Collecting Habits: How I Organize My Physical Media Collection | Back to Basics #10
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ค. 2024
- A deep dive guide to how I organize my 4K and blu-ray movie collection.
This video is #10 in a series called "Back To Basics," where I discuss fundamental topics of interest to those in the early phases of their physical media journey. Think of it as sort of a "Collecting 101" series.
Note: My apologies for the fluctuations in brightness/contrast/image quality at a few points in this video (particularly during the "Macro View" chapter). I'll admit, it's some weird auto setting on my phone camera that I don't fully understand yet LOL!
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Big thanks to new Fuzz Club members Jorden Tetuan @Tetuanjet and Daniel Marks @danielmarks13 (3:42)
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro/Setting the Table
03:42 New Fuzz Club Member Shout-outs
04:57 What I DON'T Do with My Collection
10:01 How I Organize My Collection
11:52 The "Macro" View
20:48 My Wall Art/Movie Shrine
38:26 The "Micro" View (Custom Groupings)
40:07 Final Thoughts/Summary/Outro - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
The best way? Whatever works for you! It’s YOUR collection.
Yeah that's been my view the whole time.
It's always so interesting to see how people organize their collection, it seems to really vary person to person! For me I have my collection separated by dvds, blu rays/4Ks, and then my steelbooks. Each section is alphabetized so that I can find a title easily!
I totally understand... that seems to be the main benefit of alphabetizing, and Ii can absolutely appreciate why people like to go that route, even though it's not personally for me. Especially as our collections grow... it can get harder to find titles if they're not alphabetized. Thanks for watching!
The ultimate organisational goal should be to acquire enough money to implement the Blockbuster method - hiring a group of young adults periodically resort your entire collections into each persons 'Picks' for the week, while you there scratching your head wondering if there was any theme or guiding principle behind each person's row of titles.
LMAO!!!😆🤣 Dude that's hilarious! Yep, that's exactly what we need LOL!!😉
I’ve reorganized my collection a few different ways over the years, and like you, I’m very limited on space and what I can do with it. I do prefer to have my box sets all in one section. I keep all of my boutique labels separated from each other. I have an entire cabinet just dedicated to steelbooks. I have one entire cabinet dedicated just to superhero films, and that includes live-action and animated. It’s fun switching it up sometimes. I do not alphabetize my collection either. You rock, Fuzz! 🤘🏻
Very cool Anthony! I totally get that about keeping all the box sets together... they look so damn nice together when you do it that way. So that's a bit of a sacrifice I've made in my own organizational style. And who knows... maybe somewhere down the line as my collection grows, I could decide to take that approach too. It's also great to hear from others out there who do not alphabetize, as I feel like it's very common among collectors to alphabetize to at least some degree. Thanks for watching and chiming in my friend! Great to see you.
Half the fun is making constant changes to the shelves. Would be interesting to mix films and their associated novels/reference books.
that's the great thing about having a collection: you can have it your way, and have it look the way you want it to look. Me, I organize mine alphabetically to keep it simple. I do like to separate my 4K's from my blu-rays and DVDs.
Wow, it's wild that you have 1,200 movies in your collection. I have around 1,000 myself, but a couple hundred are cheap used blu rays, whereas you have top quality collector's edition stuff, so while we may be close in quantity, your collection excels in quality. When it comes to organizing my personal collection, I'm a bit all over the place. I have one large storage shelf that I use for my favorite blu rays and 4k's, and I organize half of the storage in Genre groupings (1-2 shelves per genre), and the rest are grouped by year (pre 70's, 70's, 80's, 90's, 2000's, 2010's, 2020's). The rest of my collection are organized on other shelves alphabetically so they can easily be located. And I have a separate shelving unit for DVD's (that don't have a blu ray release) and TV shows.
the f-bomb startled me so much i burst out laughing, i think it's the first time i've heard you cuss and i wasn't expecting it 😭 hope you've been well!!
also, i agree with what you said about alphabetizing - even as someone who likes to organize alphabetically. i rewatch films constantly and love hosting movie nights so my collection is in constant use. when i talk about my different favorites i feel like i'm running back and forth to grab them for people, especially with a collection of 1k+, but it works for me to find them easily as soon as i need them. definitely limits display ability though!
