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: