OK, Ariker's movie is written. No it's not. The story is written. The dialogue and screenplay are still to come. We need some help.
For anyone who is interested in commenting or working to get us some free publicity, I will email a copy of the story if you email me your full name and email address to: jw.response(at)sympatico.ca (replace the '(at)' with '@'). I will not email the story to any newbies with no posts or if your story is not on the 'my story' forum (or somewhere here, even if it's in bits and pieces). I am especially interested in comments from anyone whose daughter might have married into the JWs.
We will need to set up a website with a brief write-up and discussion board, we will need help with the site (set-up), graphics and moderators for the DB. We will need volunteers to plug the movie and website all over the 'net and get us some free publicity.
Please remember a few points here:
1) I will be shunned by my family for the rest of my life for writing this. I am expecting death threats and threats of legal action and whatever else a doomsday cult can pull off. Please do not publicise my name until the movie actually hits the theatres (that goes for everyone involved I guess, including Ariker).
2) The story belongs to me, I am filling in the forms for the copyright as I write this. If I email you the story, please do not forward it to anyone or give away the ending.
3) The story has a very spiritual slant to it, but I personally am still an atheist, so please don't ask what church I'm going to these days.
4) Money? Camera gear? Connections to movie distributors, agents?
I will be making this into a book also, I may write it in serial form and post 1 chapter every couple of weeks on the website.
5) We're going to need royalty-free photographs of a large JW district convention, preferably Yankee Stadium 1955. I think the copyrights run for 50 years, so it just expired (remember that really wide panoramic photo the Org published? Did they do one for Cedar Point when Rutherford gave the Advertise, advertise, advertise! speech?)
We also need high-quality (preferably large-format, 120 or 4x5, color) photos of the caves of Qumran where the Dead Sea scrolls were found. Remeber, we have less of a total budget than most Hollywood movies spend on bottled water. Once we get the website up, we might just have a whole list of things we need, if people are responding.
Jody
For anyone who is interested in commenting or working to get us some free publicity, I will email a copy of the story if you email me your full name and email address to: jw.response(at)sympatico.ca (replace the '(at)' with '@'). I will not email the story to any newbies with no posts or if your story is not on the 'my story' forum (or somewhere here, even if it's in bits and pieces). I am especially interested in comments from anyone whose daughter might have married into the JWs.
We will need to set up a website with a brief write-up and discussion board, we will need help with the site (set-up), graphics and moderators for the DB. We will need volunteers to plug the movie and website all over the 'net and get us some free publicity.
Please remember a few points here:
1) I will be shunned by my family for the rest of my life for writing this. I am expecting death threats and threats of legal action and whatever else a doomsday cult can pull off. Please do not publicise my name until the movie actually hits the theatres (that goes for everyone involved I guess, including Ariker).
2) The story belongs to me, I am filling in the forms for the copyright as I write this. If I email you the story, please do not forward it to anyone or give away the ending.
3) The story has a very spiritual slant to it, but I personally am still an atheist, so please don't ask what church I'm going to these days.
4) Money? Camera gear? Connections to movie distributors, agents?
I will be making this into a book also, I may write it in serial form and post 1 chapter every couple of weeks on the website.
5) We're going to need royalty-free photographs of a large JW district convention, preferably Yankee Stadium 1955. I think the copyrights run for 50 years, so it just expired (remember that really wide panoramic photo the Org published? Did they do one for Cedar Point when Rutherford gave the Advertise, advertise, advertise! speech?)
We also need high-quality (preferably large-format, 120 or 4x5, color) photos of the caves of Qumran where the Dead Sea scrolls were found. Remeber, we have less of a total budget than most Hollywood movies spend on bottled water. Once we get the website up, we might just have a whole list of things we need, if people are responding.
Jody
