These are rules and guidelines for submissions and contributions to the film Waking Up.
- Collaboration. Waking Up is a collaborative movie where the public is invited to participate in the development of the story and manuscript online. The design of the costumes, houses, buildings interior, vehicles, and the world the film depicts in general will also be developed with input from the pubic. Financing, promotion and marketing will be a collaborative process, as the film will be partly crowd funded, crowd marketed and crowd promoted through social media and more.
- Open source. Waking Up is a partly open source movie. While the parts of the story and manuscript that has been deemed open source will stay that way forever, other, later parts, might not have the same license, but rather a standard copyrighted one. The reason for this is to alleviate investment, make the development of the story more manageable, and to not reveal all story parts for the press right away.
- Submission. Any person openly submitting material online to this project (Waking Up movie script and story), whether as a comment, addition or edit to any document related to this project or submission of a completely new document related to this project, donates the submission to the project under the open source license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, with copyright holder Harald Sandø.
- Contribution. Any contribution can be used or not be used, as it is, changed or used as inspiration for something else. All contributions must come in written form online.
- Purpose. The purpose of this movie is a ‘thought experiment’ to present what a future can be like about a 100 years from now if humanity chooses a positive direction of love, sharing, giving, compassion and peace, and we update our values, social systems and technology accordingly. In this future there is no money or ownership (or at least looked at completely differently), and the global economy is something like a resource based economy.
- Time. Most of the action happens in the year 2112 with elements from present time and from the long transition. 2112 is far away enough for us not to know exactly how it is going to look, leaving plenty of room to imagine the positive future we would like, but near enough for us to guess.
- Concept. The concept used to tell the story is a fictive person (Benjamin Michaels) from present time who wakes up from cryopreservation in 2112. This leaves lots of room to present what this world looks like and how it works to the audience, since this person has to experience this new world for the first time, just like the audience. It can also create a lot of drama in terms of medical complications, meetings with old relatives, trouble with adjusting to the new world, and more. Only our imagination is the limit!
- Protagonist. The protagonist is Benjamin Michaels (called Ben), a former businessman waking up from cryopreservation in 2112 after having been frozen in around 2014. The film will center around Ben’s experiences in this new world.
- Movie. Waking Up is a full feature length narrative film and not a TV series, web series, short film or an ‘edutainment film’, even though it will definitely be educational in several aspects. A TV series, web series or an educational documentary based on this film might be considered later.
- Language. The movie language is English, and all submissions has to be in English.
- The Script and Story. The plot has now been set and no other plot lines will be considered at this moment.