Goal: Your episode funds you or your cause while doing great things for your family, friends or country.
About the short Comedy Bumpers for the Episodes
The story of the “Tropical Adventure Competition” takes place at a local pirate hang out called “The Pirate Dive Bar”. Due to the infestation of lying, cheating, stealing pirates all activites at the Pirate Dive Bar are viewable on a 100% transparent public ledger. You “Mutiny Against Crime” by using the public ledger to catch pirates then report them to the Bootymaster. The Bootymaster is a banker, judge, commander and pirate punisher that should be bribed or else. The Bootymaster manges swift, creative and often funny punishment that can be more of a reward. (this keeps the bribes coming her way) The Bootymaster never knows if the lying, cheating, stealing pirate that is being reported by another lying, cheating, stealing pirate is innocent or guilty. To solve this delemma, she punishes an innocent person to know for sure. The Karaoke Challenge Game is played at the Pirate Dive Bar and as we all know, a lot of people should be punished for their Karaoke performances. The Bootymaster is bribed to provide that punishment.
Bribes to the Bootymaster create the fund raising and the very short comedy bumpers for the TV series.
Overview of the Episodes
Basic Plot : A community leader is shown helping a team solve a problem for a person or group with a disability. At the end of the episode the team is on a sailboat in the tropics during a respite care competition. (respite care recharges the caregivers to continue to give great care to their loved ones) In the tropics the teams celebrate their hard work at solving problems for the community. The team who has the most fun on their respite care wins that portion of the Tropical Adventure Competition. The team that produces the best quality of life results for their hero go onto the playoffs.
A 30 minute episode is 24 minutes long with 6 minutes of commercials. Some of the commercials explain organizations in the vicinity of that weeks episode. They are a public service announcement given free to local organizations.
Comedy bumpers for 2 to 15 seconds appear between the scenes of this factual docu-series. The comedy bumpers are crowd sourced clips people have made and sent in while playing the “Karaoke Challenge Game” at house parties, sports bars, boat parades, raft ups and rallies.
The following times vary with every episode.
30 second opening credits
30 second introduction to the episode
30 second update or introduction of other episodes
Next minute
The episode opens with a Hero in an unusual situation such as playing the karaoke challenge game, scuba diving, using power tools etc. His phone rings. On the other end is the Guest Host that is the First Responder, Peace Officer, Other Hero, politician or organization rep for that week.
They engage in slight small talk banter then the Guest Host mentions a problem that needs solving. The Host is dispatched to meet the team of the Guest Host. After the Host meets the team he may not appear again until the end of the show for a few seconds or he may be involved throughout. That is decided by the writer of that episode.
The next 16 -18 minutes of the episode the soundtrack is a simple voice over by one person. The final soundtrack can be a second version of the episode but for judging, the first version of the episode must contain a simple voiceover for the serious part of the episode. The last 4 to 6 minutes can be any soundtrack.
Typical Naration
“I first met “the Host” during ……..” (typical voiceover start)
The narration introduces people, the problem, how they will solve it, the story of completing the employment or quality of life task and the results. The guest host is seen making the connections and cutting red tape so the team can produce solutions. The last 4 to 6 minutes are shot on a catamaran in the tropics as the team competes in respite care called “The Tropical Adventure Competition”.
During the first time the episode streams the commercials are interactive and live using the software of the Pirate Dive Bar. The comedy Bumpers introduce and educate people watching on how to play the Karaoke Challenge Game and how it creates fund raising and crowd sourced video production.