An impressive feat, I finished this in 2 days!!! And I am very proud of how it came out :)

So I made it through to marimilla's Challenge 1 which stated as its only rule that we had to vid a song from a list of her favorite songs. I listened to all of the songs on the list and got a few ideas and even started one but I just didn't have the inspiration to finish. I even told her I wouldn't be able to finish in time, lol. She extended it longer and I still didn't feel I could finish the vid I started for it. But the other night, I was listening to my iTunes and this song played and after seeing the 'Gossip Girl' mid-season finale I knew what I had to do.

Chuck Bass is my favorite character hands down on 'Gossip Girl.' I feel he is the most developed character of the show and he deserves way more screen time than he's been given. But finally in the mid-season finale we got more Chuck time and Ed Westwick did a phenomenal job in his performance. So when I heard this song and looked up the lyrics I knew that this was a song for Chuck Bass. I have been DYING to vid Muse for the longest time now but have been a bit hesitant because most of their songs have scary beats to match and I haven't built up the courage to brave any of those songs. But this song was slower paced and I was super inspired so I decided to give it a go!

Now this is not a happy Chuck video. I tried to get his happy moments in there as best I could but this is more of a look into how Chuck sees himself. He doesn't feel he's worthy of being Bart Bass' son, Blair Waldorf's boyfriend, etc. He pushes himself to be a man he thinks he has to be when in reality he's a better man than his father ever could be without even trying. Like Blair said, he carries people. I tried not to focus on his relationship with Blair because this is a character study but Blair is a big part of who Chuck is (he's not Chuck Bass without her after all, lol).

I had a LOT of fun making this and getting to know Chuck's scenes better. This is my 4th time vidding 'Gossip Girl' and my first character video for the show. I worked REALLY hard on this to get everything perfect so PLEASE RATE, COMMENT and ENJOY :)

I must thank CatAtak12 and luvtheheaven3 for reviewing parts of this vid as I made it! Cat gave me the idea to use the noise and TV simulator effects and I think they came out awesome, don't you? So thank you for that and for helping me find certain scenes :)

Song: see end of video

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