BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 See thread title.Now discuss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,471 Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 Isn't there one already? I always assumed there was.soundtrackcollector.com is good for a database of soundtracks, but there's obviously more to a wiki than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jilal 569 Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 Datameister wrote some score articles on Wikipedia if I'm correct.I think he wrote the article for The Lost World. But I'm not sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 I'm down to help out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 Poor Blume, always with the ambitious plans. First the Caption Contest that went no where, now this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 The world is not yet ready for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted October 16, 2012 Author Share Posted October 16, 2012 Poor Blume, always with the ambitious plans. First the Caption Contest that went no where, now this?It's my forte. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 Always doomed to failure, your lofty ideas turning to ash and dust in your hands....How do you cope? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,340 Posted October 16, 2012 Share Posted October 16, 2012 If this ever starts to get off the ground I might be able to help a little bit somewhat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted October 16, 2012 Author Share Posted October 16, 2012 Always doomed to failure, your lofty ideas turning to ash and dust in your hands....How do you cope?Isn't it obvious? I move to the next lofty idea! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A. A. Ron 1,739 Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 Well that's a lukewarm reception if ever I saw one. Personally, I really like the idea, I just don't know how feasible it would be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 I think it's a great idea. And I'd love to pitch in. There are great writers here too and I think we can really get this going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pieter Boelen 740 Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 It would be pretty cool to have one place with all details on film scores al together. Especially when they include relevant interviews and all sorts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry B 50 Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 Wikis should be impartial. A wiki coming from this site's members would be filled with passive-aggressive, resentful language toward any score that wasn't part of the broad, orchestral tradition. We're great with facts, though. Maybe a really good editor or two could clean it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 And it would kiss the ass of a certain composer with the initials JW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hlao-roo 389 Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 http://soundtrackinfo.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pieter Boelen 740 Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 Wikis should be impartial. A wiki coming from this site's members would be filled with passive-aggressive, resentful language toward any score that wasn't part of the broad, orchestral tradition. We're great with facts, though. Maybe a really good editor or two could clean it up.Until other people from other sites start joining who can catch and rectify those instances.However, there then WILL need to be some good Admins though to prevent any flame wars or anything.Those seem to be far too common on the subject of film music, for whatever peculiar reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewdog1 50 Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 Wikis should be impartial. A wiki coming from this site's members would be filled with passive-aggressive, resentful language toward any score that wasn't part of the broad, orchestral tradition. We're great with facts, though. Maybe a really good editor or two could clean it up.So you're saying that we shouldn't write about Zimmer? Sent from Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Once 604 Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 I really like this idea. Especially since it's not only about soundtrack releases, but whole film scores. I'm not sure that has ever been done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 3,672 Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 Wikis should be impartial. A wiki coming from this site's members would be filled with passive-aggressive, resentful language toward any score that wasn't part of the broad, orchestral tradition. We're great with facts, though. Maybe a really good editor or two could clean it up.I think we have enough of a variety of members that such resentment wouldn't happen. It wouldn't be like a review site, where one man's tastes can cloud opinions on an entire genre (such as Clemmenson, who routinely trashes anything to do with RCP or Newman's experimental side).But I do think Mark O is right - anything involving JW would probably be heavily balanced towards ass kissing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,713 Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 Starting a wiki on film scores is not a bad idea and it would be a fount of knowledge even a very high quality one if proper moderating and editorial work was done to the articles.Wikis should be impartial. A wiki coming from this site's members would be filled with passive-aggressive, resentful language toward any score that wasn't part of the broad, orchestral tradition. We're great with facts, though. Maybe a really good editor or two could clean it up.I think we have enough of a variety of members that such resentment wouldn't happen. It wouldn't be like a review site, where one man's tastes can cloud opinions on an entire genre (such as Clemmenson, who routinely trashes anything to do with RCP or Newman's experimental side).But I do think Mark O is right - anything involving JW would probably be heavily balanced towards ass kissing.I think that last sentence is once again completely sarcastic over reacting on your part. I do not know when did positive discussion and analysis become such a negative thing? Analysis can be done as a wrinkled brow dissecting of the subject matter or with empathy to the subject, trying to understand rather than the goal being to pick it apart and find flaws in it. If you aim for a relatively neutral and objective database of useful information, then editors should be put to work to correct the articles going overboard with either praise or overt negativity.Of course there are already soundtrack databases in the internet but they are really just that, aimed for collecting the basic information on the releases and scores instead of providing anything more in-depth like analysis, links to reviews, magazine articles, appearance of the music in other media etc. Once 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brónach 1,301 Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 I really like this idea. Especially since it's not only about soundtrack releases, but whole film scores. I'm not sure that has ever been done.It should have articles on Film-Scores-As-They-Are, including information on how they were modified to use in the film, and articles on the releases of a film score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pieter Boelen 740 Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 But I do think Mark O is right - anything involving JW would probably be heavily balanced towards ass kissing.Maybe some of the first content posted would be, but that is something that can be addressed later. Once it takes off and people get used to how it works, that should become much less of a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,174 Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 This is a great idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Once 604 Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 Is there anybody here who could start this up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hlao-roo 389 Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 Jack Chapple? