Listen to our Summer Movie Preview: Members Strike Back ViralCast from last year, originally posted on April 18th, 2009. Two of our forum members (including current reporter Corey) give their two cents about the movies to come out in Summer 2009.
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ViralCast #6: Flashback Series
March 27, 2010 By
With it being Spring Break where I am, the next big time for movies this year is Summer. We’ll have our 2010 Summer Movie Preview in a few weeks, but it got me thinking about last year’s great summer. Our first Summer Movie Preview podcast aired April 10th, 2009. Listen as Dan, Nick, Scott, and Ian talk about all the anticipated (and dreaded) movies that would be coming out from June to August 2009. It’s a great trip down memory lane.
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12 Days of Viral – DAY SIX
December 18, 2009 By
On the sixth day of viral, my movie gave to me…..
Password protection.
This, by far, may be one of the most exciting parts of a viral. Once you see that screen where you have to enter a password, people go nuts trying everything from 1234 to the zip code of the city the viral takes place in. Looking everywhere you possibly can to find that code, which never turns out to be simple. Who would have thought to use “jllovesth” as a password. And to that person, we thank you!
You can look at one like Cloverfield and think “how nice, why didn’t I think of that?”. Then, you can take the complete opposite, and look at the film Terminator Salvation and the site of Skynet Research. There password was far from plain and simple. In fact, it was “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious“. Well, maybe not that, but it was extremely close.
I can honestly say though, other than the Terminator password (that was posted on our forum!), I wish I knew how these were found. I remember when Cloverfield’s was posted back in our early stage of 1-18-08news.com (yeah, that was us – long story*). I was wondering how it came about. And, maybe I will continue that questioning. The viral site of Aerospace Robotics Corp had a password. It wasn’t a guess. Somehow these are handed to us, and maybe we don’t even know it.
Or, maybe we have such a dedicated group of viral followers, of all levels, and with enough time, the password will be found. Yeah, I like that one better.
With that said, we’re coming for you DPChemicals. We’ll see you soon.
*Join the forum to learn more!
Other Days In The “12 Days of Viral” Series:
A trailer without a title
A Twitter account with the truth
Three Websites
My face on the site
800 Numbers
12 Days of Viral – DAY FOUR
December 16, 2009 By
On the fourth day of viral, my movie gave to me…..
My face on the site.
Now I personally do not feel as if this is a form of “viral” marketing, but if it’s gets you talking to friends about it, then it’s working. And, it’s a ton of fun to do!
Movies such as Star Trek, Terminator Salvation and Surrogates gave you the option to either make yourself appear as a character of the film, or in the case of Surrogates, you got to jump out of a plane! Which, being the actual premise of that film, it made perfect sense to do it. Most of these links are over-sponsored as well, giving it that far from viral feel. But whatever. I can make Captain Kirk say bad words and I can Zombify Hillbilly Jim! It’s worth it.
Trek Yourself
Zombify Yourself
Choose Your Surrogate
Terminate Yourself
So there you have it. Either see yourself on a beach, or find our what it would look like if your neighbor was a cyborg.
Other Days In The “12 Days of Viral” Series:
A trailer without a title
A Twitter account with the truth
Three Websites
ViralCast #10: Terminator Salvation with Kevin Coll
May 28, 2009 By
On this ViralCast, staff writer Matt and I are joined by a very special guest, Kevin Coll from FusedFilm.com. In the podcast, we talk mostly about Terminator Salvation and its viral campaign, but we also talk about viral in general, Cloverfield, District 9, and much more. This is our longest podcast ever, so currently it is only available for download. Take a listen, and let us know what you think in the comments.
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How to Ruin a Viral: Make It “Official”
May 27, 2009 By
What’s the best way to ruin a really cool viral campaign for a film? Slap the film’s logo on an in-world site. While 2008 was a year of intricate ARGs that had us guessing until the end if the studio was really behind it, 2009 brings us “The District 9 Experience”, brought to you by Sony Pictures (TM).
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This Week In Viral: Terminator Viral Ends?
May 25, 2009 By
Terminator Salvation opened this weekend, and thus another viral ends. Or does it? One of the challenges of covering viral campaigns is knowing when they really end. Usually it’s the weekend, if not the day, the movie opens in theaters. However, even if the main viral campaign ends, tidbits of it may linger for months (see: Cloverfield), usually in anticipation of the DVD release or even a sequel. Also, the websites created for these campaigns seem to last far beyond the movie’s opening, so anything’s possible.
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A Machine Uprising? Terminator Salvation Review
May 22, 2009 By
The End Begins. That is the tag line of this film, directed by McG, starring Christian Bale and Sam Worthington. While the film critics may be ripping this film apart, they are not looking at the bigger picture of what yet can come. While this film disappoints, in many ways it delivered a message of hope and revision for this classic franchise. Read the rest of the review after the jump.
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Judgement Day Is Here
May 21, 2009 By
Well, technically Judgement Day was in 2004, according to the Terminator universe, but today is the day Terminator Salvation is released in the United States, so most if not all of the ARG should be wrapping up. Proof of that is the current state of Skynet’s website, shows a big red “…Recalculating…” on each page. The guys over at Resistorbeterminated.com seem to think this means they’ve won with their hacking efforts, but as we all know, they are sadly wrong.
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Skynet Research Password Discovered
May 19, 2009 By
This Terminator Salvation viral update comes to us thanks to cwoolboy in our forums. Recently, if you’ve checked out the Skynet website’s product page, you may have noticed that if you position your cursor over the “P” in “Products”, a dialog box opens for you to enter a password. Well, now we know the password is “skynetresearchinitiatephasetwoprojectjudgementday”. Long, I know. The interesting results of entering the password after the jump.
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