By Anna Marden, News Staff

Most college students in this city have met some crazy, memorable characters on the late night streets of Boston. Imagine preserving those memories on film and sharing them with the world on a website dedicated to the finest elements of nightlife in the Hub.

Edek Wasilewski, a middler communication studies major, wanted to share his own funny stories, so he created a website to make this possible. He and his six-person team are launching the full version of Bostonsfinest.tv April 20. Currently, a preview site is up with a video the team made at the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Southie.

While videos of late night shenanigans are going to be the top feature of Boston’s Finest, the site will have other highlights such as blogs, a Twitter feed, nightlife advice and other items that reflect student culture in Boston.

“We have over 300,000 college students in [the greater Boston area] and a totally wide range of people, but the one thing that unites them is that people like to party,” Wasilewski said. “So, what we thought was why not go out there and showcase that? Why not take pictures and videos? Why not have interviews with these people?”

Wasilewski’s team consists of four other communication studies majors and a media and design major at New England Institute of Art (NEIA). Middler Eric Dubnoff founded the site with Wasilewski and they work with a photographer, middler Devin Rebello; two videographers, middler Alex Sandberg-Bernard and sophomore Zack Williamson; social media and marketing “guru,” junior Michael Ollen and graphic designer and webmaster, NEIA student Drew McCarver.

The site’s name has a double meaning, Wasilewski said. The Boston’s Finest team wants to present entertaining videos of people being silly and ridiculous at night, but they also want to showcase Boston talent such as local musicians and artists. He said they plan to include multimedia feature stories about interesting people.

“We like the irony of the name,”  Ollen said.

For the site’s featured videos, Wasilewski said they plan to mostly post one- to two-minute clips that display the funniest people they encounter, for example, the infamous Huntington Avenue one-armed push up man.

The Boston’s Finest team goes out looking for people to film on weekends and in order to provoke funny footage, they bring props and conduct interviews.

“We’ll bring food items sometimes,” Ollen said. “We wanna do a segment called ‘Accost This Banana’ and give them a banana and let them have their way with it. I think that would be humorous.”

Wasilewski said they will also ask people funny questions like, “What’s your best pickup line?” and “Describe your penis in one word.” He named some of the best responses to that one as “cute” and “scared.”

One concern the Boston’s Finest team had is about legal issues regarding getting people’s consent to be on tape. Ollen said they consulted lawyers to find out if they were protected from getting sued.

Wasilewski said they found that in Massachusetts, filming in public is protected, because technically what they’re doing is documentary or “fine art.” They ask their interview subjects to say, “I consent to this interview” for the camera, and nobody has to identify himself or herself by name.

Giving consent while drunk is a gray area, but there’s no way to prove if someone was actually drunk, or if they were just acting drunk, Wasilewski said.

“We don’t give the people booze or anything like that,” Ollen said. “We’re not really enabling, we’re just documenting what we find and what we have all found living in Boston.”

Boston’s Finest’s blog posts will be written by the site’s staff, as well as reappearing guest bloggers and anonymous stories submitted by site visitors.

“A large portion of what we want this website to be is user content,” Wasilewski said. “We want people to be able to submit stories and stuff like that.”

Ollen said they’re going to add more features to the site in the fall – one plan is to add a feature called The Pulse which will essentially have the same purpose of their Twitter feed – to keep people up to date on Boston nightlife.

The Boston’s Finest team also plans to eventually create a smart phone app that will allow users to contribute to the content of The Pulse. People can record the “finest things they see on the street” and send it straight to the site, Wasilewski said.

“You’ll be able to see live streaming updates of what’s happening at various bars throughout Boston,” Ollen said. “You could go out to, say, The Pour House, and you could take a picture or a video even and say it’s 60 percent guys, 40 percent girls, their cheapest drink is $2 PBR tall boys.”

Another site feature will be contests, which goes along with the Boston’s Finest theme, Ollen said. The first planned contest will also help connect the site with the talent in the Boston music scene – a theme song competition.

“We have a studio that’s cutting a beat for us for the theme song, and then we’re going to have a contest for the Boston’s Finest theme song where people can download it and record a verse and then upload it,” Ollen said.

Wasilewski said he wants to emphasize that this site is not only for the people who they meet on the streets at night acting crazy, it’s for everyone. He said even his professors and parents think the idea for the site is entertaining.

“The website is about the people here. Anyone who’s a college student here or anyone who’s a citizen,” Wasilewski said.”We want it to be universally hilarious.”