I'm a member of a LiveJournal community called vidding, which is for people who make music videos for various fandoms. A day or so ago somebody asked a pretty simple question, and it got a bunch of us involved in a very complicated project. Here's the question:
Is there a vid archive anywhere for all fandoms? Something like the BMVD where vidders enter their vid information and it's searchable by vidder, fandom, music, character, etc. If not how hard would it be to get one started? Would this be feasible or just a stupid pipe dream that's impossible? Anyone interested in getting one started?
The dominos fell and now some of us are trying to get a mult-fandom vidding archive up and running. We're in the *very* beginning stages, but I'm trying to get the word out and find people who are willing to help in anyway they can. The archive won't actually host vids, but it will have some sort of search function, and a list of vids with links to the page where they can be downloaded.
If anyone is interested in more details, or wants to help out, or just make a comment or two, there has been
a LiveJournal community set up solely devoted to discussing this idea. You don't have to be a member or even have a LiveJournal to comment on other people's posts. Or if you don't feel comfortable over there where you don't know anyone, you can post here and I can relay your comments, questions, suggestions, etc.
I'm pretty excited about this idea, so I really hope we can get it off the ground.
~Anna