Fanvid Friday: Li Zhi/Samo Duoluo (Detective Samoyeds)

[rogueslayer452]

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My Comments: Although lesser known, Detective Samoyeds quickly became one of my favorite cdramas not too long ago, and I ended up shipping the characters Li Zhi and Samo Duoluo. Simply put, they are polar opposites in personalities and yet they have a similar goal and mindset, which is solving cases and getting justice, in which they are quite equal. While there isn't much of a big online fandom presence, there are surprisingly a bit of fanvids being made, especially from Vietnamese fans. The first fanvid is a very general kind of mashing up of their scenes, I love the color filters the vidder used and the way they used the song (which I believe is one of Xu Haiqiao's own songs?). The second fanvid has a bit more of a fan created narrative, and I loved the way the vidder edited scenes together to make it seem very dramatic, and again the coloring filters are gorgeous, plus the brief non-related steamy scenes used was also a nice touch to the storytelling element, as well.

(My other favorite narrative fanvid isn't able to embed, but it is located here, and while it's sad it's very nicely edited. I love it when narrative fanvids tell a story like this, because they use footage from canon while creating their own little fanfics just in fanvid format, it's great.)

Comments

[haebin]

I love fan videos and am always impressed by how good they can be. Sometimes you get the feeling that they could be real trailers!

[rogueslayer452]

Yeah, like, I knowing that vidding takes a lot of time and effort no matter how experienced one is at doing them, but I'm immensely impressed with those who manage to go above and beyond to create whole entire narratives. I admire that kind of hard work.