Ideas

Do you need crowdsourcing or are you spamming us?
Tommy

Reminds me of the ill-fated FOX network show of the same name (I think it was canceled after three episodes - I have the baseball cap)

Neat idea, but what's stopping clients from going out, finding their own production teams and propping up their own hosting site or using some other means of getting their content out (youtube, daily motion, veoh, etc) ?

Indeed, where is the crowdsourcing pitch? It seems this is attempt at a marketing pitch for something already developed and up-and-running...

http://www.current.com/tv is kind of on this track of low-cost, high-quality content created by users and aired on national cable/streaming to internet users/accessible by phone. Check them out.

If you've already done it; why do you need the help of CH?

so its done?

Cool idea. I think http://www.mariposahd.tv/ is doing something like this too (in hd!) but definately a different sort of target market.

i don't understand why this is here?.

but its a nice concept if you go about it the right way, have to say i won't be tuning in though

it does sound like it is meant to be a studio - so there could be multiple shows potentially, all aimed at different markets

OK, so you did it all ready. What do you want?

Yes its done but I am writing because I thought this board was for people giving feedback and ideas. NO I'm definitely not spamming :). As you can see I have been quite active on the boards and i think this place is very cool. Also I thought this place was about people with similar interests trying to find other people who want to participate in some capacity with others on some sort of business or project.

I hope no one here takes offense and understands that I am truly seeking feedback and 'working partners'. Thats why the title is INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION STUDIO and not the show itself.

I wanted to connect with other people who might be in the same or related industry who want to work together in the independent television or production studio business (as an investment of time or funds). We're not a start up company but this division is.

I'll try to answer some of the questions:

(why cant they go find their own production teams)

They could but they are not in the business of production.

It takes serious work to do professional production. Its not just something you can pop up on you tube. It requires a great deal of planning and organization. For the first three episodes we had over 28 cast people and it took almost one year of planning. Locations, wardrobe, rehearsals with actors,....you'd be amazed at the amount of work that it takes to do this.

Which is why we are hoping to be one of the studios that advertisers HIRE to do this , since they are not in the business of production. There will be an excessive need for produced content (of all genres) as TV and internet converge and mobile entertainment becomes more widespread in the US (we're way behind Europe and Asia on this).

The major studios can't handle it all. Someone has to. That's where we're trying to come in. We want to produce lots of content and build a strong catalogue of content. So that we can be ready when that critical 'moment' comes. We're looking for others who are interested in working with us to do it. The program we have now is simply the first program. We have a comedy and a cooking show we'd like to produce this year as well.

Thanks everyone for your feedback so far.

PS. Yes the ill-fated FOX series THEJURY was about the lives and times of the jurors and peeked into their deliberation process. I never watched it (but researched it) and our program is completely different. Our jurors are the community. The scripted part is the case itself. The jurors interact about the case in the forum/chat. Then they decide if they think the person being tried is guilty or not. We air whatever ending the people decide (we shot two endings for each episode).

THANKS AGAIN!

Might work

I suggest it was Mrs. White, in the Library, with the Candle Stick.

"Locations, wardrobe, rehearsals with actors,....you'd be amazed at the amount of work that it takes to do this."
I think it might help cutting down on all of that. It would help if this was kept simple. The seriousness of the court case needs to be cut down. To me it seems choppy like it is trying to hard to be real.

Maddie,

I assume you are familiar with them but just in case, you might check out Brightcove.com.