SSC Firefly Series/Episode Trailer Contest PART II

POSTED BY: Hera
UPDATED: Saturday, September 16, 2006 19:25
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HERA

Thursday, August 3, 2006 3:02 PM

As part of the Serenity Summer Campaign, FollowMal and I have been kicking around the idea of having a Browncoat contest to create trailers for the FF episodes. Those shiny with the vid making could tackle all the episodes, or produce a trailer introducing the series.

The purpose would be to tell enough of the story to intrigue someone unfamiliar with FF so they would rent and/or buy the DVDs.

One important caveat: these would NOT be music videos. Text frames and episode video with snippets of dialogue would be used together to introduce the storylines in an intriguing fashion. Think in terms of the episode teasers that FOX aired for the series, only...um...these would be better. Not only better, also without the irritating announcer voiceover.

Here's an example of one of the trailers that FOX did:

Here's the complete archive of teaser trailers:
http://www.have-dog.com/firefly/

Each teaser would open with the FF animated logo, to tie them all together.

A cool approach would be to show intro text (much like the Serenity trailer http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/serenity/serenity_med.html), that would help to explain the story of the clips chosen to make up the trailer.

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MORE CLARIFICATION added Aug 5:
If you've read the thread discussion, we need vids that intrigue people about the plot for each episode. You've seen a million of these type trailers, advertising TV show premieres, "next week on", those sorts of things. The main difference being we don't want the trailers to have announcer voice overs. Use supertitles and dialogue from the eps to get the point across. Music can be from the series, or another tune, but lyrics are discouraged, as it removes you from the immediacy of the situation in the episode. There might be a place for a small bit of lyric, but don't make it the focus of the vid. These are not music videos.

Examples:
OoG could say “How would a Captain save his crew AND his ship, stranded in the middle of nowhere?”
Ariel: “Would a doctor be smart enough to sneak his fugitive sister INTO a hospital?”

Then each teaser should end with identifying text:

Joss Whedon’s Firefly
“Ariel”
Episode 9 of 14
NAME OR ALIAS OF THE VIDDER(very important!)
Made for fun, not for profit. All FIREFLY related images are copyright Mutant Enemy, Inc. and 20th Century Fox. This video IS NOT affiliated with Mutant Enemy, Inc. or 20th Century Fox.

What we would like to do with the videos is post them on YouTube as a set of related vids that anyone can watch through a browser. YouTube has an awesome search engine. There are already several FF and Serenity related fanvids and con vids out there, but nothing as targeted as what we could come up with to introduce the series to the uninitiated.

We could also link these trailers to the FF myspace page, when we get that up and running.

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: August 31st, 2006

AWARD CATEGORIES
Best Series Trailer
Best Episode Trailer
Best None of the Above [final name TBD]
Best Episode Catalog [final name TBD]- All episodes by one vidder [14 total]

LENGTH: 1 to 3 minutes
FILESIZE: no larger than 50MB
FILE FORMATS:

EDIT!! 08/02/06:
SUBMISSION: LATEST INFO: I apologize abjectly for changing this YET again. In light of tech difficulties with yousendit, the fact that one of our judges is in the UK, and because most of the vids are there already, please POST YOUR SUBMISSION TO YOUTUBE and email the url to me at doeramey3000@yahoo.com
Sorry for yanking everybodies chain about this.
EMAIL FOR SUBMISSIONS: doeramey3000@yahoo.com

EDIT 08/16/06:
JUDGES
Judging will take place from Sept 1-10th, ballots due to doeramey3000.com on Sept 11th, and the winners will be announced Sept 15th. We have our judges, and they are:

LithiumDoll < http://www.alter-idem.com/index.php?now=2>
Hera
MalNourished
11thHour
jtskier1200r

THE B

HERA

Friday, August 4, 2006 1:36 AM

Seems this thread won't start. Priming the engine now. Any new developments?

"Wanna?" – Mal to Kaylee, Out of Gas

WHITEFALL

Friday, August 4, 2006 5:11 AM

Urgh, hera, i finally figured out that there is no movie maker 2, just movie maker 1 with the 2.1 update, silly me.

Anyways, the place where i'd been downloading the eps turned out to be in the wrong file format for editing, and my dvds are on loan atm, so i look to be screwed on the vidding front.

Too bad too, had some nice ideas, at least i thought so.

"But, these strong women characters?"

"Why aren't you asking 100 other guys why they don't write strong women characters?" -Joss Whedon

HERA

Friday, August 4, 2006 3:02 PM

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Originally posted by Whitefall:
Too bad too, had some nice ideas, at least i thought so.

