VID: The Different (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

[delphi]

Title: The Different
Fandom: Avatar: the Last Airbender
Characters: Multiple (the Gaang and their mentors)
Music: "The Different" by Melissa Etheridge
Rating: General
Info: Potential spoilers for the series.

It'll come as no surprise to anyone who knows me from the Harry Potter fandom that I have a weakness for the older characters in kid-oriented media. Avatar: The Last Airbender, like Harry Potter, is rich in supporting adult characters with tantalizing histories who serve as mentors (for good or ill) along the kids' path to adulthood and world-saving.

This is my first full-length vid (con-crit and tips always appreciated), and happily, I learned a lot putting this one together. Things like "Animation is not the same as live action video," and "What that little frame rate box is for," and "So that's why my audio sucks!" Trial and error. So much error.

The Different from At Delphi on Vimeo.

Password: whitelotus (Vid can be viewed at a larger size on Vimeo—please let me know if there are any technical problems.)

Download from Mediafire

Comments

[aris_tgd]

Very nice! I also love the mentor figures in Avatar--and the hugging. Thanks for including some of the hugging.

[such_heights]

This is really great! I like the focus on the older characters and all the different ways in which they're awesome.

[stultiloquentia]

This is beautiful! I love that you counted the dragons as elders.

[delphi]

Thank you very much. :-) I really couldn't resist including a few hugs. I've always loved how Avatar, despite being an action-adventure show, never shied away from characters showing affection.

[delphi]

Thank you very much!

[delphi]

Thank you for watching. :-)

[cofax7]

Oh, that was great! I really liked the focus on the older characters (although again I'm disappointed that the only female mentor we get is eeevil, sigh).

[delphi]

*sigh* I hear you. I really wish we'd seen Gran Gran again after the revelation that she'd travelled across the world in her youth, or that the herbalist (with her politically subversive cat) had been revealed to be a member of the Order of the White Lotus. I do have a soft spot for Hama as a character, though, and I wouldn't classify her as evil so much as deeply unwell.

[amanuensis1]

I LOVE this! Would you consider loading this somewhere I can download and save it?

[delphi]

Oh bother - I use the DownloadHelper extension on Firefox, so I hadn't noticed that Vimeo requires you to be a member to download. I've uploaded it here: http://www.mediafire.com/?xbbi0hx55wytbpk Do let me know if there are any issues with the download or the file. (And I'm pleased as punch that you liked it!)

[amanuensis1]

That worked great, thank you! (My usual online download clients wouldn't work because it was a protected video. ^_^ )

[delphi]

*headdesk* I didn't think of that. Thanks for bearing with me.

[amanuensis1]

Oh, goodness, it's your prerogative to protect your videos if you wanna!

[delphi]

Vimeo's a little iffy on fanvids, and unfortunately, from reading the forums it seems like there's at least a couple of people who browse around and report terms of service violations, so I figured better safe than sorry.

[bridgetmkennitt]

Such a lovely vid! I downloaded it so I can watch it over and over. :)

[delphi]

Thank you - I'm really pleased you enjoyed it!

sending love

[littlecatk]

this was a really cool fanvideo, thanks for making and sharing it!
there is this moment in childhood when the idea how cool/empowering it is to have the kids be theones who save the day/world, who outsmart every adult around them (if there are adults around) makes room for the realasation that the adults fucked up if the only way to solve the things is to sent kids fighting and atla does a real good way of dealing with that.
i really love the lyric match for "Mama's rollin' in the back yard" with the moon and water spirit (and general how you managed to includ this spirits and their teaching without it feeling unconected to the rest. like the dragons and the lyrics "We'll dance without a care" because both Zuko and Aang needed to (re)learn fire as more then the destructive (imperalistic, abusive family) they had in their heads before)) "And time will make it heal/And time will make it gone" Kataras growth is as often said just breathtaking but i love the coupling with sokka and yue because i am a sucker for the sibling relationship and the way atla (and your vid!) manage to portray all this different kind of heartbreaks from growing up in a war with the same amount of gentle understanding.
And as someone else said thanks for includding hugs!
sorry if this coment doesnt make much sense. i am not good at saying what i mean.

[sanguinity]

Oh, lovely. I like how you had hama in there, although I wish the show had given us so much more with older women. :-(

And thank you for the download link, too!

[mythicmistress]

Here via a rec, I enjoyed seeing the older characters who aren't Iroh get some time in the spotlight.