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Watch the trailer here

The first short film funded by Nouns DAO (prop 20) is ready for its premiere, so we are proposing that Nouns DAO launch the film with a premiere and timed open edition mint event, all in one, via this proposal.

While it will be either the second or third ever DAO mint (depending on outcomes of current proposals), it will be the first ever DAO release of media (premiere) via a proposal. Upon execution, the mint and film will both be available here: premiere.wtf

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The Wizards Hat has been a labor of love from its genesis to completion. Every aspect of the film from early pre-production art through to voice overs, sound design and animation has been toiled over, aiming to uphold a long-established artisan approach of traditional animation. The team has enjoyed every little step of the journey and we hope watching it is as magical as it has been making it.

We ended up writing a long form breakdown of Harriett - a bubbly wizard’s hat who always sees the cauldron half-full, and Grummelot - a grumpy old spellmaster stuck in his ways. An origin story and full season arcs are ready to be turned into a full animated series if the opportunity arises.

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Prop 190 described an idea, that “by minting… from the DAO via a proposal, it is becoming Nouns DAO canon. Similar to how the DAO added in new head attributes via a proposal, Nouns can continue to explore and experiment with new models of CC0 art and production and minting directly from the DAO is a new tool for the organization to directly release and distribute the most important artifacts from the community. It’s not hard to see how this can advance Nouns into a crypto-native form of Movie Studio, Production House, Art Museum and so on.”

The film will be released as a timed open edition for a price of 0.05 ETH. This means it will be available for anyone to mint for the premiere week, which will be approximately the 20th Feb - 27th Feb, (beginning from proposal execution). Proceeds from sale will be split between Nouns DAO and the Wizards Hat production team 50/50.

Again, we echo the sentiment of prop 190: “We are excited to experiment with DAO NFT releases as an additional value capture mechanism, and potentially create a simple and repeatable model for any creator, community and brand in the ecosystem to put forward amazing artifacts to be minted via Nouns.”

This edition will be minted with Zora, and will be available to mint onchain as well as watch the film at premiere.wtf after the proposal is executed.

Find out more about what we’ve been up to here: twitter.com/nouns_stories

Note: the Zora edition has been setup with the film’s trailer as a placeholder, and will be swapped out to the final film upon execution, before transferring the contract ownership to the DAO.

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Release Details: Title: The Wizard’s Hat

Description: The Wizards Hat will be the first ever film premiere and second ever edition mint executed by Nouns DAO, created by Nouns Stories + Pixel.

Symbol: NOUNSSTORIES0001

Edition Type: Timed Open Edition

Start date (approx): Feb 20th (12 days after proposal submitted)

End date: Feb 27th (7 days after execution)

Price: 0.05 ETH

Split address: 0x77104f74F4fbDCf62b5bcB3D08cd12774f6e9998

Wizard Hat team address (Pixel): 0x5184782cC00E90D2E0C82A8f22729f7f38a572B8

Nouns DAO Treasury Address: 0x0BC3807Ec262cB779b38D65b38158acC3bfedE10

Note: goldy.eth (The Wizard Hat producer) is set as collection defaultAdmin to update any potentially issues with metadata + salesConfig upon contract deploy and will then transfer ownership to Nouns DAO Treasury Address when finalized.

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