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 AI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 I've discussed a similar project as this one with Miguel, Peio, Mikko, Maurizio, among others and we had some really great ideas. I'll try to re start it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 Jack Chapple?That actually made me laugh out loud! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Stöhr 34 Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 Hi there.I just wanted to chime in as I approached Jason LeBlanc the other day to help him with the edit war occurring at Wikipedia regarding his La-La Land Records article. I started a wiki project a couple of years ago under scorepedia.org but it didn't got the drive to live up the anticipation. But since Jason liked the idea I reinstalled the software yesterday and the wiki is up and running under http://en.scorepedia.org.As of now there are no articles beside the standard ones but I think this can be a great foundation. So, if you want we can discuss anything further. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 Edit war!Sounds cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuck 154 Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 Thor should get his "research" in there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,287 Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 Definitely! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuck 154 Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 That would be a fine article:John Williams genealogy:The 1500's - 1600'sThe 1700's - 1800's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmmusic 1,823 Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 i would love if there was a kind of imdb for scores too!where you could see the top250, see the top scores in every genre, sort the scores of a composer by ratings etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuck 154 Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 i would love if there was a kind of imdb for scores too!where you could see the top250, see the top scores in every genre, sort the scores of a composer by ratings etc...That would be called isdb, the Internet Score DataBase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted January 29, 2013 Author Share Posted January 29, 2013 Hmmmmm maybe we can sticky this and start seeking contributions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,174 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 I'm sure people would contribute once someone comes up with and sets up a basic structure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Stöhr 34 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 i would love if there was a kind of imdb for scores too!where you could see the top250, see the top scores in every genre, sort the scores of a composer by ratings etc...I'd rather call it FMDB (Filmmusic Database) and I already started a very basic version under http://www.fmdb.de - in german though. At the moment the whole thing gets a rewrite but these things take time especially when it's a one man show. I'm sure people would contribute once someone comes up with and sets up a basic structure.There already is: http://en.scorepedia.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuck 154 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 I'd rather call it FMDB (Filmmusic Database) and I already started a very basic version under http://www.fmdb.de - in german though. At the moment the whole thing gets a rewrite but these things take time especially when it's a one man show. But you don't want to put articles related to TV scores & video games too? Remember, a lot of composers has also worked on television, theater, even video games, not just film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Stöhr 34 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 I'd rather call it FMDB (Filmmusic Database) and I already started a very basic version under http://www.fmdb.de - in german though. At the moment the whole thing gets a rewrite but these things take time especially when it's a one man show. But you don't want to put articles related to TV scores & video games too? Remember, a lot of composers has also worked on television, theater, even video games, not just film.TV scores are already supported but not specially marked as such but videogame scores are adressed in the rewrite. Stuff like theater or else will also partially supported. I try to cover as much as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuck 154 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Reminds me of Herrmann's & Goldsmith's annoyance at being called as "film composers'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Stöhr 34 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 As a test I just imported the Wikipedia article of La-La Land Records here: http://en.scorepedia.org/wiki/La-La_Land_Records. Everything is there including several links that might not be necessary in this context. There is also an extension missing which I'll install ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,174 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 I'm sure people would contribute once someone comes up with and sets up a basic structure.There already is: http://en.scorepedia.orgI mean a main page with content, some categories etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,713 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Well I would be interested in contributing to such a database. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 As would I. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,287 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 You guys can contribue right now - its a public wiki! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Stöhr 34 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 I'm sure people would contribute once someone comes up with and sets up a basic structure.There already is: http://en.scorepedia.orgI mean a main page with content, some categories etc.I see what you mean. This should be doable. Some more articles would also be good. Well I would be interested in contributing to such a database.You mean the wiki or FMDB?Oh, and we also have the ability to import pages from Wikipedia. I did that with the La-La Land Records article and it worked very well. It did need some afterwork though but that was better than writing anything from scratch.And I have a question: Is anyone able to design some kind of logo for the wiki? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUMENKOHL 1,068 Posted January 30, 2013 Author Share Posted January 30, 2013 And I have a question: Is anyone able to design some kind of logo for the wiki?Sure. Hold on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,340 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Just something quick I whipped up: KK 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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