October 20, 2009

• Visual Fanfiction

  I have to admit I’ve never been big into fan fictions. Occasionally I read one I like but most are either poorly written or are well written but totally corrupt characters I love in ways that make me want to crawl somewhere and cry.

  But this is somewhat different.

  Check this out:

  I posted the first two Dead Fantasy videos earlier because I thought they were pretty much the coolest pure action videos I’d ever seen.  But back then they were just pure action. Completely incoherent random fighting. There was no story.

  But as you watch these three videos you can see that it’s turning into a crazy cross over fan fiction. Only it’s done purely visually. It has music but not even any real dialogue. Just visual video scenes. The closest thing I’ve seen to this in the past is certain AMVs that sort of have a tiny plot to them. But this is different. I haven’t really watched anything like this before.

  For some reason I find that a lot more interesting than standard fan fiction. Maybe it’s because it avoids the problem so many fan fictions have of not really getting a character’s “voice” right by simply leaving out the dialogue altogether. So the viewer can imagine their own dialogue. Or maybe it’s just because it’s got cool fighting scenes and I’m addicted to those.

  Anyways, anybody have any other good examples of visual fanfiction I can look into? Feel free to link them to me. Is this an emerging genre? How popular is it becoming?

  And I wonder how people making these are dealing with the potential legal challenges that constantly plague normal fan fiction.

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