Summer of Serenity banners by Penguin

This is something I threw together tonight.

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Sunday, July 2, 2006 8:33 AM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

Was I really mentioned by name? You don't have to say that to convince me to help out, you know!

Well, my banners would have to be static as I don't have the programs to animate. Or the mad skills, at this point in time. But I'd be happy to do some static ones. I'll have to think about it when I'm less fuzzy and tired.

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Sunday, July 2, 2006 9:01 AM

FollowMal mentioned you by name! I still have the e-mail to prove it!

I was honored and humbled...

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Sunday, July 2, 2006 10:28 PM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

Hmmmm, I'm working on one but the size isn't cooperating. I'll post it when it's done and folk can lemme know what they think.
Anything in particular these should say?
I'm also a little agravated that I don't have the papyrus font in my PhotoShop; gorrammit!

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Sunday, July 2, 2006 10:48 PM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

Well, here's the rough first attempt. We'll see how it looks here...

I had to fix it; it didn't have the site on it.

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Sunday, July 2, 2006 11:19 PM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

Here's a new one:

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Monday, July 3, 2006 1:54 AM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

I've also posted these in my Blue Sun Room if anyone wants to give me feedback *coughcoughpleasecoughcough*
And I'll keep putting them up there as I make more! *coughcoughIlovecommentscoughcough*

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Monday, July 3, 2006 5:20 AM

EXODUS

Pheonixrose, I really like your second banner. The Serenity looked beautiful in it. My only suggestion is that you use the Papyrus font for it so it can make the banner look even more Fireflyesque. When I make my Firefly site I will be sure to use that banner on almost every single page.

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Monday, July 3, 2006 5:23 AM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
I'm also a little agravated that I don't have the papyrus font in my PhotoShop; gorrammit!

Or I would. I tried to get close!

Thank you, I would be honored to have you use it on your site!

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Monday, July 3, 2006 5:24 AM

I can send it to you! I just sent you a message!

Wait...here's a link to the font!

http://www.angelfire.com/me3/royalhonorguard/extras/papyrus.zip

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Monday, July 3, 2006 5:38 AM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

Thanks, Penguin!

Umm.... What do I do with it?
*feels very not tech-savvy*

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Monday, July 3, 2006 5:46 AM

LOL

I'll make it easier...download this file and put it into your Windows/Fonts folder!

http://www.spmccord.com/images/smilies/PAPYRUS.TTF

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Monday, July 3, 2006 5:48 AM

TRISTAN

Stupid question. Well, stupid query would be more like it...
I'd like to put one of these on my MySpace page, but am worried about "stealing" them from someone to do so. Are any of these public domain, and if so, is there one I can snag to put on my page?
Thanks in advance.

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Monday, July 3, 2006 5:49 AM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

My what folder???

*feels even less savvy*

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Monday, July 3, 2006 5:56 AM

Go to your "C" drive...The bottom folder should be the WINDOWS folder. You may have to give the computer permission to view the files. Inside the WINDOWS folder is another folder called Fonts. Just put the Papyrus font in the Fonts folder and that's it!

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Monday, July 3, 2006 6:03 AM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

Hooray!!!!

Thank you, Penguin! It worked!

OK, I will update banners now.

Oh, and Tristan, as long as you host it yourself, I'm ok with you using any of my banners. Can hardly claim copyright for the images, and I can't really be stingy with the tiny amounts of text. Besides, what kind of fan would I be if I made banners and didn't want them posted everyhwere possible?

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Monday, July 3, 2006 6:07 AM

You can't use mine!

LOL

I agree with what PhoenixRose said...

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Monday, July 3, 2006 6:09 AM

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Hooray!!!!

Thank you, Penguin! It worked!

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Monday, July 3, 2006 6:23 AM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

OK, fixed banners! Yay!

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Monday, July 3, 2006 7:11 AM

TRISTAN

Thank you, PR. Will copying and pasting into photobucket be good enough for hosting?

Oh, and Penguin...that wasn't very nice!

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Monday, July 3, 2006 6:24 PM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

Sure will, since Photobucket keeps track of bandwidth used by idividual users

Looks like another night of staying in and designing banners for me! Not only is it fairly late, but my best friend is sick and there are severe weather warnings throughout much of the state, though not right where I am.
Whheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

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Monday, July 3, 2006 9:26 PM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

So here's my latest:

Really just threw it together from some icons I have found. I still like the larger banners more, but this one is nice and small.

