25 minute presentation about Serenity and Firefly
POSTED BY: Orcblaster
UPDATED: Sunday, March 20, 2005 01:54
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Glad we could help out. Sounds like you're gonna have fun w/ this, I'm so envious. heh heh. I had to go back and re-watch the intro to The Message. Cracked me up to see Wash talking to the cow fetus....and of course, Jaynes hat. His ," Why'd y'all order a dead guy?" line is classic. 
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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Now that I think about it, doesn't that Out of Gas scene have Inara talking about "whorin' stories"? I don't know how old you are or whether you go to a public school, but that might not be "appropriate" as Simon would say...
Just food for thought. You would know better than me what is acceptable.
I have heard of a place where humans do battle in a ring of Jell-O.
--Teal'c
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I'm looking at this from a different perspective. The perspective of a Toastmaster and an experienced public speaker.
If you want to make people interested in this show, you really have to make them believe YOU love this show.
Use the least amount of video as possible. Talk more about What draws you to firefly and why you're devoted to Serenity and her crew.
Write your speech as if you couldn't have more than a photo or two. Write 25 minutes of love - then add video and pare down your script to work the perfect scenes into your descriptions.
Hiding behind 15 minutes of video tells the instructor you were too lazy to write a 25 minute speech.
If you really want to use video, use teensy clips as you describe each character. Put together a montage if you like. Jayne 'ordering the dead guy', Jayne with his 'thrilling heroics' even Jayne begging for his life.
The clip of Inara tending to Book's head injury would show the depth and conflict of characters - but be sure to describe that depth to your listeners.
If you need more help, write me off-line (formatted to outwit email harvesters) at knibblet @ hotmail.com
Barbara Jungbauer
Advanced Toastmaster Silver
www.toastmasters.org
"I'm gonna rip you a new puppet hole, bitch!"
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Well, I'm currently in my first year at University and the other day I was sat in my flat, trying to get some work done. Whilst I was working I had "War Stories" on. Anyway, one of my flatmates came back from his lesson and he came in. We were talking for a while and then he asked what I was watching. I told him it was Firefly. He said it was 'shiny' (But apparently that's just normal where he comes from). Now normally he hates sci-fi but he actually sat watching it and at the end, said he liked it. I was impressed.
But anyway, a couple of days later, being rather skint (ie. having no money - I don't know if that's just a local word we use lol), the 5 of us in the flat were stuck in. I said did anyone want to stick a film on, and the same guy suggested putting some Firefly on!
I can't remember which episode we watched but at the end, another guy said "I think I could get into this one" or words along that line. I couldn't believe it because they're not really the sci-fi type if you know what I mean.
So good luck with your presentation! I think that at the least you can make your class aware of the fact that Firefly isn't just some geeky Star Trek show. Sure, it's in the same genre but by no means does it carry the same geeky connotations. At least, nobody I know who has seen the series has ever linked the two.
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I think that at the least you can make your class aware of the fact that Firefly isn't just some geeky Star Trek show. Sure, it's in the same genre but by no means does it carry the same geeky connotations. At least, nobody I know who has seen the series has ever linked the two.
Well, the problem would be that I don't have the time to show them a full episode to get them hooked, but maybe if I show them some very good moments of the show, talk about it from my heart, they will maybe pick up the sense that this is not Star Trek but something far more beautiful.
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Originally posted by Nywoe:
Now that I think about it, doesn't that Out of Gas scene have Inara talking about "whorin' stories"? I don't know how old you are or whether you go to a public school, but that might not be "appropriate" as Simon would say...
Just food for thought. You would know better than me what is acceptable.
I have heard of a place where humans do battle in a ring of Jell-O.
--Teal'c
Don't worry, I'm 16 (and so are my classmates) and I live in the Netherlands and "whorin' stories" are not a problem over here. :-)
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Originally posted by Knibblet:
I'm looking at this from a different perspective. The perspective of a Toastmaster and an experienced public speaker.
If you want to make people interested in this show, you really have to make them believe YOU love this show.
Use the least amount of video as possible. Talk more about What draws you to firefly and why you're devoted to Serenity and her crew.
Write your speech as if you couldn't have more than a photo or two. Write 25 minutes of love - then add video and pare down your script to work the perfect scenes into your descriptions.
Hiding behind 15 minutes of video tells the instructor you were too lazy to write a 25 minute speech.
If you really want to use video, use teensy clips as you describe each character. Put together a montage if you like. Jayne 'ordering the dead guy', Jayne with his 'thrilling heroics' even Jayne begging for his life.
The clip of Inara tending to Book's head injury would show the depth and conflict of characters - but be sure to describe that depth to your listeners.
If you need more help, write me off-line (formatted to outwit email harvesters) at knibblet @ hotmail.com
Barbara Jungbauer
Advanced Toastmaster Silver
www.toastmasters.org
"I'm gonna rip you a new puppet hole, bitch!"
Well, talking about Firefly is easy with someone who has seen the show. I have to do a presentation in front of 30 people who basicaly have no idea what this show is about. So to write a 25 minute speech would be very difficult.
Of course I won't overload them with video, because that is not what a presentation is.
The basic idea is to have a topic (For example: River's story) and then first talk about what it is, give some backstory, and then I show a clip (about 2 or 3 minutes) and show some good moments without giving too much away.
I can do about 8 or 9 topics that way.
And, I'll also create postcards for my class with the Serenity logo and the release date of the movie on it so they won't forget to go and see the movie :-)
Thanks for the help though, I'll definately think about it.
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Hey, Orcblaster:
I tried to find you a link to this, but googling "post-apocalyptic technological levels" only returns thousands of game hits and 'third-eye' gobbledygook.
But... Way back when, I heard a rather optimistic (IMO) projection that human civilization might only regress to a mid- to late-19th century technological level after an all-out nuclear exchange (inclusive of steam and/or rudimentary internal combustion).
I always viewed Firefly this way, rather than as a Western, per se. The tech levels have reverted -- for those on the Rim -- to circa 1860's, as opposed to those that are powerful enough to have access to 500-years-in-the-future modern tech (as in the Core, or Rance Burgess). I would explain that Firefly is not so much a Western, as it is post-apocalyptic (i.e., following the destruction of Earth-That-Was). That should remove some of the Western stigma, for those who might otherwise equate it with "Gunsmoke" and their grandparents... (Inara = Miss Kitty?)
I would definitely open with such remarks, and a good reference to back it; preferably from the AEC or government/military forecasters. You could then show the opening monologue (which you'll have to download from the 'net, since it's not on the DVDs) as proof that this is the Western element's basis. I'll keep looking for that modern-day 'good reference' to support this viewpoint, but I've got to go to work, just now.
However you decide to go, good luck! Win us some new flans.
Respectfully,
zoid
P.S.
I know Joss was thinking of regressed tech from post-apocalypse, too. See my quote below, from the theme he wrote.
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"Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me." The Ballad of Serenity
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I live in the Netherlands
Haha, okay, I'm not worried then.
I have heard of a place where humans do battle in a ring of Jell-O.
--Teal'c
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Knibblet's right. If you show mostly video your teacher will think you're too lazy to write a paper. I teach English. I'd be impressed if oyu came in not only knowing facts about the show that you couldn't have learned just by watching it, but also by showing how much passion you have for the show in the way you talk about it.
I'm not sure what kind of class this is, but if it's literature or something of that nature, then the best way to do get a good grade is to have some analysis. Talk about the themes of the show. We lit teachers love themes.
Do all that, then show some video to demonstrate what you already talked about. But don't let the video speak for itself. Let it prove your point.
"Dear diary, today I was pompous and my sister was crazy."
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