Metavid

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See also:	vid, meta, metafic
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A metavid is a term that has two different meanings, firstly it is a songvid about vidding or, more broadly speaking, a vid about fandom. These are what some would call "classic" metavids. 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."

The second meaning of the term is a vid about specific tropes of a fandom, and providing some meta-commentary and analysis of those tropes. An example of this is Women's Work by Luminosity & Sisabet that highlighted the misogyny and treatment of women characters in Supernatural.

Notable Metavids

Vids that are "classic" metavids in the sense that they talk about fandom

• 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"
• 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
• Hard Sun by Bradcpu and Laura Shapiro is a Firefly metavid that covers fans living their everyday lives.
• The Price (Vid) by thingswithwings is a multi-source metavid that talks about womens' deaths being the narrative motivation for man pain.[1]
• Anything_For_Love_(metavid) by astolat and cesperanza is a multi-source metavid that shows astolat and cesperanza's journey through fandom over the years.[2]
• Kill A Man by zimshan is a Supernatural metavid that shows fannish agency in the face of storylines it dislikes.[3]
• Coin Operated Boy by counteragent is a Supernatural metavid that both depicts a fannish mental breakdown and shows fannish agency in the face of storylines it dislikes.[4]
• On The Prowl by sisabet and sweetestrain is a multifandom vid that confronts fandom about the our enjoyment of male pain.[5]
• Art Bitch by hollywoodgrrl is a Battlestar Galactica vid that casts Kara Thrace as an "art bitch" and highlights vidders as artists.[6]
• Only a Lad by laurashapiro is a multifandom vid that points out fandom's (and media in general) tendency to "woobify" characters that are canonically villainous [7] when they find them sexually attractive.[8]
• Hourglass by Giandujakiss is a multifandom vid celebrating the fannish Groundhog Day trope.
• We Didn't Start the Fire, a multifandom vid depicting fifty years of fannish history from 1960 to 2010
• Me, by jurisffiction, a Supernatural vid depicting the fannish experience of the 15 years of Supernatural's run.
• The Self-Portrait Vidshow for VVC produced a number of other great meta vids (someone should link them here)

Vids that have extra layers of analysis beyond a typical vid but are not explicitly about fandom

• Women's Work by Luminosity & Sisabet is a fairly explicit (and controversial) commentary on misogyny in the text for Supernatural.
• It Depends on What You Pay by giandujakiss is a Dollhouse vid that confronts the source about the fact that its premise leads to frequent rape of the main characters.[9]
• Tandemonium by jarrow is a Battlestar Galactica vid that confronts the showrunner about the fact that he let down his fans with the overall show arc.[10]
• Don't Speak Morgana by hollywoodgrrl is a Merlin vid that retells the story of Morgana on Merlin as a heroic rescue by Morgause.[11]
• Deeper and Deeper by hollywoodgrrl is a Legend of the Seeker vid that explores the violent sexuality portrayed by both the men and the women in the show.[12]
• Stay Awake by laurashapiro is a multifandom vid that explores the "abnormal pregnancy/coerced reproduction trope" in genre media.[13]
• Handlebars by flummery, a fanvid which is also a meta-commentary on the darker side of the Tenth Doctor's nature and his character evolution
• Bad Things by niyalune, a Teen Wolf vid that highlighted the often violent and sexual interactions between the adult and teen characters on the show.
• Wildest Dreams by kaydeefalls, highlighting the Women in Refrigerators trope