{"id":1332,"date":"2007-05-24T18:26:19","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T22:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/05\/24\/insert-gratuitous-star-wars-reference-here\/"},"modified":"2007-05-24T18:26:19","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T22:26:19","slug":"insert-gratuitous-star-wars-reference-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/05\/24\/insert-gratuitous-star-wars-reference-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Insert gratuitous Star Wars reference here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal had a bit of scoop in the &#8220;user-generated content&#8221; area today, with <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB117997273760812981.html\">the news that<\/a> Lucasfilms is re-launching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starwars.com\">StarWars.com<\/a> on Friday, with a massive library of fan films, and some online video-editing tools from Eyespot that will allow fans to mash-up clips (more than 250 in all) from all six of the movies and mix in their own content. For a Star Wars fan and\/or aspiring filmmaker, this is a pretty huge deal. <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/snipshot_e4967rqgdak.jpg?w=525\" alt='snipshot_e4967rqgdak.jpg' \/>As the WSJ story points out, Lucasfilms isn&#8217;t quite opening itself up completely to the fan-film phenomenon &#8212; the submissions will be monitored by Eyespot&#8217;s software for nudity and other bad things (so forget about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allposters.com\/-sp\/Princess-Leia-Slave-Girl-Posters_i1116173_.htm\">&#8220;Leia slave-girl&#8221;<\/a> mashups you&#8217;re thinking about, boys) and just to be extra sure, they will all be watched by a team of human filters in Costa Rica (why Costa Rica? Who knows). Fans will also be restricted to using the clips and music that Lucas provides, which <a href=\"http:\/\/techfold.com\/2007\/05\/24\/how-george-lucas-missed-the-boat-again\/\">some fans are upset by<\/a>. At the same time, however, it&#8217;s easy to understand how a filmmaker like George Lucas &#8212; who is notoriously control-oriented &#8212; would feel just a tad nervous about allowing his creations to be altered and mashed-up without any restrictions whatsoever. I think he actually deserves some credit for giving it a shot (and as John Murrell at GMSV notes, it&#8217;s also <a href=\"http:\/\/svextra.com\/blogs\/gmsv\/2007\/05\/star_wars_episode_vii_the_empire_wises_up.html\">enlightened self-interest<\/a>). It will be interesting to see whether we can find another fan creation that&#8217;s as good as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4wGR4-SeuJ0\">Chad Vader: DayShift Manager<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal had a bit of scoop in the &#8220;user-generated content&#8221; area today, with the news that Lucasfilms is re-launching StarWars.com on Friday, with a massive library of fan films, and some online video-editing tools from Eyespot that will allow fans to mash-up clips (more than 250 in all) from all six of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/05\/24\/insert-gratuitous-star-wars-reference-here\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Insert gratuitous Star Wars reference here&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}