Fans and Fandom

A fan is a person or people who admire and follow a certain show, film, book, sight or anything else that has a following of great admirers. For example people are fans of all varieties of films weather its sci-fi or Rom Com they both have a following but maybe the following or admirers are different type of people.

A fandom is not just one fan in a group of friends who may admire different things, a fandom instead is a group of people who organize to meet to share there specific interests in a large group. For example if multiple people liked breaking bad and the all met that would be a fandom.

A consumer is a type of person who casually enjoys certain types of media, they are not extreme but they do enjoy talking about their favourite media.

An enthusiast is everything a consumer is but they are a much bigger fan, for example they are likely to purchase the merchandise.

A fan is someone who does the same as a consumer and an enthusiast but they live and breathe their favourite media, for example they will often make references to their favourite media.

A producer is someone who love their favourite game, film or t show so much that they attempt to recreate it.

I think that I am more of a fan than any of the others above as i do really enjoy music, films, tv and even social media. I do often make 'quotes' to my favourite films and even songs. For example i will often quote things that i have recently watched e.g. prison break but also things that i have watched multiple times e.g. star wars or independence day.

STAR WARS FANDOM

What exists online for it? 

There are millions of fan sights for star wars weather its wookiepedia (star wars wiki), fan made films on youtube or other varied sights and many fan fiction pages.

Audience created fan fiction:

Fan made films:

FAN MADE PICTURES/POSTER 

This picture was most likely created by a producer who was a great fan of boba fett a character in the star wars universe.

FAN COSTUME PLAY

Web 2.0 has definitely benefited fandom as it allows them to share their thoughts, theorys and opinions on their favourite media. Wether they want to share lyric videos for other music lovers share fan fiction to show people your love and skill, review tv shows or film. It allows people to take information from other fans  and supply fellow fans with your own information.

As you can tell by theses videos  people take films such as star wars extremely seriously.


People are always attempting to predict upcoming movies before release here are some examples:

History Of Technology

Web 1.0 is a one way street of information coming from users to consumers.
Web 2.0 is a two way street where anyone can share information and take information from sights and social media.
For example Youtube allows anyone to upload content in the form f videos and anyone can give there feedback or opinion by liking, disliking or commenting.

The Future of technology

Technology has come a long way in the past twenty years, just imagine what we could create in the next twenty years. Flying cars? Bendy phones? Time machines? Maybe even teleportation.
Just think its the year 2036 and everyone travels by teleportation or space ships, cars are just part of history, planes lie un used in a scrap yard. Phones have completely changed even the latest iPhone is considered a relic. Instead people have internal chips tapping int your brain letting you just hear music when you please communicate with out speaking search things by just thinking it.
Time is no object, people don't age anymore thanks to an immortal injection. Time is no object, if you need future technology or see first hand how jack the ripper killed his victims just hop in the speedy time machines scattered around main capitals of the world.

Sci-Fi

Science Fiction Conventions

In a science fiction film you would usually expect to see unrealistic acts or adventures. For example you possibly would see time travel, space travel, distant planets, future technology, extra terrestrial items or aliens and other aspects that you wouldn't expect to see in real life. Other things you would expect to see are futuristic or past settings along with advanced equipment or settings in space or other galaxy or places. They also could contain places such as utopia or distopia. 

Ai in sci fi films

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 
In many sci fi films they use ai to create an apocalypse for example in these films the Ai would betray their programming so they would end up destroying the human race or at least try.
Example of Ai films:
Terminator
Ex machina
A.I
The Matrix
Blade Runner
I, robot
Transcendence
Chappie
Avengers age of Ultron
Tron (1982)
Robo cop
The Machine
The Day the earth stood still

I, Robot- Starring will smith this Ai film contains a story where robots are law inforsers and they suddenly decide humans are unworthy of living therefore they start killing people its up to will smith and his Ai assistant to save the world.
Avengers Age of Ultron- This is the second and most recent avengers film and in this one though not peppily but rather than being the solution they are the problem.As tony stark (iron man) and the avengers and tired and strained from helping the world every single day tony decides to come up with his own solution a highly intelligent Ai Ultron who soon realises that humans don't deserve to live so he sets out with an entire army to kill the avengers and the world      

Robo Cop- After a fatal accident that would leave him in a comer Alex Murphys family get approached by a program to repair him body and set his life back to what it was. Feeling like she has no choice Mrs Murphy enlists her husband in this risky program. After months of treatment Alex wakes up a changed man not just physically. His brain is repaired and most of his body is metal but with his new body, mind and abilities he uses them to enforce the law in Detroit.

                            AGE                             RATINGS

There are many different age rating in different countries. If you have an extremely young child they should be watching U or G, if they are above 8 years old though they could watch any up to PG however if their under 12 they can be accompanied by an adult to watch a 12A. If their 12 or above they can watch 12s and any rating below, if their 15 they can watch 15 and under or if their 18 or over they can watch any film in the uk. 

Distribution and Exhibition

Distribution- Films moving from where it is made to local businesses and mainstream shops for example if it was dvds being distributed they would be shipped or moved to shops or stock rooms or if it was internet streams it would just be downloaded.

Exhibition- Usually for cinema screenings and helping distribution. Its how the movie shown ie cinema, tv, dvd and online streaming.