Metavid - Fanlore

A metavid is a songvid about vidding or, more broadly speaking, a vid about fandom (or in some cases, specific tropes of a fandom or of vidding/vidders). One early metavid, Pressure (~1990) by Sterling Eidolan and The Odd Woman Out depicts three vidders making a VCR vid over the course of a single weekend.

Another earlier metavid poked fun at the Highlander fandom and its vidders. At the height of Highlander's popularity, especially of the Duncan/Methos slash pairing, dozens and dozens of vids were created using the same extremely limited amount of footage of the two characters together. (One scene in particular, a shot of Duncan painting Methos's nose with white paint, became a point of annoyance with a lot of viewers.) The Media Cannibals (Alexfandra in particular, ~1999) made use of the overuse to create It's All Been Done, showing how everything in Highlander vids had "all been done before."

Notable metavids

• Walking On The Ground by Seah & Margie is a multifandom vid about the evolution of vidding technology
• Us by lim is a multifandom vid about fandom, and the ways that fans manipulate and use their canon sources.
• I Put You There by Laura Shapiro & Lithiumdoll is a Buffy vid about a fan's love for Giles.
• The Glass by Thingswithwings is a multifandom vid that illustrates Henry Jenkins's definition of slash: "slash is what happens when you take away the glass"^[1]
• Destiny Calling by counteragent (multi)
• I Love Fandom by Barkley (original footage)
• Supersmart by Speranza (SGA)
• Failed Experiments in Video Editing by Big Big Truck (anime and original art)
• Still Alive by counteragent is an SPN about fannish infighting during season 3.
• A Fannish Taxonomy of Hotness by Clucking Belles is a multifandom vid that catalogues a list of recurring visual tropes in television
• Women's Work by Luminosity & Sisabet^[2] is a fairly explicit (and controversial) commentary on misogyny in the text for Supernatural.

See also metafic.

References

1. ↑ Henry Jenkins, The Glass, 8 May 2008 (accessed 12 June 2010
2. ↑ Women's Work (on viddler) Luminosity & Sisabet, accessed 28 December 2009.