Much Ado About Festivids

[purplefringe]

festivids reveals time! Abracadabra.

I had the best time ever making L.O.V.E for turquoisetumult, (who, incidentally, made me my amazing Amelie vid last year). She requested a vid focusing on Beatrice and Benedick (aka Fred and Wesley from Angel) and their comedic shenanigans. This song just sort of popped into my head whilst I was thinking about the film one day, and - in an almost unprecedented feat of speediness - I got the first draft done in a single weekend. It was just THAT MUCH FUN to make. Of course, I then spent the next two months tweaking it and fiddling with it, and I'm very grateful to both usuallyhats and raven for their enthusiasm and beta comments <3

Once again, such_heights and I decided to make life harder/more entertaining for ourselves by making our festivids in secret. This year we had the added bonus of our lovely flatmate K, who was our Secret Keeper and knew everything. I am very proud to say that I managed to work out BOTH of such_heights vids on my first guess, and you should definitely go and watch them because they are amazing and glorious.

Anyway, without further ado:

L.O.V.E.
edited by purplefringe
fandom: Much Ado About Nothing
characters: Beatrice/Benedick
music: L.O.V.E. by Nat King Cole
summary: Love is more than just a game for two
content notes: Contains shenanigans, high jinks and pratfalls. Also a couple of really terrible faces.

download: 40MB @ mediafire

password: merry war

stream:

L.O.V.E from Phoebe on Vimeo.

Lyrics

L is for the way you look at me
O is for the only one I see
V is very, very extraordinary
E is even more than anyone that you adore and

Love is all that I can give to you
Love is more than just a game for two
Two in love can make it
Take my heart and please don't break it
Love was made for me and you

L is for the way you look at me
O is for the only one I see
V is very, very extraordinary
E is even more than anyone that you adore and

Love is all that I can give to you
Love is more than just a game for two
Two in love can make it
Take my heart and please don't break it
Love was made for me and you

Love was made for me and you
Love was made for me and you

Comments

[laurashapiro]

Hmm, your download link doesn't seem to work. I would love to have this for keeps!

[purplefringe]

Oh, ok mediafire, have it your way. Work for me and screw around with everyone else. See if I care. I shall abandon you and use sendspace instead.

Try the new link! I hope it works now.

[laurashapiro]

Yep, the sendspace link works! Thank you for that.

I was able to download the vid from Vimeo for my Festivids party yesterday, and everyone really enjoyed it. (:

[purplefringe]

Hooray! Stupid mediafire.

Awww, thanks for that! I'm very happy to hear that it is bringing people joy :-) It was SUCH fun to make.

[purplefringe]

Hmmmm, it seems to be working for me - possibly mediafire was just being weird earlier? It has done that to me before. Let me know if it still doesn't work, and I'll upload it again. I'm so glad you like it :-)

[starlady]

The mediafire link appears to be borked, but I was able to grab it from Vimeo.

I watched this at a party today and it's excellent--all the best parts of the film in one wonderful vid.

[purplefringe]

Aw yay thank you! I'm really happy you enjoyed it! And thanks for letting me know about the link - mediafire was being sulky so I've replaced it now.

[fallingtowers]

I found this via festivids, and I just wanted to let you know that this is utterly delightful. Much Ado about Nothing is my favourite Shakespearean comedy, and you used the adorable faces and slapstick moments of Whedon's adaptation to great effect. I've been rewatching this vid a lot, and it never fails to make me smile. Simply lovely!

[purplefringe]

Eeeeee, thank you so much! That's so very lovely to hear :-D I completely adore Much Ado as well (apart from the Claudio storyline...), and this version is so very stylish and delightful it was just a joy to vid. I'm glad it makes you smile!

[swordznsorcery]

This was so good. A combination of forgetfulness and love of the Branagh version has so far stopped me from seeing this film, but you've persuaded me to finally get around to ordering it. Love your editing, and a really effective choice of music too. Well done.

[purplefringe]

Thank you very much! It makes me very happy indeed that this has convinced you to see this version of the play :-) It's super stylish and beautifully done and full of excellent faces.

[jb_slasher]

FINALLY FRED AND WESLEY GET THEIR HAPPY ENDING!

NO REALLY FINALLY.

This is beautiful and funny and just Wesley never let her GO. <3<3<3

[purplefringe]

<3 I'm so glad you enjoyed this, and the Fred and Wesley happy ending! :-)

[tehlime]

Aaahhh this is so fantastic! I love your editing, this is so completely lovely!

[purplefringe]

:-D Thank you!