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You have a science fiction movie coming out. What can do you do to promote it that goes that extra mile? |
You have a science fiction movie coming out. What can do you do to promote it that goes that extra mile? |
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You do '''In-Universe Marketing'''. You post "found" documents from within the universe. A [[Watchmen (film)|"NBS Nightly News" broadcast from 1972 in your world]]? Great. [[Idiocracy|Advertising a drink from your setting]]? Yup. [[Suzumiya Haruhi|Showing a half hour of dull security camera footage with maybe thirty seconds of profoundly disturbing stuff going on]]? Perfect. [[Twin Peaks|The diary of one of the characters, with pages torn out]]? [[Crunchtastic|Synergylicious!]] |
You do '''In-Universe Marketing''', which is actually ''out-of-universe'' marketing - take something from in the universe and turn it into a Real Life thing. (If it's a physical thing, [[Defictionalization]] is required.) You post "found" documents from within the universe. A [[Watchmen (film)|"NBS Nightly News" broadcast from 1972 in your world]]? Great. [[Idiocracy|Advertising a drink from your setting]]? Yup. [[Suzumiya Haruhi|Showing a half hour of dull security camera footage with maybe thirty seconds of profoundly disturbing stuff going on]]? Perfect. [[Twin Peaks|The diary of one of the characters, with pages torn out]]? [[Crunchtastic|Synergylicious!]] |
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Websites that use In-Universe Marketing are usually [[Logging Onto the Fourth Wall]]. |
Websites that use In-Universe Marketing are usually [[Logging Onto the Fourth Wall]]. |
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