MARKETING STRATEGY
Using partner web sites to reach maximum numbers of viewers thru viral strategies, airline in-flight entertainment, film festival releases and television broadcast.
FREE WORLD-WIDE ENTERTAINMENT
While cable television viewerships are in steady decline, increasingly millions of content seeking surfers around the world are turning toward the internet along with mobile devices for entertainment. Embracing the trend toward free video-on-demand for download or streaming, we network efforts by hosting video on complementary partner websites, driving maximum viewer traffic. Each episode can freely be shared. The concept is to make the most for each visitor to your site by offering entertainment to their experience.
Beyond posting episodes to partner sites and public sites such as U-Tube and iTunes, we encourage sharing between independent electronic device users.
IN-FLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT, FILM FESTIVAL and BROADCAST
Distributing to airline in-flight entertainment programs, joining a handful of content providers to serve the daily needs of thousands of travelers.
Reaching independent audiences on the international film festival circuit while pursuing television broadcast with emphasis on seasonal 1-hour episodic program development.
TARGET AUDIENCE
50/50 male and female ages 16 – 40. Produced for active and non-active outdoor recreationists with entertaining and intellectual content. Lower to upper-middle income ($20K - $100K).
GLACIER CITY:
episode one: COLD SMOKE (2008/2009)
1 x :24 mins and 8 x :3 mins
SERIES INTRODUCTION
COLD SMOKE is the pilot episode to the broadcast series GLACIER CITY, introducing the fictitious small mountain town along with its diverse cast of eclectic locals. Channeling a sharpness and spontaneity of Woody Allen, the series blends wit, action and drama within a cinema verite, fictional documentary style. The situational comedy exploring a 6˚of separation theory and the law of cause and effect.
Each show traces the seemingly random paths of a few characters as they work, travel and play, to weave together their seemingly separate stories into one dramatic finish.
Our globalizing society is uniquely visible through its small population of adventure sport bums, global nomads, miners, doctors, lawyers and developers and free thinking native residents.
Developed for multiple digital formats, the single-length :24 minute timeline will be segmented into eight - 3 minute webisodes for streaming and mobile device download.
A new era of branded-entertainment.
FILMING LOCATIONS
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•Chugach Mountains, Alaska
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•Kooteney Mountains, British Columbia
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•Telluride, Colorado
PILOT EPISODE INTRODUCTION
A plot-driven action-drama, COLD SMOKE chronicles the story of an experienced ski mountaineer as he pursues his dream to be the first to climb and ski the face of an exotic and remote Alaskan mountain peak. Interspersed during his solo odyssey, flashbacks to the past shed insight into his motivations and development. Each flashback vignette illustrates a profound life shaping experience and links his current solitude to a myriad of colorful characters from his home ski-town of Glacier City. His dry internal dialogue light-heartedly voices the complex decisions and skills he must use to survive while pushing the envelope within the vast and unforgiving terrain.
Forming a new genre of branded info-tainment, the story blends drama, action and a dose of wilderness sense to engage a wide audience.
COLD SMOKE SYNOPSIS
Pursuing his dreams, an experienced skier attempts a bold first ski descent on a towering mountain face in Alaska. To push his abilities and survive the raw forces of nature, he must harness the power of his mind, body and spirit. Isolated in the stark wilderness, his inner vision unfolds revealing the people and experiences which have shaped and propelled him to this dramatic moment.
TAG LINE
A skiers journey to discover himself and the power of the natural world.
In Development: Glacier City
