Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:
none said:
<img src="http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/1492/sswflyerv01.jpg" width="277" height="331" />
Hmm, I'm not entirely sure the average person would know whether this flyer is asking people to buy the set, or to not buy the set. It's obvious to us, but a bit cryptic for others I fear.
none said:
Thanks, great suggestions all around, it's pulling together. Who is the target audience for this? Viral would be great, but how do we go about that?
The Facebook page is up:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-Star-Wars-Boycott-The-Blu-Rays/269110113114406?sk=wall
PLEASE everyone join and post info and links.
Zombie, should you maybe update the home page of savestarwars.com to mention this?
WOW! Amazing work! I can't wait to start printing these out.
Is there such a thing as "bumper sticker paper"? Something that would be weather-resistant?
The Aluminum Falcon said:
Mielr, I did indeed see the skin tone thing a few days ago and posted about it a few pages back. In my opinion, it could be a result of GOUT smearing or color offset, which is only visible when upscaled to the Project Blu's resolution.
dark_jedi said:
NO, I have not compared to the V3, I do not have any of those files on my PC anymore and frankly I do not care to look at them anymore(the V3 stuff) and I looked at all the sections you gave to me in the PM, and I see none of it but the whitish kind of outline on the right side of the crawl, but I can tell you that I am not revisiting these, you are the only one that can see them, and I have looked several times, who knows maybe it is because I do not want to mess with them anymore, I am to SW burned out.
Thanks everybody! Once the stickers are designed, printed out and stuck on our cars (or wherever) it would be great if everyone could post photos of their cars sporting the new stickers. :-)
d_j, I know you're working on another project but I'm just wondering if you had a chance to compare the V3 & Blu editions of ESB to see if you see that skin-tone bleeding thing I noticed in the medical frigate scene on the Blu edition.
Has anyone else had a chance to look for it?
Just curious.
see you auntie said:
Now I'm no expert or professional and apparently this man is but why recreate a footstep or what not that couldn't be found in the archive? Is it feasible to isolate the lost sound effect from the digitalised original mix and use that as the source?
TV's Frink said:
I don't recall seeing this one yet...
<a href="http://bluray.ign.com/articles/119/1190282p1.html" target="_blank" title="bluray.ign.com/articles/119/1190282p1.html">http://bluray.ign.com/articles/119/1190282p1.html</a>
or this:
Before you head to the comments to ask, yes, Greedo still shoots first in this version (although you may still see an original version of that scene in the set – hint, hint).
Gaffer Tape said:
Good Lord. What is with this company's dogged insistence on sticking almost everything from the OT into a cramped little corner?
Luke Skywalker? Who's that?
Oh, just some random bit part in, I don't know, maybe two films, was it?
I saw SW and ESB in '82 and ROTJ in '83 so I guess that qualifies me.
I didn't have high hopes for the prequels, especially after the bad taste left in my mouth from the SEs.
But, I guessed I was expecting the prequels to be a little "drier" and less cornball that what they ended up being, closer in tone to a sci-fi TV series or something. I wasn't looking forward to them much mainly because I didn't like the whole idea of them, but they turned out worse than I expected.
timdiggerm said:
By the way, the title of this thread is a little silly. I never thought they didn't film the Barge scenes, you know?
none said:
TV's Frink wrote: Wasn't Blue Harvest the decoy title for Star Wars?
RotJ. "Blue Harvest - Horror Beyond Imagination"
A promotional patch to throw off onlookers.
Bingowings said:
If a paper false blu-Ray set was designed (with all the ingredients we want in it) which could be downloaded from a site and printed off, it could either be sent off, or a token within it could, pledging to purchase the set when Lucas makes it (or at least something acceptably resembling it).
Those pics are great! Thanks for posting that link. 11-year-old me would have just died to have been there watching and taking photos.
I understand that the cast members would wander over to the chain-link fence from time to time and sign autographs.
20th Century Mark said:
In that case the sticker idea is great.
see you auntie said:
Q: Was there any thought given to archiving previous tracks like the 6-track master from the 70mm prints or the 78 mono remix? Any thought given to putting them on the Blu-ray?
A: Yes, we have those and they’ve all been digitized. I don’t know if they considered putting those on the Blu-ray. That might be more of a question for Marketing, it may be an issue of space. It’s funny because I play those other audio tracks, like the scene when R2 and C3PO have been left on Tatooine and they walk through the canyon. I just love that on the current mix, you can actually hear the quiet, when R2 is lonely, going through the canyon. I played the original mix and it’s FULL of hiss and totally brittle, so it’s fun now to hear it like George wanted it to really be, what was intended.
