episodes
FE: The Vancouver Episodes is a live action adventure series going into production in 2012.
I have not decided how many episodes to produce the first season, or how long each episode should be. I am open to suggestions.
Pre-production: I am in the pre-production phase of the project which includes; script writing, finding key professionals, finding locations, sets, props, and costumes, choosing the actors and other crew members, creating awesome theme song, logo, apparel, negotiating product placement, marketing, rehearsing, and so on.
Capital: The production budget will be not greater than $100,000 USD or 20 GO. Due to my limited capital, I will offer the people who help me complete this project negligible (or zero!) upfront pay (evil laugh). Instead, I will be contracting with my fellow collaborators to share profits from DVD and apparel sales, as well as advertising revenues.
Location: The episodes will be set and shot in Vancouver, Canada.
Main Characters: Tad Galahad, Money, Heidi Ho, Gunned Gandhi, and Charlie Stubblefield.
Recurring Characters: Obtineo Arma, Dr. Long, Miss E., Heavy Mo, HKC, Gold Runner, Marco Polo, and Fat Cop.
Guest Stars: each episode will have a few Strugglers and or Sovereigns with problems to be solved.
Script: I want to share writing duties with a few talented writers. I am certainly accepting sample episode submissions from writers who want to join the team. I am also open to suggestions of struggler problems which engineers must solve, or nifty FE technology to include in episodes.
Professionals are needed! I have no experience in film production. Thus, I am going to need a few key people with experience in the industry who also share my vision and philosophy, and who are able to travel to Vancouver at their own expense and live a Spartan life for a few months.
The Shoot will be a hoot… Vancouver is a beautiful international city. I will likely organize some communal living arrangements for those interested in saving money and having a great time carousing in close quarters with fellow lovers of liberty.
Crowd Sourcing: I am now accepting 100$ upfront from any individual who wants to buy season one of the Vancouver Episodes and also the Freedom Engineering Game. See ChipIn banner on right column of this page for progress reports. Three clicks and your paypal and presto!
Capitalist Pigs: If you would like to help the project speed up even more, I will may be interested in giving up a greater percentage of my ownership to capitalists who want to invest $10,000 or more into the project.
Product Placement: Product placement and direct advertising will be our main revenue stream. We will be working with several independent enterprises to develop a line of products and services that people who consume our entertainment will want to use.
Free Distribution: Although we want to make money selling some DVDs, we will encourage free distribution channels to get our episodes out there far and wide.
My Vision: My vision is to create entertainment that young people will enjoy. Within this entertainment will be the lessons of liberty and the methods of engineering freedom.
Join me: If you want to join me in this venture, please fill out this contact form, and let us begin!
fe.benwoods [at] gmail [dot] com
Or add me to google wave —> fe.benwoods@
Or join the Freedom Engineering group!
