Vid recs
Vidathons are something I enjoy as a watcher, not being able to create vids to save my life, but full of admiration the people who can. In many a fandom. 
festivids went online - the masterlist is here - and a cursory glance (will watch more in days to come, of course) gave me these gems:
When you're evil: Jim Profit, sociapath at large. Witty and entertaining, and also, Adrian Pasdar. Profit the show didn't even get a complete first season, which is ever so frustrating.
Pots and Pans: Deadwood, otoh, got at least three. This vid uses footage mostly from the first one and portrays the town and the ensemble with that mixture of brutality and humanity that characterized the show.
Collage : a Homeland vid, no spoilers beyond the first season, about Carrie and Saul picking up the pieces in their morally ambiguous profession and their relationship with each other. I'm very happy one of the two Homeland vids was about the Carrie & Saul relationship, which is imo as important to the show as the one between Carrie and Brody.
Blackbird: based on the film Nowhere Boy about the young John Lennon, this vid uses a Beatles song, a Paul one which I'd never have associated with John because well, so not the subject, but it works for the emotional arc of the film.
I've just seen a face: and another McCartney-penned Beatles song, this one using footage from the film We'll Take Manhattan to portray Jean Shrimpton (as played by Karen Gilliam, aka Amy Ponds from Doctor Who) and her relationship with David Bailey. I didn't think the source material was all that (only mildly entertaining, with a great in-joke of an ending, though), but the song fits Karen-as-Jean beautifully, and the vid is charming as hell.
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festivids went online - the masterlist is here - and a cursory glance (will watch more in days to come, of course) gave me these gems:
When you're evil: Jim Profit, sociapath at large. Witty and entertaining, and also, Adrian Pasdar. Profit the show didn't even get a complete first season, which is ever so frustrating.
Pots and Pans: Deadwood, otoh, got at least three. This vid uses footage mostly from the first one and portrays the town and the ensemble with that mixture of brutality and humanity that characterized the show.
Collage : a Homeland vid, no spoilers beyond the first season, about Carrie and Saul picking up the pieces in their morally ambiguous profession and their relationship with each other. I'm very happy one of the two Homeland vids was about the Carrie & Saul relationship, which is imo as important to the show as the one between Carrie and Brody.
Blackbird: based on the film Nowhere Boy about the young John Lennon, this vid uses a Beatles song, a Paul one which I'd never have associated with John because well, so not the subject, but it works for the emotional arc of the film.
I've just seen a face: and another McCartney-penned Beatles song, this one using footage from the film We'll Take Manhattan to portray Jean Shrimpton (as played by Karen Gilliam, aka Amy Ponds from Doctor Who) and her relationship with David Bailey. I didn't think the source material was all that (only mildly entertaining, with a great in-joke of an ending, though), but the song fits Karen-as-Jean beautifully, and the vid is charming as hell.
This entry was originally posted at http://selenak.dreamwidth.org/859047.html. Comment there or here, as you wish.