Viewing Parties

Due to the fact that thewb.com will not be putting Season 2 online at any point in the near future, as far as we know, we’d like to announce the following changes:

• Viewing parties will continue chronologically, continuing on to Automatic from the People at 10PM on August 10th.  We’d like to encourage you to watch with us via iTunes/Amazon episodes, PVR/DVR’d episodes, etc.
• We are changing the day of the viewing parties from Friday to Monday nights, ’cause we’re taking back our time slot, bitches.  The time will remain the same: 10 PM Eastern Standard Time

The Print Ad

Due to the reaction and feedback we received, in conjunction with the cost, we’ve decided that placing an ad in Variety is not to the best interest of the campaign.  Our goal is to communicate with the public and with the WB via DVD sales, letters, postcards, etc., which we feel would be better served by pre-movie advertising.

The Movies

We are still currently in the process of getting a solid quote, but our goal is to hit a major theatre in approximately ten major cities in the United States.  The objective is to make the general public, distributed around the country, aware of the show, the DVD release, and our efforts to bring it back.

The Freakin’ Big September/October Push

As you all know, the DVD/Blu-Ray release in the U.S. of Season Two is incredibly important.  We have to push it hard and get those numbers, people.  Without giving away too many details – things are still rough and being planned out, so we don’t want to keep changing things and getting everyone all confused – we’re planning a (freaking) big push for it.  It will include – and thanks for the suggestions guys.  We’ve had some really cool ideas suggested to us and we’re working on developing them. – the following (for now):

• the billboard
• pre-movie advertising
• craigslist/classifieds campaign
• savethescc giveaway
• press kits
• “taking the streets” campaign

We know that it all sounds kinda vague right now, and it’s a li’l vague to us too, since we’re still hammering out the details and how it’s all going to work, but it’s important that you guys know what’s going on so you can give feedback and suggest new things.  We’re going to keep updating as things develop and by September 3rd (mark your calendars!) we should have everything in place: a full scale campaign, complete with a calendar of daily missions and tasks.

As always…thoughts?

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.

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.

Update on the Freaking Big Billboard

We received the contract and invoice from Atomic Outdoor Media and have signed and sent it back, along with full payment, which should arrive by the end of this week.  We’ll post the confirmation of receipt as soon as we get it.  In the meantime, we’ve posted the invoice from Atomic, which you can view here.

We know that there’s been some concern over the billboard designs and we’re hearing you.  We’re currently working on some alternative designs, trying to take what people have been saying into consideration (please note that we will not be using copyrighted images of any kind).  The current poll will continue to run until this Friday, so keep voting, because the winning design will be put into a new poll along with the new alternative designs to determine the final billboard art.

Comic-Con

For those of you lucky enough to be going to this year’s Comic-Con in San Diego, don’t forget to bring stickers with you!  (Or if you haven’t already ordered stickers – shame! – you can get free stickers for a limited time with proof of registration to the event by emailing m_33@savethescc.com)

Savethescc.com people will be giving away a bunch of free iTunes episodes (Samson & Delilah) to help raise awareness and create some new fans at Comic-Con, along with a ton of stickers, so if you see a couple crazy fans plastered in SCC gear, shoving things in people’s hands…that’s probably Roxy and Schmacky, so go say hi!

Also, please be aware that due to Comic-Con, the shipping of stickers will be paused from July 21st to July 28th.  The last shipping date prior to this is July 20th and shipping will resume on July 29th.

So we know it can be frustrating, sitting around wondering what the hell is going on while your emails get responses like “We’re working on it and will let you know soon!”  Yeah, we know.  So here’s what’s going to happen.  Every time we at savethescc get together – this happens approximately twice a week – to make decisions on campaigns, etc., we’ll post with a summary of what we talked about, so you know exactly what’s happening.  Sound good?

Here’s what we covered tonight:

The Freaking Big Billboard

• we’re waiting for the contract and invoice to come in from Atomic Outdoor Media.  As soon as we get that from them, we’ll sign off, send the payment to them and publish the invoice here at the site.  When we get confirmation of the order being put in, we’ll post that here too.
• we’ve finalized two versions of Roxy Bisquaint’s gorgeous designs and put them up for you to vote on.  Voting closes next Friday.  Cast your vote here.

Freaking Big…Print Ad?

• you guys not only met but exceeded our billboard goal, so right now we’re calling around for pricing on print ads.  All excess donations will be shifted to the print ad goal once we have price for that.
• So who are we calling?  The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly, LA Times, TV Guide and Wired.  Know of another publication we should check out?  Comment here or email us at moderators@savethescc.com

Press kits

As you may or may not know, we are currently in the process of putting together ‘kits’ which will be sent to major U.S. networks, the WB, Virgin 1 and industry media.  It’s a simple packet of information, that will include things like:

• Postcards
• Stickers
• Campaign summaries, including an updated petition summary
• Reviews of the show
• Poll results
• Fan reviews
• a DVD of fan campaign videos and trailers

Thought of something we missed?  Comment here or email us.

Stickers!

For those of you going to Comic-Con, m_33 has set up a sticker giveaway for individuals and groups attending the event in San Diego.  Click here for more details.