LMAO!😆 Well believe it or not, I actually swear like crazy off-camera. I try to keep it to a minimum most of the time in videos, but every now and then I decide to let one fly for fun... you know, just to keep people on their toes.🤣😉 And I can totally appreciate how alphabetizing might be helpful when you're trying to quickly find a specific title (especially in larger collections). But yeah, I think I like to have too much fun sometimes with re-arranging periodically and grouping certain themes together. So I like the flexibility of not alphabetizing for that reason. That said, I'll be curious to see how my organizational preference evolve as my collection grows. Anyway thanks for watching and commenting!
@TheOriginalFuzz I'm fine with you swearing btw. It feels more authentic when people speak off the cuff. Swear like Dice Clay and I might get tired of it, though. I know I swear, so I can't expect others not to.
lol!! I had to take a double take also 😂
Great video Fuzz. I guess I'm not the only one who constantly thinks about rearranging things in my collection.
Yeah I love to periodically rearrange my collection. Sometimes it's just fun to spice things up and shake things up a bit, get a new perspective lol. Thanks for watching man! Appreciate you dropping a comment too!
It's cool to see others' organizing methods. Just shows you all the different ways we can look at our movie collections. I used to do alphabetical for everything, but recently I switched to compiled genres and alphabetical within them. For example, I have a section for action/adventure/western/war together as to not have to think too much about where a film is going to go. Thank you for your video :)
Yeah that makes total sense. And I always enjoy seeing how others like to organize as well, and occasionally I'll even adopt certain things that other collectors do. Thanks for watching! I appreciate you weighing in with your thoughts.
I keep mine alphabetized. It gets time consuming when adding films cuz the whole collection gets moved but it definitely helps me when I’m looking for stuff. I start out with movies A-Z, then it’s movies that names start with a number from lowest to highest. Third is movies that have either double or three different films in one case. And finally is tv series. Like I said a lot of work lol, and yes you got my last name perfect, not many people do hahaha
I totally understand where you're coming from with that. My dad is the same way... he likes to alphabetize his collection because it's a lot easier for him to find stuff. I think that's the main benefit to organizing that way -- especially once the collection starts to get very large. Right now I don't like alphabetizing, but if my collection were double the size it is now, I admit I might start to feel differently. Right now, I have most of my collection memorized, so I know where everything is. But if I had a lot more titles, it might be a little trickier to keep everything straight in my head. Thanks for watching and weighing in my friend! Great to see you!
@@TheOriginalFuzz you as well :), also what helps me is the bluray app, that helps me a bunch cuz when your collection gets big enough that also helps you remember whether you have a movie or if you’ve upgraded it to 4k or not. I swear I don’t have an addiction problem lol 🤣
@@Tetuanjet LMAO!😂 Yep I use an app for cataloging my titles as well. I use CLZ Movies from collectorz.com. It's like $20 a year or something. Fantastic app! Highly configurable. It has helped me so much in the past... it's especially good for making sure I don't accidentally buy something I already have (although that seldom happens for me anyway, because I have most of my collection memorized). It's also great from browsing if I'm trying to figure out what I want to watch that I haven't already seen since I bought the title. Helps me to remember which new pickups I have that I've not watched yet. I've heard the Bluray.com app is really good too. I find these kind of apps not only helpful, but fun to use as well.
@@TheOriginalFuzz absolutely, that’s cool I’ll have to check that app out for sure. I still have movies from 5 years ago I bought and haven’t watched 🤣🤣🤣
@@Tetuanjet LMAO!😂 Yeah I'm the same way. I have some titles I picked up 1-4 years ago that I still haven't watched yet. I seem to always have an ongoing list of maybe 80-130 movies that I haven't watched since I picked them up on physical media. Many may even be movies I've seen before, but just haven't watched the physical copy since I bought it. But I always have a pretty healthy amount of titles that I've still never seen, despite having owned them for some time. Lol!
I kinda do the same thing you do. The only packaging that I keep all together is my steelbooks (I have about 100 or so). The rest I put in genres, and it doesn't matter if it's 4k or regular bluray. I mix them all together. My collection is around 1300 titles.
