songvid

English

Etymology

From song +‎ vid.

Noun

songvid (plural songvids)

1. (fandom slang) A fan-made video consisting of third-party clips with a song as background.
   • 2006, Kristina Busse, Karen Hellekson, “Introduction: Work in Progress”, in Karen Hellekson, Kristina Busse, editors, Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 12:

     Whereas formerly vidders would create songvids by using their VCRs to splice together scenes, now vids are more sophisticated, with vidders using complex authoring software to manipulate electronic files.

   • 2009, Robin Anne Reid, editor, Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 313:

     The resulting videos, known as vids or songvids, may comment on or otherwise interpret the filmic source material, or tell new stories that feature the characters.

   • 2013, Karen Collins, Playing with Sound: A Theory of Interacting with Sound and Music in Video Games, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 97:

     Songvids, as music-based vids became known, are arguably the most popular form of vidding and influenced machinima.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:songvid.

Hypernyms

• fanvid
• music video (MV)
• vid

 

Coordinate terms

• AMV
• HMV
• PMV