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.
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, 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.
~TMI
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