not a committee post: AMVs

[aethel]

The other day I was looking at the Anime Music Video article on Fanlore, and facetofcathy suggested bringing it to the attention of the dw comm. Basically, the AMV article contains some interesting stuff, but could always use more, and I get the feeling that it's written at least partly from a vidder perspective. It would be great if AMV fans could review the page, make edits there or just drop a comment here with links, corrections, or their own perspectives. Some sections on the page that could use expansion include "Notable AMVs" (external links to AMVs would be nice; EVEN BETTER would be internal links to new Fanlore pages about AMVs*) and "Contests" (which looks to have been abandoned mid-sentence). A new section to list popular AMV forums, websites, mailing lists, lj comms, etc. would also be helpful. And other stuff I can't even dream of because I don't know enough about AMVs!


*Speaking of fanworks pages, we've got an infobox template for vids, but not for AMVs. Would AMVs need different/more/fewer fields? I can make an AMV template if I know what to put in it.

ETA:An Anime_Music_Video category and template have been created.

Comments

[starlady]

I don't know about vids versus MVs for Kdramas, Jdramas, etc--I've never actually heard the term before, and I've seen vids for Kdramas in things like Festivids, but my knowledge is on the AMV side. I think it's more likely that the creators of MVs overlaps with creators and viewers of AMVs than of any aesthetics choices. But, again, not an expert opinion here.

[facetofcathy]

I found it when Google suggested Coffee Prince MV.

It looks like MV is used by people posting both in English and in various East Asian languages. It is being used both for fan-made videos of scripted sources and K-pop/J-pop sources. I'm not sure if it is also used for youtube postings of official band videos.

So, could just be a terminology choice, or a separate form. Don't know, and I'll never be able to tell by looking at examples--I can barely articulate why Buffy vs. Edward isn't a vid.