New World Media

Streaming Audio and Video

Link Your Radio and TV

"The Medium is the Message"

"How will commercial and educational over the air and cable broadcasters really use the Internet?... How can we make money at this? ...The answers are complex:

...there is a growng movement towards creation of content that is accessible only by the Internet. Much like the pirate radio stations that flourished in the late 60's and 70's, there is the opportunity for individuals to produce their own content and set up their own broadcast site from any location, in essence become a mini-network. As more and more people migrate towards the Internet, these sites are becoming more popular as sources of new news and entertainment, all with an eye to the cutting edge, the eye of the tiger, to be first, grab a piece of the real estate and stake a claim. As technologies continue to improve and the quality of content and reliability of delivery becomes a day to day regularity, we should look to see more of these 'stations' or 'networks' proliferating into the 21st century."

New World Media by Michael Adams and Daniel Fortune

3 New World Media Scenarios

Project Synopsis I: The Elevator Diaries

©Producer: Sal Castro
Graphics: Cari Hawkins
Narrator and Chief Aviator: John Annecone
Animal Trainer: Mary Flodin

This is a weird and wacky radio soap opera. The setting is an elevator in a residential hotel in downtown Gilroy. During each of the weekly 5 minute broadcasts, the audience eavesdrops on the random snatches of conversations that take place as residents and visitors go up and down the elevator.

The engaging life dramas of our hotel residents unfold in brief, bizzare elevator vignettes. Twice each episode, conversations segue into an advertisement for a product or service casually mentioned by one of the characters, somewhat reminiscent of " The Truman Show".

This 5 minute show opens with a shot gun and a stinger, includes two 10 second commercials, and ends with a teaser about the next episode. Schmaltzy background "elevator music" plays throughout the program.

Listeners will be able to log on to our web site to listen to archived episodes, hear real time streaming episodes, give advice to or ask questions of our characters, ask the characters for advice about their own life dramas, and/or go on-line shopping for products advertised.

Project Synopsis II: ¡SMACK! TV

©by BetaTwo Group: Ratha Nou (rboogie128@aol.com) Khalil Iqbal(east99@hotmail.com) Fredo Lua (azucarfunk@yahoo.com Mia Isaksson( lovenhaight@hotmail.com) Deny Khonung(densitym6@yahoo.com) Mary Flodin (maryflo@cruzio.com) Nam Nguyen(aznguy728@usa.net).

Audience: Intelligent, well-educated, discriminating, technologically savey men of good taste between the ages of 18 and 25, ... and their very good friends.

Our weekly, two-minute TV show has 4 segments per show. The subject matter of these segments rotates on a daily basis. The show also includes an interactive web site, with streaming real time audio and video, archives of past shows, chat rooms and on-line shopping.

Intro-10 seconds (At the beginning of each intro there will be the sound of a "smack". This term is intentionally ambiguous - a smack is a big wet cartoon kiss, what you do to a new born baby's bottom, what it sounds like when you fall down snowboarding, a street drug, slapping your cards or money down on the table, hitting yourself on the forehead, smacking the lips together after eating or drinking something very delicious, and the sound of one hand slapping.... It also is what is spelled -more or less - when you put together the first letters of the components of our show: Shopping and Sports, Meeting people, Alternatives, Celebrities, Kicking butt, and Kissing. This ambiguity would be our attention getter: our front page would be a Flash page with images of the various parts of our show, and different kinds of "smacks" flashing through).

Segment 1 - Extreme Sports .......such as snowboarding., mountain climbing, hang gliding, bungie jumping, sky surfing, etcŠ We will have a featured extreme sport video clip. On the web site, viewers will be able to purchase the full version of the video and learn more about the athletes, the locations, the equipment, etc. for each sport. In the travel section, they can purchase extreme sport adventure travel packages on-line. Our audience will be able to chat with athletes on-line and have virtual extreme sport adventures.

Segment 2 - Online Dating. Each week on TV, we will show a sample "teaser" of pictures and profiles of single people available to subscribers. Viewers from here can log onto our website, subscribe to our on-line dating service, and send their picture and profile to the person they are interested in. They may also "meet people" in our interactive chat rooms. Subscribers may search by region, interests, and/ or any and all of the genders. We may consider selling or merging this section of our production to a large existing corporate dating service, to minimize liability and overhead, and maximize coverage. We feel that sometimes it is hard for some people to meet others and that the Internet is a good medium for people to meet. This section may evolve.

Segment 3 - !SMACK! Shopping. Here we would feature the latest best trends in clothing, computer hardware and software, sporting goods, fine wines & gourmet products, etcŠ

Segment 4 - Music ...downloadable from our web site, music videos (which will be streaming video on our site) This segment will also feature a music celebrity each day. Viewers will be able to log onto our site to learn more about the featured celebrity. Some segments will feature live chat with a music celebrity. The !SMACK! audience will also be able to vote, at the web site, for favorite genres, artists and hits, thus creating a !SMACK! top ten.

Segment 5 - Celebrities. The celebrities will be interesting and controversial role models in any field, for example possibly the person who created Napster, a star athelete, someone doing an exemplary community service, or a sexy, controversial environmental activist like Julia Butterfly or Erin Brockovitch. At the internet site, our audience will be able to get archives of interviews. Some segments will feature real time interaction with the celebrities.

Additional alternating/rotating segments may include: fitness, self improvement, health foods and products, mind altering substance review and advisory (fine wines, sensimilla reports, street drug advisory, anti-depressants eg.prosac, sexually enhancing drugs...), honest, enlightened discussion on relationships and sexuality, alternative political and environmental news and commentary, finance and investment, hot jobs/career moves and trends; interesting and fun night life, restaurants and clubs at the "hot spots" around the planet...

