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David Steinhoff – Head of Development posted an update 2 years, 7 months ago
Sentient development is wrapping. If you are a member of the Leaderboard’s top 50 and or a former shareholder of Presence Slate One or Two, please ensure we have your current address, phone and email. Presence Global Entertainment will create a new site that will house both Sentient and its Da Vinci Code thriller, ‘Power and Prophet.’ This site…[Read more]
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David Steinhoff – Head of Development posted an update 3 years, 3 months ago
The Series Bible is taking longer than the Torah and Christian Bible combined.
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David Steinhoff – Head of Development posted an update 3 years, 6 months ago
Sentient Update – Team, still working on Series Bible/ Deck for the First season. It’s comprehensive. Stand by. Stay Safe.
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David Steinhoff – Head of Development awarded 500 Hero points to Derek Stephen McPhail 3 years, 9 months ago
The reason given for this award was: Bonus for review
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Derek Stephen McPhail was just issued the ‘Sentient Script reviewer’ award 3 years, 9 months ago
Derek Stephen McPhail was just issued the ‘Sentient Script reviewer’ award, worth 500 Hero points! Awarded for the read, review and recommendations for a work of up to ten pages . With thanks for character arc and theme review . -
Ebuka Okparauzoma – Screenwriter/Director/Creative Producer. was just issued the ‘Sentient Script reviewer’ award 3 years, 9 months ago
Ebuka Okparauzoma – Screenwriter/Director/Creative Producer. was just issued the ‘Sentient Script reviewer’ award, worth 500 Hero points! Awarded for the read, review and recommendations for a work of up to ten pages . With thanks for character arc and theme review . -
Derek Stephen McPhail's profile was updated 3 years, 9 months ago
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David Steinhoff – Head of Development wrote a new post, Sentient – Theme and character arc – Part Two – Important Questionnaire 3 years, 9 months ago
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Reviews of ‘Sentient’ – Draft Four of the Pilot, were critical of our failure to address the issues of theme and character arc.This post
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David Steinhoff – Head of Development changed their profile picture 3 years, 9 months ago
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Tanya Braunovic – Actor was just issued the ‘Sentient Ambassador’ award 3 years, 10 months ago
Tanya Braunovic – Actor was just issued the ‘Sentient Ambassador’ award, worth 1000 Hero points! Awarded for use of images on site and through our social media to promote Sentient. With thanks. -
Jasmine Moton was just issued the ‘Sentient Ambassador’ award 3 years, 10 months ago
Jasmine Moton was just issued the ‘Sentient Ambassador’ award, worth 1000 Hero points! Awarded for use of images on site and through our social media to promote Sentient. With thanks. -
David Steinhoff – Head of Development wrote a new post, Theme and character arc 3 years, 10 months ago
The reviews of Sentient were critical of our failure to address theme and character arc.
I remember back in Film and TV school asking my lecturers, ‘What is theme?’ Nobody knew. No one would even spe […]
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Awesome!!!
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Thanks so much Ebuka.
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More on THEME.
Let your theme be your story Sherpa.
Theme should be expressed as a QUESTION or a PROVOCATIVE STATEMENT that provokes a clear OPPOSITION that allows us to explore that theme from every angle possible leading to the MESSAGE and resolve.• The protagonist’s character arc = theme.
• The protagonist and the nemesis = Two halves of the same coin.
• Theme has many faces to explore to fully explore it
* Each character in the story will help to explore some facet or degree of the theme.
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David Steinhoff – Head of Development posted an update 4 years ago
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David Steinhoff – Head of Development posted an update 4 years, 2 months ago
Team, 4 am – 8 am Sept 28th, AEST -The Sentient site will be down for a migration to a new Data centre.
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David Steinhoff – Head of Development changed their profile picture 4 years, 3 months ago
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David Steinhoff – Head of Development changed their profile picture 4 years, 3 months ago
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David Steinhoff – Head of Development posted an update 4 years, 3 months ago
Just re-published – the haunting sounds of the Sentient – now with two works by composer Dale Sumner, Inspired by the sounds of the Sentient.
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David Steinhoff – Head of Development posted an update 4 years, 4 months ago
Team, am finishing off work on our second TV series, Power and Prophet. Will be back on track on Sentient by August 1st at the latest. Sorry for the delay.
