Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Monday, March 8, 2021
Pilot Episode Spoiler
PREMISE
SETTING
As the premise suggests, Coming To Atlanta mostly takes place at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, on the Marta train, downtown Atlanta-Five Points and Lindbergh.
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Airport Food
Court
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Kroger’s
Wine Tasting Bar-Lindbergh
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Office Depot-Lindbergh
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Georgia
World Congress Center
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Lenox
Mall
“Coming To Atlanta”
follows a group of characters from Coming To Atlanta: The Autobiography of
Adrian Collins, Part 2, providing a fascinating social matrix that draws the
viewer to bond with each character from the book. A unique social website will
help drive audience participation with the following-
● Live reality-style interviews on
fans and supporters of each character from the book and the website audience.
● Video blogging of content that
does not make the character’s episode.
● Website voting to determine 60-episode
spinoffs.
Each week, AVP TV & Radio Theatre company will be reality-style
interviewing family and friends of characters from Coming To Atlanta book,
as well as documentary-style reality footage for the 60-episode, 5-season Coming To Atlanta series and soundtrack project.
“Friendship” – The author and each character from his book friendship to be highlighted
as the over-riding context. Our cast will also be a close-knit group of chess
players from the book. Most of the 60-episode project will include celebrities,
chess players, writers, and musical friends of the author.
“Career” – Our casting will also select fans, family, and friends of each character
from the book in high-visibility jobs such as law and acting, as well as celebrities
such as Evander Holyfield, Lil Baby, and plus many more. Their career
efforts will be highlighted to show the stresses, successes, and failures that
they encounter… and most importantly how they deal with those experiences.
“Love life” – Love lives of some
people we interview will get one portion of episodes that’s devoted to it.
We will follow some of the cast home, on their dates, and
various bar singles scenarios for a week to shed light on what it’s like in the A.
These 3 distinct love life segments will be edited together to create a
tapestry of their quest for love in the A.
SEASON ONE CHARACTERS
ADRIAN
COLLINS is an educated, 40-something male. He is short,
dark skin and humble.
DOMINIQUE ARMANI JONES, 20’s,
light brown, slim, rapper, singer and songwriter.
G-FIVE, 20’s,
light brown, slim, rapper.
MALE
FAN #1, 20’S, light brown, heavyset.
FEMALE
FAN #1, 20’s, brown skin, pregnant.
In essence, Coming
To Atlanta is a creative study of mental health issues, homelessness, and
poverty in the metro Atlanta, Georgia area.
First, Coming To Atlanta is a Season #5 running
commentary on sixty (21-min.) docu-style episodes, which is based on the
stories of characters from The Autobiography of Adrian Collins, Part Two:
Coming To Atlanta (2015-2021), and also advertises a Coming To Atlanta-spinoff show on people interview for the series. For example, there is thousands of Lil Baby fans that work at the airport.
Coming To Atlanta also examines the airport,
airport cops, airport bag handlers, homeless people, and anyone else who can be responsible for
taking luggage. This concern primarily manifests itself through the
"Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport." At one point the airport
had picked up on stolen bags and other items gone missing after increasing
reports from travelers.
Get inside the life of an author who came to
Atlanta to pursue his dreams. See how characters from his book juggle the
drama taking place every day in Atlanta. Watch their assertive demeanor as the author goes around promoting his products through his story. Go on the journey
of how he came to Atlanta and met them.
Participate in the scheming and juggling of drama via relationships,
family, and the nightlife scene he is frequenting each night.
Other key themes the series explores includes
mental health issues, addiction, self-reliance, self-improvement, and protesters and activists.
30-45 MINUTE PILOT
Sample episode arc-
Intro – A small montage is shown of the author and Lil Baby meeting for
the first time to refresh the viewer about their background, job, life, and
current situation with each featured character from The Autobiography of Adrian
Collins, Part 2: Coming To Atlanta. This is quickly recapped as we watch Adrian
and Lil Baby in the scene at the airport, Adrian on the Marta train, and mostly begins with Adrian at Atlanta Airport every morning.
Initial Highlights
of Atlanta Airport Events – Fascinating recaps of how he met each character, interesting stories about them, and how meeting Lil Baby at the airport has changed the game for them, all of these highlights are shown in 2-3 minute clips per
issue/moment.
Friendship Focus #1 – Recap a current life and splice it with commentary reading of
each character from the book. Show the author moving around Atlanta in the day
while being at the airport or in the clubs at night. Get the fans and
supporters of the Coming To Atlanta casts reaction but keep the situation as a
cliff-hanger for the moment. Give the viewer a website link to vote on what
they think the fans and supporters of each character should have done.
Career Focus – Next the show will move to the 100,000 Coming To Atlanta flyer-as-digital video products for each episode, which includes 6 million flyers to support their career situations. The preparation, anxiety, delivery, resolution,
and reaction to the one-dollar fundraiser flyer products and amount raised are filmed
and documented. Use shots of the $1 flyer sales pitch, the stress of people prior to it,
and the cast discussing it with other people.
Audience
participation – The audience is polled on a
life or career decision based on the episode so far.
Audience Results
Revealed – The cast and crew are told of
the audience’s opinion and advice.
Friendship Focus # 2 – Resolve the cliff-hangar presented during the focus of the
episode and how the author met them. Did they first have drama? What was the
result of the day they first met? Give the viewer a website link to discuss in
the forum.
Atlanta Airport recap – At this point the show will reinforce travelers bonding between the author advertising his products in the food court section again. Clips from filming that fill in the gaps of the drama and career focuses are shown. The advice, reassurance, and support between characters from his book are highlighted. Any additional outlandish or hilarious stories are played out. Discuss! - Give the viewer a website link to view the voting results and comment on the episode. Switch the show to different fans and supporters from the audience’s reaction to show how they handled the poll result. Close by flashing the website again and an opportunity for the author to post a video of the fans and supporters of characters from the book to be the next set of coming to Atlanta unscripted.
PRODUCTION
& GUERILLA MARKETING
To control costs, experiment with artistic immersion and "in context writing," and to infuse the series with various sorts of meta referentially, all of our cast members, writers, and production staff will live and work on-site (metro Atlanta-style) during each season's production and distribution period.
Finally, concerning guerilla marketing, the series creator has put together several websites, social media profiles, his own innovative one-dollar flyer program, corporate sponsorship proposal packages, brochures, and 12 online trailers for each of the 21-min. docu-style episodes for season #1 featuring Lil Baby to both: (a) give Atlanta Airport a sense of actual existence and (b) generate buzz about the series during development, production, and airing time. For more information, please email the casting director at Adrian2Collins@gmail.com
