Serenity 'Behind the Scenes' featurette.
This looks like it would be the promotional trailer that some people saw in movie theaters starting a few days back. It tells the story of how Firefly went from being a cancelled TV show to becoming a major motion picture, and it has clips from Firefly, an interview with Joss, interviews with people from the pre-screenings, and of course clips from the movie itself.
Click on 'Featurette: "An Inside Look"'. Needs Internet Explorer, Flash and Windows Media Player.
August 05 2005
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Ronald_SF | August 05, 10:45 CET
gossi | August 05, 10:46 CET
Anyone find anything for Mac?
Willowy | August 05, 10:49 CET
Adam "Redemption"
Oh I love those boys! Thanx for the link Ronald_SF and Gossi!
nixygirl | August 05, 10:49 CET
embers | August 05, 10:57 CET
Microsoft loves to do stuff like this to Mac users.
Shakespeare | August 05, 10:59 CET
Biff Turkle | August 05, 11:04 CET
gossi | August 05, 11:10 CET
binkaboo | August 05, 11:12 CET
>rant on< Isn't that the kind of thing MS does better than anyone else, act like a juvenile? Of course, that hits not just us Mac users but Linux and Unix users, too, I imagine.>/rant off<
I'll have to wait till I get to work to play it.
Drifter | August 05, 11:25 CET
injust | August 05, 11:27 CET
A key part of it is supposed to be encryption and copy protection type stuff.
zz9 | August 05, 11:28 CET
SillyD | August 05, 11:31 CET
zeitgeist | August 05, 11:38 CET
gossi | August 05, 11:40 CET
nixygirl | August 05, 11:54 CET
Simon | August 05, 11:57 CET
gossi | August 05, 11:59 CET
zeitgeist | August 05, 12:04 CET
nixygirl | August 05, 12:07 CET
Simon | August 05, 12:18 CET
Of course, the big bad world? Kinda fun.
gossi | August 05, 12:23 CET
Simon | August 05, 12:28 CET
Which is BS for "Hello? We're Microsoft, we don't WANT people to use anything but our bug ridden cr.. and if there's a way to piss off users of alternative software or even exclude, then you can bet your sorry ass we will do just that."
Seriously, there is exactly NO reason not to offer a direct link to the video, instead of hiding it behind annoying scripts that want to tell me what I have and have not installed *grrrrr* But I'll get to that download somehow. There is no way I use IE, activate ActiveX AND and install the latest "let's analyse your viewing habits"-WMP.
Trienco | August 05, 12:34 CET
gossi | August 05, 12:34 CET
Or more so, it's fan faith base.
We've done our part to spread the word, and are still doing so.
And in a small way, (I know how weird this sounds but...) it's almost like our baby too. It's like something we've cherished and wished for, and watched evolve, is about to (fingers crossed) take over the globe.
Whether it's successful or not, the very fact that it exists, is a new force in film. So, that in itself makes it (and oddly us) interesting.
nixygirl | August 05, 12:35 CET
zeitgeist | August 05, 12:40 CET
Simon | August 05, 12:45 CET
gossi | August 05, 12:49 CET
I keep getting these "Oh my God, what if they review the fans, instead of the movie" feelings...there's nothing for it, I'm just going to have to hold Gossi's hand.
Anyone wish to give me some advice on impressing the UK Press? So far I've had "dress as a cheerleader" and "show some cleaveage", whereas my plan A was to go for "act normal"!
bubblecat | August 05, 12:51 CET
I am so glad I'm not the only disgruntled Browncoat. It is NO coincidence that there is a higher proportion of Firefox, Mac OS X, and Linux users among Browncoats than among the general population. NOT a coincidence.
Anyone who manages to make this available to those of us who don't have Alliance technology will be a BIG DAMN HERO.
chickenbird | August 05, 12:53 CET
And yep Simon, we surely do. In a few months stories are going to be clicking down that board so quickly it'll be mayhem.
*sigh*
I want him to succeed, I want him to succeed /inner chant.
nixygirl | August 05, 12:57 CET
@theonetruebix | August 05, 13:03 CET
Ronald_SF | August 05, 13:05 CET
gossi | August 05, 13:14 CET
And all for a lousy quality video, sandwiched between an ad and a Dukes of Hazzard promo, which I really didn't want to watch, and which took over my whole computer to the point that I really couldn't break out of with anything less than the three-finger salute.
Rather than bash MS, I'll just consult Occam's Razor, and note that it's no worse than what I've been treated to with video from a lot of major media. Gorram arrogant media designer, that's the Big Damn Problem.
MissKittysMom | August 05, 13:24 CET
gossi | August 05, 13:27 CET
I vote Whedonesque.com changes it's name to BlueSun.com/corporate-whore-blog.html ;)
Dammit, gossi, don't give me ideas...
