Canned Food Drives for Prescreenings?

POSTED BY: Shiny
UPDATED: Thursday, May 5, 2005 23:41
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SKYDANCE

Tuesday, May 3, 2005 8:07 PM

Update: I do see that Shiny posted a thread over on the serenitymovie website ( http://browncoats.serenitymovie.com/serenity/index.html?fuseaction=for
um.viewtopic&t=10949 ). I didn't see any link there from this thread, so I thought I would add one. Shiny seems to intend a post of participating sites once he knows for sure which shows will be set up to accept food.

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"They weren't cows inside. They were waiting to be, but they forgot. Now they see the sky and they remember what they are."

SHINY

Wednesday, May 4, 2005 4:05 PM

*** UPDATE ***

I've only received indications from two cities, Austin (FilmGoddess at FFF.net) and Seattle (koolkatz at the Universal board) that might be doing this, so it looks like we're not going to pull this off this time, at least not in all 10 locations, but we're considering planning something similar for the premire in September when we'll have more time to organize. For any cities that have already organized and contacted their theatres and local food banks already, by all means please have the drive and let us know how it goes (also in San Francisco, there was a pre-existing plan to sell raffle tickets to raise money for the 'Equality Now' charity, so we encourage browncoats attending the SF screening to bring a few dollars for that instead of cans)! But even if your city has not organized a drive, there is still plenty you can do to show people what a huge hit Serenity will be and what great and dedicated fans browncoats are:

1) Be friendly, patient and polite to theatre staff and other patrons (and of course other browncoats!!!)
2) Buy plenty of stuff at the concession stand ("nothing buys bygones like cash")
3) Applaud/cheer/laugh loudly at all the appropriate moments, but avoid going to the 'special hell' by being quiet otherwise (and turn off any gorram cellphones, etc)
4) Pick up after yourself and others around you -- leave the theatre spotless, that will leave a postitive impression!
5) Take lots of pictures (outside, of people in line, etc. -- NOT IN THE MOVIE!!!)
6) If you see any back-births using a recording device in the movie, please notify theatre management (discretely, don't cause a scene!)
7) Thank all the theatre staff and management (and any Universal folks or BDHs that may be present) for the prescreening; if anyone has brought thank-you cards, SIGN THEM!!!

More great ideas for making the prescreenings a huge success here:

http://forums.prospero.com/foxfirefly/messages?msg=22737.1
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=9792&m=135699#135699

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FORTNCOOKIE

Wednesday, May 4, 2005 4:32 PM

bumping...

Shiny, I just caught this thread on FFF.net...I don't normally read the threads there...So we are waiting until the release on Sept 30th? I think that would be better in case some of us outer rim could have a hand. I read a few posts on how people suggested paypal but I thought giving directly to

www.secondharvest.com would be better.

Nothing to organize, unless we set up a table and asked for donations. I hate putting a person in the spot of having to be responsible for cash or loading food. From what I understand about Second Harvest they can buy food cheaper than we can buy it and make it stretch further.

But then people wouldn't see the love :lol:

SHINY

Wednesday, May 4, 2005 7:01 PM

Yes, waiting for the 9/30 premiers to give us more time to prepare & organize. Yeah, the donating money angle is a good one to allow more people to participate, but the barrels full o' protein and other goodies for 'folks on the rim' makes a pretty appealing visual. Why not do both?

Jayne, your mouth is talkin. Might want to look into that.

GRANITE

Thursday, May 5, 2005 11:41 PM

Just thought of something else that could be done - call the TV stations of the markets in which the BDM is showing tonight, and ask them if they know about the BDM.

Just search on Yahoo for TV stations for the markets (see ten cities list). I called a station in Sacramento, and they know about the screening.

If anyone has movie capture too, let's see if Serenity makes the news!

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