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This is an evolving list of concepts and ideas to be utilized in the production of the Santa Libertas segments of the LeverMind Variety Show.

Intro

Santa Libertas, aka Freedom Santa, is a series of opinion shorts in development, featuring comedy, analysis, opinions, and reflections on culture, politics, society, and the destiny of humanity.

Jason Carswell would rather be behind the camera - but realizes it's simpler to just do it than to compel and organize others without focused passion to convey his messages. By embracing one of the most universally famous and beloved of bearded characters, Santa Claus, he can creatively and respectfully introduce regular folks worldwide to new easily digestible insights sprinkled with humour.

Developed and produced in and around Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

Goals

Animated sequence ideas

opening titles (baroque)
end credits
section titles (hand-drawn time-lapse)
- Intro
- Problem(s)
- Reaction(s)
- Solution(s)
- Always Hope
- Fare Thee Well
- etc.
cartoons (hand-drawn time-lapse)
Christmas flourishes
logo segues and screen wipes
3-second Santa intros/entrances to cross into live-action
- anime style
- Art Addams style
- Batman TV show interlude + music soundbite
- bells
- chimney
  - various dives into chimney with slo-mo drift in various poses
- constructivism styles
  - agit prop
  - art deco
  - German
  - Mr. X comics
  - Russian
  - Tamara Lempicka
- Dr. Seuss style
- Glenn Barr style
- Love Death Robots styles
  - opening credits/interludes + Xmas parody "Hope, Mirth & Subplots"
- Peter Gabriel Big Time style
- reindeer
- silhouettes
- stop-motion style
- stripes
- Superman movie clip flying around world turns back time
- swirl of fire
- swirl of smoke
- swirl of snow
- swirl of snowflakes
- swirl of stripes (like Netflix credits?)
- super 80s
- super action
- super bouncy
- super cute
- super goth
- super happy
- super hero action
- super lighting
- super lightning
- super sinister "Flock, Stocking, Carol"
- super spin
- super tech

Critical issues and topics

15 minute cities
Agenda 2030 of the U.N.'s "Sustainable Development Goals"
artificial intelligence + technocracy
authoritative sources + propaganda
autonomy + sovereignty
banksters + economics + stable coins + global enslavement
borders + housing + migration + tariffs + taxes
censorship + surveillance + private + public + public-private partnerships
climate change scam + sustainability + $ustainabilitism
confusion / injustice / lawfare
consumer culture must evolve toward fulfillment
controligarchy totalitarianism (communism + fascism)
energy deserts
fake faith + artificiality
fallacies
FOEPATCHISM
food crises
mafia governance
managed decline + collapse
perpetual war
private trusts (own nothing, manage everything)
science vs. Scientism
Taoism, Stoicism, Minimalism
victimhood culture (Rudolph was a cry-bully?)
Voluntaryism + Volunteerism

Filmmaking devices

Cinematography

cross-dissolve through many artistic shots, whether related to a narrative or just day-in-the-life
following Santa meandering through various environments
Santa-with-halo shot composition as often as possible
Santa forced perspective scale-size skits
- smaller elf via forced perspective

Santa silhouette down long hall turning out light
- Santa curled up sleeping
  - Santa dreaming
    - psychedelic Santa dreams & visuals

Santa running (and running)
- various scenarios and neighbourhoods and waterfront of Windsor
- from police
- from dogs, cats, etc.
- from children
- all times of day/night
- in marathons
- out of buildings
- at city hall or political meeting, close up with hat screams into camera and ducks out
- like Tom Cruise and Forrest Gump (composite into shots?)

