Placeholder for now for a more detailed naming guide. In Progress work please do not comment here - discussion here: http://meems.imeem.com/ncSXHP_0/forums/torO08uD/Glooidvi/creating_a_vidding_style_and_tags_guide/

We still need an umbrella term to cover all forms of fan-created video.

Updated April 21, 2007

category tags:

anime music video - amv
game-based music video - machinima
fiction trailer - fictrailer
live-action original source fan video - fanfilm
live action music video - vidding


fandom abbreviations/tags:

13th Warrior - 13w
Alias - alias
Angel - ats
Apocalypse Now - apocnow
Avatar the Last Airbender - atla
Babylon 5 - b5
Band of Brothers - bob
Batman Begins - bb
Battlestar Galactica 2003 - bsg
Big Eden - bigeden
Bones - bones
Boston Legal - bl
Boy Meets World - bmw
Brokeback Mountain - bbm
Buffy - btvs
Carnivale - carn
Chinese Central TV - cctv
Chronicles of Riddick - riddick
Cowboy Bebop - bebop
Criminal Minds - cm
CSI: Miami - csim
CSI: New York - csiny
CSI Vegas - csi
Dark Angel - da
DC comics universe - dcu
Dead Zone - dz
Deadwood - dw
Dexter - dex
Doctor Who - drwho (if you use "dw", it may be mistaken for Deadwood)
Due South - ds
Enterprise - ent
Entourage - entourage
Fanfiction trailer - fanfic
Farscape - fs
The Fast and the Furious - f+f
Fight Club - fightclub
Firefly - ff
Friday Night Lights - fnl
Forever Knight - fk
Grey's Anatomy - ga
Hard Core Logo - hcl
Harry Potter - hp
Hercules: the Legendary Journeys - htlj
Heroes - hero
Hex - hex
Highlander - hl
Homicide:Life on the Streets - hlots
House - house
Indiana Jones - indy
Interview With the Vampire - iwtv
Invisible Man - iman
I Spy - ispy
Jeremiah - jer
Jeeves and Wooster - j+w
Joan of Arcadia - joa
Kill Bill - killbill
The L Word - tlw
Labyrinth - labyrinth
Life on Mars - lom
Lois and Clark - l+c
Lord of the Rings - lotr
Lost - lost
Magnificent 7 - mag7
Man from UNCLE - mfu, muncle
M*A*S*H - mash
Master and Commander - m+c
Matrix & sequels - matrix
MI-5/Spooks - mi-5
Mr. & Mrs. Smith - mrmrs
Multi-media/fandom - multi
My Own Private Idaho - mopi
The Notebook - tnb
NUMB3RS - n3
The O.C. - oc
Ocean's 11-12 - o11
Odyssey 5 - o5
Once Upon a Time in Mexico - mexico
Original fiction trailers - originalfic
Persuaders - pers
Pirates of the Caribbean - potc
Prison Break - pb
Professionals - pros
Quantum Leap - ql
Queer as Folk UK - qaf-uk
Queer as Folk US - qaf-us
The Riches - riches
Robin Hood 2006 - rhbbc
Robin of Sherwood - ros
Rome - rome
Roswell - rosw
Scrubs - scrubs
Sentinel - ts
Sherlock Holmes - sholmes
The Shield - shield
Smallville - sv
Spiderman - spidey
Spooks/MI-5 - mi-5
Sports Night - sn
Star Trek (Original) - tos
Star Trek Next Generation - tng
Star Trek Deep Space 9 - ds9
Star Trek Voyager - voy
Star Wars - sw
Star Wars: Phantom Menace - tpm
Stargate Atlantis- sga
Stargate SG-1 - sg1
Starsky & Hutch - sh
Superman Returns - sr
Supernatural - spn
The Tick - tick
Torchwood - tw
Troy - troy
Veronica Mars - vm
West Wing - ww
Wild Wild West - www
Wiseguy - wg
Witchblade - wb
Wonderfalls - wf
Xena - xena
X-Files - xf
X-Men - xm


genre tags

character_study
comedy
constructedreality
dancevid
experimental
het
lkbv
mashup
meta
rps
shipper
slash

technotes

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