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Nouns : A Movie - Chapter 3, 4 & 5! ⌐◨-◨

Nouns Movie Episode 2 with runtime of 11 mins is scheduled to be released in the week of Nov 15, 2023. Episode 2 will also be the first multi-client droposal in collaboration with Nounsagora. Droposal will come soon.

Tl;dr:

This specific prop is seeking funding to create Episode 3, 4 & 5 with a run-time of 10.5-11 mins each delivered within 240 days.

What is Atrium?

Atrium is a crypto-native network of independent artists and creators. Disciplines represented on Atrium currently include Screenwriting, Animation, Concept Art, VFX, Voice Actors, and Music production. Together, creatives on Atrium bring the best ranging experiences from Pixar, Marvel, Luma Pictures, Sony, Netflix & many more.

Proposal Ask:

1,125,000 (375K X 3) USD for a time-period of 240 days.

Note: Ask is following the funding breakdown shared in the original kick-off proposal 245.

Proposal timeline progress

Why Ask for 3 episodes at once?

Working on 3 month-long milestones at a time was tuned in to showcase proof-of-work to DAO and drive accountability forward.
Since then Nouns Movie team has led by example, on what it means to be transparent in production process and keeping community at large in the loo.
What we realised however, this introduced inefficiency in securing long-term senior talent to be available to work on the film as they have no guarantee on whether they will still be working on the film after 3 months (for e.g. followup proposals not passing). We are often competing against traditional studio contracts for senior talent.
Funding 3 episodes upfront will enable us to introduce batching of tasks for pre-production and animation, making the process much more predictable to manage.
More funding committed for the film will enable us to pre-empt discussions with distribution partners who will have a clearer picture of financing on the project and high likelihood of it being fully completed once they commit.

Where will the funds go to?

Story and Scripting for the Episode 3, 4 & 5
Preview Work in Progress and BTS delivered through out the proposal duration
Finished Episode 3,4 & 5 - delivered by 240 days time period.
Propdates published all along the way.

As we continue production, the timeline becomes more efficient and shrinks, ultimately leading us to the film conclusion.

Kickoff Notes for EP3 onwards

After Episode 2 release, the team will be on a short hiatus for the rest of November (2 weeks).
Team ramps back up slowly throughout month of December and sporadic availability due to holiday month.
Expected to fully iron out EP3 script during this time period.
Team back at full capacity starting January and full production loop resumes.

Recap and Progress Updates so far

You can follow Ep2 Propdates here.

Tl;dr: Its bolder, bigger and better!

Cast Announcements so far

Elijah Fox (Voice of Gi)
Lisa Stanley (Voice of Mrs Waxman)
Ray Hurd (Voice of Go)
Cesar Romero (Voice of Leader blunt)

Behind the Scenes

Discourse with the directors : How Nouns Movie enabled them to do something unthinkable, completely remotely.
Understanding the intricacies of Blus Musical Score.
Fun Trivia about the world sound design with Jordan - our SFX Lead.

First Casting call

Casting call complete. 15 characters from other Nouns-values aligned communities were selected to make cameo appearances through out the Episode 2. https://twitter.com/nounsmovie/status/1686797509765840896
We intend to do more of these along to way opening the world of Blus outwards for others to participate in.

Team Expansion Announcements

Dan Waters https://twitter.com/nounsmovie/status/1693785090340643078

DApp / UI Updates

Nouns.Movie was created to publish the story (dedicated webapp built with minting UX on top of Zora & cumulative leaderboard built-in)
Added Multi-episode support.
Introduced Worldview mints: Inexpensive art mints from different locations from the world of Blus that adds to cumulative ranking on the leaderboard.
Dedicated Behind the scenes section for audience to watch and explore auxillary content.
Planned token-gating for streaming content.

Story Updates

Genre: Action, Comedy

Script for the delivered Episode 2 can be found here

We also created a rough outline of how the story progresses through completion. We are currently expanding from that structure as part of the next story act.

Additionally

As part of the this continued workstream, we intend to:

Create token-gating for content for future so the Nounish communities can watch the story overall but we keep doors open to bring streamers and other conventional partners of distribution.
keep building out self-distribution channels for content.

… We eagerly look forward to continue building the cinematic universe of Nouns.

Team Nouns Movie ⌐◨-◨