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Monday, July 3, 2006 9:46 PM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

And another one! Tried to come close to the font used in the title of the show. I had to add some curls, but it's close. Except of course there's no light shining out of it.

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Monday, July 3, 2006 11:06 PM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

Two more! The caps for this one were hard to find. amazingly hard to find. Gah.

I'm still not sure about this one, but I have such a soft spot for the shot of our girl...

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Tuesday, July 4, 2006 2:42 AM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

I made this, then I napped, now I'm posting it.

I'm wondering if there should be some other site on some of the banners. Maybe a direct link to download on itunes? Maybe that's just the sleep talkin.

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Tuesday, July 4, 2006 7:20 AM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

Oh and I'm not through yet! Though this will slow down once I'm back at work...

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Tuesday, July 4, 2006 1:43 PM

EXODUS

Wow, those banners are really awesome! The summer campaign is going to shape up well! Good work PheonixRose!

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Tuesday, July 4, 2006 7:23 PM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

Thanks! Everyone's response has been great.

I'm glad to be doing good works!

Just so anyone checking this thread knows, please feel free to spread these anywhere you can! Just save them first so photobucket doesn't say I'm exceeding bandwidth. And anyone who has any ideas for what to put on them, drop me a line.

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Tuesday, July 4, 2006 10:31 PM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

Um, ok,

I just checked my e-mail, my inbox is FLOODED with messages that all say "duck has commented on your Fan GRAPHICS" and I go to look, and there's no comments, but the rating of most of my banners has dropped from (in most cases) ten to five.
This made me very sad.

Someone put in a lot of work just to drop the ratings of my banners that people seem to love and that I put a lot of work into.

*edit* a lot of them are rising again, though. That makes me feel a little better.

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Wednesday, July 5, 2006 10:33 AM

*HUGS*

And I don't know how anyone could give you less than a ten on these. They are all great!

Thank you, PR!

"You hold. Hold 'til I get back." Mal

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Wednesday, July 5, 2006 10:38 AM

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Originally posted by FollowMal:

*HUGS*

And I don't know how anyone could give you less than a ten on these. They are all great!

Thank you, PR!

Must be those spambots giving you a bad rating!

I am just thrilled to death that you have taken this and run with it! I really appreciate it!

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Wednesday, July 5, 2006 6:34 PM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

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Originally posted by Penguin:
Quote:
Originally posted by FollowMal:

*HUGS*

And I don't know how anyone could give you less than a ten on these. They are all great!

Thank you, PR!

Must be those spambots giving you a bad rating!

I am just thrilled to death that you have taken this and run with it! I really appreciate it!

Awwwww, thanks you two!
Spambots are named duck, now?

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Thursday, July 6, 2006 4:03 AM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

I have a new one. This one took longer than it should have because it kind of made me cry to make it...

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Thursday, July 6, 2006 8:20 AM

JTSKIER1200R

PR: These look great, keep it up! I posted on the other board some thoughts about them in relation to a campaign. I really like your creativity - I wish I had some of it :)

Thanks for all your work!

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Thursday, July 6, 2006 9:13 AM

JTSKIER1200R

One preliminary thought. Do you all think its worthwhile to try to get some uniformity to all of our banners? I mean, you always hear how important logos are because people will see it enough and wonder what it is. So, should we try to have one standard element or theme to them all? Im not sure what I think, but I believe we should at least answer the question before we go to much farther. One theme could be the website they are directed to, or it could be the word Serenity, or something else...

Some ideas for banners:

1. "Cows in a Spaceship?" (Show a picture of the scene where the cows are in Serenity).

- THis one might be lacking a little in understandability, but its strength is its oddness. Might get people to think.

2. "Grass Roots organinzing - not always political. We aim to find Serenity"

- I like this because the words "Grass roots" will resonate with many people. Also shows we arent a large company.

3. "Serenity: We love it, you will to"
- Picture of the ship

4. "25,000 fans (or whatever we can estimate) want you to come home and find Serenity."

- Sort of makes you feel all warm inside. Now all we need of Followmal with some brown coats for all the newbies.

5. "Serenity: a love story of a ship, 9 people, and 25,000 fans - join the family."
- Any moving picture would work...

