Songvid vs Fanvid - What's the difference?

songvid | fanvid | Hyponyms |

Songvid is a hyponym of fanvid.


As nouns the difference between songvid and fanvid

is that songvid is a fan-made video consisting of third-party clips with a song as background while fanvid is (chiefly|internet) a fan-made video consisting of clips from a film or television series, usually set to music.

songvid

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A fan-made video consisting of third-party clips with a song as background.
  • * 2006 , Kristina Busse & Karen Hellekson, "Introduction: Work in Progress", in Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays (eds. Karen Hellekson & Kristina Busse), McFarland & Company (2006), ISBN 9780786426409, 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 , Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy (ed. Robin Anne Reid), Greenwood Press (2009), ISBN 9780313335891, pages 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 (2013), ISBN 9780262018678, page 97:
    • Songvids , as music-based vids became known, are arguably the most popular form of vidding and influenced machinima.
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    • Hypernyms

    * fanvid

    fanvid

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia fanvid)
  • (chiefly, Internet) A fan-made video consisting of clips from a film or television series, usually set to music.

    • Hypernyms

    * fanwork

    Hyponyms

    * AMV (anime music video) * songvid

    See also

    * vidding