Vocaloid Fanmade Promotion Video

Vocaloid Fanmade Promotion Video, which is commonly abbreviated to Fanmade PV, is a short film or video made by fans of the vocaloid work, not by the original creator.Fanmade PVs accompany of songs sung by vocaloids, including covers. Promotion video is what is called music video, music clip or video clip in English.

Concept
Various great vocaloid fanmade PVs have been made and uploaded on video-sharing sites, such as Nico nico video or Youtube, to support their originals. Most of vocaloid fanmade PV creators use CG works, their own hand writing pictures, photographs or live-action films to make them.Vocaloid Fanmade PVs are beloved by many people but sometimes they are mistaken for their original works when they become very famous and popular. Since vocaloid fanmade PVs are offsprings of the original works/videos/songs which are often called 本家(honke/the original) in Japanese, they are regarded as a kind of derivations of those originals just like fanficition.

Effects of Vocaloid Fanmade PVs
Vocaloid fanmade PVs frequently make the original works from which they derived more attractive with their renderings and arts, and also they can make a much wider audience aware of the originals. The most viewed Vocaloid fanmade PV on Nico is 「3DみくみくPV♪(3D Miku Miku PV)」Nico broadcast YouTube broadcast　which accompanies of [http://vocaloid.wikia.com/wiki/Miku_Hatsune#Miku_Miku_ni_Shite_Ageru_.28I.27ll_Make_You_Miku-Miku-ed.29. 「みくみくにしてあげる♪(Miku Miku ni Shite Sgeru)」] sung by Miku Hatsune. It was viewed more than 2,300,000 times as of May 29st, 2010. However, while they can make the original works more popular, they often invite misunderstandings among fans and make fans clash with each other over how to interpret the originals. It must be noted that what vocaloid fanmade PVs depict are not always faithful to the original songs/lyrics or the original authors’ intents, for they are created with each PV creator’s free own intention. Some PV creators make travesties of the original works, and some dipict thier own made storys and settings which are unspecified in the original videos/songs with their free own interpretation and imaginations ;in some of PVs what they depict have little association with the song which they accompany of.