Sunday, October 26, 2008

TV Game Show: Read My Mind 3

Computation of Prizes

The monetary value doubles for each point earned after each stage. For example, if a participant earns a point in the stage 1 of selection of mind readers portion, he earns a cash prize of 2,000. If he earns another point in stage 2 of that portion, he earns 4,000 in addition to the 2,000 he/she already earned. For each point earned in succeeding stages, game participants shall double their money earnings. The base amount can change (eg 500, 1,000, 1,500, 2,000, etc.) depending on cash flow generated by the program.
Production Costs

Aside from the normal costs of running TV shows, there will be additional costs for maintaining the library of video clips. Some of the inventory may require royalty fees, which means additional costs for the library.

Source of Revenues

Aside from sponsorships, product endorsements and advertisements, the program shall earn income from a portion of the cost shouldered by prospective participants through text (SMS) messages. The production staff shall collaborate with communication networks for this purpose. Text messages can also be generated at certain portions of the show where home viewers may be encouraged to participate. Again the production staff can easily devise the mechanisms for this.

Attraction of the Show

People will watch the show for several reasons.
The first attraction of the show is variety. The production staff can maintain a big library of video clips to ensure that viewers will be treated to amusing, intriguing, entertaining, informative videos.

The second attraction will be the generated by the drama of how the participants will react at any given situation. Verbal communication is an infinite source of entertainment and amusement among individuals and groups of people.

The third attraction is layout and technical application of communication equipment. The readers and messengers will have access of initiating verbal communication among themselves at certain points of the show, through controls within their reach. The readers will have desktops with digital writers, and what they write can be seen by the messengers and TV viewers through screens right in front of them.

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