(43 votes)
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MOVIES USED: Smallville, Buffy The Vampire Slayer
This mashup shows what it would be like if Clark Kent and Buffy Summers met and fell in love. But when Lex Luthor breaks out of prison and discovers Clark’s secret, both Buffy and Clark must deal with the consequences.
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January 6th, 2008 at 8:10 am
This is a decent video but it’s not a mash-up. It’s a fanvid.
January 11th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Maybe I misunderstand the term mashup. Here is what I have been told.
A mashup is two things.
1) A trailer
2) It combines elements from unrelated movies or shows to create a totally new storyline or idea.
This meets the first criteria seeing that it is a trailer. It also uses material from two completely different shows BTVS and Smallville putting two unrelated characters together. Now are mash-ups restricted to movies only? That is what I was unsure of. I thought as long as it was a trailer and that it combined unrelated characters/shows that it applied.
January 13th, 2008 at 3:43 am
I agree that the video fits the criteria you mentioned, but I think this is a thematic issue.
This video is part of the fanvideo trend which started with AMVs (Anime Music Videos) and spread across fan communities everywhere. It would be considered a ‘crossover’ in both the BTVS and Smallville fandoms. The crossover being, of course, a much older idea handed down from fanfiction.
Even mash-ups which may have related fandoms (POTC and Bond, for example), don’t use that fandom as a starting point for the video. Though that argument doesn’t really hold for Star Trek mash-ups, which I’ve enjoyed here before.
To me, fanvideos are about acting out fantasies which do not occur in canon — usually a romance which could never happen. Mash-ups are about taking a film (or two or more) and turning it on its head to reveal something new. They subvert the original film in the service of comedy; they use genre archetypes to send up the modern movie industry. They align unlikely ideas, which is what makes them so original and enjoyable.
I think it’s a case of two different but similar memes, and there’s definitely an area where one blurs into the other. But to me, a trailer in which the great love between Buffy and Clark Kent is hindered only by a jealous Spike is definitely, definitely a fanvid.
January 13th, 2008 at 11:56 am
very decent.
just like to give you gudos on finding the clips on these. i can understand how hard that would be especially on 2 very long tv shows.
January 14th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Old Gregg,
I was confused by the last part of your post.
“But to me, a trailer in which the great love between Buffy and Clark Kent is hindered only by a jealous Spike is definitely, definitely a fanvid.”
Spike is not involved in the trailer. The storyline is based around Buffy/Clark meeting, falling in love, learning the truth about each other, and then having to deal with an evil Lex Luthor. I am just curious why you mentioned a character that wasn’t involved in the trailer.
January 21st, 2008 at 1:15 am
Sorry, I must have gotten confused. That’s kind of beside the point.
February 11th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
I like this one, and it fits just fine with most of the rest of the items on the site. It doesn’t rise to the level of a “Shining” or “Brokeback to the Future”… but most of these are “here’s a possible storyline, let me grab stuff from different shows/movies to make a trailer for it”. It fits right in with that.