one more miracle

So a while ago I won two awards for my Supernatural S1 video "Blind" - Best Video and Best Drama at the Art of Vidding Awards. It was very exciting :D Now the site is having a "Best of the Best" round, and my vid is up against the winners in the same categories in all the rounds since! This time around, in addition to the judges' assessment, there's a poll that anyone can vote in, which is pretty darn cool.

So I thought I'd bring your attention to it :) I know that it takes a while to download and watch videos, so I suppose you could just vote for me if you wanted to be nice. HOWEVER, I am up against some of my favorite vidders, and LITERALLY my favorite music video, oh, EVER (Living Dead Girl - nnnnngh, SO GOOD), so I feel really silly asking you to vote for me when I honestly think they deserve it more.

So consider this as an offer to go watch dozens of really really beautiful videos and enjoy it and vote for whatever you think deserves it the most :)


(Click on the banner for the site with the nominees.)

The results for this round of the Friendly Neighborhood video awards are up! And I got two awards!! \o/





RU stands for runner up, and in both categories I came second to ringwench's awesome Born to Kill vid, so I'm just so chuffed! The website has this to say about this round: "The calibre of entries was higher than it has ever been and the bar was raised for pretty much every category. Out of 54 submissions, 21 won core or specialized awards and 8 won discretionary awards." So I could not be any more proud of having come second in the biggest category *beams* Yaaaay! *bounces around*

If anyone missed my vid the first time around and wants to check it out, you can find it HERE. It's a Dean POV S1 vid, focused on how he relates to Sam. It's set to Blind by Placebo, which may as well have been written for the boys! I'd love any feedback if you do check it out :)

Yay!

*FLAIL*

YAY.

Look look!!



*Does a happy dance* I submitted this vid to Zeppo Awards, a Buffyverse vid awards site, not expecting anything at all, and I get best vid runner up! *squees* That makes me so happy. And isn't the banner gorgeous?

Here's the rest of the winners if anyone wants to see: http://www.messyjessie.net/zeppo/Main.html

yay :)

On a side note, I never ever tire of this Faith icon. It's happy, but it also has an undercurrent of darkness (from the text) that is so Faith, and the colors are effing gorgeous. *hearts it so much*

IfinishedIfinishedIfinished!!!! *bounces around spastically* It took me almost a year, but I DID IT! And I am very very proud of the finished product. I'd really appreciate if you all took a look at it. I also wrote up a lot of thoughts and commentary, those are optional though :P

Title: Alone and Colder
Vidder: Anne (starsouls1013)
Song: "No More Good Guys" by Skindive
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Seasons 3 and 4)
Character: Faith POV, with focus on her relationship with Buffy
Summary: Faith struggles internally between self-hate and a sense of betrayal by Buffy.
Disclaimer: Joss owns them. Obviously. I grovel at Joss’s feet for giving me this kind of material to work with.
Feedback: Is my bread and water. Seriously. I'd really love to know what you think!
A/N: I was really trying to say something about Faith with this video, about her inner turmoil and her complexity, so I think for a real understanding of this vid, you need to listen to the lyrics as you watch. It’s told from Faith’s mindset after the season four episode "Who Are You". Also, it's very important to recognize that a large portion of the video (at least half) uses footage from Faith's nightmares when she is in the coma. So if you haven't seen the show, all the times where Buffy is freaky and evil are in dreams, and Faith only gets stabbed once.
A/N2: Thank you so much to hermioneluna for a lovely beta job; she really saw the message I was trying to get across and helped me to perceive the video as a whole much more clearly. I’m not sure how many changes I actually made after talking to her (largely because this damn thing took me A YEAR and I was ready to be done with it already!) but she pointed out some really interesting things that I hadn’t even noticed. So thank you hun! :)
A/N3: A huge debt of gratitude is owed to heres_luck, whose stunning Faith video "Superstar" inspired me to start this one. Her written commentary especially taught me so many things both about the technical aspects of vidding and the complexities of Faith as a character. So lots of thanks to her, and I really recommend her vids to anyone.

Download (21.7 MB, wmv) (Right-click -> Save target as...)
(Thank you thank you thank you to Elena over at www.Cheesejoose.com for hosting me!!)
ETA: That file is a little big, so I saved a smaller version. Here is a YSI link for a 9.34 MB version: http://s60.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0HCJYZH4U67NH1DMF7IKM9SYOZ

( Lyrics )

( General analytical commentary )

( Technical Notes )

( Specific comments on moments in the video )

So I’ve rambled on far too long. I apologize. All of this was mostly for my own benefit anyway, but if you read it, thank you and I admire your patience! Please let me know what you think :)