Yes, POV has to be one initiated by the vidder. Because the vidder has to have something to start with, to organize around. The vidder has to decide whether the "I" in the song is the vidder herself (yay meta!) or an omniscient God "I" or the character. The vidder has to decide whether the "you" is the viewer (yay meta!) or another character--or the planet! Whatever. The audience is going to bring something--God knows what--to every vid they see, and that really has nothing to do with what the vidder is doing. Yay if those things dovetail, but they don't always dovetail (e.g., I made a vid for HL [back in the Dark Ages], and I knew exactly whose POV I was vidding from. I got more than one piece of feedback stating that the viewer had seen it from the other character's POV. Even though I had been careful to consistently place one character's voice/face on "I" and the other's on "you." I can't say that I failed in that vid simply because someone in the audience saw it differently. You can't be responsible for the viewer's interpretation. You have to be responsible for yours.)

I've not seen any of your vids where I'd have to question the POV, so I wonder if we're not talking at cross purposes here--or maybe there's a semantic issue. Maybe my take on the POV isn't what you meant (I've long considered Lucky to be from the tape's POV *g*), but you *have* one in every vid.

I don't think that one can ignore the need for POV--at least as a starting point. The vids I've seen where POV is too liquid--to the point of not being there at all really--may be pretty, may have pretty music, but they are not memorable (Okay, I remember *one* and I'm not going to embarrass this now-great vidder by bringing it up) and they are not *good*.