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Location: Stoke-on-Trent | Aisleyne is thinking of publishing a Calendar for 2008. It would be approx £8 and contain full size studio shots. It is still in the early stages of planning so if anyone has any suggestions or opinions on what kind of photos to include or if they would be interested in a Calendar then please use this thread. |
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| From a personal point of view, i'd like something stylish that will appeal to all ages/gender.
However, if she wants to make money it'll need to be saucy.
It's a shame, as i'd prefer the first idea, but will it sell? |
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| I'd definitely be interested in buying a calendar and I'd like it to include some photos along the lines of the Aisleyne Limited ones published so far. However, it should include some less sexy and more elegant pics for her female fans as well. Perhaps a transition from an elegant look to a sexier look throughout the year? Or maybe even two separate calendars? |
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| Thats a brill idea!!! Wooooo!!! Sounds great 
I'd really like an Aisleyne calendar to put up in my room. I'd prefer shots of Ash in lovely dresses, that would appeal to me most....like elegant ones, like maringo said. xxxx
Edited by becki 18/9/2007 22:15
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| If it was tastefully done it could contain a bit of both (elegant and sexy) and appeal to all fans. However from a commercial point of view its clear to me that the vast majority of Ash's admirers are male (!)
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| Thanks Maringo and Becki for explaining better than I could lol.
Aisleyne has a lot of female fans, and also male fans like me who prefer her looking elegant rather than the glamour stuff.
Edited by bengos 18/9/2007 22:22
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Location: Edgware, Middlesex | I'm a bit of a calendar fanatic actually. I have 8 calendars on the wall of my computer room, three in my bedroom and one in the spare room!
Most of them are just from TV shows that I like but I've always hoped that some of my BB favourites would do one. This year it sounds like Michelle, Chanelle and Aisleyne will all be doing one so I'm well chuffed  It's like that old joke about waiting for a bus 
I can't really advise as to what would sell well but I'm not sure it would be such a good idea trying to please everyone in one calendar. A lot of people would buy a glamour calendar even if they didn't know who Aisleyne was whereas only fans are likely to go for the tamer stuff. Having said that there are a lot of fans and a lot of people might be put off by a glamour calendar particularly if it featured topless shots. I guess it depends on the market you're aiming at 
If I could make a request it would be for one or two photos from that cowgirl studio shoot that's in the gallery. I love that look!
I'm not too keen on the transition idea, by the way. Remember each picture lasts a month. If all the sexy stuff is at the start and only smart and stylish towards the end then you get half way through the year and have nothing to look forward too 
Regards
Julian
Edited by Julian 18/9/2007 22:26
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| My first thought isn't about content but timing and logistics. The shops are already filling with Christmas stock, so I'm concerned that it's getting a bit late in the day to be starting such a project now. |
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| Julian - 18/9/2007 22:22
I'm not too keen on the transition idea, by the way. Remember each picture lasts a month. If all the sexy stuff is at the start and only smart and stylish towards the end then you get half way through the year and have nothing to look forward too
My suggestion was the other way round, elegant first and sexy later. Just like my forthcoming calendar, from suit and tie in January to naked and smeared in chocolate in December.
Hey, what you mean I'd have to pay you £7.99 to take it off my hands?  |
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Location: Edgware, Middlesex | maringo - 18/9/2007 22:52
My suggestion was the other way round, elegant first and sexy later. Just like my forthcoming calendar, from suit and tie in January to naked and smeared in chocolate in December.
Hey, what you mean I'd have to pay you £7.99 to take it off my hands?
Ah yes, that could work. Something to warm you up on a winter's evening
I'm referring to images of a sexy Aisleyne rather than a chocolate covered Maringo, I hasten to add  
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| Elegant Aisleyne for me please. Sorry Maringo. |
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| On the BFBS thread I said:
If Aisleyne is a forces favourite, perhaps she should follow up her homage to Monroe with a photographic revival of a famous morale-boosting cartoon heroine of WWII - The Daily Mirror's Jane!
More about Jane here:
http://gocomics.typepad.com/rcharvey/2007/04/the_unforgettab.html
It would be great if the Daily Mirror could be persuaded to agree to a calendar in which each page would feature a classic Jane cartoon image, together with a photographic reconstruction featuring Aisleyne.