Great topic! I have 2,000 or so and don't alphabetize or go by label because I don't pick movies to watch that way; I break them up by genre like you, and that's how I go looking for a movie to watch, based on what I'm in the mood for. I also don't group 4Ks, Blu-rays and DVDs separately - I group everything together by genre - which makes some shelves look a little choppy but that's the way I like to keep them and makes sense to me.
Right on! Yeah that sounds very similar to how I approach this stuff. Usually I'm in the mood to watch a specific genre, so I like to be able to see everything I have within that genre when I'm contemplating what to watch. Just works better for me. Thanks for watching and chiming in Charley! Appreciate it!
It's always cool to see how others organize their collections. I agree, there's no right or wrong way to do it. As long as the collector knows where everything is at and likes it. I'm old school and separate the formats and then alphabetize within. I do genre with as for tv series, documentaries, music, ect...Now, lately have been thinking of taking non-movie titles like those genres and group the different formats together. Of course, at the moment, all my tv shows and music collection is boxed up since I ran out of shelf space.
Very cool! Yeah I always find it interesting myself to see how others organize. I might have to adjust my organization style as my collection grows, but for now, this is what works for me. Thanks for watching and commenting man!
@@TheOriginalFuzz Something else for me is having them alphabetized, it forces me to browse when I am searching for something to watch. There have been times I am in the mood for a particular movie, but as I am looking through everything on shelf, I will see something else I would rather watch. LOL
I seem to group my movies together 🍿 🎥 by favorite actors🤘
How do you adjust for crossovers? Favorite actors in the same movie?
I just did a small reorganization and although I keep most groups alphabetical the one thing I do for franchises is place them in chronological order, especially helpful for James Bond films that are titled based on the books rather than ordered numerically. For Star Wars I keep them in order of Episode # and then chronological order of the stand-alone films placed at the end. I keep thinking of doing a full re-org based on genre but at over 3,000 titles it's a bit daunting.
Nice! Sounds like a good system for franchises. 3,000 - right on. Very respectable there lol! Though I can definitely appreciate how big of a task reorganizing a collection that size could be. Have you always sorted alphabetically, or is that something that you started doing later on as your collection grew? Because I can definitely understand how it might be easier to find titles in sizeable collections by going alphabetical. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Keeping my collection alphabetised works for me for a couple of reasons. First, because it makes it easier for me to keep track of everything in conjunction with the My Movies app on my phone and tablet as well as the My Movies Collection Management software on my PC. I am also in the process of ripping all of my Blu-rays (and most of my 4Ks) to a media server and being in alphabetical order helps me know where I am up to and what I need to rip next. Maybe once I have caught up with that, I will consider sorting by genre or something else.
All of my 4K and Blu-ray movies are stored in 3 Billy bookcases from Ikea which are all next to each other. On the top of the shelves is my replica Hattori Hanzō sword from Kill Bill and a few standout boxsets from my collection on either side. The top row of shelves is where my Funko Pop collection currently resides, although I will move them elsewhere once I run out of room for movies which are on the remaining shelves. I also have another smaller set of shelves on the other side of the room which is where I keep my DVD movies, music discs (CDs, concert DVDs and Blu-rays), and TV shows regardless of format.
That's cool! I totally understand where you're coming from... it makes perfect sense why alphabetizing would work best for you right now. I'm gonna have to look into eventually ripping/backing up all my discs... that's a great idea. I'll have to invest in some additional solid-state drives. Very cool that you collect music physical media as well... I'm also a big music guy, so I have lots of music concerts and documentaries on blu-ray & DVD too (as well as my trusty CD collection). Thanks for watching and weighing in!
I do a similar thing ordered in sci-fi/fantasy and Action sections. However within those I order them in chronological order of release 😊
My Film collection has gone feral and has returned to the wild (or so it seem when I'm trying to find a disc)😂.
On a serious note the major change to how I organise my collection is with DVD's with most now desleeved (if that's even a word?) and kept in A5 folders.
The only boutique labels I keep separate is the HMV Premium collection, Arrow video & Powerhouse indicator.
