Fanvid Appreciation Awards for Heroes Videos (Elle, Especially!)

Welcome, guys and dolls, to the first installment of Sofachip Fanvid Awards! I appreciate the amount of time, energy and talent it takes to create a wonderful fan video so I want to honor the creators. I’ve searched out for some of my favorite Heroes themed videos on YouTube. I’m happy to share them with you.

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Sofachip.com Fanvid Appreciation Award - FadingSpark for Speeding Cars

I don’t know if I have the words to tell you how much of a fan I am of FadingSpark. I don’t know her (unless I say I know a vidder, assume I don’t know them - I’m not out to play biased favorites), although I’ve e-mailed her once and she was very, very nice and helpful in answering some of my questions since I am a newbie (!) to having a YouTube account and I wanted to know some stuff before I started these awards. She really likes the character of Brooke from One Tree Hill - and though I’ve always told myself I don’t like the show, after seeing some of the One Tree Hill videos, Brooke looked like such a fun character that I’ve started watching some episodes. See!? IT’S HE POWER OF FANVIDS AT WORK! Aaaanyways. I love the song choice for this multi-char Heroes video. The editing keeps the pace…dare I say perfectly? With tons of clips, emotional WOOPAW hitting you with some of them, it’s hard not to watch this video over and over again. Which, hey - I did.

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Sofachip.com Fanvid Appreciation Award - KillerPandaJr for Keeping it Together

Am I supposed to get ACTUAL chills watching fanvids? Well, I did. This video is about our favorite sociopath - Elle Bishop from Heroes! Elle is the reason I decided to watch Heroes this season, as she’s played by the super-amazing-omg Kristin Bell. But now I stay at Heroes because 1.) I love it, 2.) Kristin is awesome, 3.) Milo, Milo, Milo. …MILO (Milo Ventimiglia - P.S. If you like him, check back here for a very fun Milo post very soon). Anyway, I’ve never gone totally batshit crazy, but if I did I think I’d see the world much like this video is colored - with splotches of red (ANGER, rawwr!) and high contrasts of black and white everywhere. I love the way the video opens with the quote, and the voiceover. The video has a cool fragmented way of presenting some scenes, much like Elle’s mind probably sometimes shows her the world. And, let’s address the song. It feels like it captures Elle’s personality perfectly. But just how long can a girl pretend to be sane?

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Sofachip.com Fanvid Appreciation Award - EllesSacrifice for How a Heart Breaks

I will neither confirm nor deny having bounced around while watching/listening to this video. I have a weakness for Rob Thomas’ voice. But that alone can’t do it. This is another Elle video, shipping Elle/Peter. Turn up the speakers for this. Tons of running-around action. Peter (Milo) is shirtless and I think I cheered. Some clips of Kristin from Veronica Mars are used, but they work within the story the video is telling in a way that doesn’t seem odd, or distract you and make you think ‘hey, that isn’t Elle!’ (It bugs me when the clips from another work are obviously jammed into a video.)

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Because rules make my hair frizzy - there are no specific categories, no deadlines, just pure fandom appreciation! (It’s as close to world peace as I can come to creating.)

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