New Vid! Smallville!!

[sisabet]

As an early birthday gift for caphricacorn (who also made this icon!), I finished the Chloe vid last night and you can get it here. Yay!

Song: Perfect World
Artist: Liz Phair

Oh boy, it's a pretty life you have
And I would need a map
Just so I could navigate the back yard

Comments and feedback is always deeply appreciated.

ETA! Ack! Terrible day at work so of course I forget this part:

As always I thank sockkpuppett for vid-commiseration, I thank piper47 for enthusiasm, my Roswell-vid promise and good suggestions, and DUDE - renenet for Extreme Crash Betaing! She was on FIRE!

Comments

[linzeestyle.livejournal.com]

OMG OMG OMG EEE you finished it!

I'll...leave coherrent feedback when I get home from work (and finish my midterm!) because I'm not even supposed to be on the computer until both of those are done.

:glee:

Linzee

[f1renze.livejournal.com]

Awwww! Poor Chloe!!!

First off - I have to tell you that I'm not a Chloe person. Somehow I could never connect with her. So I came into this vid with that bias.

But guess what? You made it work for me. I found myself being in her place, really seeing everything through her eyes. And it breaks my heart!

You made really wonderful choices. I am really amazed at your strong handle of the source. You made it look like Smallville is your primary fandom. (How do you do that?!)

Favorites:

- Loved navigate the back yard.
- You captured the I know I was born to lead a double life really well.
- The peeking clip at 00:39. Awww.
- The hand retracting clip at 00:46 was PERFECT.
- The first I want to be cool, tall, vulnerable and luscious. Awww!
- The I know clip at 1:16. Wow. She's starting to steal my heart.
- Oh! So Chloe saw Clark the Superman! I felt my heart beating fast there.
- I would have it all with the shifty eyes.
- The Be involved / Be involved section with the newspaper clippings. That eye blink at the end...:(
- The ending. Sob.

Lovely. And I think it made me start to like Liz Phair, hee.

[piper47.livejournal.com]

Loved navigate the back yard.

You know... you appreciate that clip a lot more when you know that, that's Lionel. Chloe doesn't know it's Lionel, but *we* all do and hehe... I love that scene. Lionel is such an ass. ::misses evil!Lionel!!:: ;)

The Be involved / Be involved section with the newspaper clippings.

Doesn't that just break your heart? ::sniffles::

[caphricacorn.livejournal.com]

You are my favoritest sister EVAH!

Will say more once it's finished downloading...

EEEEE!!!!

[caphricacorn.livejournal.com]

Like, it's only two minutes! No! Where's the coda?!?!

Okay, now I see what you were trying to say about Chloe learning her lesson and actually keeping Clark's secret- the whole "Lucifer would have it all if he'd learn to keep his mouth shut", right? So I think maybe I just read The Autumn People too many times. I've seen Chloe hurt too many times by Clark, and like everyone he's hurt with his secreths and lieths, I want her to leave him/get over him. But maybe that's just OOC for Chloe and I'm inserting in my Mary Sue on her.

I still think that Chlark as a coupling is in the past, though, no matter what she knows. (And I'm not saying that just because Clark's gay, either.)I may be wrong- I'm trying not to read spoilers anymore, can you believe it? But because of the eventual demise of Jana and Lois being there, I don't think Chloe stands a chance of being anything to Clark other than NuPete. Or dead.

Are you coming home tonight or tomorrow? Can you bring this so I can watch it on the big screen? That's the best way to watch vids.

Re: EEEEE!!!!

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Not only will I bring this - I will also bring a few incomplete Clark/Lex vids I have floating around. Cause it's your birthday - but it isn't - but it will be.

As for when - that depends on the weather - it keeps getting bad here and then looking better and then snowing a ton and then not. So we shall see. I need to come home tonight cause I have to go to Bowling Green tomorrow for work (wanna come help me do an investigation?)

I also just got a new dance supply catalogue.

I don't see this vid as being all that shippy or even saying that Chloe *should* be with Clark. I see it as her *wanting* to be with Clark because that is how I read the situation. And who can blame her - she wants to be with this person that continuously saves her and! he is also this great big mystery. These are two of her favorite things.

If he was a complete ass, this would be easier. But he isn't - he is still her friend and she still around him and yet - he just isn't with her. And he makes really terrible decisions and well - whattaya gonna do?

