Thinking about Slash Vids, Movie Vids & TV Vids

[zephyrprince.livejournal.com]

I've always been really interested in the difference between vids based on tv shows and movie vids. There's been a lot of good meta on this (I wish I could find it to link to but my delicious is failing me at the moment), but basically the gist of things seems to be just that the radically different amount of footage we have to work with from a tv show allows us to do more in a lot of cases (obviously).

So I've been wondering lately about slash vids and whether or not it's one sort of genre that is made more accessible with more footage. I mean I guess if the source is just right (Star Trek XI) then it doesn't matter but the likelyhood of specific dudez having scenes in which they touch or gaze at one another does seem more likely in a TV show with a lot more time to fill. ((I've actually never done a slash vid, which is funny because that's what I'm most interested in fic-wise, but I think I'm just really intimidated by the challenge of it)). ANYWAY, this is getting ramble-ish but the bottom line is that I was looking through my vid folders and couldn't find very many movie vids in my own collection that are slash or femmeslash and I was wondering if others had ones that came immediately to mind.

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[ferdalump.livejournal.com]

I tend to vid from movie source a lot, and like the challenge of not having as many clips to rip from a specific source. I actually find it forces me to be more creative, and I usually tend to rip from other sources to create a coherent narrative--which in this case would be a slash pairing.

Just to show you what I mean, I created a slash vid for a fictional relationship between Lex Luthor (from Smallville) and Bruce Wayne from Batman Begins (TDK wasnt out at the time I made the vid.) Since the actors Michael Rosenbaum and Christian Bale had never worked together at all in any movie or film, the vid is completed constructed reality, and I simply implemented clips from different projects they each have worked on to make it appear as though they were involved in a slash relationship.

If you're curious about the end project you can see it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEpLcl3DWD8

(and I will warn that the vid is pretty 'adult' in nature.)

[klia.livejournal.com]

You can find some slashy movie vids on our website http://pteropus.com (it's password protected -- username and password are on auto-reply -- and the vids are for dl, not streaming):

Cathain (Flyboys)
Favourite Friend (A Beautiful Mind, multi)
It's Probably Me (L.A. Confidential)
Lowlands (Star Wars - original trilogy)
Starting on a Journey (The Last Samurai)
Wolf (2002 - Hong Kong movie)

[opportunemoment.livejournal.com]

My first (and so far only) vid was a Hot Fuzz movie vid... but yeah, it isn't really a slash vid because I made no (well, OK, a little, but only a little) effort to make it slashy. Like Star Trek XI and Sherlock Holmes (in fact possibly more so than either), the shipping is so clearly there in the text that I think if you're using enough of the footage of the main characters, you'd have to be doing something clever not to be slashy.

http://bamvidvault.ning.com/video/oo-de-lally

[giandujakiss.livejournal.com]

Not just Star Trek XI - the new Sherlock Holmes movie isn't even on DVD and there're a zillion Holmes/Watson vids. I'm not into Harry Potter but I think there are probably many slash vids in that fandom (more than one movie, so more source, I guess) - and I'd assume (also not my fandom) LOTR, as well? I don't know if it's about availability of footage exactly (that rarely stops anyone) but movies generally don't have active fandoms the way TV shows do, except in specific instances (like Sherlock Holmes, Star Trek, LOTR, and Harry Potter) - and that might also explain difference. Not the footage, but the fandom.

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

Yes, in live action vidding, there are fewer vids based on a single movie than there are based on a single tv show. That's universal, it doesn't apply to just slash or femslash vids; it works for gen and het vids as well. Places where you are move likely to find vids based on movies:

1) Vividcon: Lots of movie-based vids come out of this convention, so if you go to the con round up lists, there will be links to many of these vids, and several of them will be slash and femslash

2) Start with a vidder whose work is primarily slash and femslash. How long have they been vidding, and do they do multimedia (multifandom) vids? If they have been in fandom awhile, if they have multimedia/multifandom vids in their background, and they go to vividcon, then they probably have vidded a movie fandom.

[fan-eunice.livejournal.com]

Definitely check out klia's vids above, they are awesome. My brain is absolute swiss cheese this morning, but I know there are plenty more out there I have seen. Hope you get a lot of recs so I can revisit.

And a bit of self-pimping, 'cause why not, couple of mine that are movie slash vids

boyslash: Hard Core Logo Joe/Billy vid, http://fan-eunice.livejournal.com/116793.html

girlslash: Bend it Like Beckhame Jules/Jess, http://fan-eunice.com/#WiT

canon lesbians: Itty Bitty Titty Committee http://fan-eunice.livejournal.com/179864.html

[obsessive24.livejournal.com]

Good question! I went back and checked, and it looks like most of my movie vids which ship a m/m ship is usually canon, although I did find one exception in Hung Up (http://obsessive24.livejournal.com/143434.html), a racecar movie, which just turned into a bit of campy fun. The source kinda was begging for it, though. ;)

[bananainpyjamas.livejournal.com]

Huh, that's interesting. To be honest I hadn't noticed but it makes sense.

I very rarely vid slash but I did make a John/Marcus vid for Terminator Salvation (link here (http://bananainpyjamas.livejournal.com/123342.html)). I personally didn't have trouble finding enough footage to work with but maybe that movie was extra-slashy or something.