How do you organize your collection?
 

After I finish building a second set shelves to accomidate my DVDs I was going organize them and alphabatize them. I'm sure it won't last long for the alphabatizing, but I thought it would be good if the kids could find their movies easier / faster.

So my thoughts were kinda basic, but after reading certain posts I think you guys break it down extensively. Here is idea

Television
General movies (PG-13, R, Unrated)
Kids

But then I was thinking a section for Disney movies too. But thats pretty much the kids section. Maybe I should make it Classic Disney. Or maybe the 3 sections I had will be plenty, and I'm just over thinking this a bit.

Film, alphabetical
TV, alpha
Music, alpha

Seperate case for Disney/Pixar and other dvds for my kids.

again?

Here ya go:

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread.php?t=447169

My Criterions are by spine, and Disney/Animateds are separated. After that, it's all alpha from there. :up:

Everything is alphabetical, but this summer I'm going to seperate my tv shows from the films and put them on different shelves.

Alphabetically

Live action TV shows - alphabetical by series title, then sorted by season order
Animated TV shows - alphabetical by series title, then sorted by season order
Documentaries - alphabetical by title
Movie series - alphabetical by title of series, then sorted by year of release
Live action movies - alphabetical by director's last name, then sorted by year of release
Animated movies - alphabetical by director's last name, then sorted by year of release

There are only two problems I find with this system.

1) Boxsets where each film doesn't have a separte case. This doesn't so much matter in cases like the Alien Quadrilogy or Hitchcock Masterpiece Collection, where the films would be more or less grouped together anyway, but things like the Harold Lloyd Comedy Collection don't really fit the schema and have to get their own section.

2) Series that don't have proper titles. Do Kevin Smith films get filed as the Jay and Silent Bob series, the New Jersy series, or maybe under Clerks?

Funny that this has never been brought up before.

Disney/Cartoon Movies
Regular Movies
Box Sets
and TV Shows

All are alphabetical, except the Disney movies cause I gave up alphabatizing them everything my neice comes over.

My films are organized alphabetically by director's last name and then chonologically within the director. After that I have my few music DVD's organized alphabetically by artist and then chronologically, and the finally the couple of television series I have alphabetically.

Just alphabetical, with TV (only have 2 season sets) and concert dvds just thrown in as well. Only a shade over 200 dvds, so no need for more breakdown than that at this point.

Criterion by spine.
Disney/animated: Alphabetical for disney then followed by the other animated.
Sports/wrestling:Wrestling in no particular order except by company and the Football and Baseball by year.
Stand-up comedy/Music:Grouped by artist.
TV: Alphabetical.
Everything else is alphabetical.

Criterions - Spine #
Everyhting else - Alphabetically

Alphabetically, by director's last names.

I want my Altman, Robert's together. My Allen, Woody's together. My Kurosawa, Akira's together. And each director's work is then chronological. Exactly the same way my CDs and books are organized. (I don't file my books or albums alphabetically by title, why would I do differently for films? Auteurism RULEZ to the XTREME! Cowabunga!)

TV shows get stuck at the end, as though they were "various artists" sets (most TV shows are directed by multiople directors. there ARE exceptions, of course; The Office (UK) and South Park come to mind, but those are (for lack of a synonym) exceptional.)

I recently rearranged my collection by influence - directors, genres, or particular films in a rough chronology that show my progression as a movie lover.

Right now only a small portion of my collection is organized as I've overflowed my shelves. The rest of my DVDs are in a few different locations throughout the house in no particular order. I really need to find a shelving system that I like.

Either by date of purchase, or by spine color, depends on what mood I'm in.

Horror overflow in the bedroom and on one side of the living room, everything else on the other side of the living room. I am also overflowing at the moment and have about 150 that are piling up in our room.

Criterions - Spine #

Films - Alphabetically

TV - Alphabetically

Box Sets - Alphabetically

If I had kids, I would separate the kids/animated Alphabetically as well.

I used to have the complete Superbit collection which I sorted Alphabetically, but since I sold a bunch of them, they are now just included in with the other films.

Also, when the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray titles start coming in the door, I will sort them Alphabetically as well.

how do you organize...
store box sets...
pics of your collection, pt7...
pics of your collection, pt8...

Films: alphabetical
TV shows: by genre, then alphabetical
Music & Concert: alphabetical by artist

Alphabetically. then genre. (drama..horror..comedy..disney...tv shows..collectibles are on display face forward)

Alphabetically. Most of my friends think I'm OCD for even doing that.

I will never understand why people organize Criterions by spine number.

Alpha-chronolgical, allthough, at my wife's request, the music & concert DVDs have a seperate shelf area from the movie/TV DVDs.

Criterion
Warner Box Sets
Hitchcock
AFI 100 Films
TV
Music related
The Rest alphabetically

While I will admit it's a little OCD, and definately fuels the fire to "fill in the gaps," they just tend to look better that way. There are definately periods when the covers and spines kind of "go together." This is especially prevelant with the first 50 and the all-black spines (with the exception of the rogue "A Night to Remember").

Once I organized my DVDs alphabetically within genre, life became a lot less complicated for me and my family. We have about 1200 DVDs and we can find any movie in about 2 seconds. Nothing ever gets lost, and browsing is so much easier. Current genres are Drama, Action/Adventure, Romantic Comedy, Comedy, Musicals, Animated, Westerns, Sci-Fi, Crime/Noir, Suspense, Horror, Sports, Kid Stuff, TV. Collectible box sets are usually used as DVD bookends or displayed on the top shelves.

Alphabetical by studio, and then alphabetical within the studio.
Anchor Bay A-Z
Alpha A-Z
Blue Underground A-Z, and so on. Do this because I like matching spine designs to be together. Special series within a studio I keep together(Midnight Movies, Western Legends, etc.). Box sets on top shelves and spread throughout the room. Snapcases kept seperate but organized the same.

:up: Just recently re-organized mine from alpha for that very reason.

I separate by TV box sets from movies...but both are in alphabetical order

autobiographically.

Autobio...CRUD! was beat by one post!

AFI Top 100
Oscar BP winners since 1965
Kevin Smith
Hitchcock
Spike Lee
TV
Music
Kids
Superhero
The Rest Alpha

I currently have them seperated in 3 cabinets in many groups and I labeled each shelf they are on with a label maker like it was a video store.

Horror
Sci/Fi
Action/Adventure
Crime/Drama
Lucasfilm
LOTR
Animation
Family
BBC shows
Tv Series
Kevin Smith
Q.T.
John Carpenter

Here is where my OCD takes over:

By Studio - in catalogue order,

Then I alphabatize the studios and place the in theri spotl

EXAMPLE: The Woody Allen Collections is under the MGM umbrella, so I sort them by catogue number within that catagory. So within the MGM groupof DVDs, there is PRINCESS BRIDE, ANNIE HALL, SLEEPER, MANNAHATTAN, INTERIOR, THE BISHOPS WIFE, etc.

By genre, alphabetically.

Criterions separate shelf, by spine number.

TV shows get their own shelf and again alpa.

Dvds with fancy packaging (usually those from Japan and Europe): separate cabinet to be displayed in all their glory. They're the only ones not displayed in alphabetical order.

Alphabetically - Movies
Alphabetically - Television
LOTR Trilogy
Star Wars - Both Trilogies

Pretty much the same way my DVD Aficionado listing is:

Criterions by spine
Foreign by country
Genres grouped together and alpha by title
TV grouped by genre, but not alpha at all. *shrug* :)

Numerically by their UPC numbers.

stacks and stacks all over the place.

all my dvds are chronological by u.s. cinema release date