Fanlore:Featured Article Archives/2022: Week 38

The opening still of Protège Moi, featuring a sleeping Dean in monochrome, the comforter picked out in dark red.

Protège Moi is a 2006 Supernatural vid by Charmax, featuring the Wincest pairing. It became notable in the Supernatural and vidding communities for its use of color grading for artistic effect: the vid is colored black and white, with select objects highlighted in red. At the time of release, this technique was not common in vidding. Charmax has cited the film Sin City as inspiration, which had been released the year before in 2005. The vid has been used as an example at vidding conventions to demonstrate referential color effects.

Protège Moi was originally posted to imeem. Charmax also posted a vid announcement on Livejournal, entitled 'astartexx made me do it and it was fun'. Upon its release, the vid was widely praised and shared; sdwolfpup, a notable vidder, described it as "stunning visually and powerful emotionally". The vid announcement on Livejournal received more than 160 comments, with many commenters praising the choice of song, technical editing skills, use of colour and the emotional impact of the vid.

The vid premiered at Vividcon 2007. It was later uploaded to YouTube in 2008, with an AO3 work created in 2011.