CO-PRODUCTIONS

Peace Makers

130 eps.

“Campus City” Is just that; a city within itself.... Libraries, dormitories,

cafeterias, lounges, pubs, frat houses. This is the setting for the wide

range of characters in Campus City. Each character comes from a

different background, a different world. And yet somehow, in spite of

their differences, these widely different characters discover that each has

something to teach the other about life. There are jocks and nerds, rich

kids and poor, mature and younger students; frat brothers and sorority

sisters, locals and out of towners, the majority and the minorities.

Together they provide a rich mix of experience and great possibilities for

story lines. Campus City is a melting pot of dreams, ambitious, struggles,

love, lasting friendship and personal growth.

We all face upheaval as we live with threats to our survival and dizzying

social and political changes. The people living the personal, social and

political changes the most intensely are those at the stage of life when

personal change has always been enormous, even in more stable eras.

These same people are amongst those with the intelligence, the most

determination, the most energy and the greatest will to understand and

alter the world, one way or another. These key people, the ones who will

influence the future of mankind more than any other group, are the

young, men and women on the eve of moving out onto it demanding,

challenging and very exciting society. They are the university students.

By setting a half-hour television series precisely in this critical and

crucial part of our society, we ensure a high level of both energy and

entertainment. Endless compelling stories of life on a campus will flow

from the clash of individuals, styles and cultures. Above all from the

feelings of the lead characters living out the emotional peaks of their

lives. This fertile emotion-laden context will give us a chance to explore

and illuminate what is happening to our global civilization through the

lives of a few exceptional and yet universal young men and women.

Campus City will deal with the impact of the many changes happening

to our lives with humor and compassion. Inevitably, because a university

is where people from wildly conflicting backgrounds are forced to live

and work together, we will feel the waves of social change running

through Campus City and through the fascinating lives of the main

characters.

Campus City Is exciting and contemporary.

There is intense social inter-action, ideals conflict with reality, life

choices are made between material wealth and improving the world, the

demands of academic excellence are undermined by a wild social life, by

parties, by love affairs, by money problems. We will live with these

young men and women as they learn to think and choose for themselves,

making major decisions about their lives perhaps for the first time. For

some, Campus City is a stepping stone to a better life; for others it is a

haven against the outside world or nightmares of impossible pressures.

Sometimes there will be laughter, other times tears, yet always there will

be a sense of real living in fascinating times, And of the students learning

and growing to confront their own lives and our global civilization.

The style of Campus City will be as contemporary as its subject matter.

The cutting edge of video technology and the new light-weight cameras

will be used to give a dynamic, reactive, involved and authentic feel to

the shooting. There will be constant movement of the cameras as they

move with the energy of the young stars of this series. Stolid anchored

studio-style shooting will be avoided and the cameras, often using long

lenses or intimate reactive, hand-held techniques, will move close to the

characters bringing the spectator convincingly into the lives of the young

men and women.

Because of the use of the new cameras and a second unit for extensive exterior

shooting, the episodes will be shot 70% in studio, 30% on an existing local campus

and out in the real world. By integrating a considerable portion of non-studio

shooting and by using a new twenty four hour a day, multi-crew approach, Campus

City will have a sense of immediacy and authenticity that is rarely attained when all

the shooting is done completely in a studio. This will also give greater production

values, open up the series and give a sense of the characters being rooted in real life.

At times, when it fits the story arc, we will take advantage of real situations and real

events into which the main characters will be thrust and followed and videotaped.

Audience target:

The target audience for Campus City will be from fourteen to twenty

four, but it will also be ideal family viewing dealing as it does with

stories that will link different generations.

Campus City will be aimed at a prime time audience in the early part of

the evening, but it could also be used in an afternoon time slot.

We have chosen to shoot 130 episodes immediately (can be extended to

260) knowing that a stable on-going series will build up a faithful

audience and therefore attract advertisers who will have time to know

what they are buying.

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