Post by Kurai on Mar 13, 2013 10:25:35 GMT -5
Voting Open!
12 Entries, 1 £30/$45 winner's prize and 1 £10/$15 runner up prize.
12 Entries, 1 £30/$45 winner's prize and 1 £10/$15 runner up prize.
The Rules
Voting Rules:
- Please keep your entry anonymous!
- You have TWO VOTES each. I can't stop people from voting for yourselves, however, please don't!
- Please make sure you use both votes by selecting two options.
- Voting ends on Wednesday 20th March
- The three entries with the most votes will go through to a final round.
- Three independent judges (non-members of this forum) will also be placing TWO VOTES each, for a total of six votes. Their votes will be revealed when voting ends, but will not be represented on the poll (because they aren't members).
- You are able to retract and change your votes before voting ends.
- Keep it anonymous!
- Breaking these rules will disqualify your entry.
Notes:
- Some entries contained character descriptions and/or casting and some didn't. I've standardized all entries so they contain the same information - don't be offended!
The Finalists:
- The 3 finalists will be asked to provide additional information to support their entries to help determine the winner.
The Entries
Title: Raising Hell
Genre: Action-Adventure/Comedy
Logline: When a delinquent teenage boy takes in an abandoned baby, who turns out to be the son of the Devil, he faces supernatural foes seeking the child for their own vile agendas.
Series Summary: Dylan Thurston is a lonely ‘gang buster’ in a gang-plagued town where he has made many enemies, including the town’s fiercest gang leader, a young man named Tony Sixsmith. Meanwhile, in Hell, the Devil prepares to send his spawn to earth to destroy humanity, though a demoness named Lumen must first choose a human with despicable qualities to raise the baby. Dylan is entrusted with the responsibility of raising the baby after finding him abandoned in the river. The baby proves a challenge to care for, with its cry initiating bad luck to Dylan, but he and Dylan eventually bond. When the baby falls ill, another demoness named Juliet searches for a new caretaker, doubting Dylan as the child’s “ideal” human role model for showing the baby affection. The child eventually severs ties with Dylan and joins forces with Juliet’s candidate, Dylan’s rival Tony, who starts pitting the city’s gangs against each other. Dylan re-evaluates his priorities in a journey of self-discovery when he vows to prove that he is meant to raise the child himself by being the most bastardly motherfucker around.
Characters:
Dylan Thurston
Lumen (Demoness)
Juliet (Demoness)
Tony Sixsmith
Title: The World of Tomorrow
Genre: Action-Adventure
Logline: In an alternative retro futuristic 50's, young and intrepid news reporter Oliver Earney gets an internship at an odd museum where it's never-before-seen curator, the mysterious Dr. Jacoby, assigns him to strange cases that range from alien attacks to invaders of mind-controlling slugs and missing pirate ships.
Series Summary: Oliver Earney is a high-school student working for The New York Times in a technologically advanced 50's era New York City. But after doing some high-profile reports, he gets assigned to do one more on the rarely, if never before seen, curator of New York's most alluring museum, The Museum of Things and Sorts, Dr. Jacoby. One cold winter night, Earney arrives and realizes that the museum is more than just a place to watch and be amazed. It's a place where shadows and mystery lurk at every corner. Quickly, his hero's journey and adventure begins as he befriends a strange man and works for him.
Characters:
Oliver Earney
Dr. Jacoby
Hansel Ruten
Kaitlin Morris
Title: Sex & the Church
Genre: Thiller/Comedy
Logline: Aaron Treadmill was once a recovering sex addict. That is in the past, and now he finds himself the Priest of his own church in the small community of Gray Water. Everything is blissful until the young ladies of Gray Water begin to turn up raped and murdered... Has Aaron’s dark past caught up with him? Has his Mr Hyde side come out to play?
Series Summary: Sex & the Church will examine a lot of things as a show. Ultimately it’s about addiction and a study of the dark side of human nature. We’re all capable of terrible things, and S&TC will look at how we control our urges and our lusts. An important aspect of this show is the idea of what defines someone as a bad person. Do bad thoughts alone make someone evil? Does the desire to do bad, but the will to stop yourself make you a good or bad person? Is telling the truth always a good thing? Or are secrets often productive in both society and relationships? These are the questions that will be asked.
In addition; S&C is set in a sleepy remote town named Gray Water. The residences of Gray Water all have dark secrets of their own which will be fun to explore. But the most important setting would be that of the church itself. Religion and organisation that is the Catholic Church will play a huge influence.
Stylistically the show will play out in a Pushing Daisy’s fashion, with almost cartoonish violence. A mysterious character known only as “The Stranger” will book end the episodes functioning as a voyeuristic narrator in the interior monologue style of Dexter. The idea here is that this Stranger is either an innocent observer to the events of the show or God himself.
Characters:
Aaron Treadmill
Inspector Thompson
Robin Pepperpot
The Stranger
Title: The No Ones.
Genre: Drama-Comedy
Logline: When people pretend you don't exist, it only makes you louder. Three outcasts unite in order to make something of the messes of their lives and this time, 'no' is not an option.
