BtVS Video: Anything But Love

[raspberry_splat]

Title: Anything But Love
Music: SOS: Anything But Love by Apocalyptica with vocals by Cristina Scabbia
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters: Spike/Buffy
Formats: wmv; zipped or streamed
Betas: leviathan101, rhoboat, humansrsuperior
Description: Spike and Buffy's dark...and beautiful story through Spike's eyes.

Special thanks to rhoboat for gifting me with this beyond perfect

Comments

[raspberry_splat]

You are just too too much, budong...you have spoiled me terribly with such feedback. You've always been the bestest cheerleader no matter what...even when you don't know the story. And that is just what is so wonderful about everything you've said here...you've taken the time to wade through a vid about characters you don't know and managed to glean so much from it and what I was trying to get across...and then come here to tell me about it with such lovely and enthusiastic praise.

37 - :52 You send me to a broken state. I don't even know these characters and I just feel like I could cry every time I see this.
I love how this effected you just from Spike's reactions in the clips without your really
understanding fully what was going on...that just makes me happy no end. We do enjoy seeing our favorite men spilling over like this! Thank you so much for your beautiful comments on this sequence.

1:42: Love this use of imagery here, with Buffy looking away from Spike and then that closing door right on him. Gorgeous representation of

[_sharvie_]

That was sweet! I absolutely adored all those transitions and how you used effects to heighten certain colors or aspects. Very beautiful work.

[raspberry_splat]

Thank you _sharvie_! I'm so glad you enjoyed it and I really so appreciate all your lovely comments on my transitions and effects. Thank you again!

[thedothatgirl]

Im back and this is my initial reaction

Just wow. This is sumptuous vid, rich and layered (in every sense) and so beautiful.

There are some fantastic clip/lyric matches and this clearly is Spike's view of the relationship - you can't help but feel for him. The editing just flows beautifully too.

Wonderful, truly.

[raspberry_splat]

"sumptuous"....goodness, what a lovely thing to hear. Thank you so much Andrea for your very beautiful comments. It means so much to me you like it and enjoyed the lyric matches so much. This song just became more and more Spike's voice as I continued to vid and I'm so thrilled the vid was effective enough for you to feel for him. Again, I apologise for the mix up with the first link, but I thank you sooo much for taking a look and leaving me such wonderful feedback. :)

[blitzed451]

I really love this video. It covers all the nuances of feeling this couple shared. I guess I’m most wow’d by the ending, with the pair in the basement separated by the song title. It sums up so neatly the ambiguity of their relationship. I think we all know what happened after the fade

[raspberry_splat]

Thank you sooo much for this beautiful feedback my friend. I'm floored by the way you always weave your way inside my vids and find the most beautiful way of talking about them. I'm amazed and eternally grateful for what you see in this vid and how you embrace it.

Your comments about the ending make me SO very happy; I guess I’m most wow’d by the ending, with the pair in the basement separated by the song title. It sums up so neatly the ambiguity of their relationship. I think we all know what happened after the fade! I know we talked about this and how I was leaning towards not using the final Chosen scene and I am so thrilled you like how this ending worked out...that you feel it does indeed sum up the ambiguity in their relationship. :)

I'm so pleased you like the Smashed images for the first "scare me to death", and you described what I was trying to say just right; that her emerging passion, tho he knew it was there, would still scare him. YES! I had Smashed clips planned there practically since I began planning the vid.
And

[frelling_tralk]

Really beautiful video :)

[raspberry_splat]

Thank you for such lovely words..and thank you sooo much for the rec! *hug*