To Build A Home (Downton Abbey)

This is my entry for the final challenge of SYTYCV Season 3.

I decided to go for a very naturalistic and basic approach to this challenge, editing with a clear focus on emotional intensity. Downton Abbey is one of my favourite television shows and I decided making a tribute to the ensemble would be a great way to end my experience of SoYouThinkYouCanVid. I wanted to focus on certain thematic elements of the television show, such as continuity and change, life and death or love and sadness, within my video and hopefully you can see these reflected in my editing.

To be in the Top 6 out of 400 competitors is more than I ever could have imagined to achieve and I want to wish my peers in this round the best of luck!

Feedback on a project as important as this would be appreciated :)

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Transcript:

"Don't you care about Downton?"
"What do you think? I've given my life to Downton. I was born here and I hope to die here. I claim no career beyond the nurture of this house and the estate. It is my third parent and my fourth child."

"There's never a dull moment in this house."

"The world is changing."
"But things are changing."
"Life's altered you, as it's altered me."
"When the war is over, the world won't be the same place it was when it started."
"And what would be the point of living if we didn't let life change us?"
"You can change your life if you want to. Sometimes you have to be hard on yourself but you can change it completely."

"You are being tested. And do you know what they say, my darling? Being tested only makes you stronger."

"I think while the clock strikes, we should all make a silent prayer to mark the finish of this terrible war and what that means for each and every one of us."

"I know I've been a disappointment to you."

"So I've ruined everything?"
"You've shown me that I've been living in a dream."

"Be careful, m'lad, or you'll end up with no job and a broken heart."

"War has a way of distinguishing between the things that matter and the things that don't."

"I know what real love is and there aren't many who can say that."
"Oh my darling."
"Do you love Matthew?"
"I do love you so much."
"I'm one of the lucky ones."
"Yes. I think perhaps I do."
"Believe it or not, I will stay true to you."
"You're meant to be together."

"I can barely be without her."

"Life is strange, isn't it?"
"...in so many different ways."
"I think of all the uncertainty between Matthew and Mary, when the money was lost and everything was so dark. Yet now here we are with two healthy heirs, an estate in good order and I wonder what I've to deserve it."
"I agree. But then - we don't always get our just desserts."

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