First Things First

I spoke with the agent of a potential Jonesbury writer yesterday, and she had the great suggestion that I focus exclusively on the first episode or two, and then try to find financing, sponsorship, and/or distribution after that.

Because the first two episodes essentially amount to a half hour television pilot episode, we'll produce them both at the same time. We had been planning to work on the scripts for all of the first 10 episodes, and create some art assets for these episodes, while producing episodes one and two. Focusing most of our time and resources on the first two episodes, and getting them done as soon as possible definitely seems like the right thing to do.

I'll still be assigning the scripts for episodes 3 and 4 while producing the first two episodes, so that if funding arrives after episodes one and two are shopped around, we'll be ready to immediately go into production. I will also have established a working relationship with two writers. After I know what kind of budget we'll be looking at, we'll then start writing episodes 5-10 which have already been outlined. The size of the final writing staff remains to be determined.

The goal is to finish the first two episodes by the third week in July, but there is much work to be done. Fortunately, we are already hard at work, and I'll post some updates about the progress we're making, perhaps with art samples from different stages of production.