Top 5 Vids – Characters

[yourlibrarian]

(1) Scooby Road by sockkpuppett - All – is quite an enormous file that is only available a little longer, so if you’re interested you should check it out now. In case you haven’t already heard of it, it is a vid done to the entire Beatles “Abbey Road” album, a series of character events and vignettes that covers all of BtVS. I don't know if anyone's attempted something like this before, but I'm glad it's been done for this fandom! I especially loved the theme of "Here Comes the Sun" but I think the words "stupendous piece of work" apply to the whole thing.



(2) Memories by sadiquechienne - All - A merging of past and present, Buffy’s life and fate are poignantly revealed. It’s hard not to feel for her here as we know everything she is to go through. Beautifully lyrical even if there are no lyrics.

(3) ing by laurashapiro - All - is just a love song to Anya. It is wonderfully cut with seamless clips. The rather cheerful tone of the song is pretty welcome given that Anya’s arc wasn’t a particularly happy one in the end, despite her overall humorous contribution to the show. The tone of the music keeps things light and restores some of that comedic tone to some less than happy events.

(4) Counting Bodies - by millylicious – Teen – I find this hard to watch as it is an unflinching look at Connor from beginning (pre-birth even) to when his memories reappear. But it is wonderfully done and, to me, the fact that it’s not an easy view means it succeeded in showing how Connor’s life was nasty, brutish and very nearly short.

(5)Struggle by sockkpuppett - All - is a smoothly done look at Lindsey and the road he followed. A fitting ending as well, and as a plus she’s discussed the vid here.

Comments

[lillianmorgan.livejournal.com]

Great list! :) I have to agree with you about the first one. That's such a wonderful gift to the fandom, just spectacular.
I'm going to bookmark the rest for my viewing pleasure; they sound particularly effective when a video focuses on a character. Makes you fall in love with them all over again! :)

[yourlibrarian]

I love vids. Lists for them are both easier and more difficult though -- easier because there are fewer vids made than fic written, but tough because they tend to be undated (sometimes unlabeled!) and harder to find again, and therefore point to. Sometimes, like the icons, they're not up anymore due to bandwidth issues (hence the rush on the first one) :>

[st_salieri.livejournal.com]

Thank you for this. I was just wishing I had some new vids to watch.

I'd never seen "Scooby Road" before, and it's absolutely exquisite work. I'm glad I got a chance to download it.

[yourlibrarian]

I know I have one more vid rec post to come. Maybe we'll get a few others too?

It really is in a class of its own at this point, each of those vidlets would have been worth reccing on their own. I was really impressed in the medley with how themes were repeated in a very organic manner. The whole thing is rather like a video sampler -- episode recaps, character pieces, series arcs, the whole shebang.

[hesadevilspike.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for these. I'm a great fan of spikeylover's vids but I just have to get Scooby Road. Beatles+BtVS can't ask for much better than that. It's taking an age to dowload though.

[yourlibrarian]

I've seen a few of her videos and they were very enjoyable. I particularly liked "Ghost of a Rose." She also posted some great recs here a few weeks ago.

Yes, the file is large enough I felt a warning was needed! Ever since I went to broadband vids have only taken a few minutes to download and this took far longer. I think you'll find it was worth it though :>

[behrbemine.livejournal.com]

Thank you, thank you for pointing out the Connor vid, 'Counting Bodies'. You have no idea what that video meant to me on this day. Heartbreaking and beautiful. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

[yourlibrarian]

Thank you for letting me know! It's always great to hear people are using the older recs. In case you haven't come across it yet, there is another marvelous Connor video I recced recently here called "Passive." I hope you enjoy that too.

[behrbemine.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, it was beautiful. Thanks so much for pointing it out!

[millylicious.livejournal.com]

I know this is a bit...old, but thank you so much on your kind words on Counting Bodies!

[yourlibrarian]

Ha, it is I guess but still quite true. I know that this vid has been recced a couple of times here at Top 5 which also speaks to how well it comes across.

Out of curiosity how did you stumble on this so far after the fact?

[millylicious.livejournal.com]

I was looking for Bascon vidshow reports, because there seems to have been some sort of tech problem and the only report I've seen was vague about it. So I looked up a combination of vid titles and vidders that played in the show, and this post popped up on google! (the remastered version of Counting Bodies premiered at VidUKon earlier this month and played at Bascon yesterday)

[yourlibrarian]

Aha! Well good to know the recs can be found in a general search since the community's all about promoting the goodies ;>