Week Four: Fan Base, Shmoozzing, Prioritizing

I'm starting off this week on a good note. First of all, I'm downsizing (yet again) pre-production on White Rabbit down to the bare necessities of writing and story. Much of pre-production is going to be housed in the Series Bible I'm creating. What's a Series Bible you ask? Well it's a nifty 50ish page document featuring everything major and somewhat minor about a television series someone wants to sell. I researched a bit of these and found that the Battlestar Galactica series bible is the best suited format for the sci-fi series I'm developing, so I'm taking its format and injecting my content.

Downsizing also means that I'm cutting out the Teaser Video I have been putting together for the past month. I was real excited about it, but after a week of deliberation I determined that I don't have a fan base established. At all. I have no background in web series and no major work under my belt to warrant someone to fork over any sponsorship money for a major giant series. Therefore! I'm going to create a new, very small web series by the end of the year. This will push back plans I've lain for White Rabbit, pushing back potential production of the pilot to May, but the bad far out weighs the good in that producing a smaller web series (sci-fi, mind you) I'll be able to build a fan base, recognition within the web community, make tons of inevitable mistakes on a lower profile production, and once I'm ready to talk to investors about White Rabbit I can hopefully show them a bunch of success statistics and figures from the previous or on-going smaller web series.

In all, down-sizing can be good. It'll help lighten the load for school, while allowing me to work on this smaller project that should help open some doors in the future. If nothing else it gives me and my friends just another reason to hang out, drink beers, and write bad-arse sci-fi stuff.