Girly Studios White Paper

Girly Studios White Paper

Artwork Jim Moore (http://jimsdrawingboard.blogspot.co.uk/) / Grade-Edit S.Hamer

...Dance on the Dark Side

Girly Films was a funny ironic name I created when I first started doing freelance work. I was transitioning from an man to the woman I now am So at that point, I was merely in effect a bloke in dress. My thinking was, Let's break down a few barriers, buy showing I had a sense of humour about it, so in the end it stuck. At the core of this, is a wish to foster better inclusion for the mentally and physical disabled. A focus on helping often very normal individuals who have been through and effected by trauma or abuse.

Via innovative projects that provide employment and career's rather than merely charitable aims. Let alone place this in a collaborative framework, proven professionals at the helm. IrreI have come from working within Senior Roles within High-End spective of education, social background, age, gender, ethnicity, Visual Effects for the British Film & TV Industries. SKY, Avid, UK disability or sexuality. As much as we have legal instruments proDisney Channel, Peerless Camera, Capital FX..etc. Then retecting these rights. In reality people often need so much more trained in Camera at Panavision, NTFS, BKSTS, while I took time than merely what is considered reasonable. out being a mum. Please see; I myself am a post operative male to female Transsexual, I'm http://uk.linkedin.com/in/sammihamer sure this is likely clear by now. Bisexual, Autistic and have come through some life trauma, over recent years. Specifically hate My overall aim is to set-up a Media Production Studio, Girly crimes, then domestic violence and sexual abuse at the hands of Studios utilising innovation, engineering, clinical psychology the very person I loved and so much more than that. and science in the Art's. Bringing on board executives, non executive directors with expertise and capital, this is the initial priority Turning the writing that won me a British Film Institute submission in 2009, Behind the Dancer into Scarlet helped heal me and the bit I need most help with. and get me through those bad experiences. Girly Studios will encompass Film, TV, Animation, Factual/ This is my motivation for wanting to include people that have so Multi-platform Media Production, Contemporary Art, Music and much to offer by giving real opportunities, not token gestures. Not Performance. merely to contribute but ultimately be instrumental in creating The flagship project being Scarlet. This is a multi-platform, live their own vision. By having well thought out intelligent robust support, utilising clinical psychologists, psychiatrists embedded inaction blockbuster Feature Film Project. Two world class Films, an Animated series, a High quality Drama series and two streams trinsically. Equally proven creative professionals intrinsically mentoring and training as part of their role. of factual programming connecting to them. Then Theatre, Dance, live Performance and Art sub-projects. All approaching Statistics say most of us will all go through some form of mental challenging themes in innovative ways and all scalable. health crisis in our lives, or face some form of significant problem. http://www.facebook.com/SCARLETmovie As in sport most notably the Olympics and Paralymics recently, our mind is crucial in facilitating success. So why not utilise the same innovation in sport, to help people who would likely One thing I learned from talking to the BBC Drama Departnever have access to such opportunities. Allow them to be a sucment at the beginning of the year, was that Scarlet is simply too cess, through their creativity and expression. big for TV alone. Beneath all the tease, two live action, Block Buster feature films are smouldering. Two at the very least. From within the darkness an earth shattering Epic really is about to blow your Mind and set the world a Ablaze...!!!

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Girly Studios White Paper

The key to this are keen experienced entrepreneurial board members and executive team with proven expertise.I'm just lucky to work with people that know so much more than I do, my normal mantra for explaining how lucky I feel to have worked and continue to work with such professional and talented people. Their is equally a sound logic that fit's into improving health and well being in regards to cutting through socio-economic barriers, that equally allows the core business to tap into underutilised talent, this requires a seemingly unconventional approach, humanity and real support.

The first project would be following me learning to Dance, learning about the history of Dance as well as setting this in a contemporary context. Including the psychology and science behind dance and the different perceptions of certain forms of dance over time (e.g. Burlesque & Pole Dancing) Travelling the world meeting, people, learning, and becoming involved in performances. The impetus being I need to learn more about dance myself, to understand the very character I created.

Overall this becoming a Series on the Art's and successful different people like myself (being Transsexual, but any flavour of often misunderstood person you could imagine) rather than the never ending sensational documentaries about transition, or such Overall giving the organisation and it's projects a competitive edge. An example would be not excluding a Dancer from playing difference. Positive Programming. In effect putting myself the lead in Scarlet if she happens to have lost a limb, but utilising out their as really the first intelligent, educated, successful physical effects such as Wire/Ariel work and VFX to make this Transsexual Role Model in the full media spot light. possible even though the character herself is not physically disThis and the Anime being the first things that can go into producabled. Equally we are already developing an example of an enhanced Audio Description track, that will have it's own heightened tion. While the bigger project continues to be developed. Followed by a very mature factual series exploring the challenging sound-scape. themes raised within Scarlet. Timed to follow it's release so as The key is a concurrent, dynamic adaptable and interactive, Mul- not to compromise the narrative. ti-platform convergent production model. This is the bit that alI have a wealth of world class technical and creative talent in the lows for inclusion and the altruistic objectives to be competitive wings once funding is in place to employ them, as can be seen and effective. In effect already having the start of examples for from my contacts on Linked-in. Radio/Audio Book/Audio Pod-casts. Base Score, Theme, Title Track, Audio design and some concept design, that are reused as I'm looking for local untapped or returning creative talent in the media assets. first instance, comparative mentors in their field globally and Although their is a core narrative structure for Scarlet, the logic is highly experienced, global entrepreneurial expertise in setting up the organisation. to have a writing team of people drawing from their real-life experiences, headed by proven screenwriter/writers, along with a psychiatrist and support staff . In addition it will be lead by an animated teaser series, that allows the audience to contribute their experiences and stories that then create the next episode, elements feeding back into the main live action production of Scarlet, the factual running concurrently.

Samantha
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