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We started a new project over at cryptocrypt.org and wanted to share it with the rest of the community.



Here is the pilot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0pdsCHUXxc

Please let me know how you liked it and let me know if you are interested in being interviewed.

Thanks

Holy shit.. Goat is back!

Welcome back to forums sir!

Ok. Initial impression:

The green screen is terrible! The video thus has felt almost like parody of sorts.

Once the hostess started talking it becomes clear it is not parody however.

Not sure if It's her voice or how fast she is talking.. But I have slight problem listening/understanding to her..


ok. Susie jane is up...

TERRIBLE voice acting.. I have almost turned it off at this point.. (But will keep watching for purposes of this review)

She comes off as a farmer moreso than a "miner"



Up to Jason from bitpay..
So far coming off as a paid advertisement.


Ok.. Skipped forward a bit..

Off to this Cop actor thing.. Again.. Having a hard time taking this seriously again.. Shame really.


Turned the video off after this part.



All and all I appreciate what you are trying to do with this.. But the delivery makes Bitcoin seem like a terrible joke.



None of this is meant to belittle the project nor make fun of it.. These are honest opinions.


Take it easy Goat.

Kyle.T

Also I guess I should say that the target market for this is people who are not into BTC. It is for people who know little to nothing about crypto.

We are doing this on a very very low budget as this is pretty much all out of my pocket. If this does work out, and we get either adverts or more people willing to fund the project we will get better stuff.

The mic is something we know we have to work on, and will have that fixed for next week.

Thanks for your input.

No problem Goat.

I personally would have less satire in it and more professionalism.

Still a great idea, I like where you are headed.

Take er easy sir.

I felt this was half serious and half an SNL skit. The serious part isn't to be taken seriously if you have the funny part embedded in such a way, nevertheless I enjoyed it. 

Before I share my opinion on this I have to know one thing - is it meant to be a serious show?
Because it's not coming across as one, at least to me.

ROFL.

The production was your idea, Goat?

Amazingly hilarious.

This looks great! Thanks for doing this.

With such a team (http://bitcointodaynews.com/test-test-1/), success is guaranteed.
Kudos Goat!
WOW

I agree with the above post as it needs a little more professionalism added but I like where your going with this.  Great start!!

Good luck!!!  :)

Holy Christ, that was great stuff!   8)

Didn't know whether to laugh or cry throughout.  Like parts were tongue in cheek and parts were just ridiculous.  IN A GOOD WAY!

A little more polish, and it'll be the goods.  Keep it up.    :D

Yeah, it is just a very low budget pilot.

Thanks for all the tips and support!

Reminds me of the 1980's cable access shows. Fun times. I suggest keeping the talent but pitching the format. Interviews are always good and can be prerecorded. She's great at the desk, but needs more camera angles. Have her use props, not comedy sketches to make a point. Use cgi if you have the budget. She's a peach, but if she wants to be funny, she'll have to be edgy and I don't think you'll want that. Clever suits her personality better.

Parodically (thought I just made that up till I Googled it) speaking, what if some dude with his pet goat drove up to locations to conduct ad hoc Bitcoin related interviews in a yellow Lamborghini, stumbling throughout each and every attempt, always mumbling quasi-aside (once per interview) how s/he wishes they weren't so budget-limited?

Seriously (albeit an argument could be made that the above spot would work), as a pilot it was pretty good, hence liking, and only seeing it becoming better with subsequent episodes as more characters are introduced.

Speaking of characters, I know this pink-tutu-donning dude that may fit right it as a recurring character going by the moniker Bitcoin Detective Gage (or similar).

BDG would broadcast from a remote location (a barn comes to mind), and through his Google-fu expertise he tracks down various ongoing Bitcon related scams. The first couple/three links he provides (and reads somewhat normally) are spot on, but soon, unbeknownst to him, he vectors off in the wrong direction showing links and reading them with a stronger and stronger conviction, finally proving beyond a shadow of doubt - in his mind - that he nailed the bastards, all the while caressing some nearby goat in the barn while sitting at a primitively made farm table acting as a desk.

At the conclusion of the exposés, Laura Saggers is always flabbergasted, thanking BDG for the report and stating that she looks forward to the follow-up. BDG thanks her and closes with, "Bitcoin: An Idea Worth Spending" echoing the words screen printed on his signature t-shirt(s).

As you can imagine, fodder for the above would be made available from various sources of the Bitcoin community on a regular basis, thus the initial material (first couple/three links) virtually writes itself, with only a little effort on my (if it were me  ::)) part to add the Google-fu humor content. Did I mention that the dude I have in mind used to perform in Nashville and has been on stage ~300 times in the capacity of hosting Writers Nights, along with doing comedy and poetry in the same city? Dude also has access to a barn to act as the backdrop for the remote location somewhere in/near Sandwich, Illinois.

To be clear, the premise of the BDG character is to introduce to the viewing audience the latest scams/events surrounding Bitcoin without going into too much detail, thus allowing the viewer to conduct their own due diligence. The humor is thrown in to lighten the impact somewhat. Eventually, dude could conduct live(?) interviews with perpetrators he captured and is holding in the barn, threatening them with "bringing out the Gimp" if they don't confess.

Also, BDG a la Barney Fife, tries out the latest tech gadgets to track individuals or undisclosed locations. Case in point, he's seen placing a GPS device under a car to find BFL's secret mining farm, but puts the device under the wrong car, tracking it to a fur con (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_convention), of which he enters the locale live(?) revealing to the Bitcoin community his greatest find.

After about a dozen episodes, he starts to investigate the Bitcoin Today show (tongue-in-cheek, of course - seriously!). Hell, dude would come off as such a nut-job, especially when he goes as far as investigating himself, culminating to a split-screen of him trying to get his counterpart to confess to whatever otherwise it's bring-out-the-Gimp time, also played by a third iteration of dude.

If you think the above is funny, wait till you read/see what I've yet to come up with.

~TMIBTCITW

Hell, how about adding an up-skirt cam, but she's always wearing pants/slacks?

I disagree! The professionalism is in the satire, especially if it's packaged correctly. Leave the serious to the likes of Jared Kenna as seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4VKByTz3HA. To be fair, I've been hyper-critical of Jared in the pass with his TradeHill concern, but have to admit that he's doing an excellent job with Money & Tech.

I was thinking Sarah Silverman, Kristen Schaal, or Maria Bamford edgy. If you want to go Amy Schumer, you will need Amy. I don't think anyone else can do what she does.  ;D

Really very cool. Looks very professional even for first edition!Good luck!

I liked the sketches. She was satirically funny. Cop mustache= winning!