Pros Vid: Love's Not a Competition

[przed]

Fresh from Escapade, my new vid:

Title: Love's Not a Competition
Fandom: Pros
Artist: Kaiser Chiefs

Streaming version right here:

Downloadable version at przed.com/vids.*

Thanks to ancastar and Dorinda for fab beta comments, especially when I was flailing with the ending.

*The site is password protected. If you have the password, it's still the same. If you haven't, follow the directions on the vids page to get a password. I generally respond pretty quickly to requests. And if you wonder why the heck I password protected everything, read this.

Comments

[shaw012145.livejournal.com]

Gold Star for you and your assistants.

That as a lovely compilation. Well done !

Lots of different scenes I had not seen used in other pros-vids.

[firlefanzine.livejournal.com]

A good morning with one of your vids!
I like vids with a story. Very melancholic – but we know the good ending...

Got to be cool!


(Btw: very good quality for only 17MB)

[copracat]

Oh, Bodie. I'd not heard the song before, it's going to be a song for Bodie for me from now on. That was lovely and sad and good.

[nakeisha.livejournal.com]

Very well done indeed.

Everything fit so well.

Lovely.

*Toddles off to dig password out and download.

[sunray45.livejournal.com]

This is really beautiful. Lovely song and clips and very good clear quality.

Thank you. :)

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed this very much - everything about it - the scenes you chose, the voice-over lines and the music. Many thanks for sharing.

[kiwisue.livejournal.com]

I, really liked the subtle way you put the different scenes together, fitting them to the song, shifting moods, a little angsty, feeling of determination & love at the end. Thank you.

[schnuffi.livejournal.com]

Great vid though I must admit I don't like the song much. The lyrics are very fitting but the way he sings is just... strange. But I still like it. Thanks for sharing.

[magenta-blue.livejournal.com]

I was wondering why it wouldn't play, and then realised I didn't have quicktime! Doh! Anyway, finally got to see this and it is lovely. So clever to take the words of that song and apply it to the lads, it really works. You've told such a nice angsty story with this, yet for all that there is romance and love. Aw.

It really made me giggle seeing the file is abbreviated to lovesnot though (love snot) - very silly mind I have *g*

[siskiou.livejournal.com]

Ah, thank you!

I enjoyed it very much, and while melancholy in parts, I also smiled many times throughout it.
Those looks, saying so much!

Now to find the password that I "think" I have somewhere...

[ancastar.livejournal.com]

Oy! I didn't see you'd posted this till the newsletter came out. I love this vid, as you well know. I hope the crowd at Escapade was appropriately enthusiastic, and that you're pleased with the final outcome.

I love the song (Take that, Schnuffi! ;-) ::An blows a big kiss Schnuffi's direction::), and adore the way you worked the storyline in. It's a truly original point of view. Well done, you.

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

Fabulous vid! I love the way you've used facial expressions, and there are so many great ones, from both of them, that say so much. It's a good track - just the right amount of wistfulness without schmaltz and works beautifully for their story. You've really captured Bodie's heartache. Brilliant, thank you!

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

What a lovely vid! I always feel like your vids are telling this entire narrative and do so in a new and fresh way every time.

Thank you!

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

You always manage a fresh look in your vids, always combine often used clips with slightly diffrent, more unusual ones, to create something entirely new. You got some geat, great looks and facial expressions between them, and you cut it all just brilliantly. Well done to you, and thank you, I thoroughly enjoyed this.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

I'm not usually that interested in Pros vids, probably because I've seen the source material over and over my entire life, but this is awesome. I don't even like the song that much but you've made a fresh and apt use of material and it's really well done.