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Special Heroes

A crowd sourced, interactive, altruistic, comedy TV series

Take your time with an evolving storyboard to create a TV series or use an impromptu storyboard to create a 30 minute hero tribute by just pointing at who will speak next. Two ways to honor and compete for your favorite Special Hero!

There are 20 blocks of time ranging from 30 seconds to 5 minutes that fit together to create a 30 minute episode or an impromptu Hero tribute.  For the TV series, each of the 20 blocks might have a dozen different versions, created over weeks, depending on how many people play.  Choose your favorite for each of the 20 blocks, press assemble and your 30 minute episode is created in less than a minute. 

For the instant impromptu version, you can choose people at random or give them advance notice. One person becomes the director and points at the next person to speak and everyone else can film. When the 30 minutes is over, you have filmed an instant raw tribute. You have a choice to do post production. Everyone at the event, can upload segments of what they shot to the right block. If possible, have the soundtrack recorded from one source so everything else is mixed B roll. For example, on a two day convention you film a tribute on day one. Everyone who shot something they like, uploads to the right block that evening. The next day, anyone at the convention can create their own version of events in less than a minute. You can also take as much time as you want for remakes after the convention is over as all the video from dozens or hundreds of sources is already cut and sorted into 20 piles.

For an impromptu toast at a birthday, wedding or celebration, show the QR code on your phone so can everyone look at this page. They do not need to login or create an account. (You can even print your own template on a piece of paper and skip this website!) Just point to a person and they speak next according to the block and time they have. A comedy bumper means they are funny, an interactive commercial is a prize or gift. Everything else is the story and can be tailored for the occasion.

Turn a Special Hero into a Super Hero!

Try the assembly of an episode. It takes about a minute.

Anybody from around the world can submit any block for any episode. You can even include online players by zoom. If there are a lot of blocks to choose from, put the blocks you like into your favorites folder. Choose from your favorites folder to create your final episode. In the full version, during production, you will be able to see any part of the evolving story board for each block. From a rough scribble, to rough narration to completed blocks. You can change the blocks when somebody submits an improvement and in less than a minute create a brand new episode. You can jump into any idea at any stage of the production and improve it from there.

(This is in demonstration mode as we are in pre-production and no stories have been assembled. You will only see one or two choices instead of dozens. None of the links are active.)

If you have seen the instructional video on the HELP menu, start your treasure hunt on the Treasure page. You find volunteer missions that let you share good cheer and do good deeds that can turn Special Heroes into Super Heroes. Besides having fun as a volunteer, the missions also create B-roll or train you as cast or crew! This is public domain media free to copy and paste. Everything is on a timeline. When you submit a script or link you become the Captain of it. When you collaborate, correct or improve, you become the crew. You can “Mutiny” by copying and pasting somebody else’s idea and forming your own crew to work on it. A Captain is always able to prove a mutiny because of the timeline. A mutiny is something that is encouraged among pirates as it improves the block. The original Captain can put down the mutiny and copy and paste the improvement and put it on their better timeline spot. Your mutiny might be forgiven or off the plank you go! Your goal is to become the actual crew of an episode and be paid in shares as one of the crew.

You are paid in two ways. Nonprofit shares for a scholarship or sports scholarship good for any 501 c 3 nonprofit including anything in the National treasure chest, and secondly, profit shares in an S-corporation.

The Coach gets 66% of the episode gross to support the Hero. The Coach keeps the Hero share within their monthly allowable earnings or within their management capability. 1% of gross goes to the Coach’s mama. (Mama is the person that referred the Coach.) The remaining 33% is split by time for the 20 blocks. The S-corp episode revenue is from selling commercial blocks G & K. All other S-corp revenue supports the vocational group home described on our about page. If you are the Captain of a winning block, you get the block percentage and divide it up unequally amongst your crew. To keep with our comedy pirate theme, the captain should pay himself at least 3 times as much as any other shareholder and create favoritism from brown nosers and misery for galley slaves like that old oar. The innocent are punished for their innocence with booby prizes to set an example of what could happen if the guilty earned booty prizes. This comical tyranny creates the best chance for somebody on the team to mutiny and submit their own block to compete against their captain and leave the captain adrift with nothing. (Basically the same plot, treachery, double crossing, psyops and false flag moves you see in any pirate adventure ever made! Bribe every judge you see early and often with our nonprofit coin call a “loony.” Judges like loony booty! Roll your treachery into “comedy bumpers” and start acting like a bunch of scurvy dog pirates!)

If a team makes it to Heat 9, that is when the producer makes the final choice for what 20 blocks will appear in the Episode. These are the 20 block Captains that will split 33% of the revenue by time. Episodes compete in heats but the blocks are chosen by the producer.

It takes less than a minute to assemble a 30 minute episode as shown above. The block description page explains each block. Start here. Anyone can make their own custom episode using any blocks they want and compare it to the broadcast episode for bragging rights to prove how much better their material is than what was broadcast.

The episode is first completed in Heat 9 as a narrated story. It can stay that way. Once it completes Heat 9, it can be updated with “live to tape” segments and final video for the broadcast version. It is hard to predict what will happen in blocks I, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T so for Heat 9, you make a guess. During Heat 9 you have a 2 second tolerance for any block or the episode. Heat 9 must only needs to be broadcast quality for youtube.