Santa presentation like JuiceMedia's Honest Government Ads

Optical illusions

scale and size
shoot downward so it looks like someone is sitting on cement against a cement wall

+ a ball's gravity will seem weird

driveway ramp for a big building

Props and set

Christmas decorations (candy-canes, Christmas balls, gift-wrap, pine trees, presents, twinkle lights, ...)
decor
- arm-back chairs
- coloured mood lights
- twinkle lights
Santa costume
topical
- candy-canes
- cartoon speech bubble cutout prop
- coal
- Coca-Cola
- pipe

Sound

transitions
- intro / opening
- segment begin / end
- outro / closing

potential
- squeaky-snow footsteps

Vlogger clichés

background curtains, hexagons, and shelves
background hi-contrast neon lighting and vintage bulbs
big gestures (wave hands around talking)
"like, subscribe, and buy my merch"
rapid cuts
"some people say"

Writing

for Santa YouTube Shorts
- loop the concept around so the words cut off for
  - seamless looping (audio, narrative, video)
  - self answering questions

Format options

General concepts

Alphabetical series with 26 topical episodes?
Be able to edit from shorts into a long-format video(s).

Inspiration

Remarkable (flashmob) crowd choreography + filmmaking:
CDK - Somebody That I Used To Know by Gotye^{[ YouTube ]} (3:50) ~ Sergio Reis

Intentional hooks

Each episode

Openings:
- Santa intro always unique? (ie. Mr. Rogers gets ready in a new way each episode.)
- "Ho ho ho-oh ...for goodness sake."
- "What on Earth are we doing here?"
- "Santa is always skeptical."

Closings:
- Santa sign-offs always unique? (ie. Mr. Rogers exits in a new way each episode.)
- "Be good, be kind, and be well."
- "Take care of yourselves and each other."

Interludes, segues, and transitions

"And now for something completely different."
"And now for something very different."
"And now for something different."
"And now for something different but the same."
"And now for something distinct without a difference."
"And now for something similar."
"And now for something."
"And now for anything."
"And now for anything different."
"And now for an alternative."
"And now for a different alternative."
"And now for alternatives."
"And now for solutions."
"And now for a different solution."
"And now for a solution."
"And now for ending something different."
"And now for starting something different."

And now for a cicada's perspective.
credit: a meme
- Wait 17 years.
- Wake up.
- Scream for 4 weeks.
- Refuse to elaborate.
- Die.

And now for a snowflake's perspective.
- Wait 18 years.
- Get woke.
- Scream for forever.
- Refuse to elaborate.
- Die in obscurity.

And now for a red pill, green pill, and a white pill.
- The ruling class globalists are always using their corrupt matrix of rigged systems to wage war with humanity.
- The climate change scam is a distraction from actual environmental, toxic, and countless other issues.
- There is always great hope for alternatives, solutions, trade-offs, and that we can improve our lives.

candy cane stripes
present present to camera so close it goes dark
put camera in Santa's sack
sprinkle glitter in front of camera
throw snow at camera

Potential Santa Libertas slogans

A Festival Of Ideas All Year Round
Celebrating Ideas All Year Round
Your Holiday Voice All Year Round

Quotes and soundbites from elsewhere

1984
- Imagine Santa's boot stamping on Santa's face, forever.
Network (movie)
Truman Show

Repeatable catchphrases and quotes

Openings:

Closings:

Curses:
- "Chimney trick it!"
- "Christmas balls!"
- "Freedom it!"
- "No elfing way!"
- "O Tannenbaum!"
- "Shout the funk up! + Get up to get down! + Stay free!"

Do better:
- "Be better by always trying to do/be better."
- "We can always do better."
- "We can do better."
- "We can always try to do better."

Good times
- "Remember that time we were talking about [...] ? Good times."

Says
- "Santa says..." (in "Santa O'Pines" below)
  - Like "Confucius says..."
  - Like "Simon says..."

Interconnected
- "It's all interconnected in the corrupt matrix of rigged systems established and perpetuated by the ruling class."

Production planning

seasonal shooting schedule
- spring locations
  ☐ Windsor parks
  
  ☐
- summer locations
  ☐ Windsor parks
  
  ☐ beach / waterfront?
  
  ☐ vacation?
  
