Toronto Transmedia project Chicknoe crowdsourcing on IndieGoGo
Chicknoe is the feature film component of a six platform Transmedia experience about the search for an identity, a sound, and a warm, dry place to pitch a tent for the night.
For the uninitiated – Transmedia is a new entertainment model that massages a larger, meta-narrative out of numerous, connected stories told on a number of platforms (tv, film, digital, online, books). Basically…yer watching this tv show and you like it. You find out that the characters you like so much…? Well there’s a book about one of them, an online documentary by the other, and they recorded a tribute album together. The viewer may continue to enjoy this story in a variety of ways and wees.
For it’s part….Chicknoe is about two 16 year old girls, Stella and R., who escape a potentially fatal situation in the middle of the night in a canoe. When they drift a couple miles off shore and meet a weird guy named David they decide to keep up the ruse – a community thinks them missing and assumed dead – and take a two week canoe trip through the semi-remote, certainly ferocious Georgian Bay Archipelago. They meet a bunch of people, watch one fella take a paddle in the melon, and ultimately make a decision or three that will play out in the long and short terms for both of them.
It is a lovely two-hander that will share the spirit of David Lynch’s ‘The Straight Story’ and Kelly Reichardt’s ‘Wendy and Lucy’.
To want to invest in the film is to understand the bigger Transmedia Project. For a in-depth look at that + an alright read please check out an interview I did with Jeff Watson of remotedevice.net
http://remotedevice.net/blog/trans-canada-trans...
This post was cross-posted on Workbook Project’s Culture Hacker as well.
My prizes are excellent. $250,000 gets you a piece of the film. I’ll go you 70/30 on the film with that…alright, 60/40 you/me. We’ll make up the rest in neat Canadian ways.
Below that number…everyone gets an FoTP credit, that just is. From there, depending on the investment, I will be sending out: hand-written thank you notes via snail mail; t-shirts-you-want-to-wear with lines of dialogue from the film pasted on them; a moderately high quality monograph (read iPhoto book) of the iPhone photos I’m taking during the writing of the film; and three lucky folk will be sent copies of the script so they can mark ‘em up in red pen and send ’em back to me. This is a cool prize if you are a fledgling story editor. I’ll give you a serious crack at it – I’ll listen carefully to your notes and write you a letter of reference if you’re any good at it. E Mail me. Still gotta dip into your wallet for the privilege though. Sorry. Doesn’t seem right but all I got at the moment is the conviction that this thing is worth people paying to work on it.
Okay so….there it is. If you wanna go full-balls and send me a quarter million just email me and I’ll call you back on my dime. Plus I’ll courier you the script (following the next round of notes of course.) Anyone else – questions, comments or concerns drop me a line.
Thanks,
Bolton
