Mer-Crazy
06-21-2013, 11:47 PM
Yep! I am here, shamelessly advertising my series due for release early next year. You may all be sitting here and wondering 'why such a long wait?' Well I am here to not only advertise my new series but also explain all that! Basically I'm trying to build an audience before the series airs to try and boost it's success rate.
Q. What is your series name?
A. Mer-Crazy (copy right, trademark, all that junk don't steal it) (like in my user name)
Q. Why chose Mer-Crazy?
A. Basically I went into this trying to make mermaids logical. If it doesn't make sense to me then it doesn't happen. So things like 'humans finding magic pools/spells/rocks/potions etc and getting fins doesn't happen, touching water won't cause humans to get tails, no magical mermaid powers, no talking to sea life, and they cannot get legs by getting dry. I understand this may lose me viewers, because I refuse to do some of those cliché things that make no sense to me, but I'm hoping the path I'm taking will also gain me viewers because of it's uniqueness. You will also notice instantly we're all a bit older than your average 'mermaid series', late teens.
Q. What's the plot?
A. It's about 3 human friends who find an injured mermaid washed up on a beach one day and spend the series keeping her a secret. There is a big reason here for why we only have one mermaid and that will be explained in the next section.
Q. Why will it take so long?
A. Well, firstly I do not do things by halves, meaning we will be filming with a semi-professional camera with proper audio recording devices and a good quality underwater filming camera. Our mermaid's tail is also professionally made (not a fabric tail over a monofin) and is still in the process of being constructed. So the expenses are rather high (our producer estimates she will be $3500 out of pocket before this venture even begins). That is one thing, the fact we are currently without a mermaid tail is second. Third it's currently winter here and too cold to do a lot of the water shots we'd need. Fourth the plot is in-depth and the scripts usually take about a week to write. So rather than rushing we thought we'd take our time and make sure YOU as a viewer got a high-quality product.
Q. What Equipment do you use?
Our tail will be coming from the lovely Raven of Merbellas <3 It is only a basic tail, but with a competitor monofin upgrade.
We'll be using a Canon 60D for the land filming and a GoPro hero 3 black edition for the water filming.
We have an external vidpro 14" shotgun unidirectional condenser microphone for sound recording.
We will be using Corel VideoStudio pro X4 for editing (we do have adobe premier but our editor feels more comfortable using the other program so there may be a bit of swapping ever now and then)
And we will be filming in the Tweed Valley region of northern NSW Australia.
Q. Where can I find Mer-Crazy?
A. Our Producer is crazy into this idea, so she's developed social media for this series all over the place. So far a lot of them are not being used (or just very quiet) but once we receive our tail she said she will start posting things like crazy. In the meantime here are our links:
Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/MerCrazyTeam
Instagram:MerCrazyTeam
http://instagram.com/mercrazyteam
Tumblr:Mer-Crazy
mer-crazy.tumblr.com (http://mer-crazy.tumblr.com)
Facebook:Mer-Crazy
http://www.facebook.com/MerCrazy.com.au
We will also be opening a CafePress shop if we gather enough interest.
Fell free to ask any other questions you might have, just post below and I'll be happy to reply <3
Q. What is your series name?
A. Mer-Crazy (copy right, trademark, all that junk don't steal it) (like in my user name)
Q. Why chose Mer-Crazy?
A. Basically I went into this trying to make mermaids logical. If it doesn't make sense to me then it doesn't happen. So things like 'humans finding magic pools/spells/rocks/potions etc and getting fins doesn't happen, touching water won't cause humans to get tails, no magical mermaid powers, no talking to sea life, and they cannot get legs by getting dry. I understand this may lose me viewers, because I refuse to do some of those cliché things that make no sense to me, but I'm hoping the path I'm taking will also gain me viewers because of it's uniqueness. You will also notice instantly we're all a bit older than your average 'mermaid series', late teens.
Q. What's the plot?
A. It's about 3 human friends who find an injured mermaid washed up on a beach one day and spend the series keeping her a secret. There is a big reason here for why we only have one mermaid and that will be explained in the next section.
Q. Why will it take so long?
A. Well, firstly I do not do things by halves, meaning we will be filming with a semi-professional camera with proper audio recording devices and a good quality underwater filming camera. Our mermaid's tail is also professionally made (not a fabric tail over a monofin) and is still in the process of being constructed. So the expenses are rather high (our producer estimates she will be $3500 out of pocket before this venture even begins). That is one thing, the fact we are currently without a mermaid tail is second. Third it's currently winter here and too cold to do a lot of the water shots we'd need. Fourth the plot is in-depth and the scripts usually take about a week to write. So rather than rushing we thought we'd take our time and make sure YOU as a viewer got a high-quality product.
Q. What Equipment do you use?
Our tail will be coming from the lovely Raven of Merbellas <3 It is only a basic tail, but with a competitor monofin upgrade.
We'll be using a Canon 60D for the land filming and a GoPro hero 3 black edition for the water filming.
We have an external vidpro 14" shotgun unidirectional condenser microphone for sound recording.
We will be using Corel VideoStudio pro X4 for editing (we do have adobe premier but our editor feels more comfortable using the other program so there may be a bit of swapping ever now and then)
And we will be filming in the Tweed Valley region of northern NSW Australia.
Q. Where can I find Mer-Crazy?
A. Our Producer is crazy into this idea, so she's developed social media for this series all over the place. So far a lot of them are not being used (or just very quiet) but once we receive our tail she said she will start posting things like crazy. In the meantime here are our links:
Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/MerCrazyTeam
Instagram:MerCrazyTeam
http://instagram.com/mercrazyteam
Tumblr:Mer-Crazy
mer-crazy.tumblr.com (http://mer-crazy.tumblr.com)
Facebook:Mer-Crazy
http://www.facebook.com/MerCrazy.com.au
We will also be opening a CafePress shop if we gather enough interest.
Fell free to ask any other questions you might have, just post below and I'll be happy to reply <3