Fanvid Friday: Firefly

[rogueslayer452]

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My Comments: This is an older fanvid for Firefly that I'm glad I found because it's among my favorites. It's just a general fanvid of the show where it's mainly about the crew of Serenity, with a bit of focus on Mal since the ship has been his savior, brilliantly set to "Serenity" by Godsmack. While the quality isn't the best due to this being an older fanvid, the editing and scene transitions to match certain moments of the song itself is cleverly done.

There were a lot of amazing fanvids from back in the day that sadly don't exist anywhere anymore, either the places I found them have disappeared or links are broken and the vidder themselves haven't, to my knowledge, uploaded them on YouTube or anywhere else, which is sad. So it makes me happy to see some of the ones I remember watching (and have downloaded on an old harddrive) available to share with others.

Comments

[shipperslist]

Ohh this was brilliant! And it reminded me (again) that I really should rewatch Firefly.

[itsnotmymind]

Great vid! Reminds me of what a great show Firefly was.

I think I prefer vids like this where you just hear the song, and not dialog from the show.

[rogueslayer452]

It's definitely among the shows I constantly rewatch. Plus Serenity afterwards, of course.

[rogueslayer452]

It's such a good show.

Many older fanvids were often like that, I find, especially when choosing a song and picking specific scenes to match the lyrics to tell a particular story. While I appreciate and do like ones where there's dialogue added in, it's something of a skill to know how to utilize the feature and whether it actually adds anything to the narrative of the vid in question. Sometimes the audio isn't matched up right, or it volume isn't balanced correctly.

[elizalavelle]

I remember back in the day YouTube kept pulling some of my fanvids down with notices from the television companies who owned the show. I imagine that may have happened to others as well. It always struck me as absolutely dumb because no one is watching a fanvid and deciding they don't need to watch the show because they've seen a video. If anything it'll bring more viewers.

I used to save videos to disc way back in the day but I'm not sure if those are around anymore.

This was a great one, thank you for sharing!