Post by Starbeard on Jul 24, 2019 11:44:17 GMT -6
They're ubiquitous. Even I made a fan film at one point: it was for our senior end-of-year English project, to give the class something to do during the final 4-6 weeks of class after all of the state & national testing. We made a 45-minute adaptation of Hamlet set in the Old Republic, which was then trimmed down to 16 minutes when we realized that we were only high schoolers with 1 month to finish, and how long it takes to rotoscope.
Even as a kid, I'd waste camcorder tape making random videos of my Star Wars Micro Machines zooming around the house.
Fan films didn't really pick up until the golden era of the TheForce.Net; so 2000-2009ish, just after our relevant period. Still, there were some from the tail end of the 90s that got traction via conventions and the internet, and many of the films hosted at TFN at least feel like they address 90s Star Wars. They were clearly made by people who had a strong love for the 90s EU. There was also the buzz that surrounded the Special Editions, making it A-OK to expand and reinvent the stories in whatever crazy, creative ways you could come up with. Then there was Troops in 1997, which gave everyone that kickstart to just get up and have fun making stuff.
Don't get me wrong, most of it was and is horrible. But I sort of miss the heady days when fan films could be made with plastic lightsabers and bath robes, and nobody cared if it was hokey. Nowadays fan films only count if they cost $30k and have at least semi-pro actors, but they're still horrible.
Even as a kid, I'd waste camcorder tape making random videos of my Star Wars Micro Machines zooming around the house.
Fan films didn't really pick up until the golden era of the TheForce.Net; so 2000-2009ish, just after our relevant period. Still, there were some from the tail end of the 90s that got traction via conventions and the internet, and many of the films hosted at TFN at least feel like they address 90s Star Wars. They were clearly made by people who had a strong love for the 90s EU. There was also the buzz that surrounded the Special Editions, making it A-OK to expand and reinvent the stories in whatever crazy, creative ways you could come up with. Then there was Troops in 1997, which gave everyone that kickstart to just get up and have fun making stuff.
Don't get me wrong, most of it was and is horrible. But I sort of miss the heady days when fan films could be made with plastic lightsabers and bath robes, and nobody cared if it was hokey. Nowadays fan films only count if they cost $30k and have at least semi-pro actors, but they're still horrible.