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Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
Lots of slow-moving, dull, conference-room-bound tasks underway, but not much to talk about with any level of excitement. It's tough to jazz up long talks about intellectual property.
But here, at least, is a little bit on where we currently stand:
- Name change for the series is still underway. I've spent most of my time on researching possible titles and approaches before submitting to an attorney for his preliminary search. After that, we will conduct a full attorney-led search on a few final candidate titles. It's slow and agonizing and annoying, but necessary given the breadth that the "Pariah Island" franchise will eventually take (TV, internet, games, clothing, etc.) I've brought in two experts on the subject, and we are on our second IP attorney. Once this is done, the trademark will be locked down nicely.
- Expert advice. I've brought a Tampa-based business adviser on board, albeit informally, to help us navigate these waters better. I say "informally" because his real role will materialize later, as we are further along, but he has given me some priceless advice on the trademark issue. He will be a great resource later, though, in day-to-day operations management.
- Location negotiations. Still some work being done on this front. Since one of the new planned spots is private property, have to work things out with the owners. Fairly simple, but slow moving, task.
- Mininova shirts. As you may know, we are partnering with torrent file sharing provider Mininova.org to help distribute the series, once it's running. In a cool bit of kismet, we were trying to come up some cool-but-geeky shirt for our character "Randall" to wear, and I just bumped into Mininova's online t-shirt store! So Randall will be wearing a Mininova shirt while on the island, making a great platform for our hypervideo technology -- whenever Randall is on screen, you will be able to click on him and jump to Mininova.org. In the mean time, if you just must have a Mininova shirt like Randall will be wearing, go visit their store.
- Topo page for the website. We are working with Michael Shane Baker -- the young actor playing "Topo" the mysterious aboriginal boy who seems to run everything on Pariah Island -- on some makeup tests, primarily for the website. Under the new site design, Topo got dropped because there was no good place to fit him. We've decided to add a page on Topo, similar to the Mike Tanley page. Should be fun.
On a somewhat related note, show co-creator and composer Mac Styran is working on his thesis project, a conceptual sequel to the 1920 German expressionist film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, called The Caligari Experiment. Go to Mac's MySpace page and send him some love.
That's about it, for now. As always, I appreciate the patience and love everyone involved with the show has sent our way so far. As I watch some other shows rush to production without having covered all the bases we have, I not only get a little scared for those folks, but also feel our approach -- although slow -- is smart and will result in a long term success that faces few hurdles later.
2:31 PM
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