I found that organization changes based on the size of your collection. Someone who has 1,000 titles will organize differently than somebody who has 10,000 titles. I've definitely seen a lot of changes in myself doing less alphabetizing and moving towards sorting by company like Criterion, Kino lorber, Arrow, vinegar syndrome, and such. I'm trying to keep numbered titles together like MVD rewind, Paramount presents, and vestron.
That's a very good point. I fully admit that I might feel differently if I had, say, 5,000 titles instead of just 1,200. As our collections get more sizeable, I can totally see how something like alphabetizing, for example, might be more preferred among some collectors... since I'm sure it gets exponentially harder to locate titles in large collections. Or like you said, sorting by labels/boutiques, etc. So it's entirely possible that as my collection grows, I may find I need to tweak my organizational style a bit to accommodate the growth. Thanks for watching and weighing in! Really appreciate it.
Dog soldiers if you don't have it is a really good werewolf movie and there's a couple of great 4k chunky boxes out at the moment one from arrow and one from second sight 👍
I do have Dog Soldiers, but I went with the Scream Factory 4K release (I can't remember, but I think it may have come out before the other chunky box releases you mentioned. It was a blind buy for me at the time). Probably won't double dip for that one, but I am glad I own it. I thought it was a good film. Do you have any other good werewolf movies you'd recommend? (aside from American Werewolf in London and the Howling, of course) Thanks for watching and commenting!
My sci-fi section is the smallest as well. I too organize by genre but I have to keep it alphabetical for the family, but I go a step further most of my boutiques are in the room I record and all the standard Blu-ray’s and 4ks are downstairs in dedicated closet.
Recently started collecting original movie posters. The usual fan favorites are extremely expensive, but lesser known movie you can get fairly cheaply.
I’m burnt out on superhero movies all together except the greats Superman and Batman from the 70s & 80s Great video cool collection
Right on man... thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts. Yeah I've heard those original posters can be quite costly. But very cool that you're getting into them. I went with the metal/tin signs because they're relatively cheap. The only downside is they're kind of small, so i felt like i needed to get a bunch of them to develop a collage.
Interesting way to arrange your collection, Fuzz. I especially like the sub genre idea. I have mine arranged as follows: horror, sci-fi, criterion and then miscellaneous. I do like the idea of organizing by sub genres as well, so will give that some thought. As an aside, good seeing In Absentia in a prominent spot!
Ah yes, I do love my Porcupine Tree remasters! I've got all their albums. And that in Absentia edition in particular is killer... if you're not already familiar with it, it includes a blu-ray with a feature-length making-of documentary that is awesome! I feel fortunate to have seen them live 3 times on that tour (including front row leaning up against the stage for one show -- just a few feet from Steven Wilson. I could reach out and touch his guitar pedalboard Lol). I'm a huge fan of Steven Wilson and the Tree! Anyway thanks for watching and commenting.
@@TheOriginalFuzz That’s great! Huge fan of PT and SW myself. My personal ranking of PT’s albums would be as follows: FoaBP, Lightbulb Sun, In Absentia, Deadwing and then the early albums. Have had the pleasure of seeing them multiple times myself. Excited for the upcoming SW album and tour as well. Hope he announces North American dates in the not too distant future. Keep the great content coming!
I think whatever works for you is good. Everyone’s collection is different. I do some of my collection in alphabetical order. I have my comedy and Rom com together. I put all of my beautic movies all together and so
I'm in the process of trying to reorganise my storage area to be able to cope with the size my connection has now griwn to and currently thinking about how to organise it. The simple way would be to put the labels that have spine numbers in their own sections (i.e. Criterion or Radiance) but then it makes it hard to find things by any real system as those are just the order the label put those releases out. Also some stuff I want to organise by actor it director (all Hitchcock films or all Van Damme films) and if these also form part of a label with spine numbers it then doesn't really work unless you relax the OCD and accept some spine numbers for a label will be stored elsewhere. Hitchcock is in the Criterion collection as well as Kino Lorber and studio labels for example. Then genre is another option but that's a lot of work to figure out what goes where when you do it from scratch for a sizeable collection. Does Aliens go in action, sci fi or horror? Ultimately it's all of those so that could be a challenge. I guess I'll work out out but obviously videos like this help to give ideas regarding how other people do it so thanks for taking the time to put this out.
