Short Summary
For the last year the Significance Producers have been working extremely hard to bring Significance to life. With some incredible attachments to the project already, Jeremy Sumpter (Peter Pan) and Michael Welch (Twilight), only added to us having some amazingly huge studio meetings. Yet, in our hearts we felt like we were sacrificing our integrity and what we really loved about Significance. So we approached the fans with the question of which would you rather? Would you rather wait for the Studios to give us the green light, or take matters into our own hands and bring this project, which we all love, to life! Giving the fans a rare opportunity to be apart of casting and a vote! The fans all agree that fan funding is the way to go to bring this TV pilot to life!
SYNOPSIS
Significance
is a one-hour character driven sci-fi/fantasy drama that follows Maggie
Masters, a 17 yr. old girl trying to discover herself. When a fated
encounter engulfs her into a world of supernatural beings that is benign to
humans, she is forced to enter a century old battle between two rival clans.
With new powers and strange allies at her side, Maggie must defend the ones she
loves while keeping her new life a secret. Making this difficult choice and
trusting in herself to save those around her, Maggie ultimately realizes that
family is what brings her back to humanity.
SERIES STRUCTURE
Our series
employs a three-tiered structure to maintain tension and suspense every week.
Similar to what was attempted on the shows Vampire
Diaries, Heroes and Smallville, this structure allows us to
maintain pressure on our characters each week through the use of a long-term
“series-arc”, while simultaneously allowing for one-off and multi-episode story
arcs. The combination of three story arcs will allow new viewers a chance to
jump-in at any point in the season, while rewarding the dedicated viewer with a
grander scope and mythology.
CORE THEMES & SENSIBILITIES
Amongst all
of the fantastic ideas and special effects inherent in our story, we should
always strive to put the “real world” on an equal plane. “Maggie uses her
powers to stop the villain” should have equal dramatic tension with “Maggie
confronts her long absent mother”. The real world is where Maggie wants to be,
it’s her focus, as any teenager will tell you. It’s when her powers conflict
with this desire for “normalcy” that we see the heart of what Significance is
about.
Being a
teenager is full of difficult choices and decisions, most of which dictate who
you will become in your adult life. Who you choose as friends, where you go to
college, these are the questions that Maggie has to answer. Who can she go to
for advice? Who has her best interests at heart? Will she believe in herself
enough to follow through? Who can she trust and what happens when someone
betrays that trust? This will be Maggie’s struggle.
Episode 1-“Pilot”
Prologue: 1850’s. A man is brutally beaten by thieves
and thrown down a mysterious well, which endows him with supernatural
abilities.
Maggie is trying to get
through her last few days of high school, everyone is on edge after fellow
classmates have gone mysteriously missing. Reluctantly, Maggie agrees to go on
a date with hipster Kyle Jacobson. On her way to the date she saves the
handsome Caleb Jacobson from a near death experience. Before Kyle’s eyes,
Maggie bonds with Caleb. This new unexpected event brings Maggie into a world
of supernatural powers that manifest once you meet your significant other.
Unable to control her new abilities and with nowhere to turn, Caleb brings
Maggie to the head of his clan, Peter Jacobson.
What We Need & What You Get
To make this pilot competitive with the other TV shows, we have been told by our budget expert that 200k would be sufficient in bringing this Pilot to its prime and thus be on the same par with like YA TV shows. However, if we exceed our goal it will be that much better with being able to splurge with special effects. Every cent is used towards the project. Once we reach our goal we will begin immediately with prep and our projection month to start filming will be August 2014. If we do not reach our goal, we will still have that money towards production and begin the journey to find private investors, this however is extremely hard and we will not be able to start filming this year. Our hopes are to exceed our goal to make this the best it can be, to have the fans be excited to see their beloved characters come to life and to proceed to the 2nd episode.
Which leads us to the question on what will happen after we finish the Pilot. We will have a premiere for the fans to view and then sell the series to a network or go in the direction of a web series.
The Impact
This best sellingYA book series that Shelly Crane created touched our hearts in many ways. It brought fans together from all over the world with a common hope that soul- mates are real. Love truly does exist and can conquer all things in this series. With an X-MEN feel for powers it appeals to the masses, not just the women. Its a sort of series that isn't on TV while creating a fresh spin on the young adult content currently in the market.
We strongly believe that this has the potential to be the next hit TV show. The fate is in your hands. Any donation is greatly appreciated. This is an exciting journey we all get to take together and you can truly say you financed a TV show and are ultimately the reason as to why this project was made! Funded by the fans! It's truly a unique way of financing that brings us closer together.
Other Ways You Can Help
Other ways you can help is spread the word! With social media at its highest, you can share on FB, Instagram andTwitter! Every share helps bring new fans and one step closer to reaching our goal to bring Significance to life! Help make some noise! Together we can do this! Indiegogo has share tools which make it extremely easy to spread the word!
We love you guys and are doing this for you all!!