Vid: Enemy at the Door Trailer

[thisbluespirit]

The commentfest continues! And talking of obscure and British things...

As threatened, a 'trailer' of sorts for ITV's 1978-80 WWII drama, Enemy at the Door. I made this as an experiment, because I thought I'd solved my issues with sound-editing on my vidding software. Guess what? I haven't, so this is not entirely a success - there are some sound issues, especially at the start, and it was getting worse with every edit. You may take it as read that I'm not doing anything else like this in a hurry. Still, that's what experiments are for, yes?

However, that said, it is still better than anything Network or Acorn have bothered to do for it and maybe it will explain something of why I like it so much. Or just bore everybody, I'm not sure at this point. Inevitably, there are some spoilers (especially for 1.13), but hopefully not too bad out of context (& not beyond 2.1 because Network wouldn't let me rip 2.2-2.13).


Enemy at the Door Trailer
(3.48 mins. Warning for general war themes, some non-graphic death/violence. Music: Nimrod by Elgar.) "War must be fought, even if it's only in the mind. You cannot win if you do not fight... but you cannot fight if you do not survive."

(Main cast: Bernard Horsfall, Alfred Burke, Antonia Pemberton, Simon Cadell, Emily Richard, John Malcolm, Simon Lack, Richard Heffer, Helen Shingler. Also featuring guest stars Richard Hurndall, Anthony Stewart Head, Thelma Whiteley, Joss Ackland, James Maxwell, Norma Streader. LWT 1978-80. Producer Michael Chapman.)

EatD Trailer from lostspook1 on Vimeo.

(Password: enemy)

Also here at YouTube

Comments

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Oh that's good! (I wish I could do them... but what the hell, I need to concentrate on writing). The occupation of the islands was always a fascinatingly dark little spot in history...

And Nimrod (I have to say I see the sound problem, it got a tad loud over the dialogue at the end, but not to bad). Nimrod was one of the works I voted for in the swoon...

[thisbluespirit]

Thank you! :-D

Yes, I couldn't alter the sound levels - I think it's a fault in the software because it's rather old now & things wouldn't register. It could still be me, but I'm fairly sure at this point it isn't. It's actually the fact that the music is inaudible at the start and all the weird hitches that was the bigger problem, because at least Alfred Burke was pretty good at talking over the climax of the music. But, yeah. Until I get some new software someday, best to keep any voice/music stuff to a minimum!

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

At least your choice of music made me very happy :) I once claimed (in one of those frivolous mailing list threads where people were suggesting characters' theme music) that 'Nimrod' was Blake and Avon's theme... okay, interspersed with <'Let's Call the Whole Thing Off' :)

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

*HUGS*

[lycomingst.livejournal.com]

Very good and intriguing. Gosh, ASH is a boy.

[thisbluespirit]

Thank you! ♥

I believe it was ASH's first TV role, though despite how young he obviously is, you really wouldn't know it from his performance. (Probably not-so-coincidentally, his Mum Helen Shingler is a regular in the series!)

[liadt]

I see what you mean about the sound it was crunchy in parts. An effective trailer - it's war, people die, no party hats.

[thisbluespirit]

Thank you! And, honest, there are a few happy things. Er. One or two, really! ;-) (But not in the trailer.)

Yes, crunchy sound = v annoying, and it wasn't like that until the last couple of edits, so I'd finally got it into shape and then it was doing that at me. Ah, well. At least it's all fine if I stick to music!

[executrix.livejournal.com]

Smashing job! I do hope people will watch this, if only to show that Blake was not the single least effective resistance leader ever. (Srsly, you captured that it's a show about very real moral issues that don't have a simple answers.) And Henry VII as a Nazi, I forgot him!

[thisbluespirit]

Srsly, you captured that it's a show about very real moral issues that don't have a simple answers.

Oh, thank you!! Because that was exactly what I wanted to do. I don't know if it'll persuade anyone else, because the sound went a bit up the creek, but still... I try!

And, LOL, old British TV is just full of people failing and mostly being stoic about it. I find it oddly reassuring somehow. Yes, everything is terrible and we failed again, but that's just life. Have a cup of tea. ;-)

And Henry VII as a Nazi, I forgot him!

