Fanvid: Effifgy (Shadow of the Tower)

[thisbluespirit]

I made a proper fanvid for Shadow of the Tower (with thanks to akashasheiress who - accidentally - gave me the song and made it possible).

YouTube link in case embedding fails.
Henry/Elizabeth of York and the endless conspiracies and mistrust and the fragility of this new dynasty. (Some shots of, erm, rather fake death/blood and executions. Also death masks again. But not morbid like the vidlets.)

To Effigy by Andrew Bird. (Which in many ways shouldn't work, but it just fitted all the way through. And non-existent telephones were absolutely around in the 15th/16th Century. The only kind, yes.)

If you come to find me affable
Build a replica for me
Would the idea to you be laughable
Of a pale facsimile?

So will you come to burn an effigy?
It should keep the flies away
And when you long to burn this effigy
It should be of the hours that slip away, slip away

It could be you, it could be me
Working the door, drinking for free
Carrying on with your conspiracies
Filling the room with a sense of unease

Fake conversations on a nonexistent telephone
Like the words of a man who's spent a little too much time alone
When one has spent too much time alone

So will you come to burn my effigy?
It should keep the flies away
If you long to burn an effigy
It should be of a man whose has lost his way, slips away

It could be you, it could be me
Working the door, drinking for free
Carrying on with your conspiracies
Filling the room with a sense of unease

Fake conversations on a nonexistent telephone
Like the words of a man who's spent a little too much time alone
When one has spent too much time alone

The various 'conspirators/traitors/threats' include: Earl of Lincoln, Humphrey and Thomas Stafford, Lord Lovell, Earl of Warwick, Sir William Stanley, the Abbot of Santay, Lambert Simnel, Perkin Warbeck, and those involved with the Cornish uprising.


And I know, one day I'll do a fanvid that isn't really odd and obscure again.

Crossposted from Dreamwidth -- Comments there:

Comments

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

It's a good tune. And you make it work with the images from the series, which really does look worth a watch. Another one for the list, then.

[thisbluespirit]

Thank you! I was quite pleased with it, although possibly it is an accidentally ridiculous thing, what with the telephones. :-)

And, heh, I don't know - if you want to watch a 1970s BBC Tudor historical, I recommend Elizabeth R! Shadow of the Tower I just liked for me, and wanted to vid. I really don't know if other people would like that one. (But cool if you want to watch a version of that era and don't mind two duff episodes with epically dodgy accents in the middle.)

:-)

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

I didn't find the telephone thing particularly distracting - it didn't pull me out of the vid or anything.

Henry VII and his era do interest me, perhaps moreso than the later Tudors, and you know, dodgy accents and 70s telly-isms don't really put me off things - quite the opposite, sometimes. ;D But it is a very, very long list by now, and I doubt I'll ever get around to watching all of the old things I want to watch...

[akashasheiress.livejournal.com]

I may have done it before, but I recommend Winter King by Thomas Penn for a decent biography on Henry VII. It talks more about his politics than his actual life/personality, but it's the only modern biography really focusing on his reign that I know of. You do, however get a few remarkably touching glimpses of him as a husband and father.

[thisbluespirit]

Good!

And, heh, in that case, I should tell you that the duff episode has dodgily accented Peter Bowles as a Tudor spy-cum-assassin. Wearing a sort of horrible yellow thingumy.

:-)

And, yes, in order to watch all this old TV, I recommend becoming too ill to do anything else for two years. That works really well. It just has slight drawbacks in other things...

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

I should tell you that the duff episode has dodgily accented Peter Bowles as a Tudor spy-cum-assassin. Wearing a sort of horrible yellow thingumy

Peter Bowles?! You're not actually putting me off wanting to see this. ;)

[thisbluespirit]

No, that bit was me leading you on. It does, though. With 1970s TV you rarely have to make this stuff up.

:-)

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

You really don't... :D

[akashasheiress.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't thank me. ;D

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Good tune, well chosen. :D

[akashasheiress.livejournal.com]

Well, I meant for adding another thing to watch to your list, but thank you. :D

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Well, for that too. ;D

[dimity-blue.livejournal.com]

That was interesting and really well done. The clips you picked really fitted the lyrics. I liked the song too, which I hadn't heard before. As for obscure, I should think people who are into Tudor history would be pleased to find a fanvid like yours.

Like jjpor, I'm getting interested in seeing that series. I really do like Tudor history but so much of it focuses on Henry VIII and his wives or his children, so Henry VII is really overshadowed.

I'm also still thinking about Poldark. ::is still blaming Lost Spook for that one too:: ;oD

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, thank you. And, yes, I'm quite pleased with it and I do think it was worth doing. I'll have to post it to a comm - maybe bbccostumedrama or somewhere.

Heh, well, I think as long as you're prepared for dodgy old TV, that's okay! I'm just aware that it was some v particular things about it that appealed to me that wouldn't to many other people so I wouldn't rec it as I would something like Elizabeth R.

I'm not sorry about Poldark at all. I really enjoyed watching it!! ;-p

[akashasheiress.livejournal.com]

Yay, you did it! It's just lovely, and the song fits really well. :)

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, thank you. :-) So glad you liked the end result!

[akashasheiress.livejournal.com]

I did indeed! Oh, and more fuel for my 'hypothetical' Tudor dynasty fanmix (this song is totally about Henry):
http://www.metrolyrics.com/weight-of-the-world-lyrics-patrick-watson.html

[thisbluespirit]

See, it's totally a fanmix already. ;-p

[akashasheiress.livejournal.com]

This one would be so perfect for an Elizabeth I mix. Specifically for her enemies (especially upon her ascension) and other people who made her earlier life tough:

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, I can see that working. :-)

[akashasheiress.livejournal.com]

Oh, and your vid is getting talked about on Facebook (yes, our Henry has his own FB page!): http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Henry-Tudor-Experience/166143490122370

[thisbluespirit]

0_o My fanvid's famous! :lol:

I put it on vidding this afternoon, but barring one extra like on YT (v nice, of course) I assumed no one had taken any notice of me.

Aw. :-D

ETA: It's amazing who's on Facebook... Everyone, it seems!

[agiel.livejournal.com]

(Butting in--got here from the vidding com)

What a perfect song for her! I hope it does get made, someday, because I would love the hell out of it.