Print Advertising

As we mentioned before, when you guys were awesome enough to donate beyond our billboard goal, we looked into the cost of doing a print ad.  And while you could buy a new house with what publications like Entertainment Weekly and TVGuide charge, we have the price for a full page, black and white ad in Variety (Los Angeles distribution), which is an industry publication.  The total, boys and girls, comes to approximately $6415 USD, about $3000 more than what we paid for the billboard.  If we do go ahead with a print ad, we will, of course wait for the billboard payment to (finally) clear before engaging in any fundraising whatsoever.

The question now is…what do you guys think?  Is the Variety ad worth the price, given that we’d run it to coincide with the billboard?  Let us know!

Pre-Movie Advertising

This one is still preliminary as far as the planning goes, but we are looking into the possibility of pre-movie advertising.  Remember those slide ads that play before the movie starts?  Yeah, those.

We contacted ScreenVision, who does national, regional and local advertising in this medium in the U.S. and while national advertising is certainly out of our price range, we were given an estimate of $3500 – $4000 for a four week run in ten Los Angeles theatres.  The price is dependent on the theatres we choose (we can do more theatres for a shorter run or less for a longer run) but we thought we’d put the idea to you, the fans.

We know it can kind of suck to contribute to something you’ll probably never see in person – like the billboard – so we’re also contacting ScreenVision about the possibility of advertising in one large theatre in several major U.S. cities, so we’ll be more thinly spread, but with a wider scope.

Like it?  Hate it?  Have a suggestion?  Comment here and let us know.

Cyborg Chips

Remember the USB flash drives we were designing?  Well, the design has gone to the manufacturer and they’ve come back with a new estimate.  Due to the unexpected detail in the design, the price has increased.  At the same time, due to feedback about the capacity of the original design, we’ve asked for an estimate on a 4GB drive instead of 2GB.  The estimated price per USB drive is now $29.99 for 4GB.

Thoughts, SCC fans?

Reminder: billboard designs are due in six days.  Specifications are here.

Quick update on the billboard status. Due to some (really lovely) delays in shipping, the payment to Atomic Outdoor Media was a little slow in arriving. However, we’ve been informed that our cheque has arrived and been deposited to secure our chosen September dates for the mobile billboard. As soon as the payment has cleared with them, we’ll post the confirmation.  You can view the confirmation of receipt email here.

Meanwhile, open submissions for the billboard design closes in ONE WEEK.  Full details on design specifications, etc. are here in an earlier post.  If you want to have a say in what the billboard looks like, you’d better start designing!  All designs that meet the requirements will be included in a poll to determine our final billboard design.  All submissions MUST be emailed (thumbnails, please) to moderators@savethescc.com to be included.

Additionally, we’ve added a section to the forums for the Global Resistance Rallies, which will be moderated by LightM555, so if you’re ever confused about when those are, or how to participate – and we know it can be confusing sometimes, with all the various ongoing campaigns – we believe that that section of the forum will be updated to have all the information you need.

Last, but certainly not least, don’t forget to keep doing the little thing.  Keep writing letters, sending postcards and emails to the WB and other networks like SyFy and Showtime.  Gift iTunes episodes of T:SCC to your friends and family (and why not toss a few at the entertainment writers for your local media, too?)  Meet up with you fellow fans.  Keep stickering and don’t, whatever you do, forget to pre-order your copy of Season 2.

Meet Up With Your Fellow Fans

Fans of The Sarah Connor Chronicles are located all over the world and while we’ve all made great friends everywhere, it would also be really awesome to meet fans in your own local areas, right?

So here’s the place for it. Use our forum to organize any kind of meetup in your area.  Including our own suggestion…but you’ll have to click to read more about that.

Got questions? Suggestions? Ask them here.

Is Someone Missing A Chip?

We are currently in the process of negotiating the production of USB 2GB flash drives customized to look like Cameron’s chip.  The price of each flash drive would be $19.95 + taxes + shipping.  We’re trying to get a measure of the level of interest in such an (amazing) item.  So…vote!  Would you buy it?

View the full size design here.

One of the most important things we can do as fans is raise awareness of the show and create more fans. We can tell people who haven’t seen the show before how awesome it is, but it’s best if they experience it for themselves. With Comic-Con happening next week, the folks at SavetheSCC pooled their money together and bought 96 standard definition episodes of season 2′s “Samson & Delilah” on iTunes, created gift cards, and will be handing them out to people at the convention who haven’t seen the show before in hopes it will peak their interest enough to check out the rest of the season.

If you’d like to participate in this movement yourself and  pass out iTunes gift cards of Samson & Delilah to new people, just go ahead and do the following:

• Download the full-size (3X2.5in) image. Download front side here. Download back side here.
• Gift “Samson & Delilah” in standard definition on iTunes ($1.99)
• when prompted, click on the “print gift/gift yourself” option
• You’ll receive a code, write it down
• Type in your code onto the card where it says “redeem your code:”
• Repeat process as many times as you’d like
• Print it out

If there’s two things we know about TSCC fans it’s this – they rock and they’re creative. So here’s your chance to show off that creativity. We are currently accepting submissions for the mobile billboard design. But, before you run off and start designing, please read the specifications, requirements, and restrictions first.

Create your original file with the following specifications below but when submitting, create a low-res version. Send submissions to moderators@savethescc.com

Only submissions sent through email will be accepted.

Once we receive all submissions, we’ll narrow them down and then create a new poll for the fans to decide on.

DEADLINE: August 6th, 2009

Purpose of the billboard:

• Gain attention from WB and other networks that we want more TSCC
• To raise awareness of the show
• Promote the DVD/Blu-Rays

Requirements (things that must be on the design):

• “The Sarah Connor Chronicles”
• savethescc.com URL
• “Experience the Awesome on DVD & Blu-ray”

Restrictions:

• No copyright images (if you didn’t make it, snap it, or buy it yourself- don’t use it)
• The word “Terminator”
• other URLs

Digital Specifications:

Create your original file with the following specifications but when submitting, create a low-res version

Build file 1/2″=1 Foot / 1/24th scale = 300PPI

*We reserve the right to request edits on submissions