A question for marketing, really? You can't put the original fucking mixes on these discs because either the sound will drop out for scenes at a time or go severely out of sync because the original cuts of the film are not there to go with them.
none said:
Mielr wrote:
What about just printing out flyers and placing them in the blu-ray racks, rather than sticking stickers directly to the boxes? That's not vandalism, as it's not directly marring the packaging?
Yeah this is semi-more legit, make up a one or half page info packet and ask people to hand it out in front of stores selling the product. But stores can claim these people are a nuisance and move you farther and farther away.
zombie84 said:
Not to toot my own horn, but would it be worthwhile to involve savestarwars.com in this? I mean, this is sort of the exact thing the page was designed for, as a sort of "wait, what's this about?" advocacy page (well, among other things). I don't know if bringing any heat on it would be bad or not; I'd hate to see it shut down.
What about just printing out flyers and placing them in the blu-ray racks, rather than sticking stickers directly to the boxes? That's not vandalism, as it's not directly marring the packaging?
none said:
I've taken part in similar campaigns. One project was called www.freespeechforsale.com and was a CD which protest how culture is controlled, the CD was 100% recycled and according to most lawyers could not be sold. So to be heard, the CDs were droplifted. (the opposite of shoplifting, you leave the CD in the store Copies were droplifted and some of the participants were noticed but nothing major.
We can make up the design and release a .pdf which is ready to print onto stickers you can easily get in Staples or other stores. This is a form of consumer advocacy. People download and print out at home, then go do what they can.
There was a similar campaign, where a guy made up stickers which were placed at gas stations which stated 'Thank you for supporting terrorism' and had a bunch of facts about how they were linked. This is another option for this campaign, the stickers could state: "Purchasing this Blu-Ray reduces the memory of an Academy Award winning film" possibly too esoteric, so the 'This is not the 77-80-83 version' is a better angle, but do those dates register with the audience purchasing these in a store?
Set up a blog or tumblr which is the hub for the effort, and see if blogs pick up the idea, and then if people print out their own.
Baronlando said:
It's misdemeanor vandalism. But I am in favor of picketing the stores dressed as the deleted Wolfman from the cantina. (I think that guy should be our emblem/mascot)
SilverWook said:
I thought this was about car bumper/window stickers for some reason.
Any lawyers around? ;-)
I thought of that, but it's still something I'd be willing to do, though I don't want to get anyone else in trouble.
I brought this idea up a while ago, but now that the blu-ray release date is impending, and it had been confirmed that the OOT will not be included, I'm wondering if anyone would like to participate.
The idea is to warn unsuspecting consumers by creating a sticker that says something along the lines of "WARNING: This Blu-Ray set DOES NOT contain the ORIGINAL '77-'80-'83 versions of the Star Wars Trilogy. BUY AT YOUR OWN RISK!"
I know that many of these sets will be sold online (though I'm sure there are already "warnings" up in the review section at Amazon). But a physical, visual message would raise awareness and make a statement, even if it was only on a small fraction of boxes.
If at least one person from each state would volunteer, that'd be a good start.
Thoughts?
EDIT: We're not doing the sticker-on-box idea due to potential legal issues. Please read ahead for other ideas:
FACEBOOK PAGE: http://www.facebook.com/savestarwarsboycotttheblurays
It doesn't look like he left on bad terms at all. It looks like the last time he was here, he was asking for someone to upload PaulisDead's Vintage Edit (which he now admits over at HTF). He says the "tone" here has changed since the Blu-Rays were announced.
Really? I find that very hard to believe. The tone here hasn't changed since I started posting in '06. He got what he came here for so now he's free to insult the OT members on another site.
Arrrrrrgh! THIS guy:
Originally Posted by gallandro
"Ummm I think you have that reversed. It's the dork fanboys from websites like originaltrilogy.com that berate fans who prefer the SEs (which I do and, I was 9 when ANH was released in 77, so I grew up with these films) or love the Prequels. They call them gushers, idiots and uniformed."
Yancy
For those who haven't seen it (there's a thread over in the SW preservation forum), some LFL reps will be on Home Theater Forum, and will be answering questions about the upcoming Blu-ray release:
"We will have the opportunity later this week to talk with Dennis Muren the Creative Director of ILM about the VFX of the Star Wars films, Matthew Wood of Skywalker Sound about the audio mix for the Blu-rays and Kayleen Walters from Lucasfilm Ltd about the Blu-rays.
What do YOU want to know?"
If you're not already a member of HTF, now might be a good time to join, to put in your 2 cents:
http://www.hometheaterforum.com/forum/thread/313950/chance-to-talk-to-lucasfilm-about-the-new-star-wars-blu-rays-what-do-you-want-to-know
Are we talking about the same tapes that were in the 'hologram' boxed set?
That came out in '92, I think.
Those are the last SW VHS tapes I have left. I sold all my others.
Ziggy Stardust said:
I was David Bowie in a past life. Can I be nostalgic?