Internet is a great invention in human-history. It is even called as a revolution and has been giving amazing impacts in the world since it was born. Economical system and communication style have been reshaped while the ...

      Internet is a great invention in human-history. It is even called as a revolution and has been giving amazing impacts in the world since it was born. Economical system and communication style have been reshaped while the ...

Malware. I love my girlfriend but I can't love Malware. Everybody hates them. We learned about them in class. They are such big threats for many computer users. I've suffered from them several times, too. I wish we didn't have any Malwares on the inter...

Malware. I love my girlfriend but I can't love Malware. Everybody hates them. We learned about them in class. They are such big threats for many computer users. I've suffered from them several times, too. I wish we didn't have any Malwares on the inter...

Michael Branson Smith had a lecture, "We Are All Artists", in his blog for ds106. What he claims all about is that anyone can be artist. It doesn't matter if they're not art major students. We are all kinds of artists.We just don't see that way. I...

Michael Branson Smith had a lecture, "We Are All Artists", in his blog for ds106. What he claims all about is that anyone can be artist. It doesn't matter if they're not art major students. We are all kinds of artists.We just don't see that way. I...

OK, I choose "video" as the topic of this blog post!      In the ds106, I found an assignment in video category, that is "How I Made It".This assignment basically wants student to edit so called "Tutorial video" that teachhow you can cre...

OK, I choose "video" as the topic of this blog post!      In the ds106, I found an assignment in video category, that is "How I Made It".This assignment basically wants student to edit so called "Tutorial video" that teachhow you can cre...

PracticeImage: Ella the Snow Dog by jpctalbot through CC licensing.

PracticeImage: Ella the Snow Dog by jpctalbot through CC licensing.

Welcome back to my Blog!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 insp...

Welcome back to my Blog!
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?



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.





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.

      I'm sure that you know I am her boyfriend but do you know what is Pop culture?
Me? I say..... yes... but, well... I think I can't define it correctly. So I google now.


     OK. According to this site, Pop culture is simply what large number of people are interested in. That can be movie, music, comic, game.... Wow so simple!




     Then, in Japan, what is POP now? OK, let me google the word "pop culture in Japan" and see the very first link on the list! カチャカチャカチャ

      I'm sure that you know I am her boyfriend but do you know what is Pop culture?Me? I say..... yes... but, well... I think I can't define it correctly. So I google now.     OK. According to this site, Po...

      Since we have learned about history of Internet in class, I would like to introduce some recent internet history in Japan. It's around 2001-2005. Some Japanese internet users call it as "The golden age of Flash animation"...

      Since we have learned about history of Internet in class, I would like to introduce some recent internet history in Japan. It's around 2001-2005. Some Japanese internet users call it as "The golden age of Flash animation"...

OK, just remember that you guys need  my permission before you talk to my girlfriend after the amazing class.Anyway, here is some info about Doug Engelbart.  He is an American inventor who invented Hyper text after he got influenced by Vannev...

OK, just remember that you guys need  my permission before you talk to my girlfriend after the amazing class.Anyway, here is some info about Doug Engelbart.  He is an American inventor who invented Hyper text after he got influenced by Vannev...