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Streamlining the "Type" section for the New Title page
I've seen would-be contributors on various social media platforms complain that adding a new title to IMDb is confusing. Streamlining the Type section could make things easier. I've added thousands of titles, and sometimes my brain still glitches at this section.
My suggestion:
Under Type, we see two categories.
Single Work
Series
If the user clicks on Single Work, there's a dropdown menu with the following choices:
- Feature movie
- Short movie
- TV special
- Unaired TV pilot
- User-generated video (on a platform such as YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or X)
- Made-for-home video (VHS, DVD, Blu-ray or other physical media)
- Commercial
- Music Video
- Video Game
- Audio Book
Under Series we see the following choices:
- TV series (broadcast or subscription-based platform)
- TV mini-series (broadcast or subscription-based platform)
- User-generated video series (on a platform such as YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or X)
- Video channel (typically user-generated and often contain series which may be listed separately)
- Podcast series (i.e., any series that is also, or exclusively, available in podcast feeds)
- Movie serial (typically a series of movie shorts that appeared in theaters in the first half of the 20th century)
This would help simplify a process that is complicated by its nature, as these categories of content are difficult to define and distinguish from one another.
jay_spirit
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3 months ago
By the way, feature movie and short movie are preferable to feature film and short film because film implies it appears on celluloid, while movie does not.
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Marco
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2 months ago
Under Series we see the following choices:
-Movie serial (typically a series of movie shorts that appeared in theaters in the first half of the 20th century)
FWIW, IMDb considers serials (movie serial is not a word AFAIK) to be one feature, not a series: https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/title-formatting/G56U5ERK7YY47CQB?ref_=helpsrall#
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