Fanvids and Our Favorite Assassins

[scribblemyname]

Happy Friday, Everyone!

So we're here to talk about fanvids, a world I stumbled into quite by accident and never really looked back. We've got fanmade trailers that hint at so many wonderful story possibilities, music videos for characters or pairings, and videos and vidlets that are all about the story they're telling.

Personally, I love all of them. I love the way videos are starting to use more footage of Scarlett and Jeremy's other videos to create better, richer Clint/Natasha vids (I admit to squeeing every time I see Unusuals footage), and I love the music watching fanvids has turned me onto (seriously, anyone not thinking Clint/Natasha with Within Temptation needs to watch TatyanaOracle's vids right now), and I love the story ideas that go bouncing through my head when I watch these amazing concepts developed on-screen like this. I like to watch a fanvid then read the description and watch it again to maximize inspiration because I'm like that.

Do you make vids? What inspires you? Do you like to watch them? Any favorite vidders or tropes or storylines? Chat it up on the video fandom for our favorite assassins.

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Some Recs (and there are so many other videos I love):

Hawkeye: Blindspot (Trailer) by TatyanaOracle: A trailer based on Jim McCann and Paco Diaz's comic, Blindspot. Seriously, I want to see this movie.

Natasha & Clint - Budapest by avengers- in-love: A great vid of the Budapest mission.

And for a straight-up music vid that isn't by TatyanaOracle (yes, I have favorites), let's go with Angel with a Shotgun - Clintasha by MsNatalieRushman: Angel with a Shotgun by Cab and some great vidding.

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Things to remember:
1) Always label NSFW (Not Safe For Work) stuff in the title and post under a cut.
2) Fic and artwork needs to have a rating and warnings (or you can say that you’ve chosen not to use warnings).
3) For people with annoying internet connections, say in the title if a comment is graphic/images/gif-heavy and post picspams under a cut.
4) Have a damn good time! (Because if that’s not happening then this post has clearly failed.)

Comments

[alphaflyer.livejournal.com]

I don't watch vids very often, but have been known to do so in hotel rooms, for an hour or so at a time when the jetlag was too bad to write. And yes, anything Clint/Natasha by Tatyana Oracle is worth watching - I even ended up downloading some Placebo on iTunes thanks to her music choices. Quite an expansion of musical horizons for an old fogey like myself... :-)

[scribblemyname]

I think in the end, I still prefer fic to vids, but they do work well when the brain isn't up to writing.

[emeraldarrows.livejournal.com]

My favorite is TatyanaOracle's "Fire and Ice" video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pQ7XA6iNio

[scribblemyname]

Nice choice!

[happilydancing.livejournal.com]

I need to watch these vids! Can't right now b/c I'm at work and don't want to scare the clients lol.

I WISH I knew how to make vids. I saw a couple of tumblr things (not vids but little graphics put together) with Scarlett from the Horse Whisperer and Jeremy from 12 and Holding and omg, little baby Natasha, I couldn't handle it.

[scribblemyname]

I often wish I could vid or even do gifs, but alas! I'm a (still) graphics/fic only kind of girl.

[happilydancing.livejournal.com]

So who is this Tatyana Oracle anyway? Do we know her? Does she hang out here? Because she should!

[spyforaday.livejournal.com]

"…who is this Tatyana Oracle anyway?" A very, very good question!

[scribblemyname]

She's on Google+, DeviantArt and YouTube. She's also open to people ficcing her vids, but I haven't found her anywhere else.

[scribblemyname]

She's on Google+, DeviantArt and YouTube. She's also open to people ficcing her vids, but I haven't found her anywhere else.

[geckoholic]

This post is such a blessing, I've been looking for good vids for a while now and mostly came up empty. GIMME ALL THE RECS. /grabby hands

Also, the Blindspot trailer is awful and hurts my heart (I'm kidding, it's beyond fantastic; still with the hurting tho).

[scribblemyname]

IceFloeSoul's got some great Renner and/or Hawkeye vids, and I can fish out some more favs later when I'm on a desktop. Copy/pasting on the tablet's just too hard to be worth it.

[geckoholic]

Ohh, that'd be wonderful!!

[spyforaday.livejournal.com]

I forgot all about these vids. Which is good because I can fall in love with them all over again and be reminded of the talent that exists in addition to the written word I take for granted here. This is also bad because I will watch them. All. Probably all night. Eh, there are worse things I could be doing. (Better things, too, but we won't go there) Thanks for the reminder!!

[scribblemyname]

LOL

You remind me of myself when I'm deciding whether to settle in to vids or something more (or less) productive.

[jackwabbit.livejournal.com]

I recently came across the phrase "emergency awesome."

And that's the perfect way to sum up fanvids for me. A spot of happy on often grey days.

Also, that Blindspot vid is brilliant.

[scribblemyname]

I LOVE that phrase, and yes, that is the perfect term for how I also feel about vids.

TatyanaOracle had more to do with my falling in love with the Barton brothers dynamic than any other influence.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Another TatyanaOracle and maybe my favorite Avengers video of all: Welcome To the Family (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qISUC2OdyI). I'd never heard this song before and now I'll never see it any other way. (And yes, it absolutely counts as Clintasha--she's "Momma" and he's "Daddy." ^_^ )

[scribblemyname]

Ooooh! Must watch...