Television series pitches

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My first television series pitch

See also: My first television series pitch

• In the afternoon (2023-03-06), I (Jason Carswell) submitted my 3 pitches to their online submission form: https://TV1.Wufoo.com/forms/z1ln7v5g06fp9qe
• That evening, a couple gentlemen from TV1 (subscription television owned by Bell Media (of Bell Canada)) visited the Windsor Media Center to present their production histories, explained how as television producers they are accepting series pitch submissions, and held five-minute personal face-to-face meetings with everyone who presented a series concept.
• The producers explained that TV1 will:
  1. provide all the professional filmmaking gear required
  2. provide a modest budget
  3. sponsors are permitted, but not advertising
  4. broadcast the series on TV1 for 90 days
  5. after 90 days the series belongs 100% to the series creator(s)
  6. creators may share it elsewhere (YouTube, etc) but TV1 may not fund additional seasons absent TV1 promotion
• They will return to Windsor in July.

Maple Fringe Majority, television series pitch

See also: Maple Fringe Majority, television series pitch ~ by Jason Carswell

• In the face-to-face with John Buffone (mentioned above), it was agreed that an authentic documentary format is preferable to dramatizations (and easier). Thus, I've focused on that premise and expanded it further here.

• The name "Maple Fringe Majority" holds several layers of meaning.
  • Justin Trudeau pejoratively called resistance to his WEF tyranny the "fringe minority".
  • Much speculation abounds whether "the fringe" are a minority or actually a majority.
  • The fringe has embraced "fringe minority" label with pride and made it their own.
  • Humanity across the globe respects the inspiring peaceful resistance movement of Canada, thus the use of "Maple" is universal, rather than limited to Canadians.
  • Jason Carswell is already squatting on http://MapleFringe.com and related sites, originally intended to become a federated decentralized forum/chat instance of Movim, as an alternative to the technocracy surveillance, control, and exploitation platforms of Facebook/Messenger. However, setting up such a platform securely with trusted admins is more difficult than one might imagine. Fortunately, Jason's expertise is in media production, not social medial administration.

Logline

Logline (aka elevator pitch):

The Maple Fringe Majority television series consists of reflections from diverse free-thinkers and truth-seekers from Windsor and Essex County who've formed freedom and prepper communities, sharing political analysis and critical insights on local, national, and global issues, while showing how to organize, take action, find alternatives, and spread solutions to improve our communities, region, Canada, and our planet Earth to better resist, survive, and thrive in the face of the undemocratic monopolistic tyrannical new world order threatening our freedoms and futures.

Episode rundown

Here is a loose proposed episode rundown and format that, not necessarily in this order, among other things, may include:

1. opening hook, dramatic clip or profound idea from within
2. short animated credits (by animator Jason Carswell)
3. folks introductions
4. folks' background stories
5. folks share their motivations
6. folks' introductions to issues
7. folks interviewed on location (ie. farmer's opinions from a farmer while farming)
8. explanatory mini-documentaries for historical context (maybe use clips with permission)
9. short current events clips
10. folks explain the official narrative claims, currently and for the future
11. folks expose the lies, historically, currently, and what will actually happen
12. folks delve deeper on the issues
13. if the episode starts with seemingly unrelated topics eventually they'll intersect with much in common
14. folks discuss alternatives
15. folks share solutions
16. folks share plans, hopes, and dreams for the future
17. motivational conclusion (ie. heartwarming scene, quote, rant, etc.)
18. closing animated credits
19. Easter egg ending

Series production

First timer

These initial concepts will be revised and evolve. Despite the lack of series production experience, with robust professional experience in animation, live-action art direction, and event production, a first effort presented here begins the organizing, development, and production process.

Format and reasons

Listed below are over two dozen critical themes, with the endless potential of countless other problematic issues in need of mass awareness. Further, there's no end to the combinations, intermixing, and overlapping of those topics affecting humanity. (Akin to how musical genres can overlap in unexpected fusions.) A lack of content is not a problem - focus is.

A large group of people + a large number of topics = flexibility to focus on specific folks in some episodes, or bounce between many. Some folks may have opinions on everything, stick to their fields of expertise, or range between.

More coming soon.

Transparency

More coming soon.

