Task

Block List – The time is in minutes. Blocks are plus or minus 3 seconds of the posted time. Your episode is plus or minus 3 seconds of 30 minutes.

	Format	Time	Description
A	Opening local story	2	Introduce the competition, episode & prizes
B	Comedy Bumper 1	1	Introduce how comedy bumpers work & first one
C	Interactive Commercial 1	1	Introduce how interactive commercials work & first one
D	Local story 1	5	Introduce the team and the quality of life challenge
E	Comedy bumper 2	.5	stock
F	Interactive Commercial 2	.5	Second interactive commercial
G	Interactive Commercial 3	.5	Third interactive commercial
H	Comedy bumper 3	.5	stock
I	Local Story 2	4	Work towards solving the problem
J	Comedy Bumper 4	.5	stock
K	Interactive Commercial 4	.5	Fourth Interactive commercial
L	Interactive Commercial 5	.5	Fifth Interactive commercial
M	Comedy Bumper 5	.5	stock
N	Local Story 3	5	Show how the solution is achieved
O	Closing Local Story	1	Results the team achieved
P	Opening Tropical Adventure	1	Foreshadow their adventure
Q	Closing Tropical Adventure	3	Adventure results, Celebration
R	Interactive Commercial Results	1	Results, Prizes, Donor Recognition
S	Website Results	1	Results, Prizes, Donor Recognition
T	Episode Closing	1	Updates, coming attractions, credits

The “Work” button above leads to crowd sourcing software for episode production.

This page introduces you to a competition to build a TV series called “Special Heroes.” There are 30 Pro Teams. They each build one episode for their own Hero. Their episode will turn their Hero into a Super Hero! Heroes have the special powers of Down syndrome, spina bifida, autism or other special powers present at birth.

Think of a race for sailboats. Every sailor uses the identical type of boat for the competition. All the episodes are designed the same and have 20 blocks. Amatuer teams try to get their block to the finals and be chosen to be in the episode. 5 episodes reach the playoffs, 1 episode wins the Grand Prize.

20 blocks (A to T) build a 30 minute episode. The 20 blocks let all the A blocks, or B blocks or C blocks… compete with each other for the “Best A block”, Best B block” etc. The short time frame and specific content of a block lets anyone easily produce and submit a few minutes of video as their “tryout” for the competition.

The five comedy bumpers are from content you create while playing the games “Surrender The Booty” or “Get Loony.”

Anyone may use the “assemble” button to create their own custom episode to compare it with broadcast, playoff or grand prize episodes. If your team did not make it to the finals assemble your own custom episode to explain how you were cheated by a bunch of pirates!