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]

The vid template looks okay to adapt for AMVs, imo. I think I'd do:

{{AMV
|AMVtitle=
|creator=
|date=
|format=
|length=
|music=
|genre=
|fandom=
|footage=
|awards=
|externallinks=
}}

I'm iffy on "genre" and on "footage" but not very strongly.

[arduinna]

Maybe "category" instead of "genre" for AMVs, to echo the search function on amv.org?

[starlady]

Oo, yeah, that'd definitely be better.

[aethel]

First draft of the AMV template is here. We need a category to go with it, so I put in "Anime Music Video", though the category hasn't been created yet.

[onceamy]

We have a reference to an 'AMV' category -- should it be expanded to 'Anime Music Videos' or 'Anime Music Video'?

[aethel]

yeah, it should be expanded. I don't know whether singular or plural is best.

[onceamy]

I actually think what appears to be the singular is best, linguistically. So I went ahead and created it :)

[lian]

Thank you! :)