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What is Sex Shop TV?
Sex Shop TV is a film written with the internet in mind and designed to be released in installments.
The films duration consists of 10, 45 minute episodes.
Through this site, we would like to take the opportunity to introduce Sex shop TV, hopefully gain and review the audience's feedback, and use this as our basis to move on to its production.
We shot fifteen scenes from the first few episodes, which outline the basic Sex Shop characters and give you a taste of what is to follow.
Why choose the internet?
The internet is to a large extent, the means by which my work has
become known. I have a very good relationship with it and I use it
several times a day. It also offers me a great deal on a creative
level. A freedom of expression parallel to that found in cinema, access
to an
audience in an easy and economical way, distribution
independence and the knowledge that the work can be seen by an audience
outside of Greece.
Those are the reasons that make me want this project to reach people through the internet.
Two and a half months later...
Two
and a half months after the "prologue" has been up and
subject to your feedback, we would like to take the opportunity to
share some thoughts with you.
First and foremost, we would
like to thank everyone who helped, in one way or another, to make the
website known ( by telling their friends about us via email,
embedding the "prologue" or trailer in their websites or
blogs, or even simply through word of mouth).
We were expecting a
decent amount of hits (ή visits), but keeping in mind that it was
summer, we never expected such a turnout. We know that these figures
are largely down to these peoples efforts.
We would also like
to thank those of you who took the time to post a comment on our
website. We have taken everything you said on board, and some of your
ideas are being examined further by our team. The conclusions that
can be drawn are clear to us now.
You liked Sex Shop TV and so we
feel we should go ahead and shoot it.
This realization gives
us the strength that we need to continue down the production path to
completion. Besides, we haven't yet finished our website and its
contents.
In a few days, we are going to post the "prologue"
with English and Spanish subtitles.The German and French subs are
also in the process of being completed and will soon come together to
provide a complete proposal (ή idea).
That is the moment that
will truly be the "premiere" for us.
A global,
online (ή web) premiere of Sex Shop tv.
Before any of that
however, we would like our friends opinions. The opinions of people
who have seen us before and with which we share a special bond.
This
is the "audience" that we are most concerned with, and the
people who we want to offer to, most of all.
Sex Shop tv's
story will be completed with 10, 45-50 min. episodes. We in turn,
will cut every episode into 4 parts and present it to you once a
week. This means that we will have 40 smaller episodes, of about 12
mins. each.
We decided to follow similar examples of attempts made
around the globe, primarily in order to make viewing easier and more
enjoyable.
This seems to have been the ideal duration for the
"prologue" if your reviews are anything to go by. We are
aware however, that we also have more traditional friends out there,
and for this reason we will be uploading the whole episode at the end
of the month.
Sex Shop tv is for us, a seven and a half hour
long film, and we will work with this in mind. On the other hand, the
fact that it is divided into episodes automatically renders it a
series, so that in turn makes this project our proposal of how to
"make a series".
This is a series that uses
professional terminology, picture and sound quality, sets, costumes,
make-up and music written and recorded specifically for this project.
It is a show featuring a high calibre cast, alot of work, endless
rehearsals, creative freedom and an insatiable appetite among
everyone.
On the other hand, everyone who works on the
production of Sex Shop tv and its appearance on our website, should
be rewarded for their efforts.
Production will no doubt be quite
costly, and we know full well that noone is going to get rich over
night. Far from it in fact, especially if we are to take the
"economic crisis" into account, and the fact that, as a
result, series that are shown on private tv channels are currently
being axed (ή pulled) from one day to the next.
The fact that
we are a team, will help us get through many of the objective
difficulties that we face now and possibly in the future. Whichever
way one looks at it however, funding is needed and we don't want our
viewers to provide it. The only solutions to this situation are
promotional banners and sponsors, and this is the direction in which
we are moving, while making sure not to compromise our vision.
Without the help of grey advertising and people intervening in our
work. We need a sponsorship that respects us on a creative level and
also honours you as an audience.
We have a budget that is
equal to or a little lower than that of a television show, and we
believe that people will watch us more and more over time, they will
like what they see, they'll watch it again with friends and cherish
it.
I concluded with the productions issues, which admittedly
are not my strong point, and now I would like to share a couple of
thoughts about the show and what you saw in the "prologue".
The thinking behind the "prologue" was to show you some
clips form the first few episodes, so that you could get an idea of
the storyline, the subplots, the main characters and the general vibe
of the show.
On the other hand, we didn't want to unveil
everything, and rob the finished episodes of their intrigue. So we
decided to "risk it" with the prologue, and save the best
for last.
If you did like the prologue, I have one thing to
say. You ain't seen nothing yet...
Makis Papadimitratos,
Athens, September 2009.