Together with Director Jan Georg Schütte I'am launching "dieehrlichen.com" (German for 'the honest'). It is an experimental video storytelling plattform as well as an actors-lab. In this presentation we explain our idea, our strategy and our goals. We want to inspire fellow movie-makers and look forward to your feedback.

1. German for The Honest Lab
A Transmedia Experiment**that empowers actors to play the role of their dreams
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2. www.dieehrlichen.com
WHAT IS IT?
A Storytelling Plattform
We tell fictional stories about people, who
share their inner feelings honestly to the web.
We ask: What happens to them and explore
the comedy and tragedy of openess.*
We tell these stories, because we believe that
strong character acting will find an audience.*
An Actors-Lab
Our Actors develop their own characters
within a thematic framework. They act
them out in realtime by producing and
publishing their content on their own. This
gives them the ability to react to audience
feedback.
The director Jan Schütte offers supervision
and a Team of writers and dramatic
advisors provides support on demand.
*At the moment we tell our stories mostly in
German. This will change over time.
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3. AT THE MOMENT
WE ARE AT AN EARLY
EXPERIMENTAL STAGE!
No Funding Working at night
SEEKING FEEDBACK, ADVICE AND SUPPORT
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4. WHO WE ARE
Jan Georg
Schütte
(Director)
Ole
Schlosshauer
(Actor)
Oliver
Sauer
(Actor)
Thomas
Reisinger
(Actor)
Anne Weber
(Actor)
Christian Riedel
(Creative
Consultant &
Writer)
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5. THIS IS HOW WE START
Currently we are running four character streams on Youtube
Mr and Mrs Erhrlich share their
experiences with an open
marriage.
Heiner who suffers from
compulsive hoarding tries to
reach his ex-girlfriend.
Schoolteacher Bernd Schildknecht
stumbled upon his alter ego on
youtube: a guy spreading satanic
messages.
After an accident at home Roman
„Birdy“ Berger begins to see the
world with different eyes and
shares it to the web.
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6. WE FOLLOW THESE RULES:
Every character has something honest to tell.
A character is never a copy of an existing person.
Clips should not be longer than 90 sec.
Every charcater reacts to audience feedback
Actors should post a new clip at least every 2 weeks
Jan Schuette keeps the artistic direction
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7. THEY ARE ALREADY
INTERACTING WITH A
(SMALL) AUDIENCE
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8. WE AGGREGATE OUR
STORIES TO A CENTRAL
PLATTFORM.
www.dieehrlichen.com
Wordpress-powered
Connected to Jan
Schütte‘s Emsemble-Fan-
Page on facebook.
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9. WE ARE REVERSING THE
MOVIE PRODUCTION
LINE.
Writer Story
Director
Producer
Casting Actor 1 Actor 2
In the traditional production process actor is at the end of the creative
„food chain“.
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10. WE EMPOWER THE ACTOR.
Writer
Story
Director
CharacterActor
In our production line story development is actor driven.
They create their own role coached by the director and a writer.
We empower actors to play the role they dream about.
Producing
Audience Feedback
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11. WE EMPOWER THE ACTOR.
In our production line the actor creates his own role and produces
content on his own. This is possible by using low cost equipment:
smartphones, webcams, camcorders.
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12. OUR GOALS
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13. MOTIVATE MORE ACTORS TO
PRODUCE MULTIPLE
CHARACTER-STREAMS.
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14. ENTHUSE MORE
SUPPORTERS
Writers & Dramatic
Adivors
willing to help actors to shape their role and
story.
A participating enthusiastic audience
who give feeedback and keeps our the artistic spirit growing.
Video and Web Geeks
who help us on different levels from video editing to (English) language support to social media.
Producers/Fundraisers
who are willing to help us keep the plattform
alive.
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15. THE BENEFITS:
Play the Role of your Life*
*Actors only
Sharpen your online
profile*
*Great for actors & writers
Participate in a creative arthouse movie project*
*Great for people who love movies and like to see their feedback count.
Meet and interact with inspiring people*
*for everybody
Money*
*someday.
FUN*
*if you are willing to have it.
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16. CONNECTING STORIES FOR
A DEEPER EXPERIENCE
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17. RAISE AWARENESS FROM
ARTHOUSE TO PRESS TO
PUBLIC TO INVESTORS
GeneralPublic
Press & Bloggers
„Investors“
ArthouseAudience
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18. GAIN FUNDING
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19. LEVERAGE FUNDING AND
AWARENESS TO PRODUCE A
SELLABLE* TRANSMEDIA
FRANCHISE
Theater Play Cinema Movie
Audio PlayTV Show
Books & Comics...
*yes, we need money too.
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20. REWARD THE TEAM AND
STOP WORKING AT
NIGHT :-)
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21. going public (done)
Nov. 2010
motivate new actors
actors barcamp in hamburg
new character streams online
connecting streams
marketing and fundraising
funding
THIS IS OUR TIMETABLE
Feb. 2010 June 2010
english plattform
start
transmedia
franchise
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22. Meet us. Ask us. Support us.
Critize us.
dieehrlichen.com
Jan Schütte, Director
JanSchuette@arcor.de
Christian, Writer & Creative Coach
@mindcaffeine on twitter
christian@creativeglasses.de
www.creativeglasses.de
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