Bad Commercials! I see what you mean....
POSTED BY: JustShiny
UPDATED: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 11:20
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Ok Guys,
Now I don't me flame into next week. Yeah, we all know that F*x didn't do our beloved Firefly any justice, but in their defense how do you promote this show anyway??? Seriously, I'm never able to convey to anyone exactly what the show is!!
I usually just hand a friend that I know will "get it" disc one of the boxed set and the rest as they say is history. They are new recruits to the verse.
Hell, I love Universal for giving us the BDM, but honestly, they didn't really know how to promot Serenity either.
The way I see it even if they do somehow resurect Firefly as a series, it will be up to us to promote it, and expand the fan base.
Besides I like over 100,000 other potential fans were over in Iraq at the time, and weren't privy to the crappy marketing campain. I'm only a newbee to the verse.
Yeah, better late than never!!!!
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Wash isn't even on the poster!!
MAL: We're still flying.
SIMON: That's not much.
MAL: It's enough.
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Originally posted by mcallen:
Wash isn't even on the poster!!
MAL: We're still flying.
SIMON: That's not much.
MAL: It's enough.
Neither are Kaylee and River. Maybe they went out of weird lines.
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True--I didn't even notice that. Ok, well then, that poster REALLY blows. I'm not an advertising genius or anything, but it sure seems like someone could've come up with a better way to market such a pheomenal show.
MAL: We're still flying.
SIMON: That's not much.
MAL: It's enough.
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Originally posted by PrincessRohannen:
What llamas? There shoulld be llamas. I llike llamas. Actually, I just llike to type llamas.
Llong llive the llamas!!
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Now as someone who does this for a living, let's be fair to the marketing people.
Ad campaigns are generally not created in isolation. That would be a dream, as most of us are actually highly creative and inspired people. There is nothing Advertising folks would like more than to make their ads the way they think is best and send it to print.
Sadly, this stuff invariably happens in a process called "design by committee." Ad people are given a product to sell, which inevitably goes back to the big guys in charge for approval. Most often they will come back with dumb ideas that they like cause they are just soooooo brilliant. Or they nitpick and say "why is the background eggshell blue and not cornflower blue?" or "I think it should move over to the left"
The money guys get weird cause Ad campaigns cost lots of money, and they get strange ideas that they haven't done due diligence if they don't comment on the choice of font.
Seriously.
I always want to scream "I didn't study this stuff for YEARS to be told by a business guy how to create art."
The same people who pulled the show are the same guys who ultimately approved the Ads and commercials.
Blame them.
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Originally posted by PrincessRohannen:
What llamas? There shoulld be llamas. I llike llamas. Actually, I just llike to type llamas.
Llong llive the llamas!!
Llong llive my middlle name, Llewellyn!
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