Hello…?
Hello there!
If it isn’t painfully obvious, this is the first time that I - and HBO Asia - are doing this and we’re very excited to be tapping into social media to promote our shows!! :)
Let me introduce myself before I go on. My name is Yin Qi and I work in the Communications department here in HBO Asia. As the name suggests, we communicate all sorts of information, using all forms of media, to all kinds of people. So this time, we’re telling everyone (including you, yes you..), using a blog, about our upcoming HBO Original Series Flight of the Conchords!
If you are reading this, you’ve probably also seen our very pretty microsite with show and cast info, and also music videos of the Conchords’ silly tunes. BTW we’re also on Facebook! You can graffiti your love for the guys all over our wall over there too. In a nutshell, all these online ventures form up the role I play in this FOTC campaign :)
So what is FOTC all about? The official answer’s here, but I personally think FOTC can’t be summed up that easily. Sure it’s about Bret and Jemaine and their lives in NYC, but FOTC is so great simply cos they don’t appear to be trying at all! They sing about the most ridiculous things (”love is like a roll of tape, it’s real good for making two things one“) but somehow it just works. At first watch, us girls in the office were all ‘oh Bret is so cute!!’. But as the season progressed, Jemaine’s ogre-librarian look started to rub off and now we are all certified ‘Jemainiacs’! (”Yis.”)
Haha ok um, I could go on to include all the wink wink, nudge nudge inside jokes but what fun is that when most people won’t get it? That’s why we’re going to all this extent to promote this show; the day we hear some guy tell his girlfriend on the streets “you’re so beautiful, you could be a waitress“, we’ll know that all this effort was worth it ;)