But he is still her friend and she can still protect him and I like that. I think that shows a very mature outlook and strength of character - that in the end it isn't about some silly boyfriend and girlfriend issue but it is about her taking care of him, even when he doesn't know it. That is how she can be with him and that's enough.

Re: EEEEE!!!!

[caphricacorn.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know it isn't a shippy vid. I realized when I was posting that comment that it sounds like I think it is, I just mainly wanted you to know that my Chlark days are sentimental about the times they shared together but not necessarily because it would be good for them to be together in the future.

And also, still no spoilers for me.

Clark isn't a complete ass but he never gets told that he's being an ass when he is (except for Transference, maybe). And I know that Chloe's very optimistic about people and let's Clark slide a lot but I think that she can be that person to help Clark change for the better. She's the only person right now on SV that can seperate her feelings for him (read: she's his friend first) from what he needs to be told. Lex isn't gonna be that person so she's the next bet.

And maybe I'm just being all territorial and, "No! Don't hurt my Chloe! Punish Clark!". Yeah, that's what I'm doing.

You have to come home tonight because this weekend I have practice. In fact, you should leave right after work and get home like, before dinner.

[piper47.livejournal.com]

::bounces::

Damn it! Download faster!!

[piper47.livejournal.com]

Wow.

I am... this was the best thing ever! You made my day, seriously. This was exactly what I needed. I love all the changes you made, a little said to see the beginning had changed, but it works really well and flows.

This, for such a short little video, it tells so much. And it's so nice to see a video about Chloe that can tell her story and OMG! Clark's not an ass. Chloe's life isn't all about Clark... he plays a very important role, but he's not the center of her universe and people forget that sometimes. That's why I love you threw all the stuff with Lionel in here. This vid is about Chloe... and it's adorable and sad and God ::hugs::

This is *exactly* what I wanted. I know the fandom loves Chloe, but the creative end of the fandom is *so* into the Clex that other characters get lost. And while I am used to that... I'd been waiting for this vid to happen. I needed *someone* to vid Chloe and ::squeal::

I'm sorry, I'm not very helpful with feedback right now, you have *know* idea what this vid means to me. Seriously. I am very very happy right now.

You also said all the things about Chloe I never could have said... so thank you. And thank you for doing this and putting it out there and finishing it so quickly so I didn't go crazy waiting for this vid to happen and...

God I'm like a hyperactive twelve year old right now. OKay... actual feedback. I have two favorite parts of this vid. My favorite is the ending, with Chloe taking all the articles off the Wall of Weird. That is probably my favorite Chloe scene of all time and it just makes me sad watching it. That was such a profound moment for her character. Alicia showed her Clark's secret so that Chloe could do what she does, brodcast the truth to all of SV. And Chloe did the exact opposite. Not only did she not report the truth about Clark, she took him off the Wall of Weird. She's going to protect his secret while giving up a fundamental part of who she is.

My other favorite part is also towards the end, when inbetween all those scenes from Season 4, you show the clip of Chloe and Clark during Tempest and they are both smiling at each other and that's kind of bittersweet and they just look so adorable together.

I am also *all* about the scenes with her and Lionel. That was such an important part of this vid and was not out of place at all.

I still smile during the "I know" when you have that clip from Heat. That shows so much of her personality and even though this is kind of a sad story, Chloe's always going to be okay and shrug off and be optimistic and happy and that clip was just *so* very Chloe and *so* very perfect for that moment to break up a little of the drama. Which Chloe does a lot.

And as always... that clip from the pilot with her showing off the Wall of Weird was just too cute for words and I liked how well that worked.

God I am so happy about this video. I'm going to be watching it all day I'm sure.

::squeal::

Okay... I'm done now. Hehe.. I swear.

Eeeeeeeeeee!!! Chloe!Vid!!

Okay, now I'm done. ;)

[piper47.livejournal.com]

Oh! I forgot!

I'm going to sometime this week go to linzeems's house and clip. She told me I could just borrow her computer and DVD player for a little bit so she didn't have to clip for me. So Wheee.... I'll be starting the Roswell vid soon. Just for you. ;) Well... and me too. ;)

And, you gonna be around tomorrow? I gotta run some vid stuff by you and I don't think I'm gonna be home tonight.

::squeal:: Chloe!vid!!

