"Explore America's #1 Vacation Destinations from a Kids Point of View!"
THE SHOW
Travel Kidz is a 30 minute travel show presented in a TV news magazine style format. It aims to engage, entertain and inform, targeting kids who like vacations and parents who want to go on trips with their kids. It's fast paced segments are hosted by a cast of charismatic child personalities who take us to great destinations, go on exotic adventures and give travel tips from a child's point of view. Each episode covers a variety of tourist hot spots including popular vacations, local day trips, exotic international adventures and cool experiences such as extreme sports, indigenous celebrations or meetings with phenomenal people. Peppered with a variety of flash segments, news desk extras and home video submissions from the fans, each episode promises to stir the inner traveler in every child, all in an educational, entertaining and engaging way. It's great for kids and fun for all.
THREE CREWS TELL THE STORY
Travel Kidz is recorded on easy to transport HD and HDV cameras utilizing two field crews (Red Crew & Blue Crew) and a stationary crew at it's Los Angeles base (Home Crew). Red Crew and Blue Crew will each include a film industry family with a mother and/or father that is an industry professional, and their children (aiming for two) who will act as hosts. All three companies will have a DP/Director, a Field Producer/Writer, a PA and the hosts (and on school days a studio teacher). Whenever possible we will select families whose parents are experienced DPs, studio teachers, directors and writers to take those jobs. In short, Blue Crew and Red Crew will each have two child hosts, at least one parent that will go on the road with them, a studio teacher and a shooting crew of three (one of which will hopefully be the other parent) making the crew size six to seven. These two crews will be on the road for two six week tours, shooting two ten minute segments a week plus extras. As a bonus will will cast one local child at every major location as a guest host for one extra segment which can be shot on the regular host's day off. In between tours. Blue and Red crew will be back at home base doing pick ups, narrations and extras.
Home Crew will remain in Los Angeles mixing day trips to places like Disneyland, Big Bear, surfing lessons and an afternoon at Nickelodeon Studios with home desk news room footage that glues the entire show together. Home Crew will also include the production offices, the post production, the head writers and the research team which will be supporting the field crew with contacts, reservations, script outlines and field segments all lined up and ready to shoot. In this way the entire tone and direction of the show can be orchestrated from the central production office, adding things as needed which will be sent to crews, shot on the road and returned within a few weeks. And as segments are shot and sent in they are edited and refined, giving us our first slate of finished episodes very early on in the process. We can put these on the air, put them in front of a test audience, or use them to promote the show for bigger sponsorship.
A Sample Show (these pictures are not the actual cast)
We
open at the Travel Kidz news desk where our Anchor, Cindy greets the viewers and
lines up today’s destination location:
London, with side trips to…
Six Flags Magic Mountain
&
a day at Clown School. Cindy
starts by taking us to the big map and showing us where
London is.
A few quick cultural references later and off we go…
Travel Kid, Becky March continues the show with a report from the field: London,
England, with a trip on a
double-decker bus down London’s
Piccadilly Circus, pointing out some of London’s most famous buildings and
craziest looking people. After that she has a collection of refreshing
kid-friendly street snacks
like fish & chips, meat pies and an array of
British sodas & Sweets.
Happy and full she asks the tourist office about fun places for kids to go. The
consensus is Madam Tussoud’s Wax
Museum. Becky and her parents
jump in a taxi and end up at Madame Tussoud’s Wax Museum, flying through the
many cool exhibits until Becky ends up in the
dungeon for a scare. The wax figures are so spooky that Becky has to
sign off for a moment with a “see you back on the surface… if I ever get out of
here”.
We
return to the news room where Cindy wishes Becky luck and then shows us a little
bit about wax museums and how the figures were originally part of a circus side
show meant to frighten and amaze. She segues to the circus in general and then
switches us over to…
…Travel Kidz Joey and Mike are at the
Circus World Museum
in Baraboo Wisconsin. They see the Animals,
Ride the Camels
and meet the Circus Performers. Joey
says that he always wanted to be a clown and Gonzo the clown asks Joey if he’d
like to try his hand at it. Joey heads off to
clown school with Gonzo while Mike jogs through the Museum on his way to the
Big Top. For a quick minute we see Joey’s
Clown School experience speeded up, as
he learns tricks, gets a costume and picks his clown make-up. Meanwhile Mike
grabs some cotton candy and peanuts and heads into the Big Top and
watches the show.
We see Lion Tamers, Trapeze Artists and of course, Clowns. And there, in the
center ring, is Joey, now ZooZoo the clown. The applause brings down the house
as Mike and ZooZoo wrap up a great afternoon in Baraboo.
Back
at the news desk, our anchor, Cindy gives us directions to the Circus World
Museum and other important info. Then it’s time to check up on Travel Kid Becky
March, back in London.
Becky has survived the faux dungeons of Madame Tussoud’s only to be standing at
the gateway to the real dungeons in the infamous tower of London. Her new
English friend Priscilla leads us on a tour of the castle and armory and the
prison cells. A brief history of the six wives of Henry the VIII and a visit to
their execution blocks and our tour is nearly done. Last of all it’s a race
through the crown jewels and more gold than Becky had ever imagined. And what
better way to see London
than from the observation pod on the world famous,
London Eye: the
largest Ferris wheel in the world.
SPONSORS
A LIST OF POTENTIAL SPONSORS
Disney, Carnival Cruise, Club Med, United Airlines, Kellogg's, Bubblicious, Kodak, Universal Studios, Nike, Chucky Cheese, Coca Cola, Michelin. Cadbury, Campbell's Soup, General Mills, McDonalds, Hilton, Nestles, Kraft, Oscar Mayer, Mars, Mattel, SAS, Toys R' Us, Pepsi Co, Hershey, The Gap, Apple Computers, Carter's Kids Clothes, Samsonite, Holiday Inn, Soffitel, British Air, Singapore Air, Intercontinental Hotels, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Sea World, Atlantis Resort, Ford, Sony, Flintstone Vitamins, Microsoft, Crest