Identity elements
Reference code
TxAM-CRS C000150-5
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Series
Title
Fanvids
Date(s)
- 1986 - 2015 (Creation)
Extent
11 boxes
Name of creator
Biographical history
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
This series includes substantial numbers of fanvids (songvids). "Vidding" refers to the fannish activity of creating a music video (a 'fanvid') consisting of clips from various movies or TV shows set to particular pieces of music. Some vids utilize a single media universe, others involve multiple ones. The music that accompanies the clips is selected by the vidder in order to drive a particular narrative, or to make a point about the characters or story being shown. Often these points are subversive of the accepted canon (for example, a vidder might use judiciously selected clips to suggest that two or more characters have a romantic relationship, whereas in "real life" no such relationship is stated or implied).