Ok I've been trying to work this into a reddit comment for months and it's most likely going to go unnoticed anyway. Basically I'm looking for writers of short 2ish minute webisodes. read on if you want to know my situation.

Basically I've got some video equipment(camera, lens, lights, microphones, lots of gaffers tape) and I planned on making short form maybe political fictional shows. Think half hour t.v show but instead of 22 minutes around 2 minutes(more web friendly and easier to manage with a small crew) and instead of t.v put it on youtube, metacafe, break the distribution sites that at least pay something out to original content producers

Now the money isn't fantastic, but if you can manage to get into the hundreds of thousands of views they can start paying hundreds and maybe if it really blows up thousands of dollars off each video.

The beauty of the whole setup is it costs me nothing to actually shoot footage, so if I can get 2-3 volunteer actors and a cheap or free location you can make the initial economics work. If I can actually make money doing it that way I can start paying people for future projects.

Now you may say, well there are lots of people out there trying to do that type of thing and mostly their footage looks terrible. But with the new advances in large format CMOS digital sensors you can get a lot closer to what a 35mm film looks like if you shoot conservatively. I don't exactly have millions of dollars work of cranes and dolly equipment, but if you look at most t.v shows most of the shots they use can easily be replicated with a good tripod. if you have a scene written you shoot it for 5 or 6 different angles(close ups of individual characters, wide shots of the whole group, yada yada). It's all shot on 32GB compact flash cards. then you cut it together with any of the powerful and relatively cheap software like final cut and you have a finished product.

Now I had orginally thought the biggest problem was going to be finding out what I needed to buy to make that happen. Turns out that was by far the easiest part. The hard part is finding fellow collaborators, that goes double since I live in an idea without much of a independent film scene.

What I don't have are decent scripts, I have some of my own ideas but I'm not exactly a skilled writer. There must be writers out there that would like to see something they wrote actually made, I just have no idea how to find these people. If you can write two minutes worth of dialogue and it can be set somewhere simple I really could get a production rolling pretty quickly. The problem is that of money of obviously, I'm not in the financial position to be paying people prior to distribution and I don't really have the legal knowhow to offer up complicated royalty systems to of payment. I very much intend to start paying everybody involved if I can prove I can actually make money off these youtube like sites. Hell I'd even be pretty pumped if I break even.

I basically have a small business sitting in my closet waiting for a good moment of opportunity. without proper scripts I'm not willing to start auditioning actors and without actors I have nobody to stand in front of the camera so I'm basically stuck. I live in Manitoba and our film/writter community is pretty much nothing as far as people willing to work with a brand new unproven producer. But I mean there has to be somebody on the internet willing to write something for potential fame and glory.

Pandering will be the name of the game if you can write something that panders to the type of audience that uses social bookmarking sites you can start generating the amount of views it takes to start turning a profit. Also with the setup current events are fair game since production I'm hoping from start to finish could be kept under a month.

I have ideas for eventually doing more serialized content, what I think would be perfect right now is something simple like some young adults sitting around offering up their humorous points of view on current events(US politics seems an easy target). There is so much room for opinions since US television doesn't stray to far from popular public opinion.

Anybody actually read all that? braces for trolls