Anywho, this is something I want try. I'll save the lengthy paragraph about us being inactive/dead/blahblah and cut right to the chase. We have a small but faithful following here in the MVZ. There are still a handful of us who've been here since the beginning, and still want to see this place flourish. There's also a handful of you who have joined within the last few years, who have joined our family and feel the same way as us. We all want the same goal, board activity.
Instead of saying the board is dead, lets actually get something done. With that said, I want to assemble as much people as possible to promote this place. Let's start hitting other forums (respecting their rules of advertising of course), start messaging youtube artists, and general video forums.
Keeping the boards active is an extremely tough job for us, and I'm finally asking asking for help. Personally, thinking that I could do multiple things for the site at once was foolish of me.
We need people to make short promo videos, and others to go out and promote it. Let's not just cater to wrestling fans either. Let's try branching out to MMA fans, Movie fans, and other music video fans. This is the Music Video Zone afterall, so lets live up to that name.
I'm ready to start as soon as possible, but like I said, I need help. Whose in?
Promoting the site is never a bad idea, but the real key to reviving this place is for the existing members to be more active, particularly in giving feedback on non-competition videos. New editors are never going to stick around if they feel like their work is being ignored. I know it can be difficult to summon up the will to sit through your fiftieth Randy Orton video, I'm sure we've all become pretty jaded in that respect, and I know I'm as guilty as anybody else, but I think that's the only way we can hope to get this place back on track.
Anyway, I don't know how much I can help promote the site, since coming here is pretty much the only recreational thing I do on the internet these days, but I'll try to think of something. Maybe I'll make a little promo video for my youtube account if I can find the time, but I can't guarantee many people would see it.
Maybe I'll make a little promo video for my youtube account if I can find the time, but I can't guarantee many people would see it.
A promo is something a suggested about a month ago. And you are right you may not get many views but what if everyone would upload the same promo on hs channel.That could work.
Garnering interest from everyone already here is definitely key in bringing this place back. But how? Love AD's idea about repopulating the MV section and giving feedy on newcomers. Lets all join MVMafia and the handful of those who still do leave feedback. Like AD says, it might make some of those guys want to stay. But thats only one solution. What else can we do within?
And I do recall your promo suggestion GVX. It has been suggested before also. I've attempted to do one, but got sidetracked with other MVZ priorities. I will try to finish it once I get done with the stuff I got going on. Anyone else is more than welcome to make a promo mv too. The more promotional videos, the better.
I've always loved the forum. But over the years it's gotten progressively more dead, which sucks. Sometimes videos I post get no responses now-a-days. I try to respond to videos frequently, I'd be down for helping re-spread the popularity.
Personally I think it's the lack of feedback, I've watched some really nice videos that also received no feedback, I'm down for helping though, if that means anything.
Yeah, while the Wrestling MV section gets little feedback activity, the Other MV section has been completely forgotten. I can only speak for me, and say that I'll try to make more of an effort to contribute to that section too.
And I would greatly appreciate any help you can provide. Even if its just putting an MVZ link in your sig at other websites. Anything small like that can help a great deal.
Btw Andrew, I checked out your website and your work is really awesome. All your website designs, image designs, and mv's are pretty sweet! It's definitely interesting to see because its the exact same stuff I'm currently studying for.
Cheers man! Sorry if you ran into any outdated stuff as I don't have time to frequently update my websites with work/college (I'm sure you understand). Thanks a lot for the kind words, always appreciated.
Studying it eh? Well If I can be of any help feel free to shoot me a message, best of luck and thanks again!
By the way, there's a thread on the F4w/WON board (members-only, so I can't show you a link) where someone discovered the beej Vader video and everybody seems to enjoy it, some people are asking for more. This happens from time to time (me and Harry usually post MVs there, LimerickLad too I think), but it seems almost impossible to get anyone to remember the actual MVZ itself, let alone come over here. I guess a big well-edited promotion video could help, but we just have to face the reality that most people won't join this site and become active members to be able to DL all the vids that they could just watch on youtube instead. I always make sure to plug the MVZ in all my videos, descriptions etc though. It might catch on, you never know.
Oh and there still are a few older MVZ promotion videos around. Better than nothing if nobody finds the time to make new ones
Pretty sure beej did one too a while back, profx(?) as well.
I know a lot of people just choose to watch the videos on Youtube and never really come to the site so I was wondering if there was a way to not only have d/l links on the main page but also a video player. Might make more people go to the main page if it becomes something like Youtube.
Oh and Bob, have you tried to promote your Randy vid a bit? Randy fights in 8 days and has announced that it will be his last fight (which he has said a bunch of times, but still). I think you could really get a ton of people interested in the video. Slap a big MVZ ad in the video and the description and it might get us some traffic. Same could be said for your GSP vid.
So I've decided to scrap the video I was working on for my upcoming MVZ Weekly match against Harry and replace it with a short MMV promo vid. If anybody has the MVZ 3.0 intro vid that Th3rd made (the original one without all the wrestling stuff in it), it would be a great help if you could hook me up with a link.
So I've decided to scrap the video I was working on for my upcoming MVZ Weekly match against Harry and replace it with a short MMV promo vid. If anybody has the MVZ 3.0 intro vid that Th3rd made (the original one without all the wrestling stuff in it), it would be a great help if you could hook me up with a link.
Surprised I still had this on my comp, because I was looking for it too.