Crowd Funding The Aussie Way With THE CLEANISTS!
For season two the creators of The Cleanists are opting to use an Australian base crowd funding platform to get things off the ground, and there’s still time left to lend a hand.
For season two the creators of The Cleanists are opting to use an Australian base crowd funding platform to get things off the ground, and there’s still time left to lend a hand.
Filmed on location in Spain, set in the United States, and utilizing 47 locations, 100 production personnel from 11 countries and 6 different languages, Gifted Corporation is a truly international series.
“We set out to make a “real TV show” in the sense that each script is 25-30 pages long and each episode typically runs at least 20 minutes. We did that because it looks easy on TV and we didn’t know any better.”
“Marion gave me the script for Season Two, which I couldn’t help but notice had double the pages of Season One. People had asked for more, and by god, we were going to give it to them.”
Fans offer up their own stories of utter failure through social media, making it a prime example of crowd sourcing where viewers contribute distinct episodic content directly to producers.
With their $125k Kickstarter goal met, we take a look at what might be in store for audiences in season two.
Creator Dustin Street based The Stranger on a shadowy figure from his childhood that had haunted his dreams. Later he dreamt up a hero to combat the darkness, a cop – “making him something very real and very human was a way to help me conquer my fears of something completely inhuman.”
Co-creators Ryan Wichert and Sebastian Hasse inspired by their own diverse multinational backgrounds created this culturally eclectic show with its own unique approach.
Nationally recognized spoken word poets lend their artistry to this series of vignettes where each dramatic episode connects the words, ideas and emotions of their performances to the story.
“I feel like a lot of web based comedy is very loud, obnoxious, short, to the point, and there’s nothing wrong with that but for me it all sort of blurs together as just noise. I think the show takes its time without dragging. I think that this season, We wanted it to feel like a legitimate show, so I was a little less afraid. It’s okay if there’s a scene or two that isn’t hilarious, because it’s telling a story.”