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Wayne Bassett posted an update 4 years, 5 months ago
Latest showreel can be seen at https://youtu.be/F_0FPfqomhA
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Benjie Anderson posted an update 4 years, 5 months ago
What’s good, my friends? I hope all of you on this platform, your families, friends, colleagues and others are safe and well. It’s a helluva time in human, medical and humane relations in the world-at-large. I appreciate each of you, and I’m sure you’ll agree when the world gets past things occurring now, “WE ARE THE WORLD” will be better…[Read more]
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A man of God, would fight for his godly principles , not against them. Might be cliched by ie good against evil works because the battle is a old as recoded time 🤔👍
“good against evil” is a relatively recent patriarchal notion over the past 5000 years. this ultimately encourages embracing the divine half of the universe and the demonizing the other half.
the original matriarchal culture from the dawn of time saw the universal duality as “light against darkness”. the path of transcendence, like in Taoism or the Toltec philosophy, is found by embracing the totality, including both the light and darkness.
a man of knowledge recognizes our eternal psychic connection with the “Indigenous Soul” / “Great Spirit” / the “Sea of Spirit”, that we all swim in, as we evolve our awareness, the true “meaning of life”.
I like the proposal , but the twist could be that his creator , was actually acting for the good of humanity in the final analysis🤔
Yes, you nailed it. That is the intention even if the outcome is shockingly different.
I am for the original version and showing how contagious the ugly side of humanity can be once your cornered even if you are not human.
Thanks for letting us know Andrew.
Sticking with the original logline.
Thanks E
a variation of your first theme option works better for me.
God’s natural law relates to the evolution of consciousness. if people-kind continue its materialistic denial of synchronicity (our psychic connection with all forms of life), it’s only natural we become the author of its own extinction event.
“People-kind is flawed and responsible for its own replacement.”
you guys are approaching this issue of faith from a shallow point of view. I don’t see Dowd’s conflict having anything to do with his faith in God.
I see “Dowd” as an Ozzie mixed-blood, part Aboriginal / part Brit, who has firmly embraced his “Indigenous soul” since a child. this means he has deep faith in his connection to the collective consciousness (God / Great Spirit) and therefore is open to what can be learned from dreams, higher life forms and alternative spiritual healing strategies. however, his neo-colonial / imperialistic wife, “Commodore Katheryn Freisler”, has drunk the materialistic Kool-Aid and only has faith in “modern” pharmaceutical drugs and surgical procedures, like the questionable chemotherapy the doctors encourage them to treat the Leukaemia threatened Tobias.
when their beloved son dies horribly, this causes Dowd deep grief, anger and resentment of his wife, modern doctors and his materialistic culture. being a proud and skilled warrior from his years as a Navy diver, he at first is willing to do his part against the “evil” aliens. Dowd then begins to question his government’s paranoia, however apparently justified. this would better explain his being conflicted with Katheryn, the ultimate breakdown in their relationship and his eventual attraction to the Siren Kayla.
logline options: I would stick with the “original” logline. your alternative proposals smack of a fundamentalist religious theme, rather than a “spiritual transformation”.
as an aboriginal person, I have a problem with your “Old Testament” notion of an angry God. most of the planet’s population do not share this Abrahamic notion of God. as mentioned above:
God’s natural law relates to the evolution of consciousness. if people-kind continue its materialistic denial of synchronicity (our psychic connection with all forms of life), it’s only natural we become the author of its own extinction event.
A helpful insight Derek. Thanks.
I like the original logline-let the fact his faith plays such a part unfold with the story.
I love the proposed theme ‘Humanity is flawed and due for replacement.’ (I mean we all know this is true right? 😉) But does the Creator have the right to upgrade?
I wasn’t sold on the foundation of faith at first maybe because in the forces you may see and do some things while ‘Serving Australia with Pride’ that would contradict your beliefs or certainly cause great internal conflict (so perhaps it’s something Dowd has always struggled with) but I can see how it will fit with the proposed storylines, death, love, power, leadership and of course the ego…is mankind really the superior species?
And the tag line I would not say God I’d just say
‘There’s a new plan for earth.
Humanity’s not part of it.’
I like the way you have summed this up and your suggestions Amber.
DANG! Apparently, the POLL service auto disables after 250 views.
Comments only folks. Sorry.
I like the new changes but prefer the original logline without doubt. I think its stronger. I look forward to filiming this monster (pardon the pun!!!).
Thanks Naomi
HELLO DAVE…
SO WHAT IS THE WAY FORWARD WITH THE RECOMMENDATIONS?
THANKS.
Hi Ebuka,
Having just completed the THEME work for the series….
There are three things underway.
1. Completing the series bible
2. Including the series outline
3. The final draft of the Australian series
Also, the contract binding the team based on your contribution.
We already have the marketing contacts so we will take that project directly to them.
Once Australia is established we then launch into getting Africa, America and the European works up.
Hope you are well. Hope your Firefighter work set in African is moving forward.
Regards
Hoff
That’s great Dave.
Sure, the firefighter work is underway, sourcing for investors/eps/funds.
Excellent news
That’s great Dave.
Sure, the firefighter work is underway, sourcing for investors/eps/funds.
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