Smallville fanvid
Oct. 15th, 2012 04:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meridian_roseTitle: Major Zod (Amazing)
Fandom: Smallville
Pairing/Characters: Zod, Clark Kent, Tess Mercer
Rating: PG-13
Type: fanvid, run time just over 2 minutes
Soundtrack: "Amazing" by Kanye West. This song is often used for antiheroes, the morally grey, and the villainous since they are aware of their 'badness" ("I'm a monster") and shortcomings but are still determined and self confident ("so amazing", "never gave up"), even embracing and using their weaknesses ("you'll never take that from me"). Zod's character fitted the bill.
Summary: Character study of Zod.
Warnings/Content Notes: No standard warnings apply. Some violence and gore appropriate to the PG-13 rating. Spoilers for season nine and the season ten episode "Dominion".
Notes: I don't consider myself a vidder the way I consider myself a writer, although I have made fanvids on occasion for landcomm challenges. But I really wanted to make this, for myself, not for any prompt or challenge.
Just because I wanted to watch it (the way you might write a fic you want to read). Just because I thought I could do a decent job of it. I'm pretty pleased with it (though a better/more experienced vidder could have done an even better job).
Youtube link in case of problems with embedded vid: http://youtu.be/-FRN5_GVf5E
Also @ Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/51396323
And Tumblr
Fandom: Smallville
Pairing/Characters: Zod, Clark Kent, Tess Mercer
Rating: PG-13
Type: fanvid, run time just over 2 minutes
Soundtrack: "Amazing" by Kanye West. This song is often used for antiheroes, the morally grey, and the villainous since they are aware of their 'badness" ("I'm a monster") and shortcomings but are still determined and self confident ("so amazing", "never gave up"), even embracing and using their weaknesses ("you'll never take that from me"). Zod's character fitted the bill.
Summary: Character study of Zod.
Warnings/Content Notes: No standard warnings apply. Some violence and gore appropriate to the PG-13 rating. Spoilers for season nine and the season ten episode "Dominion".
Notes: I don't consider myself a vidder the way I consider myself a writer, although I have made fanvids on occasion for landcomm challenges. But I really wanted to make this, for myself, not for any prompt or challenge.
Just because I wanted to watch it (the way you might write a fic you want to read). Just because I thought I could do a decent job of it. I'm pretty pleased with it (though a better/more experienced vidder could have done an even better job).
Youtube link in case of problems with embedded vid: http://youtu.be/-FRN5_GVf5E
Also @ Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/51396323
And Tumblr
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Date: 2012-10-15 05:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-16 08:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-17 12:32 am (UTC)I have trouble sympathizing with Zod as a character. But I do think this song and the clips you chose show his rebellious nature, glorying in the stuff that the other Kryptonians (the Council people, Jor-El, etc) don't approve of. And Zod/Tess actually does make sense, I think. They have more in common than they're willing to admit.
Good job :D
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Date: 2012-10-25 02:37 pm (UTC)Embed's are always tricky, so I'm glad I included the url!
Actually I'm rewatching season nine (I was writing a Smallville Big Bang, which takes place in this season, but couldn't make the deadline for first draft not least because the draft was due when I had my latest falling apart) and I'm having thoughts about Jor-El and Zod/Clark and Panis and Richard/Darken and Richard/Michael. So I may write up a sort of 'brotherhood' post at some point.
Lyrics and/or "beat" matching are to me, the most important aspects of vidding, so I'm glad the clips worked with the style of the song :D