Songvid

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A songvid is a music video that edits clips from a favorite TV show, anime series or movie to a song. It is a cross between narrative story-telling and visual poetry. Because only small snippets of video images are used and no profit is made, some fans (and lawyers) argue that it should fall under the Fair Use exception to copyright laws. Interestingly, while a large number of anime video-makers (or vidders) are male, the bulk of vidders in media (TV/film) fandom are women (although these general lines are beginning to slightly blur). The first songvid was made by Kandy Fong in the 1970s when, at a Star Trek convention, she combined stills on a slide projector and a cassette player. Shortly after that, the Sony Betamax became available to the consumer, and vidders were able to take video clips from taped shows and place them over their own soundtracks. Most fan-run conventions (Bascon, Escapade, MediaWest*Con, Zebracon, etc.) host music video shows or vid shows.

Henry Jenkins, a leading academic in popular culture studies and author of "Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture" writes that "Such works certainly interpret the original series but not in a sense that would be recognized by most Literature teachers. They are not simply trying to recover what the original producers meant. They are trying to entertain hypotheticals, address what if questions, and propose alternative realities. Part of the pleasure of fan made media is seeing the same situations through multiple points of view, reading the same characters in radically different ways. The same artist might offer multiple constructions of the characters and their relationships across different works -- simply to keep alive this play with different readings." More on Henry Jenkins and "How to Watch a Fan-Vid"[1]

Also commonly known as a "music video", "music vid", "fan vid", "song video" or a "vid".