!!! Gah, perfect song choice. Love it.

[frayadjacent]

Thank you! :D

[giandujakiss]

Oh that was gorgeous.

[frayadjacent]

Thank you! And thanks for the rec!

[akamarykate]

Thank you for this. Thank you thank you thank you. This vid did everything to me that the show does; it's beautifully edited and gorgeous.

[frayadjacent]

Oh, thank you so much! I'm very glad this vid evoked the emotions of the show for you.

[serrico]

EXCELLENT. All that strength put together with such a great song choice. Just, excellent. :D

[frayadjacent]

Thank you! There are so many excellent and strong characters in that show. They were a pleasure to vid.

[stultiloquentia]

Damn, this is great. I'm totally using it to lure people to the show.

[frayadjacent]

Hooray! That is the goal. :D

[cofax7]

Oh, that's great. I really need to watch the rest of this...

[frayadjacent]

Yes, you do! The ending of S1 is super satisfying, and the set-up for S2 is exciting.

[gorgeousnerd]

This was fantastic. I love the choice to use the Lemonade version of Freedom - you used the quieter beginning in that to great effect.

[frayadjacent]

Thank you! I chose the Lemonade version both for the quiet at the beginning and, admittedly, because it's much shorter!

[schneefink]

I like this a lot :)

[frayadjacent]

Awesome, thank you for letting me know!

[beccatoria]

I loved this! So dynamic, with great editing. Definitely makes me want to go watch the show.

[frayadjacent]

Thank you buddy! And you *should* watch the show. It's really good!

[geckoholic]

Ohh, I like this, and great, fitting song you picked!

[frayadjacent]

Thank you! :D

[futuransky]

This was powerful, and as others have said, makes me determined to see the show! It was especially fitting given that we were imagining a vid of this very source to this very song at the WisCon vidding workshop...

[frayadjacent]

Ha! That is hilarious. Though at the same time, not terribly surprising. I heard that y'all watched the first few minutes of Underground during the workshop, which sounded really cool.

I highly recommend this show! :D

[grammarwoman]

You've made something stunning and evocative that really packs a punch. Well done!

[frayadjacent]

Yay, thank you for commenting! I'm glad you liked it.

[dolorosa_12]

By a strange coincidence, I watched both Underground and Lemonade over the weekend. This vid does great justice to both.

[frayadjacent]

Sounds like a good weekend! Thanks for the comment, and I'm glad you liked the vid. :D

[dhampyresa]

This is awesome!

[frayadjacent]

I'm glad you liked it, and thank you for commenting!

[runawaynun]

Ah! This is such an awesome vid and packs a punch! (I have to watch this show now.)

[frayadjacent]

It's such a great show! And it's been renewed for S2, and the S1 finale was very promising in terms of what comes next. Highly recommended.

Thanks for commenting, and I'm really glad you like the vid!

[switterbeet]

WHOA!

Never seen the show - going to seek it out now, omg.

[frayadjacent]

Awesome! It's so good, highly recommended.

[beatrice_otter]

WOW!

[frayadjacent]

\o/

[sasha_feather]

Downloading! Commenting to say so in case i forget to leave feedback later! :D

[sasha_feather]

This is great!!

[frayadjacent]

Thank you! And sorry for taking, um, three months to reply! I've been off DW. But I'm glad that you enjoyed the vid, and thank you for commenting!

[alba17]

This is great! I loved this show. I remember thinking about vidding while I was watching it because there were so many visually interesting images.

[frayadjacent]

Thank you! (and sorry for the very belated reply!)

[beatrice_otter]

Never seen teh show, but I WANT to, this was excellent.

[frayadjacent]

Thank you! And sorry for the slow reply. I highly recommend Underground!

[skygiants]

I just finished the show and then immediately watched this vid twice in a row - it's 100% perfect.

[frayadjacent]

Thank you! (Sorry this is so late!)

[kiki_miserychic]

Fuck. Yes. Beautiful set up of the characters and I really love how the quieter bits within the song were edited too, like the kiss. Knowing the source, I really appreciate the use of writing and using the stars to figure out the map. OMGYES bulletproof using Rosalee and Ernestine. And I love the section of Cato and Ernestine because of the cast, they were the two with motives and reasoning not outright revealed to the viewer. Not the way Noah wanted to run and was transparent about that. Excellent use of the superhero angle shot as Rosalee comes out. So good.

[frayadjacent]

Thank you! I <3 this comment!! :D

[luzula]

Huh, I liked that, in that it left me wanting to watch it again so that I could appreciate it more. I mean, I watch so very little TV that realistically, I'm not going to watch the actual show, but I do want to watch the vid again. :)

[oracne]

SO GOOD.

[frayadjacent]

Thank you! And sorry for the long delayed reply. :)