Introduction by Thinkerer
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A model plan for content creation in virtual reality.
Performers write their own parts
Or writers perform their own work
Or writer-performer teams work together
The plan is designed to accommodate multiple creators, and to produce enough content to be marketable to broadcast channels.
This is a performer/writer plan, like Monty Python. Performers will probably draft their own parts, and then polish them with input from other performers.
The show will probably evolve over time (survival of the funniest).
This can (and must) go way beyond Second Life -- this is an imaginary world that involves the general public and can make fun of things familiar to the general public.
I think this plan has a lot of potential for low-budget comedy content of the kind mentioned below. The plan can produce enough content to develop brand recognition.
I disagree with Pamala on the statement of the goal: The goal statement I prefer:
Develop and demonstrate an efficient model for producing comedy content in Virtual Reality
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The Flush Portal - A Cartoon Sitcom for regular television
By Pamala Clift
Target market 16-36 That same people that watch The Famly Guy, Futurama,
Simpsons, South Park.
The goal is make fun of the glitches of Second Life.. poke fun of the cultures and enjoy ourselves.
This is not an artistic endeavour.. we will be going for fast, funny, and a little raunchy.
The Plot is like this...
This is a virtual world that has a portal with a portal monster*Gretal*. (might have a portal monster trainer as well) that pull people in from the internet in real. The intro will show many nationalities and back of heads of people from all over the world sitting down in front of the monitor, and an electronic grid where the monster roams..
When they are retrieved and dropped into the portal ...there is a contingent of people there assigned for every time slot... usually conflicting personas.. Their job is to help the newbie get oriented & to convert the newbie to come to their culture.. examples
Conflicts like..
- Feminists & Goreans
- Holy rollers and Adult sex sim
- Fashion divas & beach bums
plus any others we can think of as this progresses.
Standard characters are:
The Dean of the Flush- (Cast) Pompous Brit accent who puts up the charts and does the schedule for who covers what shift
His Trigger Lines.. are" Bloody Hell" and" Get your Head of out of your arse."
The Monitor- (Not Cast yet) which will just be a monitor.. may have a real human talk.. He is the computer monitoring the territories.
Each territory has to maintain at least 100 members or the culture goes POOF....
That is the tension.. between characters as each struggle to convert enough newbies to keep their sim/territory alive before MONITOR declares there land invalidated. Monitors -trigger lines are.. "Think your world will just have to go POOF" & Damn no dinner today.. I as so looking forward to more Bits to Bite.
The Janitor: (tentatively cast)Is a unique person that comes every once in awhile and watches the drama at the portal as he sweeps up... He is a little hard of hearing in real, so he keeps trying to lip read the avatars lips. His trigger line is:
Did YOU Say?... and then he will come up with horrible guesses like.. My zebra is misparked?, Bananas are good for enemas..
The Cat: (cast Krull) He will talk as he sees fit but not that often.. he will always bring something strange into the scene that will throw a kink into whatever action that is taking place. The trigger line for everyone else to say about him.. is.. OOooh NOW what did the cat drag in?
The terror tiny/furry/neko/dragon: (uncast as yet) This is kind of a pet of the Dean that hangs around and tries the line.. Well you cant really be in a culture until you can find where the rest room is... He has decided his entertainment will be to disuade newbies from the enviroment. .. it gives everyone minus points. If a newbie is scared from staying. Everyone assigned to the portal gets a minus point. He leads them to the rest room where my Toilet avatar turns into a monster and they scream... If that happens The Dean Talleys a minus point.
The Twins- (uncast as of yet) I dont know what these will be yet.. but they spend their time whispering back and forth.. there main job is to keep the audiance informed... Oooh.. Goreans are not going to like a woman talking back to them.. The janitor is going to try to lip read again.. hehe.. wonder what it will be this time?... This is opened for elaborate character development
The Flush.. The monster toilet... I have a toilet that turns into a monster.. if anyone else has it as well they can play this.. mostly has to have a strange anticipatory laugh.
The Grand Sage:(tentatively cast) I come out in a furry avatar as an egyptian dog .. there is great pomp and circumstance at the end of the show awaiting the stamp of brillance from the sage about what is to have been learned from the ordeal. a moral of the story so to speak... but it usually is something totally unconnected and bizarre prompting speculation, whining and hopefully laughs.
If you do not wish any of these roles.. then your role would be to come up with a character that would man the portal for a specific territory. So you need to define..
Extreme Stereotypic personas-
The territory you are proslyting for:
Who is behind the keyboard character.
and your Trigger funny line.
your character should have a strength and a weakness... if not many.
Some suggested characters you might get into being are...
Jock, fashion diva, builder, dancer, educator, business, gamer, furry, tiny, neko, feminist, Holy Roller, Drama Queen/King, Princess,Vampire, pirate
Pamala Clift will pick during first meeting on Nov. 17th or by individual interviews.. before then.. so if you have a character in mind.. please IM Pamala Clift for a audition interview.
We also need a sound manager, Music creation, and administrative help.
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Contact Pamala Clift
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