Making a Firefly episode ourselves
POSTED BY: Firestalker
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 3, 2006 09:22
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Hell, I've done theatre since the 8th grade. I'd love tio be a part of this. And living in the Southwest, there's a lot of sorrounding areas that resemble a lot of areas in the show. I think it's an awesome, viable idea.
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Im in New England so I doubt I could participate but I would love to.
Put me in the potential 'actor' list..if there is one. My height would suggest I play jayne but my sense of humor is more like wash's.
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I wish you guys the best of luck with this if you go ahead with the idea, but if you play the parts of my BDH I'll struggle to force myself to watch it, I have to be honest.
Another crew though, that'd be shiny :D
Maybe....an ALLIANCE crew..
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Right now the only Firefly fan film i know of is Mesquito. It would be real nice to see some more people making them. There are tons of good SW films on the net (starwars.atomfilms.com), but not realy any Firefly ones.
I agree on the fact that it would have to focus upon another ship/crew in the firefly universe to actually work. Trying to get the personalities created by Joss/the crew's actors down would take a hollywood-grade actor. Perhaps a crew like the one which shoots Mal in Out of Gas would work for a fan film.
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Well, I'll try to get as many people from long distance I can in to help. I will try to find things to do for long distance people.
I wasn't expecting this many people to respond this fast.
I would also like to point out that this project is not to parody, copy, or satire Firefly. It simply a project to make something for ourselves that we would love to happen for real [IE: more episodes in a season fashion]. I don't want this to be looked upon as copying or even as an actual episode, just a bunch of fans getting together and creating a piece of the magic that we have all seen on screen.
Like I said it will be a non profit project and the episode [if done and finished] will be distributed for all to see free of charge [minus the internet fees you already pay].
I believe that it will be fun to do and try.
Honestly the acting and getting the mannerisms right can be a challenge, but if you think that the actors they chose for the crew of Firefly were "Relatively unknowns" when they started the job. I believe that the characters can come to life with a good actor in the place.
That being said I will look into doing another crew. Maybe a crew that has a run in with some characters of the Firefly 'verse. I'll get a bunch of writers together and maybe we can come up with something. So any writers out there that would like to write a Firefly episode let me know and we'll get together and start tossing ideas back and forth.
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Sign me up and count me in.
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You can count on me to help out, too.
I'm a participator over at fanfilms.com as well, and have experience in CGI and directing. Hell, my signiture quote came from a film I directed...but let's not talk about that particular debacle. Being a Kiwi, I probably won't be able to get involved in production, but anything possible over the 'net - CGI, compositing, whatever - count me in.
I agree with those who say you'd have to portray another crew or people other than the crew of Serenity - but you can still sneak them in there, whether with the CG exterior of Serenity, voice clips taken from the series or movie and reordered, or clips taken from the movie or series, and had the actor 'rotoscoped' out. Check out the below link for an example.
Oh, and since no-one has mentioned this Firefly fanfilm yet...
http://film.sigil777.com/Waiting%5Ffor%5FSerenity/index.asp
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Fan film. Hmm, interesting idea. We've been producing no-budget projects for awhile and have most of the gear needed but since we're up here in Canada, may not be able to help out.
That said, we DO have a sci-fi project in the script stage that likely will resemble Firefly in production style simply because that's the way I've always worked. I'm going to be looking for some CG artists so if anyone is interested in maybe helping out, drop me a line via my website:
http://web.uvic.ca/~jasonk/
Cheers.
J\
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I would also love to. I have about 15 years experience acting, and would love to lend my talents any way possible. I also agree that we should come up with a new cast. Doing that would open the world up so that the script could head just about anywhere.
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I'm only 18, but I have studied both acting and film making in High school. In addition, my friends and I have been producing a local cable access show in Portland Oregon for over two years now. It's a show that uses a lot of special effects, and is actually fairly professional and decent looking, not something like Wayne's World. I live in the Northwest, so I don't know how involved I could possibly be, but I would love to help out if not be more involved. Like I said,I have experience shoting, directing and acting for film.
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