NY Times: An Emmy for Rebuilding a Galaxy

 LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of Internet users remade "Star Wars: A New Hope" into a fan film last year, 15 seconds at a time. This month they all played a part in Emmy history.
 
The finished product, "Star Wars Uncut," won an Emmy last week in a relatively new category, interactive media, heaping new attention onto a project that its producers call a "user-directed broadcast."  

Last fall he sliced "A New Hope" into 15-second scenes — 473 in all — and concocted a Web site where fans could sign up to recreate each scene.
 
All told, there were multiple submissions for each 15-second scene, a wild assortment of live-action, animation, Lego set-ups, stop-motion sequences and more.
 
 full @ http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/28/arts/television/28uncut.html

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Some fans re-created their 15-second scene with as much detail as they could muster. Another group didn't bother with props, or even with costumes. They wore name-tags that said "C3PO" and "R2D2." 
 
And there's a vignette in which the original footage was re-edited to create a moving love scene between two characters.
 
Watch a sample @  http://www.starwarsuncut.com/watch

Main Site: http://www.starwarsuncut.com/