LADIES & GENTS, IF Y'ALL COULD LEND ME YOUR PRETTY LITTLE EARS...
POSTED BY: Rach
UPDATED: Saturday, April 29, 2006 18:28
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That's why people keep asking for someone to take charge and apply volunteers to specific tasks.
Come on, you people managed to get a BDM of a cancelled show, it must have been more organized than this.
Hm, which gives me an idea... maybe we could get this project under the patronage of one the crew, or even Joss. They wouldn't have to do much, just say that they think it's mindblowingly shiny and let us quote them, or do an online interview about their thoughts about this. It would get us a LOT more motivated Browncoats and make Firefly Day somewhat official. And I'm quite sure Universal won't burn them on the stake for supporting what is basically a buying frenzy on their franchise combined with a huge (absolutely FREE) advertising event AND charity. I mean, come ON!
Maybe we could organize a letter explaining what we're planning and an Aussie Browncoat could give it to Summer at the Supanova convention on April 21st-23rd. I'm sure she can get in touch with the others if she likes the idea. If there are fan interviews planned with her there (or anyone else from the family anywhere, of course), they could ask her if she heard about it etc...
From the impression I got of Joss and the crew, they seem to like us almost as much as we like them, and I'm sure they won't object to our efforts to boost their careers, either.
Max, could you take out the BROWNCOAT DAY option on the site? Someone, I think 11th Hour, mentioned that that name has already been taken.
So, do you wanna take charge? You're obviously doing something.
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One day.
One plan.
One army of Browncoats.
On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
www.straightfromthehorsesmouth.co.uk/firefly
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Quote:
Originally posted by Agatsu:
That's why people keep asking for someone to take charge and apply volunteers to specific tasks.
Come on, you people managed to get a BDM of a cancelled show, it must have been more organized than this.
Hm, which gives me an idea... maybe we could get this project under the patronage of one the crew, or even Joss.
While it is a very good idea to get organized under some leadership, Joss himself cannot be directly connected to this.
The studio and media would just see it as Joss directing his army of loyal fans to do his bidding. It would smack of a rather incestuous set-up.
This project must stay solely a fan originated and promoted indeavor. It also will help WILDLY to recruit as many new fans as possible. We also don't want to come off as an insulated group of followers who performed a short term dramatic buying frenzy.
Everyone try to remember to look at this from a studio's point of view. Passionate fandom isn't enough. They want to see that there's a widespread audience out there that will justify the millions of dollars of investment it takes to produce either a TV show, mini-series, or more movie sequels.
So it's much better for Joss if he's not directly involved... in fact, it's crucial. Now it's perfectly fine for him to comment on the event, but not be part of it. Joss already personally fought to get "Serenity" flying again (with some help from fans of course). But this time the demonstration has to come purely from the fans... that's the way to PROVE that there's a big, passionate audience out there to watch/buy tickets/PPV, whatever, for more Firefly/Serenity.
11th Hour
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Hm, good point.
I liked my idea, but I guess you can't reason with... uhm, reason.
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One day.
One plan.
One army of Browncoats.
On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
www.straightfromthehorsesmouth.co.uk/firefly
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Quote:
Originally posted by Agatsu:
That's why people keep asking for someone to take charge and apply volunteers to specific tasks.
Come on, you people managed to get a BDM of a cancelled show, it must have been more organized than this.
Hm, which gives me an idea... maybe we could get this project under the patronage of one the crew, or even Joss. They wouldn't have to do much, just say that they think it's mindblowingly shiny and let us quote them, or do an online interview about their thoughts about this. It would get us a LOT more motivated Browncoats and make Firefly Day somewhat official. And I'm quite sure Universal won't burn them on the stake for supporting what is basically a buying frenzy on their franchise combined with a huge (absolutely FREE) advertising event AND charity. I mean, come ON!
Maybe we could organize a letter explaining what we're planning and an Aussie Browncoat could give it to Summer at the Supanova convention on April 21st-23rd. I'm sure she can get in touch with the others if she likes the idea. If there are fan interviews planned with her there (or anyone else from the family anywhere, of course), they could ask her if she heard about it etc...
From the impression I got of Joss and the crew, they seem to like us almost as much as we like them, and I'm sure they won't object to our efforts to boost their careers, either.
