Making a Firefly episode ourselves
POSTED BY: Firestalker
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 3, 2006 09:22
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I'm only 18, but I have studied both acting and film making in High school. In addition, my friends and I have been producing a local cable access show in Portland Oregon for over two years now. It's a show that uses a lot of special effects, and is actually fairly professional and decent looking, not something like Wayne's World. I live in the Northwest, so I don't know how involved I could possibly be, but I would love to help out if not be more involved. Like I said,I have experience shoting, directing and acting for film.
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thats weird, my reply was put on here twice....
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Maybe we should do one about how Serenity found its way to the ship dealer that Mal bought it from. A story about Serenitys "Former Crew". That way we could have a new crew and new storyline - but keep the heart and soul of Firefly - The ship itself.
-------Huge Fan of:---------
Firefly\Serenity
Farscape
Andromeda (Early Seasons)
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Browntrousers, Great IDEA!
Being in the UK did you ever see a series with Roy Marsden called "Airline?" It was about a guy who flew DC3's during the war and who buys a surplus plane and starts an airline once the war is over.
If we imagine that Serenity was impounded or war surplus we could start just after the Unification war and have a 3 year run until Mal gets her.
One problem though, she wouldn't be called Serenity until Mal gets her, how do we make that link?
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Now this sounds like my kind of idea. Brilliant!
I'm willing to offer my services as a writer or part of a writing staff. As an English-major-to-be, I'd say I have a fairly decent grip on the English language. I also have professional-style scriptwriting software, so it does all the formatting for you and stuff. I just have to figure out how to use it. 
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I personally would be interested in it. I wished i didnt graduate from high school until THIS upcoming spring because I was in a film class, and I so would have done a short film. Unfortunately, being a university student I have no time anymore to direct/write/produce/score/cast/act any of my movie ideas. A plus would be that I live in Manitoba (for those of you who dont have a map, it's the middle province in Canada) and we have TONS of old west type landscape, scenery, and buildings if were a story about one of the independent planets. And about that comment about not being able to act like Kaylee or Jayne, a girl that was in a movie of mine could seriously pull it off, and for Jayne, well, I know a lot of dumb people. But, ya, it would have to be a story outside the main cast.
"I aim to misbehave."
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Heres an idea:
Our crew - whoever they may be -go through a hard time. One event leads to another -what ever those events may be - and eventually they have to say goodbye to their trusty firefly. As they land at the dealer, they say an emotional goodbye to their ship. One of the crew states somthing like "I hope she gets treated right by whoever she ends up with", and then we cut to Mal outside, looking over to the Firefly parked in the Dealers.
In other words, The connection could come at the very end. Preferbly, we would keep the audience in the dark untill the very end - untill that point, they ar'rnt sure if this is the same Firefly or not.
-------Huge Fan of:---------
Firefly\Serenity
Farscape
Andromeda (Early Seasons)
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Oh, and one more thing, when I also edited my movies I used a Macintosh. Very helpful computers. If any of you make a movie, I would highly suggest using a Mac and a version of Final Cut. Here's a link for the Final Cut program:
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/71101/
wo/8K3oY9Dq7wJb3aqW6vm1YEBGkBv/0.SLID?find=final+cut&btn.x=0&btn.y=0
A word of warning though, it can be expensive and is difficult to learn competently. Despite that, it's the best thing for someone to use who isn't in the movie business.
"I aim to misbehave."
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Browntrousers that's good, you are brilliant!
I would want to help out with this but couldn't, as I'm a 15 year old australian wannabe actor and/or programmer, so yeah.
but I would love to help out, but my higher priority would be to help out in any way possible to get the show back on the air.
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I'd love to help...er but I don't have any of the skills everyone else has mentioned.
How about the fan the keeps writing the director to see when the movie will be released? I can do that...fan.
www.thatweirdgirl.com
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