  ☐
- fall locations
  ☐ Windsor parks
  
  ☐ autumn leaves
  ☐ Halloween
  - Jack Skellington head
  ☐
- winter locations
  ☐ decorated front lawns
  
  ☐ in the snow, architecture & locations (looking, standing, walking, running)
  
  ☐ in the snow, candid interactions with people
  
  ☐ in the snow, isolated (looking, standing, walking, running)
  
  ☐ Jackson Park light show
  
  ☐ Windsor parks
  
  ☐
- year-round locations
  ☐ recording studio
  
  ☐ indoor sets
  
  ☐ Santa's indoor set
  
  ☐ Santa's indoor workshop
  
  ☐

Event and production recording space

Potential studio/workshop names

Ideas of what to call the studio space:

Agora Phylaxis
Agoras Libertas Phylaxis
Alternatives Compromises Solutions Trade-Offs
Calm Down
Chill Down
Essex AV Workshop EAVW
Essex Media Centre
Essex Media Workshop EMW
Everest Bunker
Everest Media Centre
FOEPATCHISM Workshop
Forever Space
Foreverest / For Everest / 4 Everest
Fortress Of Solidarity
Freedom Bunker
Freedom Health Truth
Freedom Underground Studio FUS
Fringe Majority
Giraffe Ideas
Glossed And Profound
Gnome O'Tierney Studio GOTS
- No More Tyranny Studio NMTS
LeverMind
LeverMind Workshop
Lions Den
Lions Lair
Projex Workshop
Safe Space For Freedom
Santa's Workshop
The Cave
The Dungeon
The Shelter (the name of an alternative club under St. Andrew's Hall in Detroit)
The Underground (like London's subway + all things with the name and iconography)
Truth Freedom Health
Underground Lair
Underground Broadcasts
Victoria Recording Studio
WE Freedom Workshop (Windsor Essex)
Windsor AV Workshop
Windsor Media Centre (satirically meant to be confused with the other centre with an awkwardly longer name)
Windsor Media Workshop
Windsor Recording Studio
Wyandotte Recording Studio

Plans to do

☐ buy:
- ☐ audio + video gear
- ☐ sound dampening + moving blankets
- ☐ projector + speakers
☐ draft:
- ☐ draft business plan (goals, roadmap, scheduling, sustainability, profit, maintenance, etc.)
- ☐ draft branding plan (name, logo, style guide, etc.)
- ☐ draft public relations plan (marketing, advertising, social media, etc.)
- ☐ draft scripts, screenplays, skits, stage-plays, teleplays
☐ plan:
- ☐ plan layout
- ☐ plan security (int/ext surveillance cameras, locks, etc.)
- ☐ plan projects
  - ☐ audio-video recording + live streaming
    - ☐ events + performances (acting, bands, comedy, karaoke, lectures, meetings, music, music videos, stage, theatre, etc.)
    - ☐ live stream (internet access?) + recording (equipment?)
  - ☐ banquets + parties
  - ☐ cycloramas (white, green, black)
  - ☐ meetings
  - ☐ movie theater (white screen + projector + speakers)
  - ☐ production and podcast recording
    - ☐ LeverMind Variety Show, featuring Santa Libertas (a dedicated corner)
    - ☐ Nepalese Podcast (a dedicated corner)
    - ☐ podcast accommodation for other shows (various rolling backdrops, sets, etc.)

Renovation to do

☐ clear space of garbage, wood, and stuff
☐ clean space
☐ fix cinder-block problems
☐ paint ceiling?, walls, floor, lockers
☐ anchor lockers to wall
☐ plan layout, security, projects (above) to determine needs and priorities
☐ build + prep:
- ☐ anchors + tracks in ceiling, walls, floor
- ☐ animation desk
- ☐ animation table + rig (also for table top shoots)
- ☐ audio booth
- ☐ carpet + sound dampening
- ☐ divider rolling curtains
- ☐ divider rolling walls - plain
- ☐ divider rolling walls - with mounted set backdrops
- ☐ divider temp-door panels that can be locked in place
- ☐ divider temp-wall panels that can be locked in place
- ☐ editing bay
- ☐ equipment room
- ☐ props room
- ☐ supplies room
- ☐ tools room
- ☐ wall baffling (Rockwool insulation panels covered in black fabric)

Scenario Setups

Ideas to embellish, add humour, and build from:

Mrs. Claus
- casting: ask Melanie?
- ideas? + why?