Each day, one segment of our show will be rotated temporarily with new segments. Here is a breakdown of the time each of the parts of our show will take: Part 1(extreme sports)- 20 seconds Part 2(dating)-30 seconds Part 3(shopping)-20 seconds Part 4(Music, videos, and Celebrities)-30 seconds The last part of our show will consist of 10 seconds where we will show clips of the next days' upcoming show. Note:The URL of our website will be posted on the bottom of screen throughout our whole show.

Project Synopsis III: "The Blue Screen of Death"

A dramatic radio series, in the techno sci fi genre (Tron, Neromancer, Giles Goat Boy, Last Stand on Zanzibar, and Marge Percy's She, He, It, to name just a few of the classics in the genre) to be broadcast weekly over the radio, with a streaming internet link, including archives of the weekly episodes, real time streaming, animated video segments, and an interactive chat room.

The BetaOne Boys did not want a love story ; the BetaOne girls did want a love story (whadaya expect? Mars and Venus worlds collide...) so....... we have both - Like all typical dramatic series ("Star Trek", for instance), our series will have some romance and some adventure. Also, we all want it to have an element of weird, strange, bizarre, and also a slightly tongue-in-cheek tone. The concept also involves some great animation and special effects. Good music too, of course.

In the opening episode, which we are going to call Episode I: "Access Violation" we start with Xiaoxue's begining scenario:

Tenretni is a beautiful and bright girl, ignorant of computer and the Internet. She hates the technological world and is longing for a more natural life as people had in the past. Her boyfriend Suriv is a smart computer expert who wants to change T's view of technology and sends her a present of an advanced computer. The computer (I am not certain about its physical form) will be turned on automatically when it hears people calling its name -- "Retupmoc". Further communication, however, needs to be done through keyboard. The girl ( Tenretni) enters a chat room......

This is where we begin to build our interactive hook - the audience can participate in the performance by going into the chat room on their own computer, as well.

The girl gets an email with with an attachment titled, "I love you". She downloads it, and gets the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH! (Unknowingly, she has downloaded the the infamous "I love you virus".) A message comes up on her screen: "press any key to continue". She calls Tech Support and asks where the "any" key is. Being a bunch of insensitive young sexist bozos, the guys at Tech Support (who have, in fact, already been infected by the (anti)love virus) ridicule and laugh at her. She finds the "any" key and presses it. A Help message comes up on the screen. She leans closer to look at it, and gets sucked into the virtual world.

Inside the virtual world, she meets a little mouse guide/helper. This character appears each week, and is an interesting persona - wise and helpful, yet comical and at times ascerbic and a bit sarcastic/ironic. Once each episode, the Mouse, in an aside to the audience, explains some technical detail that Tenretru or one of the other characters has to figure out this "computer tech" detail will be a timely issue in the real world something the viewers may be involved in and trying to solve themselves, and there will be further technical support and a real interactive help desk on the web site).

Mouse leads the girl to The Spirit of the Computer , who appears first as a Dragon, and eventually as the Prince of the virtual kingdom. (He is a "magical being" and can take many forms. ) There is a curse or- whatever - some kind of magical evil "(anti)love virus" that has infected both the virtual world and the real world. The Dragon Prince asks the girl to help him defeat it. He says that, if the evil virus spreads and infects the virtual world, not only will the virtual world disappear, but the real world will unravel as well, since they are all connected in a quantum aspect.

The girl not only agrees to help, but also to enlist her boyfriend and her friends in the chat room to help as well. end episode I

In subsequent episodes, we begin to introduce additional characters, until we have a virtual warrior team - multicultural and multidimensional: some Asian martial arts experts as in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", a middle aged woman kind of like Agatha Cristie, who everyone calls "auntie", a mysterious Moslem oil wars refugee, a break dancing cyber kid, a modern cyber Native American who reverts to ancestral shaminism when in the virtual world, a person in a wheel chair who is disabled with a disease of our modern world , but who has special abilities in the cyber world - basically, kind of a cross section of our culture here in Silicon Valley.

Over the weeks, there are mistakes and misunderstandings, dangers and triumphs as the characters learn how to trust themselves and each other, and find the courage and wisdom to combat the evil. There is a mystical strand to the series, kind of harkening back to Carradine's "Kung Fu" TV series of the 70's. "Th e Blue Screen of Death" represents spiritual transformation and transcendence to the next level of learning and consciousness.

The characters, who eventually evolve into a coherent, cohesive, effective team of warriors, can travel in and out of virtual space. Every few episodes, they get the Blue Screen of Death, whereupon they have to go back in, face their fears and do battle. ( In this aspect, the series echos the C.S. Lewis classic, The Lion Witch and the Wardrobe). The characters and the viewers learn many things about themselves and their worlds. Paradigms shift.

The internet site will have a distinctly "new age" look and feel. Besides participating in the performance through our chat room and receiving technological help, the audience will be given informational links to environmental and social justice communities (such as Bill Moyers, "Toxic Deception" on the PBS site) and to the spiritual and healing New Age communities, such as Feng Sui, polarity and energy healers, acupuncture, crop circles, Chi Gong and Tai Chi.

Both real-world cyber/techno problems and real-world human problems are addressed in dramatic style. The show's writers do not trivialize the content. They are not afraid to take on the toughest of today's real social problems - from social justice, gender equity and environmental issues, to the multinational corporate evilopolis. As controversial issues arise on screen and in the real world, viewers are asked to log on and help solve the problems. Real dialogue among the actors and the viewers, and passionate democratic interaction ensue. With Beta One's courageous help, both worlds are saved.