Hi All
I am currently working with a couple of writers I know to create a treatment/pitch for a pilot for a TV/Web Video drama series that would be based on the Crypto and Bchain communities.
www.encrypto.tv is the brand.
http://www.encrypto.tv/encrypto.jpgThis is my thinking and feel free to beat it up. Please...
Yes, we could raise money via typical crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter or Indiegogo for an idea like this - but I believe that the added value of having the community which inspires the show, is the one that backs it.
And not only that, having a cryptocurrency as part of the project is interesting and can be fungible - and be used, for instance, for a spinoff game product or by using transmedia tactics and game theory. Or be engaging brands in the show asynchronously in a post-pre show web version.
Or they can be traded and speculated on in the exchanges.
Or they can be traded at a fixed cost as a convertible loan and acquire shares in the project itself (30 percent of the company open for shares?).
Other perks/bounty could be given to Bitcoin whales and larger investors - such as 15 Bitcoin would get you on-screen credit as a producer and 100 bitcoin would get you a role in the show itself (not a leading role of course).
I can also imagine a co-writing process with some people in the community to help develop the narrative - maybe using Backfeed from Matan Field and reward contributors with bounties calculated by consensus.
Here's some of my thinking today...
Example lead character
Mateo Silva: 24.
His father is a mathematician at Cambridge, a computer genius with an outsized ego.
His father lost everything in the Bernie Maddoff scandal in 2008 while he was developing a new digital currency called Encryptocurrency which he developed while leading an anonymous life as a hero known only as ENCRYPTO to a generation of hackers. He donates his open source code to the world and walks away from it.
Mateo’s mother, an Italian art historian, fled her marriage, leaving Mateo with his father.
She teaches in the States. His parents’ marital drama left Mateo on the sidelines with enough space and brains to self-create himself.
Innately charming, geeky, painfully clumsy in matters of the heart, Mateo is a self-critical perfectionist. Fail again. Fail better! Beginning as a gamer and programmer, he has become an encryption and digital currency expert – he picks locks as a hobby.
At an encryption conference in Las Vegas, at a lock-picking table, Mateo meets a wily American operative who recruits him to the NSA.
Through the Agency, he designs and codes a hugely popular social media site for the Orthanc Corporation.
The social network site takes America by storm but really is a cover for the NSA to collect massive data on Americans. Mateo holds a clearance at the highest level – it’s his baby. The counterweight to his governmental/corporate self, his alter ego ENCRYPTO posts classified documents he considers in the public interest. Mateo becomes a hunted man, fleeing to Ecuador, and finally abducted back to the States, his ass is hauled off to solitary in a Federal prison.
But after a year, charges are dropped: he’s freed. He's not sure why.
When free, he realises that the code he dropped on the world called encryptocurrency has now taken on a life of its own and has spawned a whole new movement and means of trade. He's angry. He wants revenge. The system has betrayed his father and now him. He drops his real identity and goes into hiding as ENCRYPTO and begins to assemble a team of hackers, dissidents and others to take on the system.
Is this idea crazy? Would it be the first ICO for something that has nothing to do with Bitcoin, Blockchain, software or hardware, but rather a creative process? This is the kind of show that the establishment would not like to back - the status quo in Hollywood has rules. Mr. Robot broke some of them last year and opened the doors. We feel there's room to take a new narrative to the table - one that challenges the media, governments, and the establishment.
I have been writing for over 20 years and have had a show optioned by Sony Pictures Television in the past. I work with a couple of other writers in SF and London on ideas. I also publish Blockchain News THE-BLOCKCHAIN dot com (written over 700 articles on Blockchain in 2016). And advise a couple of ICOs. So not walking in here blind with an idea.