Santa advertisement (parody series?)
- topical: banking, health, politics, surveillance, taxation, tech, trust, etc.
  - In today's modern era of rising tensions, inflation, and uncertainty you may be suffering from the common political flu. The Medical Industrial Establishment recommends you seek out MAiD or get a new prescription for Fugidol.
- + lists
  - Side effects may include...
    - absence of representation
    - chronic voter apathy
    - contagious Machiavellianism
    - copious censorship
    - death by a thousand regulations
    - depopulation
    - desperation for savior leaders
    - economic constipation
    - existential angst
    - explosive diarrhea
    - harmful thoughts
    - hypocrisy repulsion
    - infection of insidious inflation
    - leadership revulsion
    - loss of freedom
    - outrageous misfortune
    - paranoid delusions of globalists
    - perpetual war
    - political skepticism
    - radical vision
    - rebellious insights
    - regulatory capture and overreach
    - revolutionary epiphanies
    - self-reliance
    - social mediocrity
    - squandered faith in authority
    - starvation
    - violence from words
    - World War III
    - Zionism
    - zombification

Santa and A.I.
- Santa discusses the benefits, dangers, and alternatives to A.I.
- Santa pretends to be A.I. generated
  - extra fingers + limbs
  - morphing cuts + imagery + slight changes
- Santa pretends to be N.P.C.
  - canned responses + repetitions
  - floaty animation
  - glitches
  - cut-off masks

Santa and Jesus (Freedom Zack?) discuss
- Carney / Poilievre / Trudeau
- "Santa is always skeptical."

Santa Anonymous
- black bars across eyes (and dodging it to make a point at camera)
- "I see them when they're sleeping, I know when they're awake, I know if they've been bad or good, and they're all evil as all heck. Carney, Poilievre, Trudeau, Trump, Biden, Putin, Xi, Gates, Fauci, Schwab, Dimon, Thiel - all of them. All those Machiavellian mafia puppets and more - controlled by the Malthusian and Marcusean corporatocracy with their corrupt matrix of rigged systems."
- pixelated censorship
- "Santa is always skeptical."
- silhouette with altered voice to hide identity

Santa "car vlog"
- rant about this and that
  - conspiracies?
- sled + green screen
  - need only partial front of sled (imply but never reveal entire sled)
  - occasionally mention or reference the reindeer
    - hint at reindeer but don't reveal until end?
  - occasionally naming people in cars, homes, or work
  - driving sled
    - often in traffic (highway, suburban, country, etc.)
  - flying sled over vistas
  - parked sled
    - rooftop
    - side of road
    - front of city hall
    - front of franchise
    - front of parliament
    - front of school
    - parking lot

Santa evicted from the North Pole, moves to Windsor

Santa flashbacks
- as a child
- as a teen
- as a carpenter (red & white hard hat with fur trim)
- as a roofer (wrestling chimneys?)
- as a toy designer
- as an inventor (mad scientist?)

Santa gets ready for the day
- Santa brushes his teeth + Christmas themed bathroom + toiletries.
- Santa eats healthy breakfast.
- Santa is wakened by elves.
- Santa picks out his wardrobe (mostly the same).
- Santa takes showers in hat and red long underwear.
- Santa wakes up in bed with candy-cane sheets.

