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labellementeuse) wrote2010-09-11 05:56 pm
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1. Just FTR, this week's issue of Batgirl is epically funny, reminiscent to me of YJ and its slashy, sassy, pop culture loving ways. Overall I have been hugely, hugely impressed with this series. Bryan Q Miller really "gets" Steph and I have been charmed by the way he's kept the book light and funny, while simultaneously dealing with what are, to me, very serious issues for Steph: independence, adulthood, her worth as a crimefighter. I have always loved Steph, but he makes her tremendously appealing to people who aren't fans as well; her sincerity, her good cheer, her terrible jokes, her tendency to narrate her own life, her desire to be her own woman and her awareness of her own flaws - I really think this is the best writing Steph's had since before she became Robin. The first seven volumes of this run have just been collected into a trade, Batgirl Rising; give it a go!
2. Last vid meme post!
Day 19 - A movie vid you love
Sorry, did you say a meta vid I love?
Kill A Man by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zimshan
Supernatural, gen/Wincesty overtones, spoilers through season 5, violence, use of screencaps and stills
This vid uses Becky and a bunch of footage of Sam's hands to tell a story about fandom and SPN. It uses footage in a very found-footage, scrapbooky way to set this up really clearly, so the viewer is always clear on what's going on: we're seeing moments in the show and the way fandom reacts to those moments, and Becky stands for us. We're *also* seeing some of the things fandom likes to do to its BSOs (Beloved Slashy Objects): kill 'em, beat 'em up, make 'em cry, make 'em hug.
I think this vid is absolutely the best explanation of fandom's complicated relationship towards its BSOs that I have ever seen; I think it's worth a thousand posts on the issue and I think it's very very funny, as well as being moving. Now, not everyone may find this vid funny, but I recommend that you don't take it too seriously. I think it's just a very clever examination of the way SPN fandom has related to and reacted to Sam and Dean, and towards TPTB, who as everyone goes on about are probably closer to and more aware of their fanbase than any other.
Best Bits: Prize for the excellent use of Becky. This vid almost rehabilitated Becky for me, into an affectionate portrait rather than a cruel one; also I just think it's pretty inspired. Layering Becky into the footage as the fangirl reacting works so neatly and so clearly: 1:28-1:34 strikes me as being particularly good. The introduction, upon which this stuff rests, is very good; I love the shots of Sam's hands, which stand for fangirls' hands, typing and writing.
I think she's used fanart and caps of fic and meta really effectively - usually, to be honest, this strikes me as clumsy, budget, and often anvilicious in vids. Keeping the fic in motion and rarely letting anything rest, as well as having the fanart stay in a close visual relationship to the clips, has solved a lot of these problems. She hits "Sam and Dean are ours, now" pretty hard, but since it is kind of the Rosetta stone of the vid, the thing that allows you to understand everything around it, I think that's OK.
Day 20: A narrative vid you love
Hurricane bylaurashapiro
Farscape/BSG, Starbuck/Aeryn Sun, two pilots walk into a bar, sex, little bit of violence
So everyone has seen this vid already, but if my some faint chance you haven't, RUN DON'T WALK.
Narrative vids don't often work for me, and crossover narrative vids work for me even less: I always struggle to believe that the two canons are taking place in the same universe, because most shows just look so different from each other. Buffy footage has a different look and feel (and is more blurry and low-qual, for some reason) than SPN footage which is notoriously dark and grey and panoramic than Life, which is sunsoaked and yellow. And to be honest I would have said that cool, hand-held cam, steely blue BSG couldn't look less like the amber tones of Farscape footage if it tried. And that's true... butlaurashapiro makes it work, which is why I had to rec this wonderful but very well-known vid anyway.
OKAY WOO ALL DONE LOOKIT THAT *twirls*
2. Last vid meme post!
Day 19 - A movie vid you love
Sorry, did you say a meta vid I love?
Kill A Man by
zimshanSupernatural, gen/Wincesty overtones, spoilers through season 5, violence, use of screencaps and stills
This vid uses Becky and a bunch of footage of Sam's hands to tell a story about fandom and SPN. It uses footage in a very found-footage, scrapbooky way to set this up really clearly, so the viewer is always clear on what's going on: we're seeing moments in the show and the way fandom reacts to those moments, and Becky stands for us. We're *also* seeing some of the things fandom likes to do to its BSOs (Beloved Slashy Objects): kill 'em, beat 'em up, make 'em cry, make 'em hug.
I think this vid is absolutely the best explanation of fandom's complicated relationship towards its BSOs that I have ever seen; I think it's worth a thousand posts on the issue and I think it's very very funny, as well as being moving. Now, not everyone may find this vid funny, but I recommend that you don't take it too seriously. I think it's just a very clever examination of the way SPN fandom has related to and reacted to Sam and Dean, and towards TPTB, who as everyone goes on about are probably closer to and more aware of their fanbase than any other.
Best Bits: Prize for the excellent use of Becky. This vid almost rehabilitated Becky for me, into an affectionate portrait rather than a cruel one; also I just think it's pretty inspired. Layering Becky into the footage as the fangirl reacting works so neatly and so clearly: 1:28-1:34 strikes me as being particularly good. The introduction, upon which this stuff rests, is very good; I love the shots of Sam's hands, which stand for fangirls' hands, typing and writing.
I think she's used fanart and caps of fic and meta really effectively - usually, to be honest, this strikes me as clumsy, budget, and often anvilicious in vids. Keeping the fic in motion and rarely letting anything rest, as well as having the fanart stay in a close visual relationship to the clips, has solved a lot of these problems. She hits "Sam and Dean are ours, now" pretty hard, but since it is kind of the Rosetta stone of the vid, the thing that allows you to understand everything around it, I think that's OK.
Day 20: A narrative vid you love
Hurricane by
laurashapiroFarscape/BSG, Starbuck/Aeryn Sun, two pilots walk into a bar, sex, little bit of violence
So everyone has seen this vid already, but if my some faint chance you haven't, RUN DON'T WALK.
Narrative vids don't often work for me, and crossover narrative vids work for me even less: I always struggle to believe that the two canons are taking place in the same universe, because most shows just look so different from each other. Buffy footage has a different look and feel (and is more blurry and low-qual, for some reason) than SPN footage which is notoriously dark and grey and panoramic than Life, which is sunsoaked and yellow. And to be honest I would have said that cool, hand-held cam, steely blue BSG couldn't look less like the amber tones of Farscape footage if it tried. And that's true... but
laurashapiro makes it work, which is why I had to rec this wonderful but very well-known vid anyway.OKAY WOO ALL DONE LOOKIT THAT *twirls*