Kalshane, I think Kristen was talking about specific communities on LJ. Like a message board dedicated to one topic. So having several hits to what is essentially an open community by strangers who have no interest in you or your community, is frankly, really fucking annoying and spam. And also rude.
ita doesn't get it, but stuff like that can make me so not want to do what they're asking me to do, even if I would enjoy it. It kind of ruins it for me. I think the reason why I never read Harry Potter is because everyone says I should. And as was mentioned above, I, too, am contrary.
I'm insanely proud of that Variety ad for Firefly, though. I regretted it for some time, but got over that issue pretty recently.
I have a whole list of movies and books that I've never checked out largely because I got asked so many times if I'd seen/read them yet. (HP, yup.)
Which I think one can accomplish more realistically by bringing a friend to see the film.
To this I say: maybe. Will a single advertisement that reaches X # of people do more good than directly bringing Y # of people to the movie, with the assumption that X (Variety circulation numbers) is far higher than Y? What kind of actual take on it do they expect? And isn't Variety mostly for industry people, anyway, who are unlikely to be swayed to going to see a movie by a single ad?
I took a total of 10 people to see it, myself. Paid for all but 2 of them, actually, because most of them were my family or people I owed money to.
I am also proud of the FF ad. Though, given my feelings about the GBAE ad, I'm kind of surprised I ever signed on to do it.
Eh, with the amount they're spending on that ad, I don't the box office rev would be noticeable. Nor do I think anyone who's contributing is going to see the flick less because of it. Maybe a "bring a friend" campaign would be a better idea, though.
I think a better strategy would be for every
Firefly
fan to tell two friends about the movie. And then they tell two friends, and they tell two friends, and so on, and so on, and so on....
Kalshane, I think Kristen was talking about specific communities on LJ. Like a message board dedicated to one topic. So having several hits to what is essentially an open community by strangers who have no interest in you or your community, is frankly, really fucking annoying and spam. And also rude.
I agree with you there. I'm not the most of savvy of LJers, but a f-list is different from a community, right? I was referring to the Wank article you linked earlier. A ton of the comments on it were people griping about hearing about Serenity/Firefly from people on the f-list and being sick of it. Which to me is silly for the reasons I outlined above.
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