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

[aruna7]

I know that some 'vids' are called AMV at times, just like some AMV can be called simply song videos at times. It happens that the overlapping can be a bit tricky, as I have heard "music videos" for either traditions.

I saw some videos for Kdramas or Jdramas (I apologize for not remember the nationality of the art) and if I recall well they fell into one of the sections of the vidder who otherwise vidded in what could be considered more Western media tradition.

I guess it also depends on the people' background. For example, in France I know this is common for people to call fan videos of any kind/tradition either "AMV" or "the Youtube stuff".

Sorry for the ramble, as this no true expert opinion, though I'm a vidder and a viewer.