Ready to help us with our documentary? Ready to tape your fellow fans' pleas to the Rock Hall's nominating committee? Well, you've come to the right place!

There are a few things that we would like to have for our documentary that's currently in production. Theoretically we don't necessarily need these things, but they will help make the final video look all the more professional, plus it would give other fans out there an opportunity to help out with such a monumental project.

For any and all video-related requests, we do have a few requirements and preferences before one decides to send anything to us....

In all cases, we would most definitely prefer receiving your original raw footage. That is, the video footage exactly how it was shot. Please, do not edit it, enhance it, add music or sound effects, or do anything that would otherwise "tweak" your footage. We need to stress this for a variety of reasons, but ultimately we want to be able to incorporate your footage with as much freedom available to us as possible. If it's already edited, then there's a good chance that there's very little we do with it.

If you're sending a cassette, we can accept both VHS and Beta.

If you're sending a video file, there are only two formats we can work with: AVI or MPEG-2. For the latter, filenames would be saved ending with ".mpg," but watch out! There are numerous MPEG file formats. If you are unsure of what format you'd be saving it as, then it would most likely be best to just send us the cassette.

We cannot accept nor will we use any Flash or YouTube files. Imagine someone videotaping a TV screen through a piece of stained glass that's been smeared up with grease. That's about what those files would look like when blown up to normal size in the final movie.

Now, as far as what we currently need....

1. Interviews Have you taped friends and family talking about Weird Al, how much they like him, if they think he should be in the Rock Hall, etc.? Well then, it's time to send that footage to us.

2. Concert Footage Officially, we frown upon bootlegging and we do not approve of someone sneaking a video camera into an Al concert, but if you have captured footage of Al on stage performing, we would like to use it.

Do not worry about sound quality. We can't use the songs anyway (unless someone wants to Paypal us money for the necessary licensing fees). We're more concerned about visual quality. We would need clear, high quality shots of Al in any onstage outfit. So if your concert video is blurry, out of focus, shows only his feet, or was shot from 112 rows away on the upper balcony, we'd hate to sound picky, but thanks but no thanks.

IMPORTANT! Only write to us about sending footage that you yourself shot. We are not interested in a concert video that you received in a trade, taped off a local TV station, or grabbed off YouTube. We're dealing with a very gray legal area already and the last thing we would need is someone coming up and saying "Hey! I shot that footage from Rochester Hills!" If you lied to us about the ownership of your footage and someone else comes after us later on, we will rat on you!

Any further inquiries can be sent to us via e-mail.