Figure Skating, "Habanera, Toreador" [fanvid]

[melodytree]

Title: Habanera, Toreador
Fandom: Figure skating!
Song: Carmen Suite mix
Download: Here
Notes:
Vid contains notes on who each skater is in the subtitles (included as soft subs in the download).

Carmen is one of the most well-known and most common sources of music in figure skating. I got bored while waiting for some code to run and decided to see how many there were.

This is every Carmen program I could find (which was skated at least once as a competitive program at the senior elite level), edited down into five minutes accompanied by Carmen Suite. There are 92 programs, spanning more than forty years. Hopefully I didn’t miss your favorite!

I don't have much to say about the vid itself technically (though I did get much more familiar with Premiere's color-correction tools while making this, and did my best to edit the songs together smoothly in Audacity) or artistically (it was an interesting challenge). However, I did a full write-up with stats and graphs about the whole list of Carmen programs, from which year had the most Carmens to what colors skaters wore. It's here on DW and also over on Tumblr.

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Comments

[skygiants]

This is so cool! I love all the 'death' sequences at the end.

[allekha]

Thank you! The 'I've just died on the ice tonight' part was the first section I finished editing - I had a lot of fun with that.

[eruthros]

This is very cool!

[allekha]

Thank you!

[bironic]

Research + vidding = love! What a great project & outcome.

[allekha]

Thank you! It was fun to have this project to geek out over and research that matters a little less than my grad school work, hah.