Schedule

An accurate, reasonable budget and schedule will require consulting with experienced professionals. Nonetheless, this is just a foundational catalyst for discussion and development. These initial guesstimates may be general averages, understanding learning curve and startup pace should improve, and some episodes may be easier than others - unless ambitions and complexities grow with experience. Naturally, as in animation studios that produce television commercials, one project is starting, another is underway, and one is wrapping up - so I'd expect episode overlapping. Especially if some stories and circumstances develop across months.

Some of these will take much longer than a week and some much less, but it's a starting point.

1. 1x graphic design & branding, animation
2. 8x pre-production
3. 8x shooting
4. 8x rough edit
5. 8x tweaked edit
6. 8x post-production
7. 8x finalizing

(8x6)+1=49 "weeks"

8 episodes x 20-25 minutes + 1 year seems plausible, with potential for at least 2 more years

More coming soon.

Resources

Jason Carswell can confidently wear many hats (producer, director, screenwriter, production manager, storyboarder, editor, animator, graphic designer, art director, etc.), alone, but would prefer to lead a small tight capable team, recognizing limitations and inexperience as camera operator, sound recorder, sound engineer, interviewer, performance, vanities, music composer, etc.

Resources to verify:

☐ TV1 budget covers art department expenses (costuming, props, sets, etc.) - inapplicable to this pitch

☐ TV1 lends all camera, lighting, and audio gear

☐ TV1 budget covers cast (actors) - inapplicable to this pitch

☐ TV1 budget covers crew (camera men, sound, vanities, etc)

☐ TV1 budget covers post-production workstations

☐ TV1 budget covers editors, music, sound engineering, post-production

☐ TV1 budget covers promotional website?, design?, social media?

Resources to request:

☐ sufficient professional compensation for showrunner Jason Carswell

☐ for development and pre-production (treatments, screenwriting, production management, producing, etc.)

☐ for production, producing, and creative direction

☐ for post-production (editing, animation, promotion, social media, etc.)

The only critically urgent demands will be for immediate production expenses, a pittance to live on, and transportation - however we must also prepare for a few wild cards that may come up. Government overreach is a massive problem, and productions like this may face censorship, sabotage, or worse. Unprecedented medical tyranny, unscientific lockdowns, and intentional economic collapse loom over every endeavour on Earth. Leviathan corporations like Bell Media are problematically participants of the corporatocracy. No matter how eager to be flexible for this opportunity, eroded trust remains hard won in this climate - so as much as offering delayed gratification might have once been viable in negotiating, the world has changed too much. This may be a dilemma.

Budget

An accurate, reasonable budget and schedule will require consulting with experienced professionals.

More coming soon.

Topical episodes

Episodes may be presented chronologically, organically, thematically, topically, in another manner, or hybrid combinations. To be discussed and determined.

Foci, issues, themes, topics:

1. accountability & corruption
2. autonomy & ethics
3. censorship & communications
4. children & education
5. climate vs environment
6. communities & organizing
7. current events & historical precedents
8. economics & alternatives
9. employment & unions
10. faith & philosophy
11. gardening/farming & food crises
12. health/wellness & housing
13. lawful vs legal
14. medical freedom
15. mobility & transportation
16. occasional notable guests
17. networking
18. perpetual class war & depopulation
19. political problems & alternatives
20. prepping & surviving
21. propaganda & psychological operations
22. surveillance & technology
23. the future of humanity
24. U.N. Agenda 21 & the Great Reset
25. voluntarism & voluntaryism
26. weaponized consumer culture

The Rendezvous, television series pitch

See also: The Rendezvous, television series pitch ~ by Jason Carswell

• based on The Rendezvous, an unpublished screenplay by Jason Carswell.

Logline

Logline (aka elevator pitch):

Coming soon.

Series production

Coming soon.

Format and reasons

Coming soon.

Schedule guesstimate

Coming soon.

Resources

Coming soon.

Budget

Coming soon.

Other pitches

• ???, television series pitch ~ by Jason Carswell & Mike McCourt

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• ???, television series pitch ~ by Mike McCourt

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• ???, television series pitch ~ by Pete Malone

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• ???, television series pitch ~ by John Dippoliti, aka PlugNPlay Productions

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