I've not read much of what the PR guy says but from what I have it appears a pretty thankless task. And, with that in mind, I wonder why he's doing it? It must be a paying position (with donors money, natch) because I don't see 'for the love of Star Trek' really being enough of a reason to a) constantly take flak from a lot of people online and b) constantly have to mop up after the defendant has launched another foot-in-mouth nuke.
He may have partially answered. He said he's in the "native advertising" business (articles/vids put into a website looking/feeling like the site's own content with only small disclaimers). He said what's exciting about Axanar to him is that it is at the front of what will become a new way of inexpensively producing "storytelling" ........
I KNOW!!! When I heard him say that I 'STOPPED' that video because I was having a rush of answers to some of my questions falling into place!!
I know he is working without pay. I know this is a veritable minefield of a job; putting out PR fires, trying to handle and clean up after the lead people in this production who are not self-monitoring in any way. I know there was a blog, and/or maybe a vlog, where the defendant talks about wanting investors. And *I* have yet to hear the "I have alwayyyys been a big Star Trek fan" come from him. [granted, I may have missed it -or- it may now be said somewhere because I've mentioned it] And we've been told there are now possible investors, with clearly some big bucks, interested in rescuing the financial burden on this production.
But I have had the thoughts 'Why is he working as a volunteer?' 'What is he getting out of this?' 'Why is the defendant mentioning investors?' 'Why are investors showing up now?' 'Why are they flush enough to give several hundred thousand dollars?' 'What are they getting out of this? A several hundred thousand dollar feeling of altruism?'
While always knowing in the back of my mind that there are good people in the world who do good things just to do good.
But when Mr. Bawden said what he said I stopped the video and said 'That's it!!'
The investors are or will be some native media producers. [EDITED TO ADD: and/or some New Media producers] Mr. Bawden has possibly/probably brought them together to this crippled venture as a motivated seller low dollar (to them) buy-in. Mr. Bawden will be one of the investors -OR- there is a reasonable-to-substantial payoff for putting together this venture move. And/or lots of future work here with substantial payoff in salary. Something,
The defendant is somehow looking to align himself with these high roller investors, a deal may be he becomes 'an' investor with them at least on paper, with his real investment not necessarily having to be much on the money side. The investors buy the studio assets or whatever they're going to be called. And to pay for their costs they can immediately begin making and selling native media video [EDITED TO ADD: and/or New Media productions] for as long as the lawsuit is in play.
No matter how the law suit turns out the defendant is at this time still proceeding with the thought that he can eventually do his film making stuff, distributing them through the digital platform being built by Mr. McIntosh, and which he also possibly/probably has a deal in place for them to be in business together. They are taking first steps to move into the streaming video market. And the native media group [EDITED TO ADD: and/or a New Media producers] would now have a studio where they are going to make their product! With an extremely low buy-in because the seller is seriously motivated, as is parlanced in real estate terms. Easy pickings.
Though my interest in the Trekzone Pt 2 video was and remains the film and film community - when I heard Mr. Bawden say that I said 'That!! That is the Big Take-away from this video! Right there! That's the deal within the deal that's going on!'
I may still have the 'particulars' wrong and/or incomplete in much of this, but if I'm right or even close about the big picture outline of this thing, I have a niggling feeling that getting into bed with these big money business people who will most certainly have their own agendas for such a buy-in that is possibly/probably still unknown to the defendant could, at least possibly down the road, find himself in conflict with the new business agenda - in which he could himself reallllly be getting ready to get in over his head thinking himself the leader of such a merry band.