Series Summary: Steve Jarvis is what many would call a menace to society, having lived his life on benefits due to a fictional injury he had suffered many years ago, he has been living his definition of the perfect life. However when his step daughter, Sharon, returns from Magaluf, following a break-up from her fiancé, he puts his paradise in jeopardy as he realizes the extent of Sharon's twisted nature and lack of respect towards her own mother.
Meanwhile, Dean Parker is handicapped - or as he insists 'handicapable'. Restricted all his life by his overbearing parents and prevented from doing the things every other person got to do, his own world is shaken when his parents leave him stranded. Now, wanting to experience life in every sense and get the job he's always wanted, Dean sets out on a 'coming of age' saga.
Finally, flirtatious and beautiful Anna Cornder spends her days working her way up the greasy pole - literally. Life isn't easy for a pre-op transexual in the stripping world, but in a 'don't ask, don't tell' policy, she actually finds herself pretty popular. Wanting to be more than just her gender, Anna strives for more from life.
Separate lives but as each outcast encounter each other, they find themselves in a bizarre sitcom-like friendship, experiencing the ups and down of having one another in their own lives.
Characters:
Steve Jarvis
Dean Parker
Anna Cornder
Title: Fighting Prose
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Logline: After being moved into a retirement home by his only child, Henry ‘The Washout’ Wolk, a one-hit-wonder from the 70’s, decides it’s time to find love. In order to impress the woman he says he met ‘forty years too late’, he leaves his pride at the door and joins a poetry class. But will reflecting on his past and digging deep prove too difficult for him?
Series Summary: The series follows the change in Henry as he spends time at the retirement home. Never accepting his age, he starts off bitter at being left by his only family and being alone so late in life.
Upon taking the poetry class, he not only thinks back on his own life, but learns more about the people around him. Henry begins to become more humble, and slowly wins the heart of the woman he loves.
Characters:
Henry Wolk
Rita
Dorris
Matt
Zoe
Title: New Frontiers
Genre: Space Opera/Drama
Logline: Captain Steven Roberts leads a crew on the maiden voyage of state of the art Space Shuttle New Frontier, travelling to a distant Space Station in the search of a new home world for the human race; they are Earth’s last best hope for survival.
Series Summary:
2120
In the Year 2120, Earth began to flood as Polar ice caps melted, raising sea levels, leaving parts of the Earth devastated. Many dead, others fled thier homes, seeking refuge in neighbouring countries. Vast improvements in Space exploration and new studies into recently discovered planets lead to the belief that Earth’s Population could be moved in its entirety. A space and refuelling station was built by billionaire tycoon Michael Staton. His company Frontier financed the construction of a Shuttle however it was launched without the proper testing and the first crew and ship (Also named Frontier) was lost before it reached its destination.
2135
Earth is dying, and a the search for habitable planets to move Earth’s over flowing Population continues. Plague has wiped out not only a good portion of the population but plant and animal life too Global Warming has hit and it a big bad way (the world is fucked like a Taiwanese Whore). After Frontier mission Alpha failed, when the shuttle was lost before reaching its destination, a second shuttle is launched in an attempt to complete the mission and find salvation for earth. The mission is led by Steven Roberts II, the son of Frontier’s Alpha original voyage.
Characters:
Steven Roberts II (American)
Mars Cooper (South African)
Michael Stanton (American)
Andre Lavrov (Russian)
Jessica Hamilton (English)
Title: Hamelin
Genre: Action – Adventure
Logline: A modern interpretation of the ‘Pied Piper of Hamelin’, a federal agent journeys back to his hometown in order to decipher the truth behind the disappearance of fifty two children.
Series Summary: The series begins with a shocking, unexplainable event – fifty two of the fifty five children in the small town of Hamelin have gone missing without a trace. With no obvious explanation the FBI send in two of their best agents to lead the investigation – Jack Colbert, an experienced veteran and his partner, Erik Haller. Erik is a former Hamelin resident who left twelve years prior, a year after his sister vanished in very similar circumstances to the latest disappearances. Erik and Jack attempt to discover the truth about the disappearances while dealing with the town council’s odd apprehension to assist them and Erik’s own history.
The series is told simultaneously from two separate time periods. The first, the present day, focuses on Erik and Jack’s investigation as well as dealing with Kara, the love of Erik’s life who resents him for running out of the town without ever telling her why twelve years prior, Ari, a reporter who becomes deeply involved in the mysterious goings on around town, and the town council who have a dark secret that they’re willing to hide. The second time period is thirteen years prior, showing the events leading up to and following the mysterious disappearance of Erik’s sister including the breakdown of his family and the secrets that his parents had long kept from him.
As the series continues Erik begins to uncover Hamelin’s dark history, including human sacrifices and black magic, and soon discovers that the mythical ‘Piper’, a horrifying fictional character who was said to lure naughty children from their beds at night, may be more real than he could ever have imagined. All of this builds up to a discovery of a Lovecraftian-like horror of nightmarish proportions which threaten to tear apart Erik, Hamelin and the very world.
