Random Question...

[Destina Faroda]

No, this isn't a question about the board or site or anything like that.

Okay, sometimes obsessive fans watch a TV show or a film (but usually TV), and actually map out the various sets to varying degrees.  Some settle for general floor plans and/or placement while others actually build a 3D model of the setting.  What is that term called, seriously?

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

OCD? ;-]

More seriously, I don't know. But I'm interested in the answer...

[M]

Is it called Fantasy Blueprinting?

I found a book on Amazon that calls it that. Check it out: http://www.amazon.com/TV-Sets-Fantasy-Blueprints-Classic/dp/product-description/1579121071

[Ghostwish]

Huh, I've heard of this odd little hobby myself, but I can't place the name.

Hey! I remember where I heard it from! Star Trek! Folks mapped out those sets all the time! Maybe the answer is in there some place?

[Netrogo]

I do this at times but that's cuz I was a film student and sometimes I like knowing set layouts so I can determine where they positioned cameras for certain shots.

[Destina Faroda]

Thanks for answering, everyone.

Even though I would never actually go as far as to build an actual set, I have often thought of how the various "rooms" in television programs connect together.

[Netrogo]

[Sofox]

I think Fox once made a house constructed to look almost exactly like the Simpsons house.
On a similar note, I believe there is a deathmatch map (forget for which game) based on the Simpsons house.
(Never could figure out which side of the house Flanders was a neighbour on.

[Darkmoon]

If you're facing the Simpson's house, Flanders lives one door to the left.

[Netrogo]

If you're facing the Simpson's house, Flanders lives one door to the left.

And the house on the right is where that women and her daughter lived. Her daughter babysat for the Simpson's and Bart had a crush on her. Before they moved in there it was some old lady.

[Darkmoon]

The guy from X-Entertainment at one point had the High School from Saved by the Bell mapped out, but it was in a sarcastic way, as all the kids houses were extensions of the campus, as they all seemed to live there anyway.

[Alondro]

I tried to map the TARDIS out once...

I used up an entire forest...

Which was infested by the Vashta Nerada...

So I ended up with a whole lot of skeletons in my closet... 

[Rakala]

In my weekly gaming group our GM came up with a game. He would only come up with vague descriptions of the rooms and then the players would draw a map on the grid board that we agree is reasonable. It adds a new element to the game.

[rabid_fox]

I don't know, this doesn't SEEM like a random question. I suspect the person asking it planned it ask it.