Investment in 50 - coming of age at last!

There has been a pause in my blogging over the last week to portion out time to complete a finished version of my diploma module to prepare a first attempt at an investment pack to finance a stage show. Mine has been a long time back burner project. It’s the reason PCM is part of my online persona. There is a wind of change on the horizon and it’s exciting times.

Assignment submitted and birthday celebrated. I’m mid way through a diploma in Creative Producing. 16 weeks including a 2wk study break… and Christmas. My horizons are widening. I will need people in this new horizon. The next 2 assignments are envisioning for purposeful target marketing and storytelling, then company structure and good team structures.

Here is my opening section.

Concept orientation

To produce and commission new and fresh live 30 minute productions for new audiences emerging around immersive staged experiences such as Secret Cinema, War of the Worlds and Dr Who Fractured Time, and new global audiences who remotely attend film festivals featuring dedicated VR films. Festivals award categories for VR and 360 as well as interactive experiences and VR short films at Expanded BFI 2021, Expanded Vienna 2021 and Canada’s FIVARS VR film festivals.

LLF Expanded BFI - British Film Festival

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news/lff-expanded-immersive-art-xr-2021

Labiennale - Venice VR Expanded

https://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/2020/venice-vr-expanded-web-section

Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories
February 21st – February 28th 2022 (Online)

https://fivars.net/

The productions will explore relationships and augmentation into the ‘real life’ of the burgeoning metaverse - encouraging discussion, examination and participation with the company, challenging the audience's perception of where the frontier of digital, physical and meta virtual dissect.

Before the financial breakdown, info about the stage play there is this. The story is becoming clearer and the financials are solid

This investment prospects is the foundation of my vision setting out a realistic beginning. A play produced on an ITC influenced agreement and physical mid-small scale ambition, opening at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2023 designed and directed to then tour to sizeable black box theatre studios and village halls from Dervaig on the Isle of Mull to The People Theatre in Newcastle upon Tyne and Bristol Old Vic’s Weston Studio.

Its gradual evolution though my DYCP exploration’s will take it from extended on-stage production space with a fourth wall and traditional seated audience to later include a dual presence digital and meta virtual experience realising an immersive ‘public house Snug meets park promenade’ experience, delivering culture from the comfort of A couch, Your couch, and beyond!

The audience concept has its roots in 2012 producing TEDx LaceMarket.

So this (pic below) within an immersive wrapper…

CC Chapman speaking at TEDxLaceMarket -

 

Extraordinarily Ordinary - #DYCP

I don’t know what to say.
I was awarded a Develop Your Creative Practice grant from Arts Council England today.

It means more than I can convey right now. My request set out how I would take where my career has bought me to, swoosh it all together package and appropriately reframe it like I never imagined I’d be able to in order to set my horizons to pursue aspiration that without the funding would be unimaginable.

So what does it mean? Big Picture Stuff

1. I have my Creative Producers Diploma paid for
2. I can invest in some serious networking within the immersive theatre experience arena?
3. I have a budget for a dyslexia support work to help be with words to paper brain fog syndrome! Fi you rock.
4. I can explore the NFT smart contract royalties/residuals concept I think could change the way we archive and invest legacy in live performance arts and entertainment.
5. Attend at least 3 festivals in 2022 where live performance is being innovated to immerse myself in what’s possible
6. Compile a full business proposition and production plan for my first immersive theatre piece for a paying audience
7. Prepare and pitch to investors my innovative staging environment with its first production and NFT offer.

I’ll be podcasting with some livestreams to document and share my journey, the development and discovery also. This will afford me time to audit my own career portfolio, review and align my digital footprint and existing legacy.

All this to move forward as a Creative Producer securing and exploring unconventional and novel funding opportunities to engage investors who have an arts advocacy and production partnering itch to scratch where return on investment will be part financial, part social consciousness and part trailblazer. Proof of stake and ultimately proof of talent is the speculative investment. The right casting for the right future return.

Production scale for those intrigued is ITC and Theatre UK MRSL3 in terms of salaries to creatives and performers. The production environment and repertory of performances will, fingers crossed showcase at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe and a similar production scale immersive festival such at Vault.

Making the dream reality actually starts today Wednesday 4th August 2021.