Santa has daddy & mommy & lonely issues ?
- -

Santa in fake nature documentary
- "Santa is always skeptical."
- narrated by fake David Attenborough
- -

Santa in people's homes
- as buyer seeking home
- as realtor showing home
- cooking show
- infomercial(s)
- lounging in living room
- reviewing chimneys
- reviewing Christmas decorations
- reviewing locks, privacy, security
- reviewing workshops

Santa interviews Gnome O'Tierney
- ["Protesting COVID, one of my non-Santa costume characters, "Gnome O'Tierney" (pronounced "no more tyranny"), could be another name for a forum. I played it as a 6 food garden gnome with giantism despite the leprechaun grandfather and Irish accent, who carries a deep grudge against all other lawn ornaments (illegals) and (migrants) garden decorations (ie. Easter Island heads, lighthouses, Buddhas, poorly made silhouettes, inaccurate creatures nature, the barn chique in general, etc.). I wore the red cone hat, beard, a name tag, and everything. Primed for LeverMind. It's difficult and slow to develop a professional show in one's spare time by one's self, especially amid endless hurdles. But optimism and tenacity should eventually yield results." ~ JC in chat on GoatMatrix.net]

Santa interviews Windsor/Essex locals
- "Santa is always skeptical."
- "Canada House" residents, on Lincoln Ave, Windsor, Ontario
- Freedom Folks (combine with Maple Fringe Majority and Windsor 'Emergency' 2022, The Untold Story book/documentary lists of questions)
- Windsor creative folks
  - builders / makers
  - local arts
  - professional media producers

Santa media interviews influencers
- "Santa is always skeptical."
- repurpose and recontextualize footage of politicians and influencers
  - find long form interviews with podcasters
    - Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, politicians, etc.
  - targets? : Carney / Poilievre / Trudeau / Trump / Gates / Dimon / Thiel
  - new context / meaning for sourced clips
    - Santa will seem to be interviewed with selective editing and clever scripting
    - Santa will seem to be interviewer with selective editing and clever scripting
  - set up shots to seem like Santa is there

Santa media montage edited recontextualization
- sampled clips & soundbites out of context into a new message
  - short clips to form sentences
  - new message out of context
  - sarcasm / opposite
  - sells you something
- "Santa is always skeptical."

Santa media responses
- Santa answers (fictional) mail and social media from kids, fans, shills, trolls, bots, spies, celebs, billionaires, etc.
- "Santa is always skeptical."
- Santa gets beat up by abusive words in social media.
  - black eye, bloody nose, bruises
  - Santa criticized "socialism" man in beard giving free stuff
  - Santa criticized "free markets"
  - -

Santa on climate
- "Santa is always skeptical."
- Santa questions the climate change narrative.
- carbon footprint "Ballistic Podiatry" skit:
  - But Santa can't take a chance that we all might die so...
  - Santa invented a Star Trek phaser to sequester carbon (and a transporter).
  - Too many lumps of coal becomes a burden.
  - However Santa questions the corrupt corporatocracy and hypocrisy.
  - Santa shoots himself in the carbon footprint with the phaser and becomes a lump of coal (with Howie Long Scream SFX and glowing disintegration animation).
  - Plus a Santa resolution to reassure folks that he didn't actually self-delete.

Santa on energy
- "Santa is always skeptical."
- The energy transition (to green) is a myth.
  - Bloat in software (including surveillance) is never reducing, just as government never reduces.
  - Corporations are not reducing, much less reducing packaging.
  - Energy deserts.
  - We do and will consume more than ever - especially with A.I. data-centers (taxpayer funded for the enslaving corporatocracy).

Santa on goodness sake
- "Santa is always skeptical."
- define "good"
- "How not to be good."
  - virtue signalling (mockery parody of vanity podcasters)
- "How to be good."
  - -
- F A I T H in E A R T H (and trust) (people of) + animate graphic
  - (We have no other option.)
  - Trust but verify.
  - Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
  - Question everything.
- -

