New Stream of POP Culture: Fan Films

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I belong to the group of Fans 2 in my class, so I would like to introduce a interesting new stream of POP culture driven by fans on social media. That's FAN FILMS!

The idea of the fan film – an amateur, not-for-profit work inspired by a commercial movie, TV show or comic book – (Jane Graham) (Link here!)

Watch this one for example. ("Re : dbz kamehameha tutorial after effects" by Mocarg)

You see tons of fan films like this if you surf YouTube. What encouraged fans to make these movies?

(1) Price of high quality PC and editing software.

Film editing used to need big and expensive machines and studio.

Not long ago, video editing was possible only with the help of expensive equipment and a substantial amount of training (infoweblinks.com)

So film editing was only for Professional people and you needed to be rich to make fan films for your hobby.

How about now? Many good quality PC costs  less than 1000$ (Check here!). Movie editing software costs about 150$-1000$ (Source!). Moreover, some software like Windows Movie Maker cost 0$! These amazing price change enabled fans to edit own fan films for their hobby today.

(2) YouTube and other movie sharing plat forms.

They got equipments for their jobs. Great! Then what they got next is space that they can share their movies to other people. YouTube and other movie sharing plat forms have been acting a big role for this part. Fans upload their fan films, evaluate each others. This is a new wave of POP culture started by fans on social media.










Because of these reasons, fan films became so popular and it is no longer just a hobby of fans.
If you have any favorite movie, TV show, anime, comic, etc, go to YouTube. You see some fan-made videos and it makes you smile.

More examples ! (StarWars)

DorkmanScott(3/14/2006)

After Effect (Adobe)

YukiKomuro (11/8/2007)
LSMaker (Free)
Windows Movie Maker (Free)