This would fulfil what I think is the essential sauciness/glamour element the target market would require - incl HM forces (could there be a BFBS tie-in?) , but there would be a kind of camp quirkiness to it to make more than just the usual lads mag stuff. The Monroe pics and the Screen Sirens ones a few months back showed that Aisleyne looks really good in those retro-style shoot.
And jointly marketed with the Daily Mirror too.....
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Location: Scottish Borders | Classy, but sexy. That's what I'd like. But as ofni says, she'll have to be quick off the mark, I've already ordered one for 2008.
I'd definitely buy Ash's as well though. |
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Location: Stoke-on-Trent | My personal opinion is that it would have to be glamour purely for commercial reasons. It has to sell to people outside the forum to be a commercial success. I do think there should be no topless shots though. |
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| premierscfc - 19/9/2007 08:58
My personal opinion is that it would have to be glamour purely for commercial reasons. It has to sell to people outside the forum to be a commercial success. I do think there should be no topless shots though.
I agree 100% premiers.
Commercially I think it has to be glamour-oriented, but doesn't need to be topless, as Aisleyne always looks sensational in swimwear or lingerie shoots.
In a way, the members of this forum are not the best "focus group" for this question. Most of us became and remain fans of Aisleyne for reasons way beyond her physical attributes. And I guess that many of us are kind of ambivalent about the glamour side of her work. Yes, she looks fabulous, and yes we want her to succeed in something she clearly enjoys doing. But we really want to see her succeed even more in the other "lines of business" of Aisleyne Ltd.
But so far as the commercial possibilities of this particular project are concerned, it has to be glamour.
If my earlier suggestion about the "Jane reconstructions" are impractical, it would still be good if a tie-in with BFBS and one of the red-tops could be set up for Aisleyne to be "the Forces' Babe". They would, for example, have the marketing budget to support providing free copies of the calendar to "our lads" in Iraq, Afghanistan etc. |
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Location: Holland | maringo - 18/9/2007 22:07 I'd definitely be interested in buying a calendar and I'd like it to include some photos along the lines of the Aisleyne Limited ones published so far. However, it should include some less sexy and more elegant pics for her female fans as well. Perhaps a transition from an elegant look to a sexier look throughout the year? Or maybe even two separate calendars? i agree with that i would deffo buy one and about maybe two separate ones aswell thats a good idea so like theres 2 diffrent ones |
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| A Aisleyne Calendar sounds good but i prefer if it was more Elegant then Glamour but Aisleyne can still do some sexy shoots like in a bikni but not topless. Sexy,Elegant and Classy go together. I believe it can be done |
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| How about an Arab TV calendar. She wouldn't be topless in that. I want to put Aisleyne up in my house for all to see. I don't want my poor mother in law having a heart attack. An Aisleyne calendar would be fantastic though. I would look forward to each new month. |
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| Is there any news on the calender?
And are you looking for suggestions for pics that have already been taken aswell as new ones?xxxx
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| becki - 26/9/2007 18:18
Is there any news on the calender?
And are you looking for suggestions for pics that have already been taken aswell as new ones?xxxx
I think it will only include new pictures, so please continue to offer any suggestions. |
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| How about the calendar having a film theme, with each month Ash posing in/as a different famous film scene? |
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| Sexy, elegant and classy. I certainly wouldn't be interested in 'glamour'. |
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| I think the earlier months could be light colours....and the later months with darker colours.
July and August could be like summer shots, with outfits that are a light colour in a brightly light studio....to look like its summer.
If Aisleyne wants it to be sexy then maybe October could be like Aisleyne dressed up, like maybe them red outfits that you can get with red devil horns and a dark background.
December could be all christmasy, with loadsa tinsel and a christmas tree....lots of red and green!! wooooooooo lol.xxxx
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| janie - 26/9/2007 18:30
Sexy, elegant and classy. I certainly wouldn't be interested in 'glamour'.
That's 100% how I feel. I don't think i'd buy it if it was glamour. |
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| Could Ash do two calendars - one for girls and one for boys, with I would guess a smaller print run for the girls one? She's a bit unusual for a glamour model in having a lot of female fans. A lot of glamour girls don't have any female followers to speak of. I'd buy them both, anyway :-)
My marketing tip - get her to sign the first 100 and offer them exclusively to members of Officially Aisleyne
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