Aw man, get your DVDs back! A true friend would return them in your time of need. I hope you can still put something together. You still have 4 weeks!

-Hera

"Wanna?" – Mal to Kaylee, Out of Gas

HERA

Friday, August 4, 2006 3:04 PM

Off topic, but there was a film maker's challenge in my home town recently, and they've posted the winners. Frikkin hiliarious. Enjoy!

-Hera

http://www.originalalamo.com/sites/2blanks/films.aspx

About the BLANKS ON A BLANK Filmmaking Challenge

Animals and vehicles: they just don't mix. The biggest film of this summer, obviously, will show us the inherent dangers of putting motherf***ing snakes on a motherf***ing plane. But what will be the biggest film of NEXT summer?

To us, the success of SNAKES ON A PLANE is a foregone conclusion. And when any film is a success, sequels are inevitable. But how do you follow up the brilliance of S.O.A.P.? Do you put snakes somewhere else? Do you put a different animal on a plane? The options, of course, are endless, and as we were sitting around a table at a pub talking about all the different possible cinematic combinations, we realized that we really, really, really we wanted to see all those movies become a reality. And so we set up the Blanks On A Blank film-making challenge, giving the whole world the chance to show us the future of animal/vehicle disaster films.

When you sign up a team to participate in the challenge, our random generator will provide you with an animal and a vehicle. You've then got until August 3rd to completely finish a 2-5 minute original disaster movie that shows us all about how bad things can get when your BLANKS somehow make their way onto your BLANK. Because sure, rabbits on a boat sound harmless enough, but when those motherf***ing rabbits were placed on that motherf***ing boat by terrorists? Well then you'd better watch your motherf***ing ass.

"Wanna?" – Mal to Kaylee, Out of Gas

HERA

Sunday, August 6, 2006 12:42 AM

A vidder emailed me with questions recently, and I wanted to include my answer in case it helps to clarify. I'll also add the more pertinent sentences to the top post.

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email sent to Browncoat Vidder:
Hello!

I'm glad you've come aboard. I look forward to seeing more of your stuff.

To answer some of your questions, here is a vid that was entered recently. It outlines exactly what I meant in the FFF.net Trailer thread about starting with the animated logo and ending with the episode text.

Here are the two threads with the instructions to date. Check the top post in the Part II thread for updates. When I make them, I post them there.

SSC Firefly Series/Episode Trailer Contest
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=21915

SSC Firefly Series/Episode Trailer Contest PART II
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=22792

If you've read the thread discussion, we need vids that intrigue people about the plot for each episode. You've seen a million of these type trailers, advertising TV show premieres, "next week on", those sorts of things. The main difference being we don't want the trailers to have announcer voice overs. Use supertitles and dialogue from the eps to get the point across. Music can be from the series, or another tune, but lyrics are discouraged, as it removes you from the immediacy of the situation in the episode. There might be a place for a small bit of lyric, but don't make it the focus of the vid. These are not music videos.

Your vid can be teaser trailers for each episode, or a teaser introducing the series. Some folks have done vids introducing the characters. People are being pretty creative about it.

I'm glad you're interested in working on some! I think this will be a neat project, and several vidders have said when submitting their entries that they've learned some new things trying to get inside our contest parameters.

Hope this helps! Let me know if you need more info!

"Wanna?" – Mal to Kaylee, Out of Gas

SUICIDESQUIRREL71

Monday, August 7, 2006 5:15 AM

Well I have now made a second and last trailer for the episode "Objects in Space". I really like how this one came out so hopefully you guys will as well. Thanks for the support. Here is the link from youtube.

HERA

Monday, August 7, 2006 6:24 PM

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Originally posted by SuicideSquirrel71:
Well I have now made a second and last trailer for the episode "Objects in Space". I really like how this one came out so hopefully you guys will as well. Thanks for the support. Here is the link from youtube.

Whoa. Good vid.

SS, this made the hair on my arms stand up. Whoa. Thank you! Please do more! Please?

-Hera

"Wanna?" – Mal to Kaylee, Out of Gas

SUICIDESQUIRREL71

Tuesday, August 8, 2006 4:25 AM

Thanks Hera,(Whoa Wonder Woman ref.)

I appreciate the comment on the video. I like that one better than the first one I did. I tried to make this one seem somewhat like a horror movie. I appreciate the fact you want me to do more. We'll see, I might get a hankerin' to do more :).

FOLLOWMAL

Wednesday, August 9, 2006 12:01 AM

Wow, SS71... just wow!

That's an awesome vid!

I truly do hope you do more.

"You hold. Hold 'til I get back." Mal

http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=19&t=22697

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