The K/S Closer vid is marked AU and includes pr0n. I find it distracting, but the vid's brilliant nonetheless. It does take me out of the experience, though.

I didn't notice the HP footage in the Buffy-Edward vid, but when I do notice, even if it's just backdrop footage with no characters, it jars me. I like to think about where each piece comes from. Knowing they've pulled it all from the limited source of canon heightens the experience for me.

But I know I'm on the flat end of the bell curve.

Oh, and there's "Sahara" which features Ralph Fiennes and Siddig El Fadil.

Huh. Haven't seen that one but it sure sounds pretty. Using that made-for-TV T.E. Lawrence biopic, I imagine? Did the vid repurpose the footage from the film to tell the story about some other characters?

Cereal: seriously, why hasn't anyone made a meta vid about Mark Sheppard playing various nefarious characters yet? Think of all the footage, dating back to his X-Files days!

If I tell you about it, it would ruin the point of the vid.

It's by snoo, and I'm not finding it online. Remind me before VVC and I'll bring the DVD for you.

Ha. OK. I bet it's something to do with Dr. Bashir's active fantasy life. But don't tell me if I'm wrong! I'll remind you come VVC time.

Randomly, casting directors keep putting Ralph Fiennes in a keffiyeh (The TE Lawrence movie, The English Patient, and latest in The Hurt Locker) and boy, does he ever look fantastic in them. Something about the contrast between the white of the cloth and the piercing blue of his eyes. Any and sundry concerns about cultural appropriation shamefully goes out of the window while I revel in the pretty.

A meta-vid was sort-of what I had in mind: Hardison imagining what if he was the hitter instead of Eliot. If it disturbs the viewer, that's okay; it disturbed him, too. Don't have a clue what song I'd use, though.

Something about the contrast between the white of the cloth and the piercing blue of his eyes.

God knows it worked for Peter O'Toole.

Variety blog on why TNT should look at more than the numbers when deciding whether or not to renew SouthLand.

If you're making a fanvid for a tv show...

[link] sisabet's Due South vid was such an eye-opener for what could be done with non-canon footage. But, of course, the character she chose to outsource wasn't a human . . . Another fantastic one was a Supernatural vid that pulled in footage from What Dreams May Come to depict Hell, but again, not actual characters, just scenery and long-shots of unidentifiable people. I thought it was brilliant. I actually had a Eureka vid in the works where I pulled in Joe Morton from an X-files ep to get the point across, as well as spiders (for the time travel metaphor!) but it was definitely AU.

I think anything goes with vidding if the stars align with song, concept, editing, source, etc. And even if you're proud of the final outcome, not everyone will like it, and that's their perogative.

By which I mean to say: go for it!

And the song that just popped into my head is the College Humor "If I Were a Bro".