Spike Mood Board (Snowflake Challenge 14)

[thewiggins]

Challenge #14

In your own space, remix an existing work into a new media, and/or rec three or more remixes that do the same.

So for this challenge, I decided to do a mood board inspired by womanaction's vid, Spike || Believer. That vid did a beautiful job weaving together Spike's backstory with who he is and how he progresses in the timeline of the show. So, the non-screenshot images are meant to symbolize key moments in that progression: his Victorian upbringing and the killing of the two slayers. I screencap'd the text directly from the vid and chose screenshots form the show based on moments I found particularly powerful within the vid itself.

This is my first time attempting this format, so please let me know what you think!

Image credits:
https://pixabay.com/photos/living-room-victorian-historic-581073/
www.pexels.com/photo/orange-flame-selective-focus-photography-110867/
www.flickr.com/photos/54789991@N06/16290792390
All screenshots taken from HDBuffy 's digital remaster of the show.

Comments

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Ooh, very cool!! I love that you picked a format that doesn't typically get remixed! I feel like that subway/tunnel photo works particularly well, especially with how it seems to frame (point towards) the text in the middle. And the whole thing looks appropriately fiery and dramatic and bold, like the song. :)

[thewiggins]

Thank you!

Yeah, I think you're right that vids don't get remixed much. Probably because they're scenes from canon set to music, so it's not immediately clear that you're referencing a vid and not just the show itself?

I'm really glad you liked the subway tunnel image because that was the one I had the hardest time with. To begin with, I had a cropped photo of the interior of a NYC subway from the 70s. It was cool but it wasn't under creative commons, so I realized I should probably find something else. I had a hell of a time finding something that worked that was free to use, but the search was worth it in the end. :)

[thenewbuzwuzz]

"It was cool but it wasn't under creative commons"
Oh man, do I know that feel. :) I'm glad you kept looking!

"Probably because they're scenes from canon set to music, so it's not immediately clear that you're referencing a vid and not just the show itself?"
Fair point! It's also that I just don't see a lot of recursive fanworks/remixes that are not either fic or based on fic. But I now remember I've seen a couple of people write meta or long-form reviews about vids, so that's a thing sometimes. There was that one Good Omens vid in particular which was based on meta and then inspired more meta and also inspired at least two stories.

[muccamukk]

I really like that moodboard, the use of light is fantastic.