So, I was thinking and I had this idea for how we can get more traffic to A-U. Here it its:

YouTube is HUGE. And the Hobbit videos are getting TONS of
views right now just like the LOTR vids got back in the day.
If we make Hobbit (and maybe even some LOTR) related videos it might
be a big help to getting traffic to A-U because tons of people are looking up the Hobbit
now on YT! We would make ourselves part of the very popular vid search!
We could make fan music videos, or picture slideshows and add links to
A-U in the video descriptions and at the end of the videos. Also I think
the release of the Hobbit is likely even sparking old LOTR memories for
many Ringers who will start looking up LOTR vids again.
I think if we did venture to make these kinds of videos that they
should be posted on a YouTube channel made specifically for A-U.
And if we have any A-U members with YT accounts they
could also help attract people to the site as well through their own channels and special Hobbit/LOTR vids.
If a main channel for A=U is made, it might also be good to make a few videos on what A-U is all about
and what is has to offer to LOTR/Hobbit fans.

I know I could at least make some picture slideshow videos. If I can get my
dvd drive working I could make some vids too.

We may not even need a ton of videos to be successful with this idea. But more would probably improve our chances.

So what are you guys thoughts on this?
If anyone would be willing to help out on this in any way, let us know! Thanks!

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This is a really good idea, Synariel!

Would you want to post about this in the fan-art section too, where people who are good at these things would maybe be more likely to see it?

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by Lembas

I love this idea!! And you're absolutely right, it can be really simple but it could also be something really artistic. Silverrose is really good with YouTube vids, perhaps she'd be interested in the project even though she's not on A-U anymore...

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Done!

So Ea, do you think we should start an A-U channel, or just have everyone use solely their own channels? The more channels have our videos though the more chance of we have of getting them seen.

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I love this idea. Way to go on finding new ways to bring people to A-U! I'm just sorry I can't help make videos or something, but I'm completely clueless on how to do that.

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I'm glad so many people seem to like this idea! To further encourage the idea, I just came across this video on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7MLT4Mm ... ature=fvwp

It's nothing fancy at all! Just a picture slideshow of a bunch of really random LOTR pics, posters and movie scenes
with May It Be playing in the background. In about ONE year-just one year-this video has incurred over a million views!!!
If we have even just one of our videos watched that many times in a year think of how much exposure we could get for the forum!
That would be insane!

I could totally make such a video today. I have the time today. But I wanted to ask-where should it be uploaded?
Do we want to make an official A-U YouTube channel or should I just upload it to one of my channels? If it is decided
to make an A-U YT channel, I could make that today as well, so I could upload the video to it.
And since we are representing A-U, should we use graphics from the main site for the videos, or should we just use whatever...?
Just let me know!!! In the meantime I'll get started on a video!

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I think it would be nice to have our own channel, so that we could keep it AU centric and such. Do you think we should just set up an email (like arwen-undomiel[@]gmail) to use for it so that it can still be functioning 5 years down the line?

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Ok everyone-the first of the Revival Videos is now complete!! But there's a bit of an issue. I didn't realize this..but the record company owning the song "Into The West" don't like people uploading their content to YouTube. :S So the video's sound was muted. I didn't know using the song would be that serious. I thought it would just fall under the Fair Use Act, but I guess not. So, we havea video with no sound....

The graphics in the vid were done mostly by Shadowcat, and about 3 were done by me. I have the video on "unlisted," so you guys can see it only with this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MITsMwiqgnc

Not sure what to do about the sound. If we have any song writers we may have to make some kind of original composition...I don't know.

Edit
If we want to use LOTR soundtrack songs, we apparently have to go through this process of getting permission:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si4RAH3Q ... creen&NR=1

I checked YouTube's rules and there's no other way around it.

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Perhaps if you do a mixture of songs, putting in a couple of excerpts rather than one full song? That way you're not really giving people a way to listen to it for free without paying.

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I looked into that. Their page on copyright rules said we couldn't even use a part of the song unless we had permission. It sounds like permission may not be too hard to get.

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I think, if we don't have to pay anything, trying to get a permission isn't a bad idea. That way we can use any song we want.

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I agree. It would be good to get permission to use the pictures too. I think the more legit we are about it the better it will go for us. I'd like to give A-U a legit image in this. I think people would really appreciate that, and it might help us in being promoted by others.
It seems has A-U has met with some LOTR official in the past (unless the interview with David Salo was quoted from something, but it didn't sound that way...), so maybe we could reach some officials again to get permission.

I just really think we should look into it. I would have a hard time further promoting this idea if we had to break copyright rules to do it.

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No takers for this one?

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It wouldn't be a good idea to upload official movie trailers to our YT channel. YT analyzes the content users upload and if you upload videos with someone else's copyrighted material it can put your channel in jeapordy of being closed down. YT has always been like that but these days they seem to be cracking down even harder on these things. Especially when it comes to companies who really push for YT to keep people from uploading their content. Companies involved in LOTR seem to be really strict about this from my experience.

Anything we upload should have mostly original content if we want our channel to stay safe and active.

For example, if we feature a song it would have to be a non-official version where we sing and do the music.

If we feature pictures we had to use fan art.

Etc.

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