I'm gonna be like this all day. I don't know *how* I'm going to vid Clark at *all* today. ;)

[kimera.livejournal.com]

Eee! Chloe! Or really, more like, Awww! Chloe! *pets Chloe*

PS: You must vote in my Very Important Poll *nods*.

[linzeestyle.livejournal.com]

Ohh, no you don't. She doesn't *get* an opinion. In fact, she might count as a negative opinion. Yes. Her voting CANCELS OUT a "yes" because...well....listening to her results in bad obsessions on my part.

:nods:

Linzee

[kimera.livejournal.com]

Pssht, well then YOUR vote doesn't count EITHER. So nyah =PPPPPP

[magarettt.livejournal.com]

Flows so well. Really fit with the mood of the song.

Also, the "vulnerable" always on Clark -- that cracked me up. I'm not familiar with Smallville, but still felt like I got a good feel for the Chloe-Clark friendship & betrayal. Very enjoyable.

[saturnalia.livejournal.com]

I like it. :)

[dualbunny.livejournal.com]

Another vid so soon! ::squees politely::

Hmm, know very little about I-man, but I feel like I know even less about Chloe--most of the vids-by-which-I-learned-SV have been Clex or gen.

But now I feel sad for her. Plus she looks a little like Veronica, so I might be projecting, but only to the vid's benefit. ;) She's so optimistic in the beginning, and that just seems to fall apart. But gently, if that makes sense.

That hand with the fingers and the music--biiig love. And the blue shaded shot of her face coming out from around something, and her seeing Clark with the car--they just really got to me.

You are a vidding machine lately; I am so jealous. But it's such a satisfied jealous. ;D

[wrenlet.livejournal.com]

Pssst... are you pimping airfares in your userinfo by design? Also, it is The Night of Sci Fi, so I must download vid for tomorrow.

[caphricacorn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, what's up with your userinfo? Did car insurance prove to be too much?

I think it's hilarious I am an interest, too.

[maggiesox.livejournal.com]

Oh, my God, that was fantastic. Perfect song choice.

Hey, I did promise feedback!

[linzeestyle.livejournal.com]

And I don't quite want to work on my midterm yet, so here I go.

First of all - dude. That was fast. I am in awe. Yes, it was a tiny song, but still. Tiny songs are always the hardest for me (stupid FLV) so yes.

I adore this video so very much. You made Chloe likeable to me, and that is a feat. To me one of Chloe's biggest flaws is that she picks and picks and doesn't know when to let things go and let people have their secrets...and I cannot handle people like that in RL. So Chloe suffers in my eyes because of that. And this? This made me understand her. It made me stop seeing her as unattractively unrepentant for her "reporter-ness," and instead see her as someone who is slowly and painfully "learn[ing] to keep [her] mouth shut." The fact that you directed it through Clark is beautiful. I was curious as to what you meant when you said the video would be Chlark, but not - and I *get* it now. It's about Clark, but at the same time...it isn't. It's about the things Clark represents to *Chloe.*

I also love the fact that you did not make Clark an ass. Rather, you showed that they will never be together and it is sad, without making Clark look like a Big Dick for it. Not that he isn't a Big Dick, because he is. Just...not for this. *g* But the fact that you showed their relationship as just...being, without it coming with an agenda - I think that is the other reason I love this video. And the other reason I love Chloe in it. You made the Chlark sad in that "little emotional tragedies" way and man, it hurt. This is just...such an wonderfully melancholy little video. I love it to death. I want to squeeze it and love it and keep it. And I'm not even the one that was bouncing around looking forward to it (*peers at piper47)!

And...uh...I don't have a Chloe icon, otherwise I'd use that to express my love of this video. So instead you get Hyperactive Anthony Keidis. Sorry about that. ;)

Linzee

Re: Hey, I did promise feedback!

[piper47.livejournal.com]

I bounced all day. As soon as I got that text from you that she finished the vid I started bouncing and have watched it like 20 million times since then.

::still bouncy::

[kitkatbyte.livejournal.com]

Chloe!! AWW. It's so sad. From what I've seen of Smallville "be involved" seems to be a really good phrase for her.

[medie]

oooh wow. NOt a big fan of the singer but the video? So very cool!!!!!!!

[voleuse.livejournal.com]

WOW. Gorgeous vid, and yay, Chloe! Brilliant as always. Thank you!

[altricial.livejournal.com]

You're still my hero *_*

Chloe is my fave character and you did her justice. I'm so so happy you did a Chloe vid.