I love vidders who are talented editors - that is central to vidding after all, but the ability to match images not just to lyrics but to the mood and rhythm of the music is hard to find IMO. (I'm probably a snob on that account because I started learning film editing in college and considered taking that up as a career, but the switch to digital vs film; which is much more tangible and precise - and also, I almost had seizures twice in front of video editing docs because the pixel become like little strobe lights.) Also how much I like the song has a lot to do with it of course; I tend to prefer vids with music I wasn't familiar with previously (and hence no prior baggage on my part), and then I tend not to prefer ones set to really "hard" rock songs because they also tend to have very very fast edits that are hard on my eyes (and seizure disorder). The "Radioactive" one you mention is the best vid I've seen that uses that song, though.
I may be even pickier about vids than I am about fics in some ways!
My favorite Afterthebattle vids (thus far) are probably her most recent "epic" Buffy tribute finished for International Women's Day this year - I don't know if there's a title for it (the music by Ennio Morricone is a great choice), "Once" (Buffy as tragic hero - I love that she emphasizes Dawn and Joyce in it); and "Rolling in the Deep" - trust a self-proclaimed "Spuffy" to make a watchable Bangel video that gets the 'ship right. And then there's that one that focuses on the darkest parts of B/S in S6 "Tell me I'm wrong". I know from her other vids that she is a "Spuffy" but I always appreciate someone who can look at that relationship in it's totality. That said I don't watch that one a lot, but I appreciate that it exists.
My favorite Spuffy Production vids: "No Longer Feels Like Home" (about Buffy's depression in S6, one of the first buffyverse fanvids I saw - and right after I watched S6 so it helped me process that season, along with gabrielleabelle's "Buffy Came Back Wrong" meta series); "The Ones Who Stand", "Someone Like Me", and her B/S vids "The Wait", "All We're Good For", "Setting Fire to Our Insides".
Have you seen Queen Blair B's "My Whole Heart"? set to the Mumford & Sons song? (I'd never heard of them until I saw her vid.) Spuffy mostly from Spike's POV; and I've seen other vids use that song but none so well as this one.
HEA is a romance industry term - the Happily Ever After. :)
Thanks, I'm clearly not "in the know" on that account. Are you also working on original fic to try for publication or still focusing on the fanfic at the moment?
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I may be even pickier about vids than I am about fics in some ways!
My favorite Afterthebattle vids (thus far) are probably her most recent "epic" Buffy tribute finished for International Women's Day this year - I don't know if there's a title for it (the music by Ennio Morricone is a great choice), "Once" (Buffy as tragic hero - I love that she emphasizes Dawn and Joyce in it); and "Rolling in the Deep" - trust a self-proclaimed "Spuffy" to make a watchable Bangel video that gets the 'ship right. And then there's that one that focuses on the darkest parts of B/S in S6 "Tell me I'm wrong". I know from her other vids that she is a "Spuffy" but I always appreciate someone who can look at that relationship in it's totality. That said I don't watch that one a lot, but I appreciate that it exists.
My favorite Spuffy Production vids: "No Longer Feels Like Home" (about Buffy's depression in S6, one of the first buffyverse fanvids I saw - and right after I watched S6 so it helped me process that season, along with gabrielleabelle's "Buffy Came Back Wrong" meta series); "The Ones Who Stand", "Someone Like Me", and her B/S vids "The Wait", "All We're Good For", "Setting Fire to Our Insides".
Have you seen Queen Blair B's "My Whole Heart"? set to the Mumford & Sons song? (I'd never heard of them until I saw her vid.) Spuffy mostly from Spike's POV; and I've seen other vids use that song but none so well as this one.
HEA is a romance industry term - the Happily Ever After. :)
Thanks, I'm clearly not "in the know" on that account. Are you also working on original fic to try for publication or still focusing on the fanfic at the moment?