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Star Wars Fan Films, now Star Wars Audio Drama
darth fluffy writes "Star Wars Fanfilms have become as popular as anime music videos in the geek world over the past year (if not more), but here's a new spin: a full length Star Wars Fan Audio Drama. Recorded with over 40 actors from 5 different countries. Hurray for the power of home PC's!"
If I was 22 and living in my parents basement.
I think it's interesting to see this many people put this much effort into something they love. But I think it would be even more interesting to see folks put this much effort into something new. Something that would create it's own effect on the world - something new and fresh and...
OK, so when can I expect to see some Cowboy BeBop fan animes?
Fan fiction IS worse!
"I think George Lucas' gonna sue somebody!"
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Yes, Star Wars fan fiction is going to be the death of the Internet. And probably civilization as well.
anime sucks balls. it just shows what the fruits of a communist country are: shitting cost cutting animation with tons of pans and little or no innovation.. cartoons are suppose to be smooth and new, even south park looks better..
So how long until George kills this?
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begin the great space battle
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twelve minutes of silence
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end the great space battle
has the brains to not kill this.
IF HE'S SMART he'll encourage it. But you never know when he'll stop being smart.
Like Henry Ford said about Model T jokes 'Every joke is another Model T sold' so every SW fan effort is another pile of tickets sold.
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It's redundant, but I agree... Star Wars fan-bois should be shot.
until they write a narractive about their server being Slashdotted and Lucas' lawyers suing them?
Well I'm not a big starwars fan, nor am I a big fan of fan fiction (how many times can the "fan" be placed in a sentence?) However, I feel the fact that this can be done is quite cool! I say, "More power to 'em!"
After all, bringing people together and sharing ideas and such is the best thing about the net, right?.. Well other than porn, of course.
-Derick
Blows his brains out
If only you knew the power of decent audio pre- and post-processing.
Soon we will show them the power of this fully-operational Lucasfilm legal department!
Fan fiction is no more than collective imagination. When you envision the "just past the ending" scenes of your favorite move, you don't discuss it? Sounds like boring date, you.
/. It's not much different, IMO.
Fan fiction can be as bad as anything built through a collective, but this departure from a bunch of Harvard screenwriters' 6-month chop-n-splice is a refreshing. How many movies are you skipping because it seems formulaic, formulaic with a single twist or anti-formulaic in an almost reactionary sense?
With fan fiction, its a bit of a random roll of the dice. Now, I will admit that having fans create their own story is a bit like asking for more of the same. But a movie sticks to a genre/premise at some level anyway, so either accept that or eat your popcorn and go home.
The negative on fan fiction seem a bit ironic given the pro open-source stance seen on the
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Classic... WIPO would be proud
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If you felt this was a cool and plan on sharing it with others...You are ghey!
Props to Ras WRT Lightning et al.
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Sort of related, this Star Trek TOS based film has been making the rounds the past few days:
http://homepage.mac.com/starshipexeter/
Apparently it was in production for 7 years and they have just released it.
I got a prerelease copy of this in mpeg layer 3 format.
/me runs "echo /dev/zero > illegal\ prerelease\ of\ audio\ drama.mp3"
/me watches as the starwars icon is replaced with a burning ephigy of himself.
Too bad no one here would be caught dead listening to a patented compression codec. Better burn it or convert it to ogg vorbis.
NM, I forgot that this was in the starwars section with all the lusers who think that space will remain a vaccuum even after a space ship, with enough air for thousands of passengers for years, explodes in the nearby vacinity. The same lusers who actually paid for a ticket or wasted the bandwidth on downloading episode 2.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
Is a full-length Star Wars "Fan Audio Drama" production that was recorded with over 40 actors from 5 different countries really what the children of the world need? I would much prefer all of that money to be spent on fantastic anti-drug and anti-sex campaigns targetted directly at the heart of teenage middle America.
If we could only stop our kids from smoking up, drinking, and having pre-marital sexual relations that lead to unwanted pregnancies, our world would be a much better place. Let's join together and foster a new core values system in America's youth to make for a greater tomorrow.
I can only help but wonder if we would be having so many problems these days if people would just return to their family roots and get along with their relatives. Folks are also not going to church anymore, and the overall lack of ethics and religious values in our society is directly and linearly related to the rise in crime here in America.
In the SW storyline, this may give you an idea of the creativity being cultured online for fan fiction.
I hope that post is a joke.
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
Can someone who got it please put the audio (mp3 file) up somewhere, like on eDonkey?
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If you liked the Linux Zealot Comics, you will love the Fan fiction">.
Most other fan fiction is about having sex with 11 year old grey haired anime girls.
"...I have a bad feeling about this..."
I know that you are biung a troll, but I'll bite. It's the duty of the parents to instil in their children what they consider "proper morals". It's not my job, nor anyone esles to teach your children values. It's not our job to make up for your mack of parenting skills.
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
The force uses YOU!
What about Cowboy Neal anime?