Ahaha. Sorry. It's just that this was my last vid. I am a strange person and, though I find this hard to remember now, I actually only watched EatD in the first place because I was trying (and mostly failing) to get my hands on some more James Maxwell after really liking him in Shadow of the Tower and somebody sent that to me. I nearly turned it down because it sounded too depressing, but changed my mind, thankfully. (Also, I asked the internet if he was alive or dead and it answered back: he's a ghost. It's very random; it actually seems to have grown up because the people at the theatre wanted him still to be there, which is odd but very sweet.)

[executrix.livejournal.com]

Lovely vid! I hadn't seen it because I seem to not have you friended--OK if I remedy the omission? After I saw Shadow of the Tower I put Portrait of a Lady on my Netflix queue, it took ages to get there so I still haven't seen it yet.

I think, on balance, the VERY worst resistance movement must be Wish Me Luck, they constituted an entire Third Front for the Axis by getting the entire French resistance killed. The true British touch was the episode where the retreating Germans wiped out the SOE and their French allies just before the Americans arrived.

[thisbluespirit]

Lovely vid! I hadn't seen it because I seem to not have you friended--OK if I remedy the omission?

Thank you, on both counts, & of course. I'll go friend you now. :-)

I have mixed feelings about Portrait of a Lady, but James Maxwell does pull off even more epic hand-holding than in SotT, so that was quite something. Also there was Richard Chamberlain, obviously. (I just prefer actors I like not to be playing awful characters who are way too interested in choosing their 17 year old daughter's dresses, really.) In the unlikely event you ever want a list of things to watch (or not watch) with James Maxwell, I am right there, heh.


I think, on balance, the VERY worst resistance movement must be Wish Me Luck,

The thing with Wish Me Luck is that it is supposed to be based on the memoirs of one real agent (S1 & 2) and on a particular real operation (S3, hence the condemnatory speech at the end), so presumably the real Resistance was that useless, or at least the parts where they had help from the British! (It's life, see. Failure is just the general state of being! Have a cup of tea, and never mind.)

Yorkshire-Pudding Eating Defeat Monkeys

[executrix.livejournal.com]

One of my first-ever fannish activities was meta about how if the US made B7 it probably would have had lots of glorious victories and the Federation would eventually have been defeated. After all, a tremendous number of things have *happened*, the question is which ones are selected for fictionalization and how they're treated.

[clocketpatch]

Very good vid! I did not notice any sound issues other than the music kicking in a bit late (I assumed that was the issue?) This makes me want to try watching EatD again.

[thisbluespirit]

Thank you! And, ha, me and my terrible rabbit hole of old TV I've fallen down, sorry. EatD has had some serious staying power in my head, though, and it's slow build, but very good, I think.

The sound issues are that I can't control the levels (so I couldn't make the music audible at the start, and it should be!) and that trying to do so made the dialogue go odd and scratchy in several places, again, especially at the start. But, there, that's vidding for you. :-)

[flowsoffire.livejournal.com]

I swear to you, when I saw this on YouTube, I read it as "Eat D" and I was like "wait, what is getting eaten?"

Aw, I'm sorry the sound gave you hell a bit, but experimenting is good indeed! And the video is great, very grave and heartfelt. The lady on the beach around the end has the most gorgeous eyes.

♥

[thisbluespirit]

Whoops. I just get a little nervous of spelling things out on YT sometimes, in case people come and shout at me to take stuff down!

And the video is great, very grave and heartfelt. The lady on the beach around the end has the most gorgeous eyes.

Thank you! And the lady is Emily Richard, who plays Clare Martel. :-)

[flowsoffire.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I get that :/ Fanvids should be okay though, no?

She's very beautiful :)

[dimity-blue.livejournal.com]

That was good, really good. And very intriguing. They need to put trailers up on Amazon so people can watch them and get intrigued enough to buy the series.

Thanks for sharing the video. I really liked it.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, thank you very much! :-)

[lokifan]

This looks amazing. *adds to wishlist*

[thisbluespirit]

Thank you! :-)

[hyarrowen.livejournal.com]

TEA!!!

And it's a great intro.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, thank you! And, yes, tea-drinking, whether blackberry or whatever! :-)