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Star Wars Uncut is a Frankensteined love letter of absurdities—and that’s just how mastermind Casey Pugh wanted it. Warning—once you start, you can’t stop watching. Co.Create got a behind-the-scenes look at how the ultimate crowdsourced film was produced.
"This sort of work isn’t stealing anything from creators. It’s enhancing its value by showing just how much it means to people. I really don’t see how it’s possible to watch this viral video crazy-quilt and write it off as a merely derivative or exploitative work. If anything, it shows how art made from other art can become an independent creation with its own personality and worth. Star Wars Uncut is a collectively made work of postmodern folk art, as arresting and significant as Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s soup can silkscreen or a Robert Rauschenberg collage painting built around photos filched from newspapers. The true subject of Star Wars Uncut is how pop culture touchstones live on inside people’s heads, becoming a shared language and an inspiration for personal creativity. Lucas’s work was a call; this is a response."
The Fan-Made Star Wars Uncut Is the Greatest Viral Video Ever — Vulture
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Wow. We’ve received almost 500K views in just 24 hours!
Thank you everyone!!
Star Wars Uncut: Director’s Cut
Finally, the crowd-sourced project has been stitched together and put online for your streaming pleasure. The Director’s Cut is a feature-length film that contains hand-picked scenes from the entire StarWarsUncut.com collection.
Many thanks to Aaron Valdez (video editor) and Bryan Pugh (sound design/mixing) for the countless hours they put into this masterpiece.
The Story:
In 2009, thousands of Internet users were asked to remake “Star Wars: A New Hope” into a fan film, 15 seconds at a time. Contributors were allowed to recreate scenes from Star Wars however they wanted. Within just a few months SWU grew into a wild success. The creativity that poured into the project was unimaginable.
SWU has been featured in documentaries, news features and conferences around the world for its unique appeal. In 2010 we won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Creative Achievement In Interactive Media.
We can’t thank everyone enough for making this such a special project.
The Star Wars Uncut panel at SXSW was illustrated!
Adam WarRock released an official Star Wars Uncut theme song! When he asked me for my blessing I said, “of course!” Within six hours he already created the lyrics and a rough beat. I was floored. Paired with Ruckus Roboticus, they created a sick beat that we had play during the Emmys recently. Thank you guys for summing up this project perfectly. It’s incredible.
Listen to the theme song. Be sure to check out his latest album, The War for Infinity.
The Star Wars Uncut team will be at the Vimeo Festival this weekend!
The team is giving a talk about how the project rose to success and what the future holds for interactive media. Recreating an entire classic film in just nine months, they will share their inspiration, technology, crowdsourcing techniques and cultural impact of the first site for a broadband-only production to win an Emmy.
Vote once a day for @StarWarsUncut in the Mashable Awards for Best Web Video! http://bit.ly/9Wk1su
Watch the movie:http://bit.ly/dAJRNb
