I didn't mean to imply puppet master. But I do think what you say here may be at least part of it:
"I could see him as the guy who lit Alec's 'spark' so to speak and pushed it and pushed it and pushed it until Alec really started to believe it was all his idea."
Watching the
Trekzone interview again I was reminded of what he said there:
41:45 Regarding prepping a client on talking 'before' an interview. Writing it out. Carlos says 'he' could even write it for the guy. Bawden laughs and says:
"It's been written. You do these things for clients. Whether they use them or not is a whole other matter sometimes..... I make lots of suggestions and I propose lots of solutions and... we are making 'some' progress"
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43:32
"Like I try to tell clients our recommended approach to business is Ready, Aim, Fire. And unfortunately most of the clients we get have followed a strategy of Ready, Fire, Aim."
I'm figuring this went on for the past year;
'I advise, he takes or leaves it. But we inch forward.'
thiswholething concludes... and Mr. Bawden is still here.
Mind you I'm speculating again but it was this concluded outcome which just might have the defendant paying closer attention to Mr. Bawden now.
"And so you have to sit down and say 'Whadda ya doing? You're gonna have to stop some of these things. You're gonna have to walk some of this back."
1:06:33
"And the thing that's important, the prudent thing that has to be done, is you have to get back, refocus, get back to the things that matter."
1:07:30
"And, given the money that's available, what 'can' be done."
And I circle back to what you said,
@RedForman, which makes a whole lot of sense to me given the personality of the client Mr. Bawden is working with:
"I could see him as the guy who lit Alec's 'spark' so to speak and pushed it and pushed it and pushed it until Alec really started to believe it was all his idea."
Then I listen to the
@TREKZONE.org interview some more, the part where Mr. Bawden is going on at length about a future he sees.
1:00:00
"Fan films I think are initiating a whole new era in content development. Especially for web delivered video and keep in mind now a lot of people are watching web video on large screen high definition televisions. So it's not little teeny YouTube viewers that are watching this video on now."
The following part is where I speculate I see Mr. Bawden steering the defendant, and possibly one reason Mr. Bawden is still here. And because of the settlement the defendant may now be listening to him, like once upon a time he used listened to Christian Gossett which made the defendant himself appear to be a success and put him center stage in the limelight.
1:00:32
"You know, most of the work that I do is in the world of advertising and public relations, working with corporate clients and developing what we call Native Content. Stories about real people doing real things and I just today got an email back - I've got a $200K budget to produce a project like that."
1:00:52
"Now, while who knows what the future of crowdfunding is I think websites like kickstarter, indiegogo, and all of those other crowdfunding sites have a definite place. I imagine that they will continue to fine-tune their offering. And hopefully projects will continue to, creators will be able to continue to find that as a relative real source for their projects."
1:01:20
"But if you take a look at the Other Money that's out there in the marketplace now,"
[^^That is where I speculate Mr. Bawden's connections might now begin to be in play.]
"and the need to tell stories... and then you compare that to what ............ so many of these high quality fan film makers are doing, you're starting to realize a production value and an ability to tell stories in a variety of lengths that has really just never existed before."
1:01:49
"I'm very excited about where this could go. And while I share Carlos' concern for the future of fan films I think that the Real Opportunity long term is that creators are gonna look at what's able to be done for 1% of what a tent-pole feature costs today. And they're gonna realize that that becomes a much more attractive proposition to the prospective Investor who may give you enough money to produce five films hoping one of them 'hits' as opposed to trying to by 1% of a significant independent film production or a significant studio production."
1:02:27
"So, I think that's a very interesting future ahead. And I think that we're seeing, with shows like Continues, with shows like NV, shows like [Prelude] I think you're seeing the future of where this new wave of entertainment's going to come from."
Now, let's just say for a minute, you have/or have connections with a Film School... you have a ready made pool of people training to 'be' in all aspects of films, rushing to you to do all the volunteering you need on anything you're making. Just to get the experience. So your production costs drop significantly.
And what did
@Serveaux just post?
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And you want lots of films being made there so you pitch 'Come to us and make your films for next to nothing.'
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Not much says Success more than having lots of business 'seemingly' going on at your place.
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Mr. Bawden has ideas of his own, and connections to get them going with paying customers, and most probably... Investors.
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And you need to pay the bills until you're self supporting. So you do an upfront payallthebills crowdfund targeting fanboy & fangirls!
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To me, it's looking like a plan. A fairly good one too. One I speculate that has Mr. Bawden at the center.
With the lion's share being as you mention,
@RedForman :
"I could see him as the guy who lit Alec's 'spark' so to speak and pushed it and pushed it and pushed it until Alec really started to believe it was all his idea."
