So What Now?

POSTED BY: SameErtia
UPDATED: Sunday, June 25, 2006 21:48
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SAMEERTIA

Sunday, June 25, 2006 1:41 AM

Serenity Day was a success, and the final SerenityNow/Equality Now showings are winding up.

We're ready for Serenity Summer, but do we have a plan?

I'm gonna throw out something here, based on a convo I had with a San Fran showing attendee (the "not a Browncoat-Never fought in no war- mercenary Manitou"):

We need to reach out to people who don't know what Firefly is.

To quote him- "You can't stop the signal, but you've got to make it go further."

The question is "How?"
I firmly believe that the people who don't love "Serenity" are the people who don't KNOW Serenity.

Give me your suggestions, your ideas. We've got to move past The Browncoat community, and get the word out.

Who can we get involved?
How can we get them involved?

I hereby volunteer to be a coordinator between the different Firefly/Serenity Communities, using Fireflyfans.net as my home base. I've sat in the wings too long, and let too many opportunities go by.
I don't want to take over any leadership, but I'd like to see us meeting somewhere closer the middle than on the edge.

I believe in "Serenity", and I want all our efforts to be as coordinated and powerful as this weekend has demonstrated they can be.

JTSKIER1200R

Sunday, June 25, 2006 1:59 AM

I think this sounds like a good idea. I dont have any specific ideas right now, but I will try to think up some. Thanks for volunteering!

ZISKER

Sunday, June 25, 2006 2:04 AM

Well, hopefully a lot of the copies of Serenity purchased yesterday will find their ways into libraries or other mainstream outlets whereby people who haven't been previously exposed to the series will get a chance to see them.

If you can't do something smart, do something right.

13

Sunday, June 25, 2006 2:13 AM

Given my isolated location, I can only do so much. I'm basically limited to emailing distant friends, who email their distant friends, pyramid-style, and converting everything that moves.

NANITE1018

Sunday, June 25, 2006 2:32 AM

Well how about a letter-writing campaign? And everybody tries to tell everyone they know about Firefly and Serenity.

I think a major objective (which i know is far fetched, but hey, all our dreams are far fetched, right?) should be to get Fox (or maybe SciFi) to show Firefly in order, in an actual time slot, as a half-season show. To test the waters. It should be doable. They don't have to spend any money on making anything, only a little on advertising. Most of those half-season shows get cancelled anyway. If Fox aired them in order, with an advertising campaign (which would probably be done by us, the fans), it might attract a LOT of new fans. If it does well enough, maybe they would restart the series (assuming the actors and Joss would come back). It would be difficult, but probably a far more doable objective than trying to get Fox to automatically sign on for another series.

And what about an advert campaign? We start some organisation that would buy adds in local papers, maybe even commercials, etc. It would cost a lot, but maybe. Or we might do a fundraising campaign, to try and get enough money to pay for say, half a season worth of production. If we could come up with that, it might be that a network would agree to make it.

Just throwing some ideas out there.

I am to misbehave.

SAMEERTIA

Sunday, June 25, 2006 2:40 AM

Zisker, I hope you're right. The buying effort was HUGE and I know many copies went to soldiers overseas, and into libraries, media centers, etc.

I personally sent copies to friends who I've said, "FIREFLY" to and had them say "What?". New converts one person at a time.

But I think we can do more, can go further.

13, you've got a net-connection, right? :)
Don't worry.
There will be an answer.

One of the things that struck me about the California charity showings was how poorly they were advertised among the Non-Browncoat community!
Did you know that one of our greatest allies in San Francisco, nation-wide reknowned sci-fi bookstore "Borderlands" was only aware of the showing because I told Manitou, and he called the owners (friends of ours) to see if they wanted to go with him?

Did you know that when I called radio stations in Sacramento yesterday afternoon (After not recieving a response to emails and inquiries to the Browncoat community) to let them know there was a charity event and could we get a Public Service announcement, none of the four radio stations I called had recieved PS alerts or press-releases?

The San Fran showing was only 90%. A flyer at Borderlands could have made it standing room only. A public service announcement, even on NPR would have gotten the word out.

Did anyone contact womens organizations and let them know Equality Now charities were happening?

I kind of feel like we stood on the roof and waved our arms when we should have been diverting the transmitter to the NavSat.

We did good! But we can do better!

SAMEERTIA

Sunday, June 25, 2006 2:42 AM

Nanite, good ideas! Keep them coming!

MGORMAN

Sunday, June 25, 2006 2:58 AM

I think Nanite is right... in the sense that Firefly, the series, is the key. My sense is that people buy into the verse by buying into the ensemble group performance over the whole of the show. That's why Browncoats "get it" when they go to Serenity. I've heard more often than not that newbies being first introduced to the Serenity world by the BDM get mildly interested but not super-excited. Conversely, people coming in via the series are totally into it and then love Serenity (the BDM). When we want to get friends bitten by the Serenity bug, we show them (or give them) the BDS. I think we've bought six entire series for friends so far, and bought two more yesterday to give out.

So this is a long-winded way of saying we need to get much more visibility for the BDS...that will hook more people than getting them to see the BDM cold.

Mark

NANITE1018

Sunday, June 25, 2006 3:05 AM

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Originally posted by MGorman:
I think Nanite is right... in the sense that Firefly, the series, is the key. My sense is that people buy into the verse by buying into the ensemble group performance over the whole of the show. That's why Browncoats "get it" when they go to Serenity. I've heard more often than not that newbies being first introduced to the Serenity world by the BDM get mildly interested but not super-excited. Conversely, people coming in via the series are totally into it and then love Serenity (the BDM). When we want to get friends bitten by the Serenity bug, we show them (or give them) the BDS. I think we've bought six entire series for friends so far, and bought two more yesterday to give out.

So this is a long-winded way of saying we need to get much more visibility for the BDS...that will hook more people than getting them to see the BDM cold.

Mark

Well, i don't know about that. I fell in love with Firefly by watching the BDM. It is an amazing movie. ALthough i must say that it is much better having watched the series. Problem with the series is this: it's LONG. From a viewing standpoint. a little over 11 hours.

What about the pilot "Serenity"? Do you guys think that showing friends that, and only that, is enough to get them to love it? How about both Serenity's? I agree the series is key, but some might not fall in love with it just by watching the original pilot. And the BDM isn't that great an intro to this whole universe, although it is pretty good.

Which is better to get people hooked? "Serenity" (the pilot) or Serenity (the BDM)?

I aim to misbehave.

MSG

Sunday, June 25, 2006 3:47 AM

Hey had an idea...film schools I think we could get a lot of converts by talking to film school professors about Serenity..call your local colleges folks:)

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