Thank you my friend.
Cool vid thanks man! I have to say, I also display items as I want to look at them; I suppose the point is not to have a library, but to have a display of things that interest you. I am a big artsy fartsy so love the slips, steels and boxsets and I will usually put specific items on display front and centre ahead of other items, and I like to group things so I have a Total Recall boxset, copy with slip, and steelbook, I will try and keep them together somehow. P.S. I am a Verhoeven fan boy lol 😜.
Right on that sounds very cool! And I agree... movies are art, and a physical media collection is an extension of the way we express our individuality and love of the art form. It's all part of the fun of being a movie and art enthusiast. So I can dig it for sure... I love to show off my faves front and center (somewhat figuratively speaking) on the best shelves for this reason. Thanks for watching and chiming in!! Always appreciate it!
It's always cool to see how different collectors display their films, its part of why going down the physical media route is so much more interactive and engaging! Great video btw, looking forward to watching future content as a channel member! 🙌
Oh yeah I totally agree... I always really enjoy watching how others organize their films. In the past, sometimes watching others have given me ideas for doing things a little differently on my end. I didn't used to separate out titles by genre when I first got back into collecting. But after watching other collectors, I decided to adopt that same approach, and I'm really glad I did. I enjoy re-organizing my titles periodically and having fun with the display. Sometimes we get some great ideas from each other! Thanks so much for watching and commenting... and thanks for becoming a Fuzz Club member too! I'm super grateful for your support!
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Great video mate my stuff is in genre mostly can be tricky sometimes, , all 4 k Blu-rays together and Blu-ray together separately 👍🏻👍🏻
Cool Stuart! Thanks for watching and sharing! Yeah I really like sorting by genre. It's kind of fun. Lol.
@@TheOriginalFuzz 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Oh good... i'm not the only one that's... perplexed haha
Lol! Thanks for watching Dennis! Great to see you!
Great video. Check out the creature from black lake. Great blu-ray. 28:09
I think I watched that one on a stream last year, and I thought it was fairly entertaining. Thanks for the tip!
I'm lazy when it comes to organizing my videos. Franchises are grouped together. Genre is loosely themed. I mixed formats. If I update a movie at a later date, it is easier to find the older format for purging purposes.
I am not sure if anyone has suggested "Lake Placid", I am not a horror fan but I enjoyed it, it is in the vein as Jaws
I've been meaning to check that one out... I've still never seen it, but I've had a number of people recommend it as a fun one. So I'll have to grab a blu-ray at some point. Thanks for the tip, and thanks for watching!
Lol your brain kinda works like mine...I have mine in alphabetical order in each genre and I am HATING the alphabetical order!!! I want my good and favorite stuff where it is in prime visible position and I hate having to move everything over whenever I get a new title to keep stuff in alphabetical order!!! Time for a reorganize 😂
Exactly Chase! That's why I do things the way I do with my own collection. I like having the flexibility to put titles where I want them to appear on the shelves. Thanks for watching man! Always appreciate your comments and support!
@TheOriginalFuzz always my friend! I enjoy all your vids!!
How do you handle stuff like the Goonies or Neverending Story? Do you have them in a Fantasy section, or Kid's/Family or some kind of 80s section? Do you have a Fantasy or Sword/Sorcery (Conan, Beastmaster, etc) section? Do you have a Western section? How do you handle animation? Separated by Pixar CGI and classical 2d style/Disney?
Well first off, I don't own a lot of fantasy or sword/sorcery movies, because I'm not really into that subgenre. I have a couple, like Beastmaster and Conan, but I just stick those in the action section. But basically, anything that is not action, sci-fi or horror, I keep them in a separate miscellaneous section (on the other side of the camera). I'm not really into westerns, kids/family stuff etc. so those don't have sections at all. I also don't separate films by decade... my 80s films are all just mixed in the other genres. I primarily collect action, sci-fi, horror or adjacent films... there are a lot of subgenres I'm just not really interested in, so they're not represented in my collection. Thanks for watching and chiming in!
