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No problem. It's just that I want this thread to be firmly focused on the movie itself, not on the rest (and I should've intervened a couple of pages ago).
Why, though? I mean, does it really matter if people talk about other Star Wars movies in this thread b/c they may possibly relate, continuity wise to Episode 7?
I mean, it just seems like you're being way too strict in regards to this thread, idk.
edited 12th Mar '15 11:15:13 AM by higherbrainpattern
Ok, I might have been too harsh.
But, somehow, I think people will push towards non-movie stuff here (they have done so in the recent past). Stuff which can be talked about in the General thread.
I overreacted and I apologize. But I don't want to give much of an arm here, otherwise, they'll want the whole body.
edited 12th Mar '15 11:12:04 AM by Quag15
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edited 12th Mar '15 11:57:30 AM by tclittle
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
My birthday! Good present.
Why May? You'd think they'd want to release it around the same time as the first one.
May release dates of Star Wars films are a tradition. The Force Awakens with it's December release date is an anomaly.
Well, we found out who Aftermath's author is:
Chuck Wendig. Anybody who has played one of the New World of Darkness game lines should recognize that name. And he has semi-confirmed it:
https://twitter.com/ChuckWendig/status/576336108474232832
- Edit: Putting it in this forum since it is background materials for The Force Awakens.
edited 13th Mar '15 9:41:15 AM by ManchuCandidate
It's interesting how the movie itself will be done in a few months, and for some time will just sit there, waiting to be seen.
Second teaser trailer and first movie poster will debut at the Celebration next week:
Brightness
New teaser, new Battlfront, and the Rebels S2 premiere? Why must I live in flyover country?
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Making Star Wars now says they got a description of what we will see in the trailer:
http://makingstarwars.net/2015/04/what-well-see-in-the-next-star-wars-the-force-awakens-teaser/
- The teaser runs at about a one minute and fifty seconds, just under two minutes.
- Han, Leia, Artoo and Threepio
- We do see Yavin in the teaser.
- We see a shot of Finn with a blue lightsaber.
- There is a shot of Captain Phasma (Gwendoline Christie), the chrome Stormtrooper, very briefly.
- We do see Kylo Ren’s helmeted face.
- We see Poe Dameron shoot down a TIE fighter.
- A shot of Finn and Poe walking past one another at the base.
- Rey is in a few shots.
- There is a shot of Poe Dameron, Artoo-Detoo, See-Threepio, and a CGI character (Rose).
- BB-8 socketed in the back of an X-wing.
- Kylo Ren’s Imperial shuttle flys by with TIE escorts to the Star Destroyer (it is the one MakingStarWars.net wrote about)
- Star Destroyer(s)
- The Falcon
- X-wing fighters flying in a V-shape formation
- Darth Vader’s helmet sitting on a podium.
- no Serkis.
- No Luke.
edited 7th Apr '15 5:14:57 AM by ManchuCandidate
....Can you spoiler ALL of that, please? In case it turns out to be real?
Ok, it's spoilered. And they did get the details of the first teaser trailer right a week before it was released:
http://makingstarwars.net/2014/11/shot-run-star-wars-force-awakens-teaser/
I'm gonna take a Marketing guess and say that Making Star Wars is an unofficial site that "leaks" information. Information that it's given by the central PR & Marketing department(s) on purpose.
There was a technical term for this, but I forgot.
There are no strings on me...
Astroturfing could be the term you're after?
Astroturfing is more related to politics than to the marketing of movies and other cultural products and it's not fully descriptive of my post above. I'll give the exact word/expression if I can find my book of Strategic Communication.
edited 7th Apr '15 6:20:03 AM by Quag15
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
Sock puppetry.
There are no strings on me...
Huh, I'd certainly be interested to know if you could find it? (I'm a communications student, but the people at my university never really seem to go into much detail about any one process, sigh).
I suppose Communications is the same as my country's equivalent (Communication Sciences), right? (high five, nonetheless)
I can't seem to find the term, but basically, by 'planting' information in selected websites (which may or may not be on the payroll, but are connected or are collaborators. By doing so, it establishes a closer connection to the customers and/or target audience, and it also allows the company to track feedback in both the general public and the competing companies.
In Economics/Economic Principles, this is part of what is called a 'hit-and-run' strategy, though it serves a different purpose than the tactic that I explained and the respective word I'm looking for.
Sock puppetry is close to what I'm looking for, though it is more used when engaging into debate and political arguments rather than marketing & PR (because people tend to see through marketing & PR bullshit more easily).
edited 7th Apr '15 3:38:59 PM by Quag15
Star Wars Celebration will live-streamed for the first time ever, including The Force Awakens panel.
edited 14th Apr '15 9:40:00 AM by higherbrainpattern
Now I know what I'll be doing Thursday afternoon 
Somebody just posted this over at the Force boards:
http://boards.theforce.net/threads/star-wars-celebration-2015-anaheim.50026384/page-28#post-52299720
TFA exhibit showcasing actual movie props and costumes.
edited 14th Apr '15 6:17:04 PM by ManchuCandidate
edited 15th Apr '15 4:06:16 PM by KlarkKentThe3rd
