Making a Firefly episode ourselves
POSTED BY: Firestalker
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 3, 2006 09:22
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Just to clarify quickly the "Ghost Town" I was talking about around here is a Western Themed Haloween attraction not a real life place. The buildings look real enough for an old Western town to be filmed in. I think Civil war reenactors would be a great help if we could get them interested, we don't need uniforms as much as folk with decent Western garb --- both men and women--- they could really flesh out a croud scene even without actually doing any fighting.
Amylisai could you enquire if the Park Service would let us film in their ghost town and the times of year it would be available?
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Hey guys
I'm new in the firefly universe, but I'm very excited about this idea you have here.
I have a very limited experience in the independent film industry, but I would literally kill to be involved with creating anything firefly oriented. My brain ain't working so well seeing as it's sunday night but i've got some ideas i'd love to share about making a firefly episode independently. I'm jotting them down now so i can come up with a longer sort of treatment as to how something like this could be approached, or at least from my limited perspective of how making movies/tv works as i've experienced it thus far.
I'll try and post again when i'm not half-asleep, but I'd just like to say that so far my heart is telling me that the idea of doing our own firefly episode is so awesomely crazy, that it can't possibly fail.
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Ok... now i feel bad.....
I started something that I hadn't put too much thought into, not expecting it to be taken so seriously. Not to say that I'm not serious, I'm just surprised, usually people just laugh and move on when i post an idea anywhere.
As such I haven't really thought too much about organization [not my best quality]. I'm very creative and can spout out ideas like no tomorrow.... and I have a little bit of skill in writing stories [not screenplays but I hear their about the same].
I would love to be part of the writing staff for the pilot and subsequent episodes. I've dabbled in the CGI areas a little bit, but mostly 3DS Max and only inanimate objects. I'm pretty good with animating, but I'm a terrible modeler. My real strength is writing.
I was also thinking that when it's all finished the people that worked on it and helped finance it [if they want to.... no one that works on this should be expecting to get paid, everyone should know that what you put into the show will not be given back] should get together and maybe make a interview like thing to get their thoughts and comments on making the episode/series. Kinda like a DVD special feature. How does that sound?
But to reiterate what I was trying to get too.... I know I got sidetracked.... I want to be part of the pilot episode writing team. I'm agian very sorry that I start this thread without any forethought to the fact that it would be this popular and that i had no ideas or scripts to pitch you guys.
But I would like to make up for it by helping with writing the pilot episode.
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Don't worry about it, Firestalker. That's usually how these kind of things start. Someone has an idea, and everybody else runs with it.
Check out the yahoo page, I posted a re-summarizing of your ideas, and some other great things others have posted here. I'm really hoping that the yahoo page will help everyone to band together and make it easier for us to organize things. So make sure you keep checking up at http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/firefly_lives/
You can't take the sky from me.
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We've got 18 people signed up the the Yahoo group now - from prop-masters to cgi artists. I think so far its going pretty well, remember if you are interested in working on the project, sign up to the yahoo group today!
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Awesome! We do need to map at some point where every body lives :) At some point down the road though... I have to keep reining it in :) Yeah, calling is kinda rare, but's it's so much fun! As is sewing. yay for old fashioned fun combined with futuristic action. wohoo
PS Very good mood today, if that wasn't obvious. Yay Firefly!
Amylisai
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Hey Flech,
Good idea, I was already thinking I should contact the good folks at Body (the rangers live up there in the MIDDLE OF NO AND WHERE all year! lonely, cold existence...) and find out what the months of operation are and if this is feasible--just a light feeler. Your place sounds good though, 'cause we already know it's a commercial enterprise. I'd bet they wouldn't mind picking up some extra money during the not-Halloween season!
The reenactors would probably be easy to get in on this 'cause they get together once a month for events anyway, and they've all got that period garb! So yes, they'd be great as extras. We can always bring some Chinese-ish and other time-period costuming and props along too to very it like they did in Firefly.
I'm gonna just throw something out too--perhaps we should think of doing ONE "episode" story. Some people have suggested we write multiple episodes. I think this will be hard enough to pull off without embarking on multiple projects! If we aim for one and don't expect Firefly level perfection, we may actually finish it. Just a thought. I do have a life, really :)
PS Flech, are you by any long-shot chance related to Flechette who is the Cook of the Destiny Flying crew?
Cheers, Amy
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Heres an idea, the pilot of our crew could've worked for Trans-U before it shut down? If you remember, In the pilot of firefly, wash says the Reavers are in an older model trans-u, to which Mal says somthing like "Did'nt they stop operating?"
Lets say that Trans-U was a large interplanetary passenger service that shut down due to a Reaver attack on their fleet of vessels. The govenment forced Trans-U to lie and say that they had gone Bankrupt to keep the Reavers a secret. She was a pilot for one of the vessels when the fleet came under attack, and managed to escape. She knows about the Reavers, But nobody else does.
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Firefly\Serenity
Farscape
Andromeda (Early Seasons)
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*pokes head into thread*
This is just an idea that I'm gonna throw on the table, dunno if anyone suggested it or not . . .
But what about a crew of Reaver hunters who are trying to track down River cuz they want her on their crew? You know, they found out about what she did on Miranda and need her help. That way, it'd be linked to Firefly but you wouldn't actually need to have the Firefly crew. Just a thought.
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Browntrousers, I think that is an AWESOME idea.
http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/firefly_lives/
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