vidder

plural vidders

1. A person who creates fanvids.

   Old school vidders created these forms of post-modern art using a VCR; today more and more vids are being created using video software such as Adobe premiere and imovie.

   2006, Rochelle Mazar, “Slash Fiction/Fanfiction”, in Joel Weiss, Jason Nolan, Jeremy Hunsinger, Peter Pericles Trifonas, editors, The International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments, Springer, →ISBN, page 1148

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   In his desire to differentiate vidders' multi-layered work from MTV's commercial, iconographic aesthetic, Jenkins asserts: “fan video is first and foremost a narrative art” (233).

   2010, Kim Middleton, “Alternate Universes on Video: Fanvid and the Future of Narrative”, in Heather Urbanski, editor, Writing and the Digital Generation: Essays on New Media Rhetoric, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 121

   In a similar vein, another vidder, who made several Lianca videos, wrote that “I would just hear a song and start seeing clips. I would be driving down the road and it would just hit.”

   2011, Eve Ng, “Reading the Romance of Fan Cultural Production: Music Videos of a Television Lesbian Couple”, in Gail Dines, Jean M. Humez, editors, Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Critical Reader, SAGE Publications, published 2008, →ISBN, page 560

   Synonyms: fanvidder