Santa O'Pines
- "Santa is always skeptical."
- aside to camera short segments (with animated intro / outro)
- insights and opinions on
  - alternative media
  - corporate media
  - current events
  - issues
  - corporate entertainment
  - entertainment
  - economics
  - ethics
  - work ethics
- "Santa Says" (like "Simon Says")
  - cartoon speech bubble cutout prop
  - ideas and concepts (see #Critical issues and topics above)
    - It's okay to be white, red, silver, gold, and green.
      - racism weaponizes stereotypes
      - individuals and individualism matter

Santa reflects
- "Santa is always skeptical."
- Santa speaks to himself in the mirror
- split screen so that each Santa (real + reflection) take turns talking
- green screen introduce more multiple Santas in reflection behind the first reflection
  - Several Santas to showcase different attitudes, moods, perspectives, viewpoints, etc.
- issues to cover: reflections on the past and present, illusions, propaganda, media, different personalities, diversity ("we are diverse" in unison), etc.
- Is it worth copying/referencing/sampling Stuart Smalley^{[ Wikipedia ]}?

Santa Terrific
- "Santa is always skeptical."
- Santa "libertas" is actually "Santa Terrified"
- Terrific vs Terrified
- Pros & Cons (not prosthetics & constipation) [talk to Nate about face casts & prosthetics & moulage]
- "The Substance" (2024), I bumped into Calvin Klein and Demi Moore at an Elton John birthday party where P-Diddy's posse was hitting on me in front of my ex-wife who was laughing about it. True long story. Little did we know...
- -

Santa Libertas vs. Gnome O'Tierney
- ["Protesting COVID, one of my non-Santa costume characters, "Gnome O'Tierney" (pronounced "no more tyranny"), could be another name for a forum. I played it as a 6 food garden gnome with giantism despite the leprechaun grandfather and Irish accent, who carries a deep grudge against all other lawn ornaments (illegals) and (migrants) garden decorations (ie. Easter Island heads, lighthouses, Buddhas, poorly made silhouettes, inaccurate creatures nature, the barn chique in general, etc.). I wore the red cone hat, beard, a name tag, and everything. Primed for LeverMind. It's difficult and slow to develop a professional show in one's spare time by one's self, especially amid endless hurdles. But optimism and tenacity should eventually yield results." ~ JC in chat on GoatMatrix.net]

Santa vs. Santa
- Light Santa vs. Dark Santa
- Communism vs. Fascism
- Totalitarian vs. Freedom
- "Safety" vs. Reality

Santa vs. Socrates
- Socrates^{[ Wikipedia ]}...
  - always asking questions
  - always asking "Why you gotta be like that?"
  - I can prove that Hemlock doesn't taste so bad.
  - in the age before the internet there were also trolls...
  - irritated as everyone calls him "so-crates" who's not so greats
  - questions game (as featured in Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead^{[ Wikipedia ]})
  - Socratic methods
    - etc.

Santa + currency
- "Santa is always skeptical."

Santa + goes on strike?
- "Santa is always skeptical."

Santa + government
- "Santa is always skeptical."

Santa + hangouts
- "Santa is always skeptical."

Santa +
- "Santa is always skeptical."

Script ideas

Teachable moments

Terminology

- Identity politics
- Justice
- Kakistocracy
- Limited hangout
- Machiavellianism
- Malthusianism
- Marcusianism
- New World Order
- Omniwar
- Ordo Ad Chao
- Pareidolia
- Pareto principle (80-20 rule)
- Polycrises
- Quackademics
- Racism-communism
- Safetyism
- Sickcare
- Technocracy
- Totalitarianism
- Unrest
- Vctimhood
- Weaponization
- Woken-source
- Zionism

Websites

FreedomSanta.com
SantaLibertas.com
Projex.Wiki + virtual private server #1
LeverMind.net + virtual private server #2
Janglers.ca animation
User:JasonCarswell/Internet_domains

Santa's wish list

Seeking help:

accountant (personal, business setup, entertainment, private trust)
audio engineer
camera operators
co-writers
editors
funding
gear: Santa Libertas/Production gear #Santa's wish list
lawyer (free speech)
producers
production assistance
production assistants
social media public relations
web master