Fanvid recs party!

[dolorosa_12]

Today's post is going to be a quick one — just answering the current snowflake_challenge prompt, which is: In your own space, rec three fanworks that you did not create.



I'm going to use this post to rec three of my favourite fanvids of all time. By way of preamble, I'll clarify a couple of things relating to how I define 'favourite.' Firstly, I'm not an avid consumer of fanvids, and far less a creator (as I said in a previous post, any kind of fanwork involving graphics is basically like witchcraft to me) — I tend to engage with fanvids when someone I know has either a) created or recced a fanvid and b) it's in a fandom with which I'm familiar, so my engagement is somewhat haphazard. I have pretty clear things that I look for in a fanvid: I have to like the music, I have to feel that it fits well with the focal character(s) and the story being told in the vid (or is so outrageously incongruous that that's basically the point), and the editing has to be smooth enough that errors are unnoticable to my untrained eye. I also personally dislike fanvids that have dialogue from the source spliced into the video — I want it to tell a complete story with music and images, without needing source dialogue as a scaffold.

There are some well-known, beloved fanvids that get recced to everyone wanting to know the greatest hits of the medium, and I like them a lot, but I've steered clear of them here as most people will have had them recced before.

With that in mind, here is my totally biased, subjective, created-from-a-place-of-complete-ignorance list of favourite three fanvids:


There's a war going on for your mind, Sarah (Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles), sadly now only available as a download as far as I can tell. Edited to add that the download link gave me a 'malicious file' warning, so proceed with caution if you want to download it.

Elastic Heart - Fanvid (9 words) by JoCarthage
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Mad Max Series (Movies), Mad Max: Fury Road
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Characters: Cheedo the Fragile, Toast the Knowing, Capable (Mad Max), The Dag (Mad Max), The Splendid Angharad, Furiosa (Mad Max), Nux (Mad Max), Immortan Joe, Max Rockatansky
Additional Tags: Embedded Video, Fanvids, My First Fanvid
Summary:

I wanted to make something to talk about Furiosa and her resilience in the face of violence, and Angharad, Cheedo, Toast, Capable and The Dag’s resilience. I was writing fanfiction about it, but that wasn’t getting it how I wanted. Mad Max is a visual story in a visual medium and filtering it through text was forcing me to drop some of the subtlety and depth of the movie. So here is me, trying to get to that depth with the help of one Sia and her "Electric Heart."

Blood on Your Shirt (Peaky Blinders) Note: this doesn't have content warnings, but you should expect canon typical violence, and there is an image of a person hanging from a noose.

Bonus extra two recs:

Vid: Na Na Na (0 words) by violace
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Mad Max Series (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Furiosa (Mad Max), Max Rockatansky, Nux (Mad Max), The Wives (Mad Max), Immortan Joe, The Vuvalini
Additional Tags: Fanvids, Video, Vividcon, vid
Series: Part 15 of vids by violace
Summary:

The aftermath is secondary.

The Polka Slayer (51 words) by Milly, bradcpu
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Angel/Buffy Summers, Spike/Buffy Summers, Faith Lehane/Buffy Summers, Tara Maclay/Willow Rosenberg, Xander Harris/Anya Jenkins
Characters: Buffy Summers, Scoobies (BtVS), Willow Rosenberg, Xander Harris, Rupert Giles, Angel (BtVS), Spike (BtVS), Faith Lehane, Tara Maclay, Dawn Summers
Additional Tags: Vividcon, Vividcon 2013, Video, Embedded Video
Summary:

Into every generation a polka is born.
 

Length: 4:24
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Song/Artist: Polka Power by Weird Al Yankovic
Premiered at Vividcon 2013.

Do you have any particular things you like in fanvids? Do you have any particular favourites?