Browncoat Army: Serenity Day, June 23rd
POSTED BY: Kaele
UPDATED: Thursday, April 27, 2006 05:25
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Ok, this is alot to reply to, and if I don't cover something you've said, I apologize.
I've mailed Max last night. I'm waiting to hear back from him. I cannot wait to get a hold of him and figure out how to do this! This is great!
Someone (was it Pizmo?) suggested BrowncoatArmy.net. I like it and will discuss with Max or whomever else is going to be doing website stuff for us. If anything, I'll purchase the name myself and have to point to the site we do also. It's a generic enough name and can be used to coordinate anything we need to do. I'm thinking along his lines. This isn't just about one day, this is about the long campaign. Serenity Valley wasn't a single day's battle. It dragged on for weeks. Our fight (short as I've been in it) has dragged on for years already. Actions need to be taken and plans need to be coordinated. I feel an Army-type organization will help us. (And no, I'm not in it for a dictatorship, but no one else was stepping up!)
June 23rd IS our current target. Between the charity screenings and the purchase of DVDs (Serenity FIRST please, then Firefly if you can afford it!) this is enough. But the word still does need to get out.
Thanks to everyone who volunteered. For now, I'm taking the first volunteer for a mission as mission commander and assigning them a "Sergeant rank". If another volunteers and you think they will do a better job than you, let me know and you can trade ranks. :) It's not the real army, so there will be lots of pleases and thank you's.
Alot of my organization and mailings will be sent to mission commanders, not to everyone. That will be the job of the commanders to coordinate their volunteers and split up the workload accordingly.
And no, flash is not required for sigs and Avatars. It just popped into mind *shrug* LOL. Submit what you've done and the best will be chosen from ALL the submissions. (And thanks so much for the reminder about our recruits with dial-up!)
This isn't just a U.S. thing. Everyone can be involved. The internet is international and so are Browncoats. Don't be afraid to volunteer if you KNOW you can help. Not everything needs to be done in the US. Viral marketing is universal. (Oh, god, did I just say that?!? LOL!!! The pun! My eyes, my eyes!!!)
Serenity Day MUST happen. And we need that website to coordinate. This works all well and good and e-mails are fine, but we need a 'home'. Home is good!
If I don't hear back from Max by tonight, I'll try other methods of contacting him.
~Kaele
(definately a SHE)
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P.S: I have a dozen friends interested in what Serenity and Firefly are, I will ask them not to purchase the DVDs yet untill June 23rd.
Wrong move!!
You don't know yet if the plan will be successful... let them buy the DVDs now. Chances are that they'll become browncoats and buy MORE copies on the Day
Anyway, people, relax... what's the problem with the military speak? It's a joke, but it has the purpose to remember that we have to work as if in a chain of command...
Otherwise, we'd have THOUSANDS of opinions and thousands of FAILED plans.
So I'll accept anything that will be decided.
ONLY ONE THING I WILL STILL EMPHATIZE:
We should buy the movie, not the serie.
That'd be silly, our target is Universal, NOT FOX.
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Thanks, Kaele, for rethinking the flash requirement.
Gif, JPG, etc, are far easier for those of us with slow connections. These are things we need to take into consideration for any campaign.
I'm on board with whatever comes up. I'm a follower, not a leader.
I'm with Pirata, though. This HAS to be about selling copies of the BDM. "Firefly" as a series is dead until FOX says otherwise, and Joss is tired of the political riot that s television.
We need Universal to stand up and take notes!
-What about commercial sponsor support? I know a number of us own businesses, or work for popular businesses. Just a thought.
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i'll be submitting this one- what do you think?
www.straightfromthehorsesmouth.co.uk/firefly
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I have added a forum to my site and now I need some members!
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You folks are rocking my world. Will stay informed and jump in if I see anything I can help with.
Two off the cuff suggestions:
1. Can we push to purchase the BDM? It sickens me that Fox is making so much money off of the FF DVDs. Let's give the money to the folks that believe more in the franchise -- Universal.
2. If the Amazon purchases are linked from the sidebar on the FFF.net home page, it supports our site. Not sure how workable that is, but hey.
I'm off to spread the word and save money to buy DVDs.
"Wanna?" – Mal to Kaylee, Out of Gas
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I like it very much. Can the transitions be faster? It'd be cool to read two cycles instead of (waiting to read) the one.
"Wanna?" – Mal to Kaylee, Out of Gas
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Whisper, send that off to MalNourished at pizzaaoow@yahoo.com. It'll be easier for her to keep it all in one place instead of having to search a thread for submissions. :) It looks excellent, thanks for all the hard work!
Serenity Day is about the movie. Arrange a screening, go to the charity screenings already arranged, buy the DVD. We need to try to stay on task here. For anyone who's not near a screening or cannot arrange a screening for whatever reason (like me!), purchasing the DVD is an easy way to do show support. Purchasing the DVD costs less than hubby and I to go to the movies for the night. So in a way, it's all equal in the end.
1) Go to or arrange a Serenity Screening.
2) Purchase the Serenity DVD.
Serenity Day, June 23rd.
~Kaele
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Originally posted by Whisper:
i'll be submitting this one- what do you think?
www.straightfromthehorsesmouth.co.uk/firefly
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Want Firefly/ Serenity/ BtVS/ Angel desktop wallpapers? Take a look at the ones I've created at:
http://www.whispergraphics.net
Now hosting the Firefly Extended Gagreel
I have added a forum to my site and now I need some members!
Just some technical suggestions.
Load-time on my dsl wireless connection to my laptop is over 65 seconds- On my home dial-up connection it would be agonizing. Might want to reduce resolution, change the text fade, etc, to speed it up. We live in a world of instant messages- 65 seconds isn't instant.
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good point- didn't even think of that. I'll see what i can do.
www.straightfromthehorsesmouth.co.uk/firefly
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Want Firefly/ Serenity/ BtVS/ Angel desktop wallpapers? Take a look at the ones I've created at:
http://www.whispergraphics.net
Now hosting the Firefly Extended Gagreel
I have added a forum to my site and now I need some members!
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Originally posted by Jana:
How's this sit for a letter to Universal/Sci-Fi Channel? Short, sweet and shiny, methinks.
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Dear {head honcho},
My name is Jana, and I am a Browncoat. If you don't know what that is, you will soon.
On June 23rd, the fans of the TV show Firefly and the film Serenity will be showing their strength in the greatest fan-based advertising and fundraising campaign in the history of television. Browncoats worldwide will be puchasing copies of the Serenity DVD to show our numbers and desire for a sequel and beyond. In addition, charity film screenings and other events - shindigs, as we like to call them - will be taking place worldwide to raise money for several charities including Serenity Now/Equality Now.
Malcolm Reynolds says in the pilot of the TV show, "We have done the impossible, and that makes us mighty." Half-seasons of TV shows do not make it onto DVD let alone launched onto the big screen. We've done the impossible.
On June 23rd, watch us do it again.
See you in the world,
Jana
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Jana
You can't take the sky from me.
JANA!
This is excellent! This is press-release quality. I love it. Once we get this website moving, would you object to us using a form of this as a press-release? Or would you mind beefing it up a little and making it into something along those lines? I'd really appreciate it.
~Kaele
One day.
One plan.
One army of Browncoats.
On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
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