Serenity teaser poster

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HKCAVALIER

Friday, June 11, 2004 4:40 PM

Guess I'll be second to say the poster leaves something to be desired. Over at AICN they're all saying the ship looks like a penis and from the unflattering angle on the poster I'd have to agree. You and I know the ship doesn't look anything like a penis but people seeing the ship on the poster for the first time? (And from a subliminal advertising standpoint the thing isn't even erect!)

And the Serenity font without the old timey western parchment look and sepia toned film stock from the show, I'm sorry, just looks kinda--for want of a better word--girlie. Nothing wrong with "girlie" per se, mind, I love girlie when it works, but on the poster it just doesn't look all that exciting and adventurous. I mean all it would need is that little radiating burn-like effect like it was branded in the sky, y'know, like at the end of every episode. That'd be cool. Something that says "BDM" instead of "Feminine Hygiene Products...IN SPACE-ACE-ACE-CE(that's my echo effect)!"

Edit: hmmmm, upon closer inspection, it does have the "branded in the sky" thing going on, but I still think it needs more...

HKCavalier

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SHINY

Friday, June 11, 2004 4:40 PM

eloramoonjaj sent me a cleaned-up version of the teaser poster:

I like the subtle atmospheric-reentry effect. :)

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ANNIK

Friday, June 11, 2004 7:47 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by HKCavalier:
Guess I'll be second to say the poster leaves something to be desired. Over at AICN they're all saying the ship looks like a penis and from the unflattering angle on the poster I'd have to agree. You and I know the ship doesn't look anything like a penis but people seeing the ship on the poster for the first time? (And from a subliminal advertising standpoint the thing isn't even erect!)
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HKCavalier

Ummm ... I hate to be nitpicky here, but they must have awfully odd-looking penises to mistake that shot of Serenity for one. I'd recommend they hie themselves to a proctologist (or is it a urologist who specialises in male dangly bits?) ... pronto!

Just some thoughts ...

Cheers,
Annik
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HKCAVALIER

Friday, June 11, 2004 8:17 PM

Aw, come on now Annik, are you seriously saying that the front end of Serenity from the angle in the poster isn't even a little penile? The bridge doesn't look remarkably like the glanse of a circumsized john thomas? And what is to be said of that vein-like bulge on the side? If you need to, place your hand over the engine/storage bay part of the ship and just look at the front end!

Of course you don't need anything near that kind of verisimilitude for folk to think a thing looks like a wasker, now do you? In conclusion therefore, and in spite of any picked nits, Annik, I must stand by my original post.

HKCavalier

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IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Friday, June 11, 2004 9:51 PM

Ain't atmospheric entry + full burn = bad?
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ANNIK

Saturday, June 12, 2004 1:35 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by HKCavalier:
Aw, come on now Annik, are you seriously saying that the front end of Serenity from the angle in the poster isn't even a little penile? The bridge doesn't look remarkably like the glanse of a circumsized john thomas? And what is to be said of that vein-like bulge on the side? If you need to, place your hand over the engine/storage bay part of the ship and just look at the front end!

Of course you don't need anything near that kind of verisimilitude for folk to think a thing looks like a wasker, now do you? In conclusion therefore, and in spite of any picked nits, Annik, I must stand by my original post.

If the AICN people are tossing this sort of comment around, then it's going to apply to pretty much *any* angle depicting the ship ... and frankly, I think it's a stretch design-wise. Classically, phallic symbols tend towards the long and smoothly-contoured (think: Saturn V rockets, jet fighters, Washington Monument, etc.) ... I believe it would be a sadly inebriated artist who came up with Serenity as a model for a phallus.

But hey ... I could be wrong ... just because I've never seen something like that doesn't preclude the possibility of its existence. Perhaps someone, somewhere, has a wanker that looks just like Serenity. And I say that man should really see his doctor. Quickly.

Cheers,
Annik
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FIREFLEW

Saturday, June 12, 2004 8:26 AM

Does anyone know where I can find the Firefly Font? I'm gonna try and start writing like that normally .

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11THHOUR

Saturday, June 12, 2004 8:52 AM

The "Firefly font" is named "Nuptial Script". I purchsed this font at: www.myfonts.com

I think it can be found elsewhere, but this is the site I used. It's a very well run website and I've purchased several fonts there.

Good luck.

11thHour

BLINKER

Saturday, June 12, 2004 11:27 AM

Quote:
Edit: hmmmm, upon closer inspection, it does have the "branded in the sky" thing going on, but I still think it needs more...

Here's hoping it's a preliminary concept. It looks like someone just typed "Serenity" in Nuptial and bent it a little - not nearly as pretty as the twisting "Firefly" logo.

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ZAPHODB

Saturday, June 12, 2004 5:47 PM

It's probably one of many preliminary poster concepts that are going to popping up over the next little while.

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