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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?
"I think George Lucas' gonna sue somebody!"
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
So how long until George kills this?
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begin the great space battle
"Roger, Red leader, I'm going in"
twelve minutes of silence
"This is Red niner. We got 'em. Let's go home"
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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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
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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the atmosphere of the ship would carry the sound with it. By the law of conservation of energy, and wave reflection, the sound would make it to the destroying ship.
Whether or not it could be heard through another ship's hull is an entirely different matter.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
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.
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.
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Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
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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Thinking never hurt anybody --MacGyver
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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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 ]
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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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