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.)

[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.

[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.

[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

[valika]

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

[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.