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* In the afternoon (2023-03-06), I ([[Jason Carswell]]) submitted my 3 pitches to their online submission form: https://TV1.Wufoo.com/forms/z1ln7v5g06fp9qe
 
* 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 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.
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* 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:
 
* The producers explained that TV1 will:
 
*# provide all the professional filmmaking gear required
 
*# provide all the professional filmmaking gear required
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*# creators may share it elsewhere (YouTube, etc) but TV1 may not fund additional seasons absent TV1 promotion
 
*# creators may share it elsewhere (YouTube, etc) but TV1 may not fund additional seasons absent TV1 promotion
 
* They will return to Windsor in July.
 
* They will return to Windsor in July.
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== ''Maple Fringe Majority'', television series pitch ==
 
== ''Maple Fringe Majority'', television series pitch ==
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See also: '''[[Maple Fringe Majority, television series pitch|''Maple Fringe Majority'', television series pitch]]''' ~ by [[Jason Carswell]]
 
See also: '''[[Maple Fringe Majority, television series pitch|''Maple Fringe Majority'', television series pitch]]''' ~ by [[Jason Carswell]]
  
* In the face-to-face (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.
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* 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.
 
* The name "''Maple Fringe Majority''" holds several layers of meaning.
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=== Logline ===
 
=== Logline ===
  
Logline (aka elevator pitch):
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_line 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.
 
: 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.
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# short animated credits (by animator [[Jason Carswell]])
 
# short animated credits (by animator [[Jason Carswell]])
 
# folks introductions
 
# folks introductions
# folks background stories
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# folks' background stories
 
# folks share their motivations
 
# folks share their motivations
# folks introductions to issues
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# folks' introductions to issues
 
# folks interviewed on location (ie. farmer's opinions from a farmer while farming)
 
# folks interviewed on location (ie. farmer's opinions from a farmer while farming)
# explanatory mini-documentaries for historical context
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# explanatory mini-documentaries for historical context (maybe use clips with permission)
 
# short current events clips
 
# short current events clips
 
# folks explain the official narrative claims, currently and for the future
 
# folks explain the official narrative claims, currently and for the future
 
# folks expose the lies, historically, currently, and what will actually happen
 
# folks expose the lies, historically, currently, and what will actually happen
 
# folks delve deeper on the issues
 
# folks delve deeper on the issues
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# if the episode starts with seemingly unrelated topics eventually they'll intersect with much in common
 
# folks discuss alternatives
 
# folks discuss alternatives
 
# folks share solutions
 
# folks share solutions
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==== Format and reasons ====
 
==== Format and reasons ====
  
: ''Coming soon.''
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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.
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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.]]''
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 +
 
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==== Transparency ====
 +
 
 +
: ''[[More coming soon.]]''
 +
 
 +
 
 +
==== Schedule ====
  
==== Schedule guesstimate ====
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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.
  
: ''Coming soon.''
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Some of these will take much longer than a week and some much less, but it's a starting point.
  
==== Budget ====
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# 1x graphic design & branding, animation
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# 8x pre-production
 +
# 8x shooting
 +
# 8x rough edit
 +
# 8x tweaked edit
 +
# 8x post-production
 +
# 8x finalizing
 +
: (8x6)+1=49 "weeks"
  
: ''Coming soon.''
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8 episodes x 20-25 minutes + 1 year seems plausible, with potential for at least 2 more years
  
==== Budget ====
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: ''[[More coming soon.]]''
  
: ''Coming soon.''
 
  
 
==== Resources ====
 
==== Resources ====
  
[[Jason Carswell]] can confidently wear many hats (producer, director, screenwriter, production manager, 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.
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[[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:
 
Resources to verify:
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:☐ TV1 budget covers cast (actors) - inapplicable to this pitch
 
:☐ TV1 budget covers cast (actors) - inapplicable to this pitch
 
:☐ TV1 budget covers crew (camera men, sound, vanities, etc)
 
:☐ TV1 budget covers crew (camera men, sound, vanities, etc)
:☐ TV1 budget covers editors and post production
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:☐ 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:
 
Resources to request:
  
:☐ sufficient salary for [[Jason Carswell]]
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:☐ sufficient professional compensation for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showrunner showrunner] [[Jason Carswell]]
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::☐ for development and pre-production (treatments, screenwriting, production management, producing, etc.)
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::☐ for production, producing, and creative direction
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::☐ for post-production (editing, animation, promotion, social media, etc.)
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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 ====
 
==== Budget ====
  
: ''Coming soon.''
+
An accurate, reasonable budget and schedule will require consulting with experienced professionals.
 +
 
 +
: ''[[More coming soon.]]''
  
  
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# censorship & communications
 
# censorship & communications
 
# children & education
 
# children & education
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# climate vs environment
 
# communities & organizing
 
# communities & organizing
 
# current events & historical precedents
 
# current events & historical precedents
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# the future of humanity
 
# the future of humanity
 
# U.N. Agenda 21 & the Great Reset
 
# U.N. Agenda 21 & the Great Reset
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# voluntarism & voluntaryism
 
# weaponized consumer culture
 
# weaponized consumer culture
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== ''The Rendezvous'', television series pitch ==
 
== ''The Rendezvous'', television series pitch ==
  
* '''[[The Rendezvous, television series pitch|''The Rendezvous'', television series pitch]]''' ~ by [[Jason Carswell]]
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See also: '''[[The Rendezvous, television series pitch|''The Rendezvous'', television series pitch]]''' ~ by [[Jason Carswell]]
:* based on ''[[The Rendezvous]]'' screenplay by [[Jason Carswell]]
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:* Logline (aka elevator pitch):
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* based on ''[[The Rendezvous]]'', an unpublished screenplay by [[Jason Carswell]].
:*:  
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=== Logline ===
 +
 
 +
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_line 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 ==
 
== Other pitches ==

Revision as of 02:40, 9 March 2023

Anitque National television.

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

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

  • Logline (aka elevator pitch):
  • Logline (aka elevator pitch):
  • Logline (aka elevator pitch):
  • Logline (aka elevator pitch):