I can see the logic in calling a multifandom challenge or archive that specifically includes fannish creations from all types of source texts a "multimedia archive," but that's not my understanding. To me, a "multimedia challenge" means your results can be in any creative form, not that your sources must be from multiple different source text types. Likewise, a "multimedia archive" hosts fic, icons, wallpapers, vids, podfics, and other expressions of fannish creativity, and the sources can be one or multiple text types, from one or multiple fandoms.
To me, fanvids are kinda inherently multimedia within themselves - at the very least, you're mixing a visual source, whether it be still photographs or video clips, with an audio source of separate origin (and possibly audio sources that came entangled with the visual source, if, say, you're including a dialogue snippet from said visual source over an instrumental section in the audio source). But my first instinct for what to call an archive of vids would still be a "(fan)vid(eo) archive," not a "multimedia archive" - "multi" would imply at least two different groups of results, and preferably more.
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Date: 2008-11-13 11:24 pm (UTC)To me, fanvids are kinda inherently multimedia within themselves - at the very least, you're mixing a visual source, whether it be still photographs or video clips, with an audio source of separate origin (and possibly audio sources that came entangled with the visual source, if, say, you're including a dialogue snippet from said visual source over an instrumental section in the audio source). But my first instinct for what to call an archive of vids would still be a "(fan)vid(eo) archive," not a "multimedia archive" - "multi" would imply at least two different groups of results, and preferably more.