I like the idea, although it is the type of thing I could probably see more as a local field rather than submitted to the database. Why? I have no idea It just sounds like it fits locally better.

Another format: "3-D" and I would also split "Television" into B&W and Color options as well.

Pretty much as I said earlier in the other thread... I agree. But I do feel it would definitely need to be contributable. I would be against making anything that is contributable now and change it to local only. I know I wouldn't want to go through my entire collection to add this info (that was already there in genres) to my entire collection.

I would say that I think B&W / Color / Colorized should be another separate field. As anything (film or TV) can be B&W or Color/Colorized.

Quoting CharlieM:

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Personally, Anime or Animation is more of a genre (to me)

I'd like to ask why?

From my perspective, both of them are formats, ways in which to tell stories (which have genres) rather than genres in-and-of themselves. 

If animation is a genre, that means that such disparate releases as Disney's Sleeping Beauty and A Scanner Darkly are in the same genre.  Or anime's My Neighbor Totoro and Cool Devices.  Yes, I'm deliberately using very unlike examples of animation & anime to demonstrate the point.  Especially with anime you have every possible genre represented, every sort of story told.  Yes, here is the US our animation tends to favor the same genres: family-friendly comedy/musicals or superhero action, but that is definitely not true of anime.

... admittedly, I don't consider 'family' a genre either, simply a descriptive of age-appropriateness, but I don't see how that could be broken out of genres, unlike those I've mentioned previously ...

In other thoughts, I could definitely get on board with Pete's suggestion that B&W / Color / Colorized be broken off into a separate field.  That would be great.

Quoting Danae Cassandra:

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If animation is a genre, that means that such disparate releases as Disney's Sleeping Beauty and A Scanner Darkly are in the same genre.  Or anime's My Neighbor Totoro and Cool Devices.  Yes, I'm deliberately using very unlike examples of animation & anime to demonstrate the point.  Especially with anime you have every possible genre represented, every sort of story told.  Yes, here is the US our animation tends to favor the same genres: family-friendly comedy/musicals or superhero action, but that is definitely not true of anime.

To continue,  I do see Anime as a form of expression.  Although the way you are describing it would seem awful narrow.

Anime is the form, but under this form you could have

  Action
  Romance
  Adult
  Children
etc

I don't see it any other way  Anime is a category, just as is live action.  It is the form the story is told in.

I've suggested this a couple of times before.  I think that we could adapt the current ratings field, which currently only has the choice of Film and Television.  Add a few others, like Live Performance (for Concerts, Sports, etc.) and Short Subject (for collections of Music Videos, Shorts, etc.).

Quoting synnerman:

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I've suggested this a couple of times before.  I think that we could adapt the current ratings field, which currently only has the choice of Film and Television.  Add a few others, like Live Performance (for Concerts, Sports, etc.) and Short Subject (for collections of Music Videos, Shorts, etc.).

Please, do not mix these two up. In the US film and television do indeed have different rating systems, but in many (probably: most) localities there is no such distinction. And even in the US, AFAIK there are no separate rating systems for Live Performance etc.

I think we need to be careful.  We can go overboard.

Charlie

Quoting CharlieM:

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Lets not make it more complicated than it needs to be.

Fair enough.  Perhaps it is becoming so.