Thursday, August 16, 2012

First Post - The Introduction!

Senior Discount has filmed scripted videos for years. We started with really short, loose scripts, but eventually we started becoming more and more professional. We started giving consistency to our characters and focusing on small storylines that continue through our videos.
After doing so many videos, we decided to finally ask ourselves where this was leading. So, we decided to write a television pilot based around the world of Senior Discount. I love the videos, but they've been building for so long that it would be difficult for someone completely new to jump in to the latest one without feeling like they're missing something.
In the pilot, we start over. It's the same world with most of the same people involved, new characters, new environments, more story, and more work on the screenwriting side. We want to bring this to new people (hopefully people who can help us professionally step forward as filmmakers/writers) so we're re-introducing everyone. At this point (after about six months of work on it) the pilot is fully written. Tonight, we started scheduling things.
Senior Discount will be focusing on this for the next several weeks (and then will be a big announcement from the band about our next event - that I'm very excited for) so I decided we'd do a blog with what happens in making the pilot so the S*D fan-dix know the deal and see that we're moving forward behind the scenes.
I've included a picture of my computer, right now, as I just typed up a shooting schedule for the pilot (which will begin hopefully in about five weeks).
Yes, that is Tokka (of "Tokka and Rahzar" fame) from "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze" standing between my monitors. He keeps me honest.
More pictures and updates to follow!
- Chuck Staton
-- Senior Discount

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