PowerPoint

UPDATE

8/20

OK, I've decided to split up the PowerPoint presentations. The first one is a pitch for the project and book sales, with some samples of the e-Storybook, Audio Book, Libretto and Music. The second is a full Narration if the e-Storybook from which an Audio Book will be derived. The third is a comparison between the Storybook and the Libretto. The fourth is the Music Score with recordings. The fifth will be The Business Plan. PowerPoint is a very effective tool. I can clearly see how advantageous it is in numerous circumstances. I especially like the way it will advance the singers ability to learn the music. So I am continuing to build a collection of Powerpoint presentations for different applications. Expect to see one posted here in the future. AG

8/1

So I'm laying down a narration for an audio track to go with the e-Storybook. Why not go all the way?

I've put together an introductory presentation that uses the Preface, some sample materials (book pages, music, video), and the Appendix. I left the book pages out of that, because the e-Storybook, with the narration, music, and animated videos, will be accessible only via a subscription. I've concluded that is the best approach. Gnomes in a Gnutshell as a complete e-Storybook cannot be made available for outright purchase until all seven books are fully illustrated and therefore, complete. So, the only way to share the e-Storybook is to do so as it is being completed. That means making it a accessible for viewing only, on-line. So that is the direction we will need to go.

The promotional presentation, which exemplifies how the e-Storybook is laid out, can be posted here when it's finished, presuming I can make sure the size of the file is correct for an upload.

I guess I need to consider that too. I know that I'm about halfway finished with the narration and the file size is approaching 400 MB. I'll have to see what happens with compression.

To be continued...

ARCHIVE

Awesome! I took the HDTV layout and created a PowerPoint presentation. I'm utterly amazed at how cool it is. Besides looking great, the file sizes are small enough that it can be delivered on-line!

So now I'm trying to decided how to make that available... Direct, as "Gnomes in a Gnutshell", on-line as a download, or on-line as a subscription.

If it's a subscription, then the subscribers would have access to all the updates and changes, at any time, as I make upgrades to presentation. The advantage here is that the people who subscribe will be participating in the growth of the project.

Bear with me as I think this through.

If the e-Storybooks are posted on a subscription page, then I will have better control over providing the updates to that page. I have some very interesting ideas about integrating animations I to the e-Storybooks. The main difficulty here is that each book has about 150 illustrations in it. Basically, since there are almost 800 pages in "Zach and Zebby's Grand Adventure", that means there are at least 800 illustrations, because there are illustrations on every page.

I'm beginning to think that I want to animate the illustrations, even the smallest of them. Initially, I wanted to create larger animations of the scenes, now I'm thinking of animating individual components of the illustrations. Small animations, gifs, if you will. Doing this will, collectively, lead into the larger animated film.

So I'll be looking into that.

One more point, a subscription approach will help pay for the work that needs to be done, a little at a time.

I'm believing that this approach may also offer better DRM across the board. I guess we'll see what happens after I get into discussions with distributors.

AG

HDTV

I have been preparing the entire collection for an assortment of submissions, which need to occur. One of the realities is that all the material needs to be included in one refined package. For certain submissions, I cannot present portions, it must be complete. That in itself poses a difficulty.

The first story is composed of a collection of seven books, which are represented in the e-Storybook "Gnomes in a Gnutshell". You can see the packaging of that product line below in a previous post.

But now that I discovered that the e-book must be filed along with the published edition of the hard-copy, at the same time, I find I'm faced with a dilemma. Once the material is filed, it all becomes public, which means that the classified material is accessible and revealed to the public.

I have been very careful not to reveal the Core Creative Materials to anyone other than our Producing Partners, which includes investors, contributors, and service vendors. Now that this first story from "The Gnomic Tales" is fully developed, it's time to begin releasing it. The first book is going out to Booksellers.

Well, the e-Storybook contains the entire seven book series. It has been my plan to release the books over a span of time (evenly spaced out) because we are still working on the art needed for some of the books and I need capital influx to pay my artists to come in and finish the work. It's going to cost me $90k to finish the work. (in case you want to invest).

Thinking about the e-Storybook, I realized (actually some time ago) that it needs to be accessible across all devises. That includes one's television, hence, HDTV. The e-Storybook is intended as a multi-media product, where the illustrations can come alive with gifs and/or short films. But I also intend to install the music from the stage show, so that the e-Storybook is the forum for a complete presentation of the entire product line (in terms of media product).

So I've redesigned the e-book for the HDTV aspect ratio. It looks great and it utilizes the e-book layout that has already been produced in the book format. So I'm very happy about that. I may submit both formats.

More later. AG