Caroline | August 05, 13:36 CET
Chirp | August 05, 13:57 CET
There is that little twinge of protectiveness battling against wanting all things Joss to have a bigger audience. I want Serenity to do well. Extremely well, in fact, but not so much that Serenity II and III are used to sell cereal or happy meals. This film is so much more than entertainment or a flavor of the month sci-fi flick to a lot of people. I can’t think of it as a product a studio is trying to sell to the masses. We’ll share, just be open to new or different sensibilities and treat it with respect. As for increased scrutiny of the fans, I think we can take it. We are mighty, after all.
bloodflowers | August 05, 14:05 CET
Hasufel | August 05, 14:08 CET
Lioness | August 05, 14:13 CET
m'cookies actual | August 05, 14:17 CET
http://video.msn.com/video/p.htm?t=1&p=Entertainment_Movies&i=4a4d6484-7cf3-424b-9e3f-64e9660b5c9c&rf=
You will need various unfirewalled ports and stuff, so if you're at work it might well not work.
I'm going to ask for a raw version to put online as quite frank: MSN are poop.
gossi | August 05, 14:25 CET
Personally, I wouldn't mind if Serenity got to be big enough to sell breakfast food or anything else as long as Joss retained control. I have faith he would use the power that kind of success would bring to deliver more of his vision rather getting lost in wooing the lowest common denominator.
Actually, for a while now, everything in me has screamed that this movie is going to be VERY BIG but I have been controlling myself, not saying it out loud and saying to myself "You never can tell about these things." over and over.
Bottom line: Simon, revise your timeline...I think we might need a bigger boat.
[ edited by newcj on 2005-08-05 21:57 ]
newcj | August 05, 14:29 CET
Gossi is there any number to call Universal in case the movie DOES go on bit torrent come september? We really can't afford people watching a badly filmed bootleg and then trashing the movie to their friends and losing ticket sales. If I ever saw anyone watching a stolen copy of the film then I would gladly rat them out.
eddy | August 05, 15:08 CET
Gossi is there any number to call Universal in case the movie DOES go on bit torrent come september? We really can't afford people watching a badly filmed bootleg and then trashing the movie to their friends and losing ticket sales. If I ever saw anyone watching a stolen copy of the film then I would gladly rat them out.
Yeah, sure... and is there a number to call Universal because some schmuck is putting promo under a non-free format (not "non-free" in the sense "costing money", but "non-free" in software sense)?
Quite angry right now...
Le Comité | August 05, 15:33 CET
Back before the show got cancelled, when we were trying to think of ways to raise its profile and make it more profitable for the network, we did have a product placement idea. The Alliance could be "Powered by Microsoft."
I thought it would have been hilarious to see an Alliance computer screen with the little Windows logo on it.
ETA: I should say by "we" I mean me and Allyson.
[ edited by TimMinearNet on 2005-08-05 22:39 ]
Kristen R | August 05, 15:35 CET
Le Comité | August 05, 16:28 CET
Blue Sun Screen of Death?
Simon | August 05, 16:30 CET
You could've had the hands of blue guys having to reboot their death sticks :)
Paul_Rocks | August 05, 16:37 CET
I got the same error message when I loaded from Mozilla, then I loaded it in explorer and it worked fine. Very shiny video!
foreverwes | August 05, 20:12 CET
But the production values were first rate. Really good promo for Firefly/Serenity fandom. Everyone actually came across well, including that very pretty (read: intelligent and engaging) blonde in black near the end of the fan interviews. Must be a Whedonesqueteer. Yup.
Drifter | August 05, 21:25 CET
You know, after THAT I start to be fairly sure it wasn't a blooper when the trash bin in Trash had Windows on its screen (looked a tad like the hardware wizard that pops up when you plug in something new). I always wanted to see this as a little statement as to where Windows belongs *cough*
Trienco | August 06, 00:55 CET
Those of y'all that have Mozilla or Firefox and are running Windows. You can load the video from explorer. Just open up explorer and then type in the address and load the video from there.
And for those of us who do not have windows (and thus no IE), can you give the direct url of the video? Thx.
Le Comité | August 06, 07:16 CET
Not sure if there is any player that supports that DRM stuff anyway, so even getting the video would require WMP to play it. See, in the wonderful world of MS, encoding and encrypting everything to make it impossible to get the URL and then protecting the video against evil pirates -which just happens to enforce the newest WMP as player- is an absolute necessicity to offer all those cool features. Of course in everybody elses world that is just utter BS.
Seriously, they drag them to court over packaging a video player with Windows, but nobody cares about THIS? They should be sued to hell and back at least twice a month with their business practices.
Trienco | August 06, 08:50 CET