Tube d’Assaig is not only a TV program, it is a circuit for young audiovisual creators. The project aims to bridge the gap between new talent and the TV industry. BTV broadcasts their low cost AV pilots (both fiction and nonfiction) linking them to a crowd-funding goal. If that goal is achieved, they will have enough money to produce a whole first season of their TV series. The crowd funding action is shown on screen in real time during broadcast. As money pours in, the crowd-funding bar grows. Each pilot runs for about a month. Besides serialization, creators have the chance to promote their projects thanks to other parallel actions. The idea is that, once the whole circuit is completed, they have evolved from ‘young creators with no opportunities’ into ‘creators that have been endorsed by the audience and are ready to work at a professional level’. The first project (‘El Mort Viu’) fell short of reaching its funding goal, but the programme contributed to its promotion and it later received the prestigious Spanish media award ‘Ondas’ for the best web series of the year. The second one (‘Otro Cuento Más’) reached its crowd-funding goal and the first season is currently under production.
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