How do you organize your collection?

[pjoseph23]

My collection just started, and has been focused on sci-fi, Cronenberg, and a selection of titles for my wife.

The sci-fi is chronological from King Kong to Rise of the Planet of the Apes with most of it focused on 1968-1990. Boxed sets get inserted at the date of the first film.

This will change as the collection gets larger. Even now Conan and Jaws are mixed in there.

[buzzwoody]

Strict ABC, but since I get a lot of browsers I have now split into three shelves; one for just kids/animation, one for R films, and one for the PG-13/regular films. I thought it would bother me at first but I enjoy it now since I don't feel bad about having the younger browsers see horror movies on the same shelf as disney movies.

[IanTheCool]

Originally Posted by comicgeek

I organize mine based on studio quantity. I have around 50 Disney blus so they come first. I have one lionsgate so they come last. Within the Disney blus I put animated classics (WDAS) followed by sequels, then live action films, direct to video, and lastly, the nature films. Then I have Warner Bros which go alphabetical as does everything else from there on out.

Its interesting, I like it.

[KubrickKurasawa]

DVDs under my bed and blu rays under my pc desk. One day I might just build a shelf if it doesn't make my 5.1 speakers throw excess vibrations.

[Tony208]

I separated it into 4 sections

Disney
Franchise/series
TV
the rest

[comperic2003]

• Animation/Family/Fantasy
• Documentary
• Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez
• Drama
• Adventure/War/Western
• Action
• Horror
• Comedy
• Music(al)
• Sports
• Television

[StingingVelvet]

Mine is purely alphabetical at the moment, though with some series filed under their parent name (Bond movies, Batman movies, etc.).

I've been thinking about putting some director catalogs in a row, recently. Stuff like Tarantino and Carpenter seems like it wants to be all lined up. I haven't bit the bullet yet because I assume it will make the movies harder to grab quickly, which seems like a bad idea. I keep thinking about it though.

[TheWalkingDead]

I do mine by Genre, in alphabetical order.

Action/Adventure
Crime
Drama/Thrillers
Horror/SciFi

Digibooks, Steelbooks, Collectors Packaging, TV Shows are on one shelf or on display.

I need to go through the Drama and Thrillers and separate them, for some reason I can't decide on what really goes where with those genres.

Action and Adventure seem to all go together and not enough Horror and SciFi to make them separate.

[isaacredfield]

Mine are in order of production year. I'm a weirdo.

[SlickDamian]

I have my blu rays, Criterion blu rays, and DVDs separately on a three-tier shelf. Then, the blu rays and DVDs are organized alphabetically, while the Criterion blu rays are organized by spine number.

[JimDiGriz]

Boxsets and big digipacks/digibooks in one lot.

Steelbooks in another.

Amarays and slim digibooks/digipacks in another. All in alphabetical order except the boxsets.

[Bcogswell]

Due to lack of space atm, its not exactly organized how I want but its generally alphabetical but with Disney, 3D Movies, and Boxsets separated.

[TripleHBK]

Disney Animation on one shelf... Everything else is alphabetical. DVD's are separated onto their own shelves. Once I finish my basement I plan on getting more shelving and organizing by genre - > Alphabetically.

My ultimate goal however is to grow my collection into the thousands and eventually devote a spare bedroom into my collection space. I'd like to organize my films in such a way that it resembles a video store from the 90's.

[Ray Jackson]

I try to organize my movie collection mostly by color. I like the dark-colored cases to go together and the whites to go together and the reds and the grays and so on and so forth.

...I find it looks better on the book shelf.

Then when possible, depending on the results of the color coordination, I try to put different genres together.

I never really cared for alphabetical order or spine numbers or anything like that.

[VictoryAtNight]

One Blu-ray stacked on top of the other.
I don't organize my Blu-rays alphabetically or by genre. The odd thing is that I know exactly where my movies are, "most of the time."

[Majin Blu]

Currently:
- Criterion
- Steelbooks
- Digibooks
- Everything else
...alphabetical order.

[Doctor.Who]

How does everyone organize their sequels?
With Dawn of the Planet of the Apes coming out. Where would you put it ?

[StingingVelvet]

Originally Posted by Doctor.Who

How does everyone organize their sequels?
With Dawn of the Planet of the Apes coming out. Where would you put it ?

I file them all under a main word in all the titles or subject matter. For example "Bond" or "Batman" or "Planet of the Apes."

[Doctor.Who]

Originally Posted by StingingVelvet

I file them all under a main word in all the titles or subject matter. For example "Bond" or "Batman" or "Planet of the Apes."

Cool thank you

[WalterNeff]

Originally Posted by simonjamesconstable

I find having my Criterions in chronological order the most satisfying, I don't see the point in doing it by spine number because that would require buying every single title whether I like the film or not which is just daft.

How would that require you to collect them all? Unless you have OCD, but if you do I doubt organizing them chronological would do anything.