Uploaded January 2010 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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OK!!!! I'm sooooo glad to be done with this thing! At first I panicked at the challenge! Most of u may know I dont do AU well...i can pull it off in crossovers but withing the same fandom is tough for me.

I wanna dedicate this to Sarah (SweetBrooke23)...her Luca/Peyton/Brooke vid to this song was a HUGE inspiration for this! in fact i never woulda heard the song if it wasnt for that video! so thanks sarah for being an inspiration!

So the challenge was to change something within your chosen fandom to cause an entire different outcome.

Here's a summary of the original story according to the International Movie Databse:

In 15th century Paris, Clopin the puppeteer tells the story of Quasimodo, the misshapen gentle-souled bell ringer of Notre Dame, who was nearly killed as a baby by Claude Frollo, the Minister of Justice. But Frollo was forced by the Archdeacon of Notre Dame to raise Quasimodo as his own. Now a young man, Quasimodo is hidden from the world by Frollo in the belltower of the cathedral. But during the Festival of Fools, Quasimodo, cheered on by his gargoyle friends Victor, Hugo, and Laverne, decides to take part in the festivities, where he meets the lively gypsy girl Esmeralda and the handsome soldier Phoebus. The three of them find themselves ranged against Frollo's cruelty and his attempts to destroy the home of the gypsies, the Court of Miracles. And Quasimodo must desperately defend both Esmeralda and the very cathedral of Notre Dame.

*In the end Frollo dies and Quasimodo is praised for defeating Frollo and Phoebus and Esmerelda "live happily ever after"


My version:

Up until Phoebus is shot is all the original story. In the original Esmerelda rescues him from the river. In my version Phoebus dies. Quasimodo searches for the Court of Miracles alone. When Quasimodo rescues Esmerelda from the fire he is followed by Frollo to the top of the cathedral. Frollo tries to kill Quasimodo and almost loses his life in the process. But as Quasimodo is holding on to the building AND Frollo, Esmerelda grabs him and Frollo is able to pull himself back up on the buliding (as in the original). Esmerelda can no longer hold Quasimodo and she drops him. In the orginal story Phoebus is on a lower level to catch Quasi...but since he died earlier...there was no one to save Quasimodo =[ Then before Esmerelda can react to Quasimodo's death, Frollo kills her. In the end Frollo is the only one left....which is the exact opposite of the original movie!


Im sorry this was so long everyone! But the judges of the competition suggested to put in the original story and what you did to change it (in case a judge was not familiar with the fandom)

I hope u guys like it bc there were seiously soooo many times i wanted to quit but thanks to my 2 ash's (scurvied and fragilfey626) i didn't give up! Im glad i didn't bc im quite pleased with how this turned out =]

Thanks everyone for watching/rating/commenting/and reading my hella long desc XD

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[1/27/10]
#91 - Most Discussed (Today) - Film & Animation

Judges Review [BOIT Competition]

Your video was appreciated by all the judges. You used a song that harmonizes perfectly with the fandom choice. The editing was perfect for this; it never falls into the banalities of too many flashes or dissolves or into the repetition of the same effect. However, it is a difficult song to edit, and in some places, you relied a bit too much on the fast beats, which tend to be continual and that makes the viewer a bit distracted from the story you're telling. Anyway, you're one of the few that has managed to perfectly understand the purpose of this task and what the judges wanted to see in a video. The end of the video is a perfect explosion, you've duplicated the scene that just happened in small black and white clips and this has further emphasized the perfect end of your video.