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Porthos pics
I spent a happy evening attempting to grab some screen captures of Porthos and d'Artagnan to go with my new fic (since the "Twenty Years After" film conveniently provides footage of the two of them together at Bragelonne, as per my story, although in canon Porthos doesn't ever come there (and hence is implicitly seeing the house for the first time in my AU)... :-p)
http://ivory.ueuo.com/Tower/Albums/Porthos_pics/
This was a rather hit and miss operation, given the hefty shutter delay on screencaps: I did coincidentally grab a halfway decent image of Porthos, Raoul and d'Artagnan at Bragelonne without Athos in shot, although I was actually trying to get a usable picture of Porthos at the time! But there aren't really any usable close-ups from these wide-shot scenes, especially as the picture quality is so low; I hadn't appreciated the viewer complaints about the low resolution of the YouTube footage as versus the official uploads of "D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers" until I started trying to capture and crop frames. I wasn't clear if that was a result of early digital camera footage (in the 1990s?) on a film that was apparently made on even more of a shoestring budget than its state-funded predecessor, or a poor-quality DVD transfer from which these uploads were presumably pirated, or a low-bandwidth upload.
I did get one verging-on-adequate vertical format 300x500 pixel image (as required by fanfiction.net's Image Manager for a 'cover picture') showing Porthos looking unhappy in the entrance hall, and might possibly use it, but there is very clearly daylight showing through the window behind him, which doesn't fit with the setting of the story.
So after that I went back to the scenes of d'Artagnan and Porthos together at Pierrefonds, and got quite a few decent shots of the two of them together which could potentially be used as an AO3 illustration, and some better vertical format close-ups of Porthos on his own for FFnet. (I feel there is no way I'm going to squeeze *both* Porthos and d'Artagnan into a 300x500 format, as they don't really stand close enough together. Edit: though I did have a go at one such image...)
Most of the best pictures, inevitably, are from the scene where (as in canon) they go outside to discuss d'Artagnan's proposition out of earshot of the servants, and again these exterior shots don't really fit with the setting of the story; the quality of the images, however, is generally much better thanks to the superior lighting levels! I did manage to get a few usable screencaps out of the indoors evening scene that show Porthos in the foreground addressing d'Artagnan in the background, as opposed to d'Artagnan lecturing Porthos, which is what tends to be happening in the exterior shots (although this is also applicable to the action of the story, it is perhaps a little less 'thematic'!) And the characters look suitably mournful in these pictures, because at this point in the scene they are both very drunk and are discussing how tragic it is that Athos is probably very drunk also :-p
I had forgotten how endearing the (entirely non-canonical) morning-after scene is, in which Porthos, who can't wait to get started, bounces into d'Artagnan's bedchamber at dawn and insists that his guest should get up, while d'Artagnan (probably very hungover) keeps dozing off again to nestle onto the support of his voluble host's shoulder while Porthos continues to chatter away :-)
I now need to decide on (probably) one horizontal and one vertical image out of the sixteen. I'm tempted to add the fortuitous Raoul-in-frame pic as a 'happy ending' illustration, although it has to be said that it isn't objectively very good.
http://ivory.ueuo.com/Tower/Albums/Porthos_pics/
This was a rather hit and miss operation, given the hefty shutter delay on screencaps: I did coincidentally grab a halfway decent image of Porthos, Raoul and d'Artagnan at Bragelonne without Athos in shot, although I was actually trying to get a usable picture of Porthos at the time! But there aren't really any usable close-ups from these wide-shot scenes, especially as the picture quality is so low; I hadn't appreciated the viewer complaints about the low resolution of the YouTube footage as versus the official uploads of "D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers" until I started trying to capture and crop frames. I wasn't clear if that was a result of early digital camera footage (in the 1990s?) on a film that was apparently made on even more of a shoestring budget than its state-funded predecessor, or a poor-quality DVD transfer from which these uploads were presumably pirated, or a low-bandwidth upload.
I did get one verging-on-adequate vertical format 300x500 pixel image (as required by fanfiction.net's Image Manager for a 'cover picture') showing Porthos looking unhappy in the entrance hall, and might possibly use it, but there is very clearly daylight showing through the window behind him, which doesn't fit with the setting of the story.
So after that I went back to the scenes of d'Artagnan and Porthos together at Pierrefonds, and got quite a few decent shots of the two of them together which could potentially be used as an AO3 illustration, and some better vertical format close-ups of Porthos on his own for FFnet. (I feel there is no way I'm going to squeeze *both* Porthos and d'Artagnan into a 300x500 format, as they don't really stand close enough together. Edit: though I did have a go at one such image...)
Most of the best pictures, inevitably, are from the scene where (as in canon) they go outside to discuss d'Artagnan's proposition out of earshot of the servants, and again these exterior shots don't really fit with the setting of the story; the quality of the images, however, is generally much better thanks to the superior lighting levels! I did manage to get a few usable screencaps out of the indoors evening scene that show Porthos in the foreground addressing d'Artagnan in the background, as opposed to d'Artagnan lecturing Porthos, which is what tends to be happening in the exterior shots (although this is also applicable to the action of the story, it is perhaps a little less 'thematic'!) And the characters look suitably mournful in these pictures, because at this point in the scene they are both very drunk and are discussing how tragic it is that Athos is probably very drunk also :-p
I had forgotten how endearing the (entirely non-canonical) morning-after scene is, in which Porthos, who can't wait to get started, bounces into d'Artagnan's bedchamber at dawn and insists that his guest should get up, while d'Artagnan (probably very hungover) keeps dozing off again to nestle onto the support of his voluble host's shoulder while Porthos continues to chatter away :-)
I now need to decide on (probably) one horizontal and one vertical image out of the sixteen. I'm tempted to add the fortuitous Raoul-in-frame pic as a 'happy ending' illustration, although it has to be said that it isn't objectively very good.