Category: forms

A medley combines partial covers (re-performances) of two or more songs into a single continuous musical performance. See also: cover, mashup

A cover version is when someone re-performs someone else’s song.

Vidding involves creating a music video from the footage from one or more video sources, generally mainstream franchise movies or tv shows, to explore material from the source in a different way from how it was presented by the creators. The vidder may explore a single character across different films, promote a minor character or Read More …

Fan edits or fanedits are movies that have been recut, rescored, remastered, or “remixed” by amateur editors, using computer software. They are like alternative “director’s cuts” of movies and tv shows, but made by unknown, illicit, hacker directors. Fan editors generally take advantage of the dvd releases of films, including extras, which they rip and Read More …

Transmedia adaptation is appropriating the story, characters, motifs, etc from a work in one medium to “recreate” the work in another medium, for instance creating a film version of a novel, an opera from a play, a tv series from a comic book, and so forth.