6. "Have you ever seen a advertisement paid by fans before? We hadnt either - until now. Come find Serenity."
- I dont know the picture, but this is my favorite so far.

7. "Ready for more than reality TV? Join 25,000 others and find Serenity"
- Not sure on the picture.

8. "We are fans, we love our show, and we want to share it with you - come find Serenity."
- I like this one also. MAybe another pic of the ship?

Now that I have tried to come up with some banners, I am seeing it is hard to try to express the love of fans and a grass roots movements in just a few words. I think the banners will have to be eye-catching and not necessarily contain the message I had hoped. The website they direct people to will have to do that. WE can try, but I think the website will have to do the majority of the work convincing people to watch it. IT will need to be good.

Thats it for now, I will try to find more later. Feel free to change them if you have better ideas.

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Thursday, July 6, 2006 11:04 AM

JTSKIER1200R

Would it be bad to start a thread on this in the General discussion board? There is little traffic here and these seem like ideas that need peoples feedback. We could just copy and paste some of this over there, or link here.

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Thursday, July 6, 2006 11:14 AM

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Originally posted by jtskier1200r:
Would it be bad to start a thread on this in the General discussion board? There is little traffic here and these seem like ideas that need peoples feedback. We could just copy and paste some of this over there, or link here.

Not bad at all, jtskier1200, just keep in mind that the banners we're doing now are for fun and for reaching out to people who have never heard of Firefly/Serenity... all of your ideas are good ones, by the way.

A logo is being created by 11th Hour, officially for the site, at the behest of Haken.. so we won't need a logo from someone else and we can always incorporate it or switch to what is official when we get it.

Post away...

we need the ideas and the inspriration. I appreciate it!

"You hold. Hold 'til I get back." Mal

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Friday, July 7, 2006 3:14 AM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

Ok, so what kind of slogan/quote/whatever would go best with Mal's "Bwah" shot from Heart of Gold? I'm drawing a blank for the first time here.

Nice siggy, FollowMal!

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Friday, July 7, 2006 4:54 AM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

Jayne banner:

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Friday, July 7, 2006 4:59 AM

I love the Jayne banner!

Shiny!

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Friday, July 7, 2006 5:15 AM

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Nice siggy, FollowMal!

Why thank you PR.. I got this from a very talented Browncoat that I know.

ETA: Someone with greater wordsmithing skills than I possess will have to help you on the Mal banner.

Oh, and I LOVE the Jayne banner.

"You hold. Hold 'til I get back." Mal

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Friday, July 7, 2006 5:53 AM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

It's ok, I got it!

I had a "Duh" moment.

And here's an alternate version of the other one, so we aren't always repeating ourselves. I love the shot of Mal on the other one, but I think the banner itself looks better this way:

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Friday, July 7, 2006 6:08 AM

You most certainly did!

Oh, and well.... I follow Mal.. so I had to have a Mal one.

"You hold. Hold 'til I get back." Mal

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Friday, July 7, 2006 4:35 PM

PhoenixRose, I was just over on my Appreciatin' Nathan thread over on the Browncoat Board and I'm using your shiny banner over there in my sig... I just got complimented. I'm givin' you recognition as the maker of 'em.

I suspect this means your shiny banners will make the same impression wherever they go.

"You hold. Hold 'til I get back." Mal

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Wednesday, July 12, 2006 6:45 PM

NESS

I've never posted an image in a post before. I hope this works.

Anyway, I thought I would give this Summer of Serenity banner campaign a shot. I'm pretty sure the Chinese translates correctly, but it's been awhile since I've put my limited Chinese vocabulary to use.

"Sir, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing." - Zoe

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Wednesday, July 12, 2006 7:03 PM

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

I love it, Ness!

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Thursday, July 13, 2006 3:35 AM

HERA

Hey there Ness, I love your Jayne banner! The graphic treatment of the photo and the text over the chinese characters is a neat touch.

I just have two suggestions:

Seems a bit of a tight fit for the text. Can you move Jayne to the right a wee bit?

Can you remove the part of the photo that is under the www.fireflyfans.net text? Would improve the legibility for the url.

Great work! Thank you for this!

-Hera

"Wanna?" – Mal to Kaylee, Out of Gas

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Friday, July 14, 2006 2:34 AM