Despite my glee at the announcement of the multiplatform Heroes series presently in development, I must admit I was a little miffed, because it rather steals the thunder from my idea for The Gun Seller.
TGS is a great conspiracy story, one which involves both world finance and wolrld politics, to of the world's present hot buttons, which means that viewers can get caught up in the drama of it as if it were real. My idea is to augment the story within the TV show with a subscription SMS service and a series of websites.
The SMS service could send texts to subscribers with additional information about the goins-on of the various characters in the story, and for users in turn to send in their own theories about what's going on in the series.
Rather than a "show website" as is common with Tv shows, I plan to include several seperate sites, each of which connects with a different area of the show. For instance, one could link with the "Sword of Justice" group, another with the fake "Ministry of Defense", in addition to several conspiracy sites connected to the plot of the show. These highten the reality of the story, and can be used to gave extra information. They can also, with the use of message boards or even live chat, allow for the growth of a community around the show.
Though the book was written in 1996, before the days of such wondrous things as blogs, these are an easy and effective way for the characters to interact with the audience. As such, I can see both the show's main characters having blogs.
Finally, let's have some fun in the real world. I have an idea to place special clues in certain places within the real world which could lead viewers to deeper inside information, or even cash and prizes, though I think I prefer the former, as cash and prizes highlight the fact that the show is fiction.
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