Community of the Batman
From Mod Mania
I love Batman and after I got this assignment I have decided to search about a community of Batman. As the brand of Batman is quite popular, there are many Batman community sites. However,I found the fan "Legend of The Batman" and through the site, I was able to to access many other different fan sites. Every site has their own unique ways tocommunicate and share people's ideas about the Batman not only by using chat rooms but also by using diaries, newspaper and making film etc. In addition there are a number of methods to keep relationship of the group and exchange of their thought. This essay will show four Batman sites and each site will show how their groups share and show their editions and ideas, and how they can keep and extend their relationship through the web sites. Through this research, we also can find how nowadays community groups connect each other abd enjoy together through web site.
(Legend of The Batman)
This site is about Batman but only contains some basic information. Contents show introduction, characters and description about Batman movie series that can help users to understand about Batman. This site is made for just introducing Batman but the important thing is that the owner of the site introduces 18 other Batman community sites so users can explore and join with the diverse community areas easily
community web sites of Batman introduced from the Legend of The Batman.
(Bat friend site)
This site is made for Batman drama series in 1966 but it also can be one of the best sites that dedicate to make unique issues and create new ways to keep relationship between bat fans. First, when users access to this site, a screen shows bat case which look like batman's room in his house that users can feel they are entering to Batman's secret basement. In addition every Batman logos, Batmen city, figure of characters are not from original but created by community, so it becomes freindly with fans and groups and they can be encouraged to try to make some ideas themseleved.
group of this site can show their own unique images and drawing of batman but a notable thing is that instead of chat room, every bat fan can upload their stories related with batman like journal or article. One of the fans shows his room which is filled by Batman character's dolls and one guys show a Batman car that he made when he was young, and they decorated pages like journal. Like this, fans can have opportunity to present their history, and through this not only fans can see how other people enjoy batman but they also can be more interested in communication with other people about batman.
There is another option that award a best batman website every month. This site encourage fans to open their own bat web site and every month select one best web site and awarding them a prize. The awarded sites are presented on this site and other fans can visit them easily. This kind option can help community to keep their interest and participation.
(Rory's death kiss)
This site is made for the community group who are fans of joker. This site is quite unique because firstly, the design of site presents Joker's image as it is looked like Joker's table. There are some knife, old diary which makes visiter's feeling a bit scary and recall crime. In addition there are photos that contain fan's faces who make up their faces like Joker on a main pages. The clever thing is that in the introduction page, the owner of the website not shows name or the reason why this site is created but just show what the fans should do as if the real Joker write down. This kind of way that makes the web site to be looked like managed by the real Joker can stimulate imagination of community. By stimulate, fans will satisfy about that they are part of the real Joker's world and this can create a strong community society. And this also can make fans to think and act like Joker. There are no movie or comics or chatting room but just a lot of photos are uploaded, however most photos shows Joker's world that created by fan. For example, a title of one of the photos is "Joker's university" , and over 17 Jokers are studying in a lecture room. In addition most photos contain over 10 people (every one face are looked like Joker.). This shows how the relationship is strong between fans and the character of Joker.
(Batman fan films)
As the name of site is showed, this site cintains many short batman movies that are made by fans and other professionals who work as film makers. This site has films, trailers, teasers, chat rooms and even script! This site is existed for those who love to review, remake and create new batman stories and worlds. All actors in the movies and trailers are fans. When users click the titles of movies, the pages are linked to youtube, and quite surprisingly, there are a lot of Batman series movies made by fans. Most movies are not just made for fun but have stories and even some fans wear the clothes of the characters of batman that are seemed to be made by the fans. In addition, many actors in movies are Europ, so it shows world communities and the popularity of batman over the world. Through this ways, even the fans are from different countries, they can share their ability and ideas with each other. We can see how the one famous brand can make the dofferent people to be joined together and create a mass community. Moreover we can find the kind of things and stories the batman fans want by watching the films. Also there is a chat room which the fans can talk about films or batman with other people.
Trough the web site, we can find how people can communicate with other people by using online, and many ways that the communities can communicate with each other have been created and since that, the concept of the community has become important and strong.
reference
(Legend of Batman) Tony Velarde "Legend of The Batman". Batmansite," Link" [online web site] http://www.legendsofthebatman.com/, [Accessed 22 March. 2011].
(Bat friend site) Scott Sebring "Bat friend". Btmansite, "Batmedia" [online web site] http:// www.batfriend.com/manor.swf, [Accessed 22 March 2011]
(Rory's Death Kiss site) "Rory's Death Kiss site". Jokersite [online website] http://rorysdeathkiss.com/, [Accessed 25 March 2011]
(Batman fan film site) Rick Thiele "zy" 3D [2004] "Batman fan film". [Online website] http://www.batmanfanfilms.com/#, [Accessed 27 March 2011]
