VidUKon Vidshow help - Tropes!

[purplefringe]

As everyone else seems to be doing it - hi internets, please help me with my VidUKon vidshow! The theme is TROPES, and if anyone can think of a better title than such_heights's suggestion of 'Tropetastic!', please do let me know :-)

So, this is hopefully going to be a joyful show celebrating all the fun that can be had with the tropes that crop in in all our favourite shows. Obvious examples include time loops, doppelgangers and bodyswaps. Tropes can also be character types - the dorky scientist, the badass warrior woman, the unlikely hero...you get the picture. I'm interested in patterns and parallels, so there will probably be a lot of multifandom vids in this show - but if anyone has recs for tropey vids that are confined to a particular fandom (particularly long-running shows like Doctor Who or Star Trek), those are awesome too.

Please rec me vids! When I put together the Constructed Realities show last year, everybody's suggestions were incredibly helpful. Even if you think a vid is really obvious and I've probably seen it, remind me about it anyway! And self-recs are very much encouraged :-)

Comments

[silverhare]

Are you looking for examples of tropes in shows, like clips or episodes you can use to create a vid, or are you looking for examples of existing vids which contain or are about tropes? (Disclaimer: I'm tired and confused, so I apologise if the answer to this one is obvious.)

[purplefringe]

I'm looking for vids! :-) Tropey tropey vids - things like The Skins or other vids that showcase tropes across multiple fandoms, or within a single fandom.

[some_stars]

giandujakiss's Hourglass is about one of my most favorite tropes, the time loop! And rhoboat's I Think I'm A Clone Now is about doppelgangers. And I love them both a lot.

[some_stars]

okay so i had a fairly long and thoughtful explanation here of why i think kuwdora's I Wish I Was James Bond, a DS9 vid, fits the trope theme, but then the cat jumped on the keyboard and made it disappear. so i'm just gonna link it and say, i think it might fit the theme, and let you decide. (the show's multiple takes on secret agents/espionage, each with varying levels of grim reality versus fantasy; fantasy vs. reality; the nature of fantasy in what is, for the viewers, already a fantasy setting; the "ascended fanboy" as tvtropes calls it; probably other stuff that i forgot. but like, it was in sentences.) and it's a single-fandom vid! it might not work, idk, but when i tried to think of single-fandom vids about tropes this is the very first thing that came to mind.

also, it made me think, there MUST be a multi-Trek vid out there about the holodeck, for more takes on fantasy vs. reality and fannishness. and there must be a vid about time travel that's Trek-only. THERE MUST. i don't know of them but they have to exist, surely.

[grammarwoman]

Ooo! thirdblindmouse did an excellent ST vid about the holodeck, Might As Well Be.

[purplefringe]

Oh, awesome, thank you! I shall check that one out. Hooray for the holodeck. Oh Star Trek, you are so tropey :-D (I initially mistyped that as 'trippy', but I guess that works too.)

[purplefringe]

Aaaaah thank you for all of these! :-D Omg I Wish I Was James Bond is EXCELLENT. I agree - it's definitely super tropey and should be in there. I'm sorry your cat ate your comment - perhaps it was jealous of Julian Bashir's beautiful face.

[alwaystheocean]

Phoebe phoebe phoebe I'm hoping to use 'I wish I was James Bond' in my spiiiiies show, if that's OK?! :D? Like obv see what else we both come up with but figured I'd stake my claim! Can we haggle? :D?

(Re-posting in a more sensible place.)

[purplefringe]

Cleo Cleo Cleo...that's fine :-P I'm sure if it were up to the lovely Julian Bashir, he would much rather identify as a Spy than as a Trope, even if both are true, so I shall graciously concede the vid to you :-)

BUT IN RETURN please rec me tropey vids! I think you may have some ideas and/or feelings on this subject?

[alwaystheocean]

Yaaay, you are the best, thank you! :D <3

Tropey vids, you've got Skins. Did Amy actually make that one on hands and hand-holding?? And didn't Charmax have one on femeslashy cliches, that 'I'm Your Man' one, or something? (I shall ponder further.)

[zeborah]

Here's a link for I'm Your Man which also occurred to me.

Also thingswithwings' We Go Together is all about the trope of (especially) Guys Talking About Things In Bathrooms.

[purplefringe]

Oooh, thank you! :-)

[beccatoria]

I'm not sure if you're looking for creepier stuff (and of course it - rightly - gets a lot of play at cons already) but there's always laurashapiro's Stay Awake.

[purplefringe]

Thanks Becca! I've put it on the list :-) I'm hoping to stick mostly towards the 'wacky fun' end of the trope spectrum, but a bot of contrast is always good.

[margalo_streussal]

(My) Immortal: The Web Series - Toxic Feint by cupidsbow. Yes this is a fanvid about a web series based on an infamous fanfic. SO MUCH TROPE (more on the fannish end, but not just? REBELLIOUS PUNK ROCK GIRL idk its great)

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - The Dream Before by sanguinity (Time travel focus)

Multi: Fembots by Grammarwoman

[purplefringe]

Thank you! Those are all great!

[valika]

Here It Goes Back Again by thingswithwings is a brilliant Back To The Future vid about the time travel thingy.

[purplefringe]

Ooooh yes, great! Thank you!

[odessie]

Hmm, although 'I'm Your Man' is probably the best-fitting(?), Charmax made a *lot* of tropey vids - I particularly love Space Girl, obviously, I've Been to a Marvellous Party, and Destiny Calling (though maybe I should rec that one to Becca for the superheroes show instead!).

You've probably thought of most of these, but you did say even if it was really obvious(!):

The Price and The Glass, both by thingswithwings.

Flawless by kiki-miserychic (Disney princesses).

Care to Stay by tearful eye (doesn't exactly fit the joyful bit though! Multi-fandom vid about suicide/depression tropes).

A Different Kind of Love Song and The Real Slim Shady, both by giandujakiss.

[purplefringe]

Oh, thank you for all of these! I had some of them, but not all. Flawless is a fab idea, and I hadn't thought of Different Kind of Love Song but you're right it totally works!

Argh, my main issue at the moment is constructing a show that does NOT consist ENTIRELY of vids by thingswithwings, charmax, giandujakiss and bironic. :-D They have all made so many amazing, tropey vids!