Survey for a new vidding/ video remix community site

[remcoman.livejournal.com]

Dear vidders,

I'm a student from the Netherlands who is currently working on his final exam project about video mashups/ remixes. My current interest is video mashups in its broadest form. This can be a fan vid but also a political mashup, trailer mashup and something called machinima. My goal is to create a advanced community site were amateur filmmakers can create there own video remixes, share sources, communicate with other filmmakers, have video remix contests (like the photo edit contests on worth1000.com) etc.

The goal of this survey is to get a better understanding of the vidding community and to use the results to determine the features of the final website.

This survey consists of nine multiple choice questions and it probably takes you less then 10 minutes to complete.

You can find the survey here: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB227NNE4268L

Thank you for participating!

(By the way feedback on how to improve the survey is also appreciated! :-D)

Comments

[bstro.livejournal.com]

Just completed the survey. Your idea for a community sounds intriguing. Looking forward to hearing more about it.

As for improving the survey, in the question about how important different aspects are, the term "quality" is kind of vague. Did you mean technical quality (like playback quality or encoding) or how well the vid is put together?

[sol-se.livejournal.com]

I saw a vid on some video site (YouTube, DailyMotion, Imeem) and this brought me into contact with the vidding community.

This is not a criticism, but I found it interesting that the only option of how one became involved in vidding by seeing other people's fanvids was then followed by "on some video site (YouTube, DailyMotion, Imeem)." I'm sure since you're studying this subject that you're probably aware that fanvids have a much longer history than YouTube (and other streaming video sites) and even pre-date the internet--really since the 1970s. And when the internet did come about were originally distributed on it by people's individual websites (that's how I discovered them). YouTube/streaming is a very recent component to vidding. I hope I don't sound condescending, I just wasn't sure you were aware of this by the phrasing of the multiple choice options.

Anyway, the site sounds like it will be interesting. Good luck with your project! :)

[counteragent.livejournal.com]

Here is a short post that might also have good links for you to check out.

http://counteragent.livejournal.com/16529.html

Also, this person on delicious is doing a master's thesis on vidding. So her links are awesome. http://del.icio.us/nushana

[counteragent.livejournal.com]

also a key delicious network to check out:

http://del.icio.us/veni_vidi_vids

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