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Hi, everyone. This is partly a general discussion for the site and partly to help me think of/define a new term for one of my dissertation chapters.
I've started to notice a bit of a trend in fanediting lately.
In Adywan's SW Revisited, Ady put himself (and George Lucas, I think) into the awards ceremony. GL may have been an effects shot, but Ady adding himself was a hybrid of a new effects shot and new footage.
In slark's DeTarnished, slark himself was a body double for a key shot.
Today, Adywan announced on Facebook that new live-action filming for the Hoth battle in ESB:R will begin in three days.
Fanedits and fan films have always shared a lot of the same basic principles, and both have for many years included new effects shots. I think, though -- and please correct me if I'm wrong -- that new live-action footage was until recently almost exclusively the province of fanfilms.
Obviously, this may have something to do with the decreasing costs involved in shooting and editing HD footage, since the difference in footage quality between live action in major motion pictures and fan-made works has been too great until recently to make seamless edits.
Whatever the cause, though, there's definitely a trend developing where faneditors don't just edit existing content and/or create new effects shots, but also actually create entirely new live-action footage to be incorporated into their edits. This technique blurs the traditional distinction between fanfilms and fanedits.
This seems to me to be a potentially new category, or at least a new technique that deserves a name.
Can anyone else think of examples where this has been done and/or any suggestions for what to call it when it is done? Thanks in advance for any and all feedback!
I've started to notice a bit of a trend in fanediting lately.
In Adywan's SW Revisited, Ady put himself (and George Lucas, I think) into the awards ceremony. GL may have been an effects shot, but Ady adding himself was a hybrid of a new effects shot and new footage.
In slark's DeTarnished, slark himself was a body double for a key shot.
Today, Adywan announced on Facebook that new live-action filming for the Hoth battle in ESB:R will begin in three days.
Fanedits and fan films have always shared a lot of the same basic principles, and both have for many years included new effects shots. I think, though -- and please correct me if I'm wrong -- that new live-action footage was until recently almost exclusively the province of fanfilms.
Obviously, this may have something to do with the decreasing costs involved in shooting and editing HD footage, since the difference in footage quality between live action in major motion pictures and fan-made works has been too great until recently to make seamless edits.
Whatever the cause, though, there's definitely a trend developing where faneditors don't just edit existing content and/or create new effects shots, but also actually create entirely new live-action footage to be incorporated into their edits. This technique blurs the traditional distinction between fanfilms and fanedits.
This seems to me to be a potentially new category, or at least a new technique that deserves a name.
Can anyone else think of examples where this has been done and/or any suggestions for what to call it when it is done? Thanks in advance for any and all feedback!