Advertising Funding Firefly (AFF)

POSTED BY: chaostheory
UPDATED: Friday, May 26, 2006 11:38
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BROWNCOATSRISEAGAIN

Saturday, May 20, 2006 2:59 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Agatsu:
Ace Underhill is already trying to raise money to "buy" another season, but it's legally impossible, as far as I've heard.

BROWNCOATS UNITE!

Actually it was my site www.browncoatsriseagain.com that started with that premise. It was stopped when I realized that it is Joss's decision, not ours to be brought into alternative funding.

Ace is about leasing the rights to the show from Fox (which would involve Joss's approval) and creating episodes that would be shown on pay-per-view, DVD, or both.

Andrew Schultz
www.browncoatsriseagain.com

AGATSU

Saturday, May 20, 2006 3:06 PM

Oops. Sorry, Andrew.

BROWNCOATS UNITE!

RALEIGHBROWNCOAT

Saturday, May 20, 2006 3:55 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by FollowMal:
I think the grateful part ought to be first. It's kind of like complimenting the cook for the excellence of your meal... they're likely to be pleased and consider cooking for you again, since you enjoyed it so much. As frustrated as we are with Universal not announcing a sequel yesterday!!, they did an awesome thing making Serenity and we need to remind them how much we appreciate it.

I think this is excellent advice. I had proposed doing an ad in Variety or some place to thank Universal as part of the Summer of Serenity campaign. I hope we can come together to do this.

Universal did go out on a limb with Serenity and thus far, may just barely be making some money back from their investment. We need to promote the Serenity DVD, increase the fan base, thank Universal, and then, hopefully, we can get our Big Damn Sequel(s).

DEWRASTLER

Saturday, May 20, 2006 4:06 PM

I have a friend who's in high school and put up a small web page with ads by google on it. He gets money every time someone clicks on the ad, about 50 cents. He made about 100 dollars last month, mainly because not too many people visit his site, so I started going to it and randomly clicking on the ads to make him money. Now, with our 20,000 registered users, if we had google ads (or something similar) and we each just clicked an ad every time we visited the site we could easily earn a lot of cashy money. You don't even have to buy anything, just click on the ad.

We can then take this money and:
1) buy DVDs to Donate to libraries, soldiers, etc.
2) place ads and other campaigning tools to spread the word
3) Give money to charity in the name of Browncoats and
4) Hold a national shindig (or two, an east coaster and a west coaster) for all of us browncoats to get together and just have a good time.

There's my two cents, but all in all ads is up to Haken.

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One plan.
One army of Browncoats.

On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
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IMNOTHERE

Saturday, May 20, 2006 5:29 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SimonF:
Given that each episode was supposed to have cost two million dollars and the 2 hour episode pilot a lot more, you'd need to raise a heck of a lot of money to finance a 22 episode season. Probably around $50-55 million.

A few days ago I was sitting on a long-haul flight being kept sane by listening to some BBC radio dramas on my iPod.

It occurred to me how well Firefly would work on the radio (or podcast!), how much cheaper this would be than a new TV series or movie, and how the rights issues might be of a lower order of impossibility (since it wouldn't compete with hypothetical future movies or TV shows).

Plus, a fan base that is willing to buy multiple copies of DVDs might even be persuaded to *pay* for MP3 downloads...

DEWRASTLER

Sunday, May 21, 2006 5:02 PM

*bump*

Thoughts anyone?

_________________________________
One day.
One plan.
One army of Browncoats.

On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
http://www.serenityday.org/
http://forum.serenityday.org/

KAIN

Sunday, May 21, 2006 8:04 PM

That sounds like something that actually could happen. As a "Birds of Prey" fan (a WB casualty) I've been through this, bring back the series stuff before. Hard to believe anything could work but I do like this.

Kain

CHAOSTHEORY

Sunday, May 21, 2006 9:27 PM

OK the podcasts that are out there are good, but alas not profesionally done. I will try and pull strings at the BBC, I have family members taht work there, and at the end of the day Radio 4 wouldprobably love somthing like this, only thing is whether Joss would endorse or allow the wantant destruction of his creation, as a radio series really could kill Firefly. Im digging the idea of buying dvd's for librarys though really nice touch. Also Partys whoot, apart from being in the UK I really think that could work.

Charity screenings, in aid of a second series, now that is a zarking ace idea.

At the end of the day we all know that in the future there will be a secomd series, the main thing is to not loose interest or hope. And fill in this questionaire.

http://www.fireflyseason2.com/index.asp

im sure most of you have,

oh and i forgot to mention, Buy a Mac. Your life will become easier.

Night night all its late here and im tired. Love you all (how emotional.)

you cant stop signal; or the inevitable surge of fans

CHAOSTHEORY

Monday, May 22, 2006 4:07 PM

New idea, why dont we make virals. they seem to spread the word really well and quick

IMNOTHERE

Friday, May 26, 2006 11:03 AM

Quote:
...as a radio series really could kill Firefly.

I don't see why - Doctor Who seems to have survived the audio play treatment, while Hitchhikers Guide and Red Dwarf started on the radio! (...and the actor who played Frodo in the BBC radio version of Lord of the Rings went on to play Bilbo in the movie!)

Worst case scenario is that it flops, in which case the funders can be thankful that they spent a fraction of the cost of a TV production. Best case scenario is that it keeps interest in the show alive until something better comes along.

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