FLOOZMAN
«By a
scandalous abundance, he brings deliverance »
Depot S.A.C.D. 174 627
© BC, 2005
Somewhere at the heart
of the financial system flows a mysterious and inexhaustible money source. Fred
Looseman is among the very few who have found it. Like them, he has carried a
long investigation, like them he has caught a glimpse of the truth and like
them, as he approached the emanation origin, he has lost his memory…
Only
yesterday, he was still the smart Worldwide Credit Corporation Chief Risk
Officer and the president of the anti money laundering commission. Since his
fall, he survives on the job the bank found him in a computer maintenance team.
His family and friends have become estranged. Isolated, his faculties obscured,
he only lives to mend the cash dispensers and the network which connects them
up to the central computers. Sometimes, after long work hours, he happens to
hear voices. Closing his eyes, he distinguishes prayers. Some are so clear and
sincere that he drops his tools and starts to cry.
This
is how he becomes Floozman. He comes to light and recovers his minds. His
banker calls him on the phone and it is not about his overdraft because she
remembers as well. They both know what Floozman has to do. He has the required
resources and more. But this wealth is not his: it is the magical money of
deliverance.
This
document presents a specific concept behind a television game and its derived
products. It will serve as a basis for a contractual framework aimed a
commercial exploitation by the owner of the rights.
DEFINITIONS
«The prices» designates the goods (property and
movables) as well as the access rights to services which selected candidates
shall receive in return for their image rights when they are selected as the
result of game progress.
«The production» designates the legal entity in charge
of rights exploitation, game organization as well as management of all prices,
contents and related rights.
«The game» designates the semantic, cultural and
regulatory device put in place by the production in order to organize prices
distribution as well as production and diffusion of the related contents.
«The winners» designates the individuals to whom the
prices are granted pursuing to selection.
PRINCIPLE
The
game presents deliverance by money. As part of this game, the production
transfers property of prices to selected candidates in exchange for the rights
to produce and broadcast contents related to the transformation of the candidate’s
life by these prices.
TREATMENT
The central concept of the game is the deliverance of
the moral afflictions expressed by the candidates.
The production and its partners shall adhere to strong
ethical and juridical rules in order to enforce law and assure the respect of
person’s dignity in every aspect of the game. The notion of affliction will be
particularly monitored so that only superficial moral affliction easily
reversible with the enjoyment of prices shall be addressed.
The production will endeavour to present the
exemplarity of related situations as well as different comments and
interpretations, in the respect of right and persons dignity.
With the Floozman character or any other sponsor, the
public participates into the liberation of an afflicted candidate trough three
main stages.
1) Application
selection (prayers)
2) Floozman’s intervention and prices ceremony
(deliverance)
3) Life of candidates after prices delivery (life after
deliverance).
The actual power of Floozman can be controlled by the
public with a transparent voting device.
APPLICATIONS SELECTION
Processing of an application by the production is
subjected to a contract.
The
final selection of the candidates to whom prices are granted takes place on the
basis of pre selected applications. These applications can be subjected to
contents production and distribution via different media.
These
applications can be called prayers in the context of the game.
During the selection phase, applications are submitted
to a jury appointed by the production. The content typically associated to an
application can be made up of a presentation and commented interviews.
The deliberations of the jury are subjected to
authorized diffusion via different media. The selection criteria are aligned
with the theme and the objectives of the game.
Only the applications indicating a real moral pain and
signifying the will of a relief by means of donation are taken into account, in
the respect of the law and person’s dignity.
Among the eligible candidates, the jury selects those with
whom the production will establish an addendum to the contracts per which the
candidate receives prices in exchange for extended image rights.
The vote of the public contributes to the selection
according to transparent rules.
The jury can be led to interview a candidate at any
time during the life of the contract, as part of the production of new contends
or during direct shows.
FLOOZMAN’S INTERVENTION
This
phase presents the Floozman character as he appears in the written works (in
particular “Floozman saves a dog”; “Floozman saves a tech”; “Floozman and the
old lady”) or any other character or sponsor in charge of presenting prices on
behalf of the production.
The intervention is aimed at transferring tangibly and
immediately a substantial part of the prices so that the winner can quickly
take the actions required eliminate the causes of the afflictions mentioned in
the candidature documents, taking into account any constraints and in the
respect of law and persons dignity.
The intervention can be put on stage either at TV
premises or in a different place. The character or the sponsor can appear at
any time in the winner environment or in any other place, without notification,
in the respect of the law and persons dignity.
The production reserves the right to process and
manage as a live report the intervention of the Floozman character or the
sponsor with the winner and her/his circle.
LIFE
AFTER THE LIBERATION
Beyond the price presentation and during the life of
the contract, the production can develop and diffuse contents related to the
winner’s life and to the consequences of their new wealth.
Besides, as per the terms of the contract which binds
them to the production, the winners will make themselves available to
participate into a defined promotional communication program including various
types of contribution such as: T.V. programs, interviews, press articles,
internet sites, game auto promotion, national and international tours…
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