We've got a job -- The Anniversary Job!
POSTED BY: TVChick
UPDATED: Monday, October 2, 2006 17:21
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Quote:What a great idea!! I'll spread that idea around too! Or maybe, for people who can't find brown paper or don't want to buy a ream of brown paper for one thing, we could find someone to make a graphic that people could printout on the top of the page or something, & then we could handwrite or type on the paper still.
Originally posted by micjwelch:
Our letter writing campaign to the Sci-Fi Channel involved brown paper. That way they didn't even have to read it to know what it said.
Quote:Exactly.
I'm not sure that a form letter would be as effective, because they would know that each person didn't spend any time on it.
Australia had it a day earlier? Then Australians can do The Job a day earlier. Lots of Brit Browncoats are doing it a week later, when their anniv is. The point is to get The Job done and for us all to do it at, at least, around the same time for maximum impact.
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Originally posted by BrownCoat1:
Definitely a great idea! Count me in!
I will organize some sort of Serenity Anniversary party here locally and invite some people who are not browncoats to the party. I will encourage the rest of the Richmond area browncoats to do the same.
I am also going to pick up some more copies of the dvd that week. They are only $13.74 each at Walmart right now. I can give these out as gifts, prizes, etc.
This could go a long way to giving us another much needed push and net us some new converts.
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I like this idea... local groups doing something for the anniversary. In fact I like this much better than another letter writing campaign. They've seen us do letter writing campaigns and I think that tactic may be wearing on them some.
Not trying to be down folks, but we need something fresh and new... something fun for all us fans too. Getting together in parties and celebrating and having a good time and then sharing DVD's and such with new converts.. prizes, I particularly like that idea!! This is all fun and it ain't the same old thing.
I think if Universal gets an idea that we're not desperate but growing the fan base and having a blast they'll be more impressed with that. I'm sure our local groups could plan big shindigs. Might get some press? Like the screenings..that would be different than our regular letter writing requests constantly wanting more.
Our Summer of Serenity has been about growing the fan base and having fun as a fandom. This idea would be a nice way to end with a bang the whole summer on the 'Versary.
Then we'd see whatever fun stuff we could come up with next
"You hold. Hold 'til I get back." Mal
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I agree with FollowMal. Writing a letter intimating that Universal should do a sequel is not a good way to help the Firefly cause. It would possibly do more harm than good. The standard operating procedure that is decided upon every time this subject comes up (and this comes up a lot among Browncoats, asking Universal for a sequel) is to keep any correspondence with the studio simple and limit it to saying thank you. You can include something shiny about Serenity, how great you thought it was, and how cool Universal was for funding it, and thanks for the support and the hard work. Don't mention a sequel.
Anything about badgering for a sequel should not be our job. That's Joss's. And I think he's better equipped to do that with grace than we are.
-Hera
"Wanna?" – Mal to Kaylee, Out of Gas
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I think it would be better if all Browncoats from around the world do this on the same day that way Universal will get the most thank you notes(ever) for making Serenity,instead of them getting so many this day,that many another day,etc.But hey if Followmal thinks that we should split up into our own country's anniversay of Serenity then I'm all for it,anything to help the Browncoat community.
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I've an idea and I want to run it by the people on this site. If we are here, we are by definition already sold on the 'Verse and Browncoats. The question of course is how to reach a wider audience. This is my idea and I want to float it by y'all to see what you think. By the 'y'all', you can figure I'm from the south and we have a saying: Preaching to the choir. Short explaination is talking to the already converted.
Now, we can all agree that Whedon writes incredibly strong women's roles and all members of Serenity are hotties. All, do a great deal of charity work in connection with their parts in Firefly/Serenity. Whedon's fave is Equality Now, a women's rights group, the rest are for children and disaster victims. Now, how is it possible that no women's service magazines have done any profiles on any members of the 'Verse?
I'm thinking a wide circulation magazine, you know the ones you see at the checkout lane in grocery stores, Border's et al? I'd have to try the profile(s) on spec and shop it around but this might be a way to reach a much wider audience. Summer Glau for a teen mag, Adam Baldwin as a hunk with a heart for any woman's mag - well you get the idea.
Does anybody else think this is viable way to expand the 'Verse?
"It's said that 'power corrupts,' but actually it's more that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable." The Postman
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Originally posted by Darkfly:
But hey if Followmal thinks that we should split up into our own country's anniversay of Serenity then I'm all for it,anything to help the Browncoat community.
Hi, Darkfly! I don't think we should split the anniversary up by our own country's day.. what I do think is we should have some parties and shindigs on the anniversary date, whichever one you want to choose. It's the partyin' I was promotin'!
As Browncoat1 said... each group, even 1 Browncoat alone could plan a party or a shindig or something to do as a way to celebrate the 'Versary. It's just a fun thing for fans to do. Since this whole summer has been about growing the amount of Browncoats that we have by tellin' folks about Serenity, inviting someone who's never seen it over for a viewing party or shindig might make for some very happy folks.
And we all know they'll fall in love with Firefly/Serenity!"You hold. Hold 'til I get back." Mal
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Originally posted by FloralBunny:
Also, does anyone remember that Sept. 20
is Captain Malcolm Reynolds' birthday?
Yeppers. 'Tis. Put a birthday candle
in a cupcake and celebrate.
bun
~2006~Firefly Summer~2006~
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I posted a chat event to that effect, whoot!
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Yes, yes, w00t for the Mal Reynolds
Birthday Event!
tempest06, are you proposing to write
these profiles and sell them, or only to
try to persuade various appropriate
magazines to run articles about our
Big Damn Actors? Are you in the business?
bun
~2006~Firefly Summer~2006~
==We aim to exponentiate==
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Entertainment pieces are a little out of my line, I usually write about Child Support Enforcement but this is such a good cause that I could see myself writing about it with heart and vigor. I think that any good writer provided with the idea, facts, and a bevy of very pretty, strong, committed people - who along with being extremely good actors seem to use their influence for charities that benefit women, children, and the victims of disaster would find this an unbelievably easy sell. The only thing I can't figure out is why this hasn't already been done. Whedon writes some of the best characters out there: completely actualized men and women but it is treated as genre work with next to no general press coverage.
"It's said that 'power corrupts,' but actually it's more that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable." The Postman
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I like this idea. I'll be there on September 30th.
Wish you all the luck.
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