Let’s remember that in the Bible, God said, “arrangeth thy titles in accordance to thy Father’s Holy Alphabet”.
Very nice collection, I like the way you think(movie organizing). I don’t alphabetize, I like to have them by genre. I also don’t collect a lot of nick-nacks either, I like to keep it simple just the movies. Creature Recommendation, Humanoids from the Deep.
Oh awesome! Thanks for the recommendation. I will definitely add it to the list to check out. I've become a big fan of creature flicks over the last few years! Thanks for watching and chiming in! Really appreciate it. I figured there would be others out there who think the same way.😉🙂
Bought a few titles by Arrow, just cos they had the rights or their version had a better cover, got my 1st Second Sight title last week like new condition, The Changeling, tomorrow Ghost Story is coming today/tomorrow. Some films i have had to get on DVDcos they not available on other formats, theres still a few DVDs i need to upgrade, less than 10 now, inc Terminator and The Hitcher, we need Commando on 4k Fuzz!!! will get predator 4k/Steelvook soon its £60 plus post, at Cex its dearer.
I think 4k movies should be separated from 4k with slipcase eg Naked Gun last year only came out in 4k steelbook, i bought it, strange Paramount do this, but others do the opposite.
Question?? If you own a movie on Blu ray do you really need to upgrade it to 4K ??
That depends entirely on the specific movie and the restoration, the previous blu-ray transfer, the 4K transfer, etc. There are so many factors involved that vary from movie to movie. Every film is unique in how it's handled, so you really have to take it on a case-by-case basis. Sometimes the 4K is a significant upgrade over blu-ray, while other times it may only be a marginal upgrade. It depends on things like what kind of source materials were available for the restorations, the condition of the source materials, what kind of work was done to restore the film, color timing, grain management, etc. But yes, overall, I think 4K is usually a significant enough upgrade for me to justify spending the money on it. But it can also be subjective, as everyone's eyes are different in terms of how they perceive these things. I made a video about a year ago exploring some of these variables and why some 4K transfers look better than others. Check it out if you're interested: th-cam.com/video/lmuP7hDEc54/w-d-xo.html
I upgrade some blu-rays to 4K when possible, but not all. There are some titles where I'm good with blu-ray and don't really feel like I need a 4K disc. So just depends on the film for me. Thanks for watching!
@@TheOriginalFuzz Thanks for Answering 🤘
Where did you get your metal movie posters?
Most of them I just got from Amazon U.S. A few of them took a few weeks to get to me, because they came from China. But I think most all of them were ordered from Amazon U.S. (or eBay in a couple cases). I just did a search for the movie title along with the words "tin sign" or "tin movie poster" or "metal sign" -- something along those lines. They're all 8 inches by 12 inches in size, and there are a ton of them out there for different movies.
Some examples:
Here's the link for the Aliens tin sign I bought: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CKW81Y87
And here's one for The Matrix: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B76D5YMV
And here's the one I bought for Heat: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CQGS3KGB
Hope this helps! Thanks for watching!
@@TheOriginalFuzz Thanks for the links and making great content!
Fuzz me not into sorting the collection into labels, i see no point in it
You have Twister kind of by itself. Shouldn't that be with natural disasters?
Yeah it should... I'm still trying to figure out where to put my disaster films and how I want to arrange them. Some are sci-fi leaning, others are more appropriate for the action category. So I will probably be moving those around and rearranging once the Twister 4K comes out in a couple weeks. Thanks for watching!
Just saw event horizon on your shelf, A remake is on the way, early days , no producer attached or director, just the writer Peter Matalas, Star trek Discovery, ive not seen Event Horizon since it cam e out, i do not buy everything people say are very good.
i didn't even know there was a new Event Horizon coming. But I just looked it up after reading this comment, and it appears Amazon is working on a new series -- which is kind of a bummer for me, because I don't really have any interest in series these days. I would rather see a proper feature-length movie reboot or sequel, prequel etc. than a series. So that's a little disappointing, because I'll probably never watch the series. But I do love the original film, flaws and all. Thanks for watching and commenting.