Working Title Fan Guy By Sid Motaghi 4413 Fan Guy Transmedia for Social Activism Documentaries and Change About Fan Guy is a Transmedia project trying to expose the truths about fan culture and derive whats seen in the media and its stereotypes ie creepy male fans a ID: 538677
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Storytelling Across Media(Working Title) “Fan Guy”
By Sid
Motaghi
4/4/13Slide2
Fan Guy- Transmedia for Social Activism, Documentaries, and Change
About- Fan Guy is a
Transmedia
project trying to expose the truths about fan culture and derive what’s seen in the media and its stereotypes i.e. creepy male fans and hyperactive teenage girls who are turned into social outcasts and labeled as “freaks” of society. Fan Guy is a character who will be played by an actual fan who will merge his identity with that of the character’s for the sake of the project.Slide3
Audience/Reach
The niche audience that Fan Guy will reach out to first will be young people of all sorts of races and backgrounds in the U.S. who are fans of several geeky-like properties but mostly those within anime, manga, video games, comics, and new media. Ideally the documentary will help portray most of these fans to become relatable to regular people or people of other social norms. Slide4
Goal
What really is fan culture and demystify some of the confusion and misperceptions that surround it. Most fans are everyday people like you and I, although the majority of them have to a certain extent an eccentricity or quirk to their nature, many of these fans are some of the most intellectual and artistic people I have personally ever met throughout my life.Slide5
World of the Story
The world that will be built around Fan Guy is one where he is the guide, the host, the leading face of the
Transmedia
, to help introduce people who are fans to the audience, as well as make fans themselves feel good about themselves knowing there are many more people in the world like them that they may relate to in life even outside of just the common interests.Slide6
Tone
The tone of the world built around Fan Guy will be subjective throughout the
Transmedia
and documentary film. For the most part the tone should not be extremely grim but should not be too sappy or lighthearted either. Moments of fun and good nature should be captured righteously as well as some of the darker stories that may be shared by fans.Slide7
Character
Fan Guy must be a witty, likeable character in this
Transmedia
world who is
a
fanboy
who shows audiences all aspects and views of otaku and
cosplay
culture and breaks
it down
for them realistically and entertainingly so that others who don’t know anything about it may become curious and at least take in the information and learn to respect their peers who are part of the culture and fandom.Slide8
Timeline (Rough)
Blog of Fan Guy
Website and Facebook Fan Page and Twitter Accounts
Web Series or
Vlogs
of Fan Guy
Kickstarter
for distribution costs and any additional costs
Live Event
Ask the fans to submit fan art submissions and winners will have
their’s
featured in the film and will be given a free giveaway as their prize
One podcast before the film
Feature film and release of graphic
novel
Webisodes
continuing the exploits of Fan Guy
Podcasts continuing to follow Fan Guy
Have the finished film play public screenings of conventions in between festivalsSlide9
Transmedia
Blog of Fan Guy- should be a blog focusing on Fan Guy’s more personal, real life
Web Series- a series where Fan Guy talks about fan culture and gives his opinions on it which may be debated or engaged with the audience
Documentary- Fan Guy’s pursuit to find fans and have them tell their stories
Graphic novel- could be a story of Fan Guy at a convention and his experiences in it
Post-web series after documentary- should be a higher production value series where Fan Guy takes a slightly different direction and possibly partners up with someone elseSlide10
Potential Sponsors/Partners
MeaphandJunk
(YouTube critic)
AnimeAmericaPodcast
(YouTube Podcasters)
Geek and Sundry/Felicia Day (YouTube production group)
Egoraptor
(YouTube Animator/Comedian)
ThatGuywithTheGlasses
/Nostalgia Critic,
JesuOtaku
Cosplay
in America (Photographer at Conventions)
D20 Girls (
Cosplay
group)
ScreenTeamShow
(
Youtube
production group)
Angry Joe (Game Critic)
Angry Videogame Nerd( Game Critic)
Presshearttocontinue
(Game Critic)
FinalCutKing
(YouTube Film tutor)
Chronic Candy
Andrew Pattison (SFX Make-up artist on YouTube)Slide11
Partners/Investors
Otaku Haven
O-ta-
ku
/
ō’täko͞o
: [Noun]: Japanese term used to refer to people with obsessive interests, particularly anime, manga, or video games.
Ha•ven
/ ˈ
hāvən
: [Noun]: A place of refuge or sanctuary
We are a not-for-profit group organization composed of people ranging from experts in the fields of science, business, music and art; to college students studying within their own respective fields; to high school student just starting to out. We have banded together to accomplish three goals:
1) To create a location created for and operated by
otaku’s
, designed to support and share everyone’s attained knowledge base, skills, and understanding.
2) To provide a starting platform for all starting or up-and-coming individuals within the fields of art, music, science and etc. in order to foster creative and innovative thinking within the local community.
3) To support local communities and business’ through the development and creation of interconnected business relationships
Our group is founded on these core principles that guide our efforts. 1) share and teach what you know and love, 2) learn for sake of learning and understanding, 3) help the community, help the world, 4) start small, support locally, 5) creative, innovative, alternative and eco-friendly 6) respect for diversity.
Why are we doing this?
We’re
doing this because:
1
) We love anime, manga, video games, comics and all things people think are nerdy and geeky. These are the things that we grew up with and have deeply influenced our lives. We want to create a place in which we can all physically teach, share and celebrate what we all know and love with everyone.
2) Times are tough and has made it much harder for any local business to remain in business. We need to help our community by assisting and supporting local business’ that many of us know and love by creating a place in which many of these places that are complementary to each other may continually grow .
"Built by
otakus
, for
otakus
"Slide12
Partners/Investors (cont’d)
Valiant Comics
http://valiantuniverse.com
/
Valiant is a leading character-based entertainment company with a library of over 1,500 characters, including X-O
Manowar
, Bloodshot,
Shadowman
, Eternal Warrior, and many more. Established in 1989, Valiant has sold over 80 million comic books, and today its characters continue to be forged in publishing, licensing, film, video games, and beyond.Slide13
Potential Distributors
Magnolia Pictures
IFC Films
Seventh Art Releasing
LionsGate
Newmarket
Films
Filmbuff
DistribberSlide14
Initial Funder/Company
Starvantage
Productions