Eh, you could do that...but this is 2015 and not 1995. People's phones are always displaying something so they expect something in the FUTURE to be doing something at least as cool.
CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar
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I would 100% agree, that display monitors should be dynamic, and changing.... The control's however, could really be static... unless we went with a you control on the display screen... but then we wouldn't be making controls that look like TOS jellies....
After playing games on my iPad, there's no way I'd trust my life to touch screen controls!
Here is a great discussion of this topic with an actual lawyer:
http://www.gandtshow.com/g-t-show-218-axa-uh-oh/
Note: the Axanar discussion starts at 1 hour, 3 minutes. 15 seconds.
http://www.gandtshow.com/g-t-show-218-axa-uh-oh/
Note: the Axanar discussion starts at 1 hour, 3 minutes. 15 seconds.
That podcast is good, but the guy (Mike?) on the show is already misstating facts -- claiming it was Axanar that was shown on CNN when the new series was announced and that it was Axanar was pitching itself as a new series for CBS -- both items which were what happened with Renegades, not Axanar.
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The exposition is not even particularly clear - I've rewatched it a couple of times and it never gives you a sense of why the war began, or what the Vulcan negotiation was supposed to achieve - the political monologues always feel a couple of sentences away from a point.
Ugh...
These idiots are doing CBS' work for them.
I'm sure all it took was a $500 "donation".
I'm sure all it took was a $500 "donation".
The $500 donation went towards setting up the calender company Ares Calenders and a 3 year lease on a paper mill.
Plus they used high quality papers and printing because, you know, it's a professional calender...
And according to a comment by Diana Kingsbury in that same thread, they're still selling merchandise! I'm honestly not sure anymore if they're incredibly brazen or incredibly stupid.
Perhaps these are temps, but if they ARE indicative of the final look, then I think the sin here isn't the modernization per se so much that the controls are BLAND design wise. They are visually dull. [Zod]"No style at all."[/Zod]. They're not cinematically interesting. Also, I think iPhone interfaces are going to look hopelessly outdated in very short order. Furthermore, actors LOVE physical switches, in part because you don't have to look at them to see if your hands are actually touching the dammed supposed buttons.
^^^ I much prefer something like what you did in Polaris.
Some of which are great, some of which are meh.
Exactly Right.™
That frankly Lame-O-Matic™ script is what most puzzles me about the rabid enthusiasm for this thing. There's no there there. So why some people are so convinced this is going to be the Second Coming is a Mystery for the Ages... or at least for the moment.
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Of course there was a complete lack of suck, because they haven't actually made enough Axanar yet for it to suck.Ugh...
These idiots are doing CBS' work for them.
I think these people all have themselves so convinced Axanar is going to be the greatest thing ever, that even if it is the worst movie ever in the history of cinema the Axanar devotees will still insist it's a masterpiece that is better than anything CBS or Paramout have made.
They are taking donations directly on their Axanar home page; credit cards and pay-pal. Speculatively speaking on my part, I wonder if IndieGoGo had second thoughts about allowing Axanar donations to continue resulting in Peters saving face by saying it was his decision closing out the campaign.
The $500 donation went towards setting up the calender company Ares Calenders and a 3 year lease on a paper mill.
Plus they used high quality papers and printing because, you know, it's a professional calender...
The Fauxumentry style was certainly innovative by Trek standards... *BUT* since the story was facilitated by a Narrator, and no actual on screen interaction, Prelude just stands to demonstrate the technical potential, not the writing, directing, or acting abilities.
Even then, with 100% CG sets, it doesn't even demonstrate the harder parts of the technical abilities needed to pull of a feature of this magnitude....
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