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Admin Post: Video and Multimedia Fanworks Are Here!
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We are excited to announce the final fanwork types are now available on our archive: video and multimedia!
If you'd like to add a video or multimedia fanwork, you can find these options under your My Account menu. If you need help adding them, see our video FAQ and multimedia FAQ.
What Exactly Is a Multimedia Fanwork?
Multimedia fanworks provide the means to combine two or more of the other fanwork types into a single fanwork, presented on a single page.
Did you do a ton of research for a story, and you'd like to present your link collection alongside the fic? Maybe there's an illustration of the story too? Do you have a video that goes with a meta piece, or a podcast discussing a work of art? (Or the playlist you listened to while making the art?) Or you are participating in a big bang and would like to post the artwork and novella together?
Multimedia fanworks allow you to archive fanworks that don't fit tidily into our existing fanwork types: artwork, audio, link collection, playlist, video, and writing. You can combine as many fanwork types together in whatever order you choose. The multimedia FAQ includes more information about the various ways this fanwork type can be used to present hard-to-archive fanworks on our site.
Banner image by mohamed hassan form PxHere.
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Date: 2022-08-03 07:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-08-03 08:28 pm (UTC)But then I found out that Conditional Fields don't work with Paragraphs. By this point, I was so psyched about the idea of multimedia fanworks that I actually did despair a little, thinking there was no way to make this work with my intermediate-level skills. Then this idea came to me.
And as I thought about it more, the more I liked the idea for the reason you said. If I already have a story on the archive and I do an illustration for it three years later, I can easily tack on the existing story with the artwork; if I mark the story "Multimedia Only," I still keep the comments and direct links to the fic still work. If I'm posting a multimedia fanwork from scratch, I have to upload the component fanworks first, but I would have had to do that (in a slightly different manner, but still) with the original idea. But if I'm working with fanworks already on the archive, that becomes much easier than the original approach I had in mind.
I hope it's used and enjoyed; this particular addition, of the many I've done/am doing this year, is one I'm most excited about.
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Date: 2022-08-03 08:39 pm (UTC)Oh yes, what's also great about it is that it can have multiple creators too. (If I understood correctly.)
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Date: 2022-08-03 09:14 pm (UTC)