Rectember: Fanvids

[doranwen]

I was going to do all the weekly themes in one but fanvids are kind of their own thing, so here are a bunch of my favorite fanvids for a ton of fandoms, and I'll get to the fics later.

All totally SFW as far as I know (though the Alphas and Rookie Blue ones do have some making out in them).

tomorrow, when the war began || it's a brave new world
Fantastic TWTWB movie vid to the song "This is War" by 30 Seconds to Mars. It's got some interesting coloring, nice cuts, and is way deeper if you've read the books and know what's going to happen with the different characters.

Alphas TV
An Alphas fanvid with the idea that you're watching TV and changing the channel, so there are different song choices to different parts of it. Uses songs such as "Have a Nice Day" by Bon Jovi, the Imperial March theme from Star Wars (by John Williams), and Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber. Ranges from hilarious to heartbreaking.

Idgie and Ruth Love Story Fried Green Tomatoes (FGT)
A well-done video for Fried Green Tomatoes showing the relationship between Idgie and Ruth to Taylor Swift's Love Story.

Leave Me Hypnotized, Love [Push]
One of multiple Push fanvids made to this song (featured in the film) and focusing on Nick/Cassie.

Rizzoli & Isles - Crazy Jane
A funny Rizzoli & Isles vid to Crazy Jane by Dizzy Balloon. The song is too perfect for Jane Rizzoli, lol.

Andy McNally and Sam Swarek ~ Crash and Burn
A lovely Rookie Blue fanvid for the Andy/Sam ship to Savage Garden's Crash and Burn.

Éomer's Bootcamp (I'll Make a Man Out of You)
A very funny LOTR video to the song from Mulan. If you've seen the LOTR films and you've never seen this video, you have to change that right away. :D

LOTR - music video -Fallin
A blast from the past, this LOTR video was reposted in 2007 and made years before that, probably just after the first film came out (note that it isn't remotely hi-def; the version I have on my hdd, which is the original size, was 320x240 - best to watch from a distance if you can't shrink Youtube's version small enough). It's set to Falling by K-Otic and features the Fellowship falling over, and over, and over… :D

One Step At a Time - Women's Murder Club (Cindy)
You'll need to find a way to stretch this back to landscape somehow (download from Youtube and watch with VLC is my recommendation), but it's a great Women's Murder Club video focusing on Cindy and using Jordin Sparks' song One Step at a Time.

Lois & Clark fanvid - That's All - season 1
Very well-done Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman vid to the tune of That's All by Genesis. I particularly love all the newspaper bits.

And I posted my favorite Leverage fanvids in a comment to a community recs post earlier, but I reposted that to my own DW to save my recs, so if anyone didn't see them before, here they are.

Comments

[lucymonster]

That Faramir video made me laugh like an idiot in public, thanks. :'D And TWTWB - ooh, that song is perfect! I've actually ONLY read the books but it made me want to revisit them, and maybe even watch the movie.

[doranwen]

XD You're welcome! It's pretty hilarious, isn't it?

Oh wow! You definitely need to see the film. I thought it was one of the best book-to-film conversions I'd seen - they kept so many of the iconic scenes, and the places they changed things, it felt very logical, made sense why they changed what they did. I hope you were able to follow who was who in the vid then - the bits of "the liar", "the prophet", etc. are perfectly matched to the characters who fit those titles in the books, one of those rare vids where knowledge of additional canons gives you a greater depth of enjoyment.

[yourlibrarian]

I'll Make a Man Out of You was great :D

[doranwen]

:D I laughed when I first watched it.

[glitteryv]

Oh, I've never seen the Push and FGT vids. They were pretty cool. :)

[doranwen]

Glad you enjoyed! There are quite a few Push vids using that same song (because it's in the film), but I thought the one I linked was the best of them. And having not heard Love Story before the FGT vid (I don't listen to radio and have a very limited exposure to most modern music, lol), I now associate it with FGT because of the vid. :)

[glitteryv]

[...]I now associate it with FGT because of the vid. :)

Yeah, that's happened to me with certain fanvids. First impressions and all that, I guess.