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One day.
One plan.
One army of Browncoats.
On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
www.straightfromthehorsesmouth.co.uk/firefly
well, i see your point, we've been talking talking talking.
The first thing we need is an offical website. I don't want to bash anyone but there isn't any one website that give all the details in fine print black and white.
the link you have quoted is a good start. Why don't we make a deadline to have the entire shindig planed by? say next friday? Even though we have 2 months, that's not a lot. BY the time we have everything planed, it'll be 3 weeks from fireflyday or whatever we have.
Agatsu, I like the idea, it will create a LOT of buzz if we got a main character or even joss himself to urge us on. AND we'll have the video live and straming on the website.
Maxrimstain, do you have the resources for all of this?
So what do we have to work on coming up till friday?
1. A definate name for the website
2. the contact to the firefly crew/joss
3. the offical letter everyone will print for our mass-mailing campaign.
As far as a leader, I nominate RACH (if he wants it).
last thing i want to say- i am kind of disappointed with the view counts on Maxrimstain's website. And this thread also. We're counting on 20,000 members to buy the dvd but hell, not even 1/10 has even seen this thread!
We need this thread to be stickied, red flagged, underlined and a link up on the main page. I"m going to send out an e-mail now.
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I'm sure somewhere over at http://www.cantstoptheserenity.com, you will find someone who can tell you exactly how it's done, if you're not satisfied with their FAQ: http://www.cantstoptheserenity.com/faq/
EDIT: Uhm, MegMac? I just answered the question while you deleted it for some reason. Now I look like a gorramn fool! 
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One day.
One plan.
One army of Browncoats.
On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
www.straightfromthehorsesmouth.co.uk/firefly
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IANW, 11th Hour has made a good point about making this solely a FAN effort. As much as I'd love to see Joss or someone from the crew participate, and as much as that would motivate more people, it might be misinterpreted as an effort by Joss to use his mindless fan drones to get his show back.
Pity, though. Ah well, as long as they're happy with what we did after it's done - and they can comment on it then as long as they want.
And yeah, not really a lot of people on the few threads about this. That's why I suggested putting something on the mainpage here at FFF.net.
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One day.
One plan.
One army of Browncoats.
On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
www.straightfromthehorsesmouth.co.uk/firefly
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I volunteer to write mass mailing letter just as long as I get a bit of input as to what's in it.
Dear Universal/Sci-fi,
We're Browncoats. On June 23rd, we're doing some cool stuff for charity. Watch for it. (sci-fi: Air Firefly that day? Please?)
We are mighty.
Love,
Browncoats
Something along those lines, only a bit more pretty, no? I shall work on it and keep you all posted.
Jana
You can't take the sky from me.
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Quote:
Originally posted by Agatsu:
I'm sure somewhere over at http://www.cantstoptheserenity.com, you will find someone who can tell you exactly how it's done, if you're not satisfied with their FAQ: http://www.cantstoptheserenity.com/faq/
EDIT: Uhm, MegMac? I just answered the question while you deleted it for some reason. Now I look like a gorramn fool!
Sorry, I deleted it because the question had been sort of answered in an earlier post. Didn't expect you to reply so fast
- will check those sites. I now feel like a gorram fool so I guess we're even ------------------------------------------------
Mal: Wheel never stops turning, Badger.
Badger: That only matters to the people on the rim.
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Quote:
Originally posted by Agatsu:
IANW, 11th Hour has made a good point about making this solely a FAN effort. As much as I'd love to see Joss or someone from the crew participate, and as much as that would motivate more people, it might be misinterpreted as an effort by Joss to use his mindless fan drones to get his show back.
Pity, though. Ah well, as long as they're happy with what we did after it's done - and they can comment on it then as long as they want.
And yeah, not really a lot of people on the few threads about this. That's why I suggested putting something on the mainpage here at FFF.net.
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One day.
One plan.
One army of Browncoats.
On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
www.straightfromthehorsesmouth.co.uk/firefly
Yeah, he wrote that while I was responding.. good point.
still, i tried to find a "contact us" link on fff.net and couldn't find one! who do we contact to sticky this thread and get it on the latest updates on the main page?
EDIT:
Jana: that sounds about right. Also, we agreed that each letter will be preferrably hand written so it will be taken notice more?
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