Friday Night Lights: Matt & Julie ["Driver's License" by Olivia Rodrigo]

Turn on the Closed Captions (CC) for a transcription of the voiceovers! ~~~ I started this vid right when this song was becoming a huge hit and catapulting Olivia Rodrigo's music career, February 2021 I was very inspired. I had vidded Matt/Julie in a super happy vid to Taylor Swift's "Fearless" in August & September 2020, just 7 or so months before her first Taylor's version album came out.
• Friday Night Lights: M... (my username was still luvtheheaven5 at the time, I'd switched away from luvtheheaven to VioletEmerald in January 2021) and in that one I had not vidded pretty much ANY of their heartbreak or sad scenes, although it also was very Julie-centric of a POV (point of view/perspective).
But then in this video I tried to use almost entirely different scenes (4 or 5 moments may overlap) and just really capture the hurt that was SO relatable to me in this song. The song had instantly made me think of my breakups in 2016 and 2017 with the guy I vidded about in my "Shout" fanvideo: • Multi-Couples/Multi-Fr... and when Matt ghosts Julie in season 4 it's one of the breakups I can relate to the most, and I was excited that I could find a way to match this song so exactly. My breakup in my real life was a decade or so later than getting my Driver's License but this show takes place while Julie is going through literally getting her Driver's License, so... pretty much every lyric, there's a way to make it work.
With Taylor Swift's new album out, an album with a couple songs ("All You Had To Do Was Stay" and "I Wish You Would") that I listened to back in 2017 & 2018 when I was processing being ghosted by my partner, I started to get inspired to maybe vid a ghosting-themed fanvideo. And I do think I will. I'm inspired by "Say Don't Go" and Matt/Julie will have to be one of the ships. So that was another reason Matt/Julie were on my mind and I was re-inspired to go back to this old vid of mine and finally finish and post it.
In the show Matt & Julie end up together but I deliberately chose to not vid the part of the show where they start to rekindle things and work towards their happy ending. I needed to focus on them like something final and over in order to properly match the song.
I really hope you all like it! Anyone who's a big fan of the song, of my vidding generally, or especially of this old show. I'm glad I jumped back into it nearly 3 years later and was able to edit the final minute of the video after all this time! I had already set myself up to be able to vid the end back in 2021, I had clipped so many of these scenes preemptively etc. It still somehow took me 6 more hours to vid just the final min of the video though and help it be what I wanted it to be. Vidding takes me a LONG time lol.
I don't really have time to vid like this these days. Gotta find ways to vid faster and not sacrifice my sleep or exercise classes because I'm doing it, as keeps happening... but at least the vid is complete!
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Song: Driver's License
Artist: Olivia Rodrigo
TV Series: Friday Night Lights
Pairing: Julie Taylor & Matt Saracen
Actors: Aimee Teegarden & Zach Gilford
Playlist of all my FNL vidding: • Friday Night Lights vi...

[@VioletEmerald]

To see more of the Matt ghosting Julie heartbreaking storyline, I vidded it in this "Shout" multi-fandom video that's very personally meaningful to me: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jH_CZKykq62Xj5Y . Shockingly a few of the sad moments from ghosting in season 4 storyline that were vidded in the "Shout" video didn't even make it into this "Driver's License" video! There's even more variety to see there! ~~ I also vidded Julie/Derek in an angsty vid set to Taylor Swift's "Would've Could've Should've" here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqi5ZZaPpsamo68 -- Don't forget also to watch the Happy Matt/Julie vid I made linked to at the top of the description, the "Fearless" one! -- Also, please Support my Creativity! ✨☕💰💞 If you enjoy my vidding, please consider "buying me a coffee". It's a small donation that supports me continuing to invest my time into this labor of love. 😊 www.buymeacoffee.com/violetemerald

[@EmmieClassix]

This is so good😭

[@VioletEmerald]

Thank you so much for watching and commenting! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. Sorry to inflict the heartbreak though. 😅

[@Supsi85]

This turned out so perfect! I like how your editing matches the flow of the song. The fades are just right. Also you found so many fitting break up moments to fit the song. I don't remember these last seasons so well and definitely didn't remember there were so many of these moments. Also the driver's license parts were surprisingly many. This really is the song for them:D Glad you finally finished it!

[@VioletEmerald]

Thank you so much!! I also vidded so much of season 2 in this, which is a weird season in many ways and I managed to include none of that season in my "Fearless" vid. But yeah even I had forgotten they had so much that would fit this song until I was actually editing it. I'm glad I was able to edit this song in a way that does it justice. I think the song is pretty amazing. Thanks again!

[@lbchatterbox]

This is so angsty compared to so many vids of them, it's not a side I see vidded often, but it was beautifully done, and you used so many scenes that are undervidded. I loved this so much and I love them so much!

[@VioletEmerald]

Thank you so much! Yes great point -- so much of the vidding of them is about how sweet of a ship they are and really downplaying this side of their storyline which is actually idk half the time they are really going through intense heartbreak and drama stuff lol. I love vidding both sides of them ;)

[@Smurfa85]

I never watched the show but it's nice to see some familiar faces in here, aside from the video's main characters. Love the flow of your editing, and after reading your description, I'm glad you were able to explore the angsty/sad part of their relationship. It's great that you could come back to this project after over 2 years and a half 🧡

[@VioletEmerald]

Ah yeah I love seeing a younger Julian on OTH as a teacher in season 2 of this show :) Thanks! Yeah I'm glad I was able to too! Forgot I recognized Carlotta too, it's been so long but yes Anna on OTH too right? The first Derek on OTH also appears in the scene where Julie is saying she's still broken but I cut out his face in the final edit of my video. In earlier versions he was visible lol.

[@CB94Production]

I need to do a rewatch but this video was amazing! And I love how you created the perfect scenes and story to match the song, despite the show ending. Really well done! I also am happy to see people still vid this show

[@VioletEmerald]

Thanks! So glad you enjoyed this :)

[@Kiarup]

I'm so glad someone is still making videos about this wonderful show!

[@VioletEmerald]

Thank you for the comment! Glad someone's still watching the content if I post it!

[@VioletEmerald]

Also I hope someone will read it if eventually I post a Friday Night Lights fanfic. I've been planning to write one for a long time but I'm starting to think I need to invest more time on things that will make me money.

[@Kiarup]

@@VioletEmerald English is not my first language, but FNL is definitely one of my favourites show, so I actually don't know if I will read it, but I could surely try :)

[@neverendingdreamx5866]

This is really beautiful 💜

[@VioletEmerald]

Thank you!

[@magic_karamel]

this is one beautiful video!! i love it!!! xox

[@VioletEmerald]

Thank you so much!!