LG15: THE SHOW IS YOURS 2
Submit Your Pilot!
After the incredible creativity and hard work from the producers of LG15: The Last, we are excited to announce LG15: TSIY2. This is your chance to make the next LG15 series! Submit your ORIGINAL LG15 PILOT and get the chance to see your show be the featured content on LG15.com.
We have listened to the feedback from the community and looked back at the first TSIY and made some changes that we think will make TSIY2 even more successful and rewarding for both the producer of the chosen series and the community.
Sorry about the formal nature of the below, but we want to be very clear and precise about TSIY2. So here you go:
Submitting Your Pilot
Anyone may submit a pilot for TSIY2. The pilots must be submitted between October 1, 2009 and October 15, 2009. Entries will be closed at 11:59 pm PST on October 15, 2009.
If the submission comes from more than one person, the team must appoint one person that will be the point person for the pilot (”Point Person” “You” “Your”). The Point Person must be over the age of 18 and legally able to enter into contracts.
The pilot must be derivative of the LG15 Universe by building upon the mythology of lonelygirl15, KateModern, LG15: The Resistance, LG15: The Last, and OpAphid. For more information on LG15, please read the LGPedia, the #1 resource on all things LG15.
The pilot can either be Episode One of your proposed show or a Pilot Presentation, which gives a general idea of the look and feel of the proposed show. It must be no more than 5 minutes in length.
Upload Your video to YouTube and send the link with Your social show treatment to pilot@lg15.com. All pilots will be showcased on LG15.com and Inside LG15. UPDATE: Please Log In to the new LG15.com with your EQAL account which is the same email/password you used on the old LG15.com. Create a profile page, connect your YouTube account, and import your pilot video to your profile page. Flag it as “Cool” and we’ll feature your pilots on the new LG15 universe blog.
As part of Your pilot treatment, You must list the names of all people entitled to “Created By” and “Executive Producer” credit of Your pilot.
All video submissions must also include an 8-week social show treatment that outlines Your story, characters, and interactivity. Your treatment must incorporate all aspects of a social show. A social show is an experience on a website where a community participates in a specific entertainment property by viewing and discussing videos and other multimedia content, and by interacting with the characters through profile pages, commenting, and chat.
All submitted pilots will be covered by our Terms of Service.
The selected pilot will be announced on October 30, 2009.
If Your Pilot is Chosen:
If Your pilot is chosen to become TSIY2, it will become part of the LG15 canon. You will be required to create one piece of content each day, Monday through Friday. You will be required to produce at least 2 videos per week, plus additional content such as pictures, text blogs, and interactivity.
Prior to announcing the selected pilot, EQAL will reach out to the Point Person and inform them that they have been selected.
The Point Person will then enter into a contract with EQAL whereby EQAL will acquire the rights to Your show. The contract will be a standard contract with the following terms:
- You will be paid $5,000 for the rights to your show and to deliver the required materials.
- Once receiving the $5,000 you are responsible for producing the 8 week social show and for all costs of production associated with the production of Your show.
- All people listed as “Creators” and “Executive Producers” on the pilot submission will receive “Created by” and “Executive Producer” credit in the LGPedia.
- You will receive 50% of the net profits from all proceeds from the Your show.
- You must have name/likeness releases for all people appearing in your show and the rights to use all music in your show.
- You will deliver the first week of content to EQAL on January 4, 2010 and your show will start airing on January 11, 2010.
- You will be required to deliver each week’s content every Monday thereafter (e.g. Week 2 is due on January 11, 2010).
- Your show will be distributed on the LG15 YouTube account and on a custom show page subdomain of LG15.com (e.g. LG15.com/yourshow)
Marketing Your Show and Other Info.:
EQAL will market Your show by posting it to the LG15 YouTube account, showcasing each new video on the lonelygirl15 YouTube channel video player and the LG15: The Resistance YouTube channel, and sending out tweets when each new video is posted from the LG15 twitter account.
An EQAL producer may consult with you and your production team and review scripts and videos to ensure that your story is consistent with the LG15 Universe and uploaded in a timely manner for the benefit of the community.
Glenn Rubenstein, creator of OpAphid, will provide a vocal cameo as “Brother,” and/or assistance with effects and/or editing for 2-3 minutes of Tachyon-style footage if You should choose to include these characters in Your series. Glenn may provide other help and/or assets to the winner at his sole discretion.
Good Luck! We look forward to watching everyone’s pilots and seeing what the LG15 Community will do with the Breeniverse.
August 31st, 2009 at 8:20 pm
So exciting after seeing what a success LG15: The Last was!
August 31st, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Wow, very exciting. I was in the process of preparing an entry, but a lot of my resources ran out on me, so we’ll see. Expect to receive fewer entries this year, everyone is afraid of making something lower quality than “The Last”.
Too bad no more LG15 until the new year.
August 31st, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Got a whole month, huh? Well, that gives me time to rework the script and pitch document, plus film the thing. Only real disadvantage here is some people will probably have to deal with snow come January. Still, can’t wait to get to work!
September 1st, 2009 at 1:36 am
Oh, I just thought of something. Will there any resources you’ll be letting pilot-makers have access to like music? Music is going to be my massive issue, I know that much.
September 2nd, 2009 at 4:31 pm
I miss LG15 but this will be fun.
September 2nd, 2009 at 7:21 pm
Maybe LG15 The Misfits will be re entered, seeing that it pays $5000… hmmmm hmmmm
September 4th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
@KatieG, i hope the misfits will re enter.
@EQAL, althought i miss lg15tr, i am somewhat excited to see what happens for tsiy 2, now that the rules are a little different. I am still behind you guys all the way, I just know this is going to be a really long process though to get back on track.
I am hoping for a return in summer of 2010 :\ we will definitely see soon.
September 9th, 2009 at 11:21 am
Will there be a trailer type video on youtube.com/LG15 anytime soon advertising TSIY2 to those who don’t check Inside LG15?
October 19th, 2009 at 8:46 am
The TOS set forth here (http://www.eqal.com/terms) differ from the TOS on LG15.com (http://www.lg15.com/tos). Which TOS is correct? Do they both apply. If, so how do they interact?
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March 13th, 2010 at 2:10 pm
Thanks! great Work! Best Regards from Germany
March 13th, 2010 at 2:11 pm
Great points…I would note that as someone who really doesn’t write on blogs much (in fact, this may be my first post), I don’t think the term “lurker” is very becoming to a non-posting reader. It’s not your fault at all, but perhaps the blogosphere could come up with a better, non-creepy name for the 90% of us that enjoy reading the posts.