Which fan films are worth seeing?
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It's a parody. Agamemnon becomes Backgammon. Data becomes Info. Kirk/Picard becomes Pirk.They can use the exact ship designs, but not the same names and uniform logos and stuff?
I did use the word "insufferably" in regards to the two existing threads on Axanar, you're changing what I said...
And YES, this thread is to talk about fan FILMS, the films themselves, but the discussion was meandering off topic. Like if this was a discussion about Kill Bill, and suddenly it deviates to talking about Harvey Weinstein's bad behaviour.
Back on topic: I want to add the Stalled Trek as a genius parody/fan film (that's the series using muppet characters).
On the lower end of fanfilms I would name the first few episodes of Dreadnought Dominion which are WAYyyy too stuck in the fannish amateurishness of fanfilms, and Star Trek Equinox which is just bad in every way.
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Since Axanar came up, I'll just leave this here. A nice record of how fan money was wasted, wasted, wasted...
And back on topic, this fan film was a lot of fun, it used shakley cam and lens flares to disguise the greenscreen backgrounds quite well:
And back on topic, this fan film was a lot of fun, it used shakley cam and lens flares to disguise the greenscreen backgrounds quite well:
Very well done on an absolute microbudget. The producers also got actors who actually had acting experience. Generally, the best actors in a fan film are not as good as the worst actors in the "official" films, but not as much in this one. I should also note that there are plenty of audio dramas out there as well. This wikipedia article is a good rundown of the video and audio genres.
Star Trek re-imagined as a 1940s serial instead of a 1960s television series.What even is this?
I like this one, as I've got several of those classic serials in my media collection.
Kor
I generally struggle to sit through film from the 40's. I love stuff from the 30's and from the 50's onward. Something about 1940's filmmaking style is hard for me to sit through. I don't know how to articulate. Chime in if you can help me out.
Well I would say the heyday of cinema adventure serials was the 1930s into the 1940s. Stylistically the ones from the 1940s are pretty similar to the ones from the later 1930s, as they weren't exactly cutting-edge filmmaking. This fan film is somewhat along the lines of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers.
Kor
You can also lookup Project Potemkin. It originally was just the Potemkin, but has since added episodes for several different ships.
That 40s Trek serial is canon in my book. Wibbly wobbly timey wimey things notwithstanding.
The same creative team also did a 70s style Star Trek short film. Honestly, taking only TOS into account as well as the vast myriad options for possible 70s Trek films and series, I have no problem imagining this actually having been made in the 70s with those exact ship models. I can just imagine the "Planet of the Titans" concept Enterprise being used in a series featuring this style.
Yeah, Defenders of the Federation is also outstanding.
I'm most of the way through Star Trek: Horizon. I applaud the ambitious effort, but the unnecessary shaky-cam effect is headache-inducing, which is a definite minus.
I'm most of the way through Star Trek: Horizon. I applaud the ambitious effort, but the unnecessary shaky-cam effect is headache-inducing, which is a definite minus.
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I can always recommend the "Raumschiff Highlander" - movies. They're a comedic-parodistic take on Star Trek, where the captain is a bumbling fool, the crew is annoyed by him and the admiral wants to get rid of him. Oh, and it's German - well, kind of German, since it's Bavarian. ^^
It was talking heads in front of a green screen.
Why do people praise this hack job so much?
It's fun, that's what it is!What even is this?
The talking heads were Kate Vernon, Tony Todd, Richard Hatch, Gary Graham and J. G. Hertzler, so that helped.
I don't remember much about it at this point, but I thought it was really well produced for what it was and that's probably because it was so limited. When your resources are limited you're going to have more success imitating a low budget documentary than an actual episode. Well, unless it's an episode of classic B/W Doctor Who.
Axanar is a pretend documentary about a Star Trek story never told?
Yup, that's a good summary.
Well, “Prelude to Axanar” is a pretend documentary - the later “Axanar” projects would have been for a standard narrative type story. Although, I’m not sure if the Axanar shorts now being considered are also in original documentary style or not (probably doesn’t matter since I doubt they’ll ever be finished and released).
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