New BtVS vid

[aycheb]

Title: Just
Artist: Radiohead
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (and not a little Angel)
Characters/Pairings: Faith
Format: DivX
Size: 49.5MB
Summary: Back to the start


Download here (Right/control click and save target as/download linked file)

Extreme thanks to bradcpu for betaing (it’s a Faith vid - who you gonna call

Comments

[balistik94]

Excellent character study. I really enjoyed it.

[aycheb]

Thanks!

[bradcpu]

My favorite thing about this vid is that it's saying something very insightful, but it manages to come across as a very direct, straightforward statement that's impossible to misread. That's *incredibly* hard to do.

Faith is such an enigma, and I really feel like you've cut through to the heart of her with this.

Also, wow! That final (S3) segment just knocks me out every time. All of the events of S3 look so different in the context of your statement here.

[aycheb]

Thank you for the rec! That S3 section is so key to the vid and I didn't really plan it. I had to make it to get just how alone Faith was during that period. All the other sections there's Buffy or Angel or Wesley as, well many things, but also as shadow selves but at first she didn't even have that. Just her and no-one else.

[aycheb]

Thank you! Faith moves with such a passion, I loved making this.

Just

[yourlibrarian]

Yes, I like how that funneling worked, all moving back to this key point (at least one we know about in canon), all these different moments linked and repeated. And at least within the vid, a cycle Faith can't break out of.

Re: Just

[aycheb]

at least within the vid, a cycle Faith can't break out of
Yes, exactly :-) Part of the idea for this came from the No Future comic. I really liked the way that there she did get the chance to back and face another accidental killing but to respond differently.

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[londonkds]

And what that vid made me realise was how the fight in the pond in S8 ties back to Buffy's dream of Faith dragging her underwater in S3.

Re: Just

[aycheb]

Yes, exactly. The vid is pretty solidly Faith POV so *Buffy's* dream is strictly a little out of context but I was trying to play with whole Faith=Buffy=Faith confusion thing. I mean it's practically cannonical that Faith is Buffy's shadow but Buffy is also Faith's (shadow that is).

[frogfarm]

(One of the fun things about fanvids is the way they make me like songs I never would have otherwise listened to.)

Beautifully executed flow of imagery. Like others have said, it's nothing we haven't seen before yet it all comes together fresh, on fire.

I love this character, and your vid did right by her *and* did her right.

[aycheb]

your vid did right by her *and* did her right
This makes me so happy to hear, I was very nervous about that aspect of vidding her. Thank you for commenting!