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Star Trek: Next Generation. Photograph: Allstar Photograph: Allstar

Fashion It So

When Janet Jackson suffered a wardrobe malfunction at the Superbowl several years ago, it duly damaged her reputation. But that was nothing compared to the sacrifices made by the cast of Star Trek: Next Generation, who were warned by doctors during their third season that if they continued to wear their tight spandex uniforms they would risk permanent skeletal injuries. A new two-piece wool uniform was ushered in and here, those and the other varieties of jumpsuit, turtleneck and shoulder-padded jacket that appear to dominate 24th-century fashion, are examined one Next Generation episode at a time.

SoundWorks Collection

Sound is one of the most neglected areas of movie-making in terms of status and accolades. This site more than redresses this imbalance, helps demystify the art and shows how many different elements there are to it. Along with behind-the-scenes footage of professionals in darkened basements, there are conversations with soundtrack composers, animators and sound editors as well as "acousticians" who use software they describe as a "spectral de-noising tool". The Social Network sound team describe the challenge of making the actors' voices audible against a backdrop of loud music in a nightclub scene, while the sound designer for Transformers reveals that the noise an alien attack ship makes is actually a man rubbing a screwdriver against a guitar.