Welcome to Firefox Flicks Backstage, the official Firefox Flicks weblog!
This is your “Backstage Pass” and here you’ll get access to regular updates and commentary, as well as a behind the scenes look at both the Flicks project and some of the Flicks contest entries.
Backstage is a group blog and you’ll be hearing from everyone on the Flicks team, as well as some of our judges and participants.
We’ll also be working with contestants to share some behind the scenes reporting, interviews, and footage with you all as the contest progresses.
If you’ve got a feed reader, or you use Firefox Live Bookmarks, you can easily subscribe to the Backstage feed to receive content as it’s posted (including ad submissions as they come in.) Firefox 1.5 users can simply click the orange Feed icon at the right end of the browser address bar to subscribe using Live Bookmarks. Users of other browsers can find the feed link at the bottom of any Backstage web page.
If you’re more of an email person, you can subscribe to our weekly updates mailing list, a digest of the week’s posts, simply by clicking visiting our Backstage subscription page.
We’ve got a very exciting few months coming up, so stay tuned.
firefox it’s an adventure
Firefox is the best!!!!
SCREW IE Firefox is tha best!
I LOVE Firfox, NO PROBLEMS FROM IT
I really want to win this contest because I’m going into film. It’ll look good on my resume and I really need the money to buy a camera and computer… i really need the limits explained to me though… can i use the words and logo of internet explorer? and iPod or bluetooth? for the ad contest?
LJ
John, most of your questions probably have answers in the FAQ. To get to the FAQ, just click the top item in the right sidebar that says “Flicks Home” and then find the FAQ link in the navigation at the top of that page.
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I think this is a great idea. It’s for a product I believe in. But why would you be so shortsighted as to have a panel of judges staffed only by men. Shortsighted isn’t even the word. More like backwards. Obviously, every ethnicity can’t be represented on every panel, and with every judge, but the least you could do is try to offer a token to female perspectives. It just seems careless not to. Especially when there are so many talented women out there to step in and help out. There’s a palpable, possitive, energizing change to any critique when new voices are introduced. That we have to call women’s voices new is just plain sad.
Why do I not KNOW about this STUFF?
i regularly use internet both firefox and IE, but for past one year since i use Firefoxe, IE is something odd and from the past. forget about IE.
So far, so good. The original concept we came up with will be the one we use. Thank you Firefox Flicks for providing official artwork, it is proving invaluable. On that note, to any Open-Source filmmakers using the GIMP or FilmGIMP, in order to open up the .EPS file (encapsulated post script) that Firefox Flicks provides you will need to download and install GhostScript. Just a heads-up. Of course, if you are using After-Effects, you’ll have no problems manipulating it in it’s vector based form.
BTW, Voroan, are you going to submit an entry? Your post leads me to believe that you are not. If you are, I would suggest a little more caution as to who you call “shortsighted” or “backwards” seeing as how many of the people behind this competition are, I’m sure, volunteering much more time than we will. In other words, the Open-Source movement revolves around anyone, regardless of ethnicity (though I think you meant to say gender) who is willing to help, not just criticize. All that said, I agree with your sentiment; it is lamentable that there aren’t more women involved, but I hold it against those women who chose to withhold their talents from this project, not the staff.