And the only way to stop it might just be for Erik to make the one journey he has always avoided, though never been able to explain why – up the mountain, to the mysterious and legendary Piper’s Ridge.
Characters:
Jack Colbert
Erik Haller
Ari Hanes
Kara Thompson
Samuel Wesser
Title: Wallace McCormick VS. The Universe
Genre: Action-Adventure/Comedy
Logline: Stranded on a planet with five strangers, hunted mercilessly by alien bounty hunters, and forced to combat the elements? No worries.
Series Summary: Wallace McCormick is a Police Officer in London. He's twenty eight years old, has a wonderful girlfriend, and he's just been abducted by aliens. Wallace, along with five other strangers, are forced to survive on an alien planet in an intergalactic game show that will decide the fate of Earth.
Characters:
Wallace McCormick, The Hero.
Dennis Lee
Lucy Fairly
Bryan Rhodes
Ruth Overstreet.
with
Bryan Cranston as HIMSELF.
Title: Tempus
Genre: Sci-fi
Logline: When a modern-day history professor wakes up in the midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, he must not only remember who he is but he must also uncover a dangerous plot from a shadowy organization that threatens time itself.
Series Summary: John Wells, a amnesic “man out of time” and former history professor, must try to remember who he is completely while also trying to understand why he is “jumping” through time to some of the world’s most important eras. He will soon come to find out that there is sinister plot being instigated by a shadowy organization to change the history of the world, and possibly the very fabric of time itself.
Characters:
John Wells
Title: The Fall
Genre: Sci-fi
Logline: 40 years after an alien invasion wiped out 75% of the world's population, a small group of survivors must infiltrate the alien home world to get their revenge, before the aliens return to finish the job.
Series Summary: 2013. The year the course of human history changed forever. An incursion by a vast alien fleet left Earth in a state of disarray. A burnt husk. A shell of its former self. Nothing was ever the same.
Forty years later, and the children of that era are now adults -- bitter and twisted and hell-bent on revenge. Orphaned by the invasion, these hardened souls vow to do to the aliens what was done to them. Upon the discovery of a downed alien craft, the group manage to use the auto pilot system to travel 300,000 light years to the alien home world. Now, with the alien's own technology on their side, the group enact a plan to infiltrate and destroy the alien's from the inside.
This is The Fall.
Characters:
Leyton Rickard
Maggie West
Jakob Strong
Elias Vlaar
Cass Jericho
Title: Them
Genre: Dramatic Fantasy/Horror
Logline: By day, New York City is a bustling, lively city, as it always has been. By night, it's a wasteland, silent, not a soul in sight. The reason? Them...
Series Summary: For as long as the citizens of New York can remember, their city has been host to a series of creatures/monsters that roam the island of Manhattan during the night. The day provides safety and comfort for the population, the night anything but...
With bridges and tunnels closed, nothing but a secure government route (for supplies and other necessaries), many are stranded, jailed on a tightly-controlled island, a way of 'containing' the threat. Though the creatures appear to come from the water, many echo runs and searches have not once provided an answer or any sign of the monsters.
No one knows what the creates are, nor where they came from or what they are. Some are big, some are small. A small factor, calling themselves The Yankees, determine that in order to take back their island, they must fight for a truth, risking their lives as they move through New York's underworld, as well as its streets, under cover of night, hiding from their own government as well as the creatures that stalk through the night.
Characters:
Devyn Conway
Cassie Conway
Raul Patrick
Mia Forsell
Title: The Drift
Genre: Dramatic Sci-Fi/Fantasy Epic
Logline: In another world where two massive country-continents are at war, an astronaut from an international space station crash-lands in the middle of enemy territory and must fight in order to return home.
Series Summary: The world of "The Drift" is composed of three mega-continents: Leon, Koel, and Nairen. Due to the world's rapid continental drift, every fifty years, the continents collide with each other. On these continents, civilizations at the level of modern-day Earth have developed.
As a fifty-year era is coming to an end, and a collision is imminent, a war starts between Leon and Koel. Astronauts in the International Space Station -- including one from each continent -- watch as the fighting begins.
The show begins in the desert in the middle of Koel. Sierra Alto, one of the astronauts, crashes down in a tiny return capsule. She appears to be the only one who returned from the Space Station, yet she refuses to say what exactly happened up in space.
She is forced to travel through Koel in order to make her way back to the safety of Leon. She is aided by a single Leonite spy, Crane Rhea, supported by the space agency in Leon (though the space agency is pressured by Leon's government to cut Sierra off and leave her to be captured), and chased by vicious Koellian Police Sergeant Lanner Pare. Complicating matters, the neutral continent of Nairen begins to manipulate the warring continents to their own advantage.
"The Drift" tells the story of a world at war and the few individuals who are thrown into the middle of it.
Characters:
Sierra Alto
Crane Rhea
Lanner Pare
Caspian Tanne
Scarlett Xen