Is good to know the classic fantasy spirit that made Star Wars films so moving for an entire generation is still alive. These fan activities prove, the latest films like Episode one and two have not killed that spirit as many critics state
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Nice work.
Described by one writer as:
"an interesting site that will be a delight for anyone with broadband and an interest in obsessive sci-fi fandom. Ask yourself: if you and your friends decided to shoot an entire episode of TOS Star Trek, and you wrote a script set on the recommissioned Exeter, and you rented a warehouse, built a replica of a Constitution-class starship, designed all the sets and lighting to look like 1967 TV, and spent SEVEN YEARS on the project, meticulously recreating the look and sound of a TOS episode, what would the result look like?"
I haven't checked it out yet but looks rather interesting.
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The original Star Wars (ep IV,V) was done as a audio drama, and broadcast over NPR. You can purchase it on cassette or CD.
And I don't care what ANYONE says, nothing in Trek is as goofy as those midicondrians from Ep1. :P
jX [ Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. - Einstein ]
...when listing mad fan made projects.
Bunch of finns have been making a feature-length parody movie about Star Trek/Babylon 5 for the last four years. At least they are trying to put some original spin on it. Info and a teaser trailer can be found from http://www.starwreck.com.
I'd rank this second in technical finesse among fan films, just take a look at the picture gallery. The German Star Wars movie Tydirium is on a league of its own (they're using 24fps digital movie cameras etc.)
It's already making the rounds on Kazaa. I found it as a 29 MB file instead of the 50 that's up on the mentioned website, so someone must've found a better codec...
Nice to see Slashdot taking an interest in the project. Of coure, now we're on a frantic hunt for more mirrors so 2S doesn't kill the entire StarWarz/JediNet server, but that's okay.
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To answer some of the comments (particularly the ones that show that the poster has no clue what they're talking about):
Don't expect GL or LFL to kill the site. For those who haven't been keeping up, fan productions such as fan films have been around for years, and are an ever-expanding community. Lucasfilm takes a fan-friendly approach to the genre, only curtailiing those that somehow tarnish the SW name through extensive sexual content (Tripping the Rift, StarBallz, etc.) or use film footage direct from their films (the original version of The Dark Redemption, for example). While fan productions cannot receive official approval from Lucasfilm, many projects (including Second Strike) have received positive comments from people who work with or work for Lucasfilm or LucasBooks. (Daniel Wallace, for instance, has a regular segment on Second Strike's sister project, ChronoRadio, while Kevin Rubio, Ann Crispin, and others, have interviews scheduled for CR as well). In other words, there's no need to worry about LFL "shutting us down." They're about the most benevolent company in terms of fan productions that there is.
FearUncertaintyDoubt: That's why you'll never hear a space explosion in Second Strike, only ones in the mid-atmosphere, at the highest.
Fan Fiction Naysayers: There's a difference between fan fiction that directly comes out of a film and an original story set in the context of a fictional universe. Second Strike does the latter. It has very few tie-ins directly to previously released materials. It simply uses the backdrop of the time frame created by one comic book series and one novel series as its setup. After that, it could be an audio presentation of any other story or an entirely separate story. The Star Wars tie-in, though, represents the community we wanted to present it for, as a thanks for the support given to the projects that many of our 40+ cast have worked on in the past. In many of our cases, this is the last hurrah before leaving the fan production community.
StewyGriffin: Perhaps it didn't make the page, so you didn't know. The entire production has cost *maybe* $40, mostly for food and such that our Mixer has been using as fuel for late-night mixing. Pretty much everything has been done with programs that we all had to begin with, and, after that, all that was required was time. A fan *film* on the other hand, require a decent sized budget. Part of why Second Strike is audio is to cut down costs to almost nothing.
a1englishman: Listen to the opening of 2S. That's what we're paying homage to. You can tell the most in the model used for the opening narrator.
I'll try to check back again tonight or once I get back to Atlanta this weekend. Just have to remember to ignore the trolls and keep an eye out for people who *have* bothered to check it out who can therefore make *informed* comments.
--NPB
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Its narrated by R2-D2...
--"The perfect example of the man of action is the suicide." - William Carlos Williams
"Out in the world there are teenagers smoking and drinking while having unprotected sex and you people are talking about a Star Wars Drama? For crying out loud, people, GET SOME PRIORITIES!"
This is better than episode I!
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Are these American (pop) stars with anime-inspired music videos, or are these imported from Japan? Somebody please provide a link!
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But you know what? I'm downloading the first act right now. I'll reserve judgement. . , well indefinitely. Even if it sucks bananas, I love collaborative projects like this. I'm sure everybody involved has learned a mountain of cool new skills, and are richer people because of it.
Simply trying to coordinate a project of this scale represents a spectacular effort!
Kudos, Kudos, Kudos!
Now, (fingers crossed), if the script is any good, the project itself and not just what it represents might just be something special. Perhaps a new force in the galaxy to contend with. . ?
Fingers crossed. .
-Fantastic Lad
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