Human Telegraphs (Post-Production!)
Project by Three Bright Lights Productions !
Three Bright Lights Productions !
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The heightened comedy of Arrested Development meets the voyeurism of High Maintenance in a quirky female-driven series that captures the magic of strangers caught in unexpected intimate collisions in NYC. We’re three visionary women on a mission to create bold & authentic female protagonists.
Human Telegraphs (Post-Production!)
by Three Bright Lights Productions !
Three Bright Lights Productions !
Follow
The heightened comedy of Arrested Development meets the voyeurism of High Maintenance in a quirky female-driven series that captures the magic of strangers caught in unexpected intimate collisions in NYC. We’re three visionary women on a mission to create bold & authentic female protagonists.
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Mission Statement
We are committed to defying traditional female character tropes and creating lead roles for women. Our team for Season 1 is predominantly female with amazing women filling the key positions of director, assistant director, cinematographer, writer/show creator, producers, editor, and animator!About The Project
We‘re Making Magic!
We are so grateful that you helped us fund our 13-day production in locations all over NYC with an incredible team of (mostly) women! (Check out their beautiful faces below.) We’re now working hard in the editing room on post-production and want you to continue being part of our story. This crowdfunder is for editing, sound, composing, animation, and all the wonderful components of post-production that will finally get the entirety of Season 1 onto a screen near you!
Why Human Telegraphs Right Now...
We feel more driven and passionate than ever about releasing Season 1. In truth, we feel a real urgency and sense of purpose behind the creation of Human Telegraphs. In today’s politically and socially divisive times, the world needs an upbeat reminder that our similarities outnumber our differences, and ultimately, we’re all connected in deep and profound ways. We’re sharing this human experience together. Our words and actions matter—they have great power—and it’s up to us to spread kindness, joy, and the message of our connectedness. If we don’t, who will?
This is a central message in Human Telegraphs and one of the reasons why we were so inspired to write this specific show concept. We hope that it inspires and blesses you and your positive impact on the world, whether it’s giving a stranger a smile today or telling a friend or family member you love them. This life is precious. Let’s live it up and love it up to the fullest!Our Team
Our Season 1 crew right after we wrapped! From left to right...
Gaffer Li George
Swing Ellen Reed
Cinematographer Samantha Pyra
Producer/Writer/Actor Rachel Barclay
Producer/Art/Actor Fern Lim
Producer/Director/Actor Kayla Conroy
3rd Assistant Director Savannah Osborn
Sound MP Kozak
2nd Assistant Director Taylor D Martin
Script Supervisor Alia Azamat
PA Desmond Holliday
1st Assistant Director Sam Winter
PA Alexandra Rose
Wardrobe Assistant Cassidy Rose
Not pictured:
HMU Emma Elizabeth
Wardrobe Caroline Duncan
And many more amazing PAs!Story
When New York City roommates Trisha, Margot, and Lily find themselves in a financial pickle, they open a ‘human message delivery’ businesses that has them reciting verbatim messages for customers to whomever, wherever, and in whatever style the customer chooses—even including costumes and stage directions.
With personal and uncomfortably intimate messages conveyed to strangers, the budding entrepreneurs find themselves in bizarre interactions colored by varying hues of awkward, comedic, touching, and sexy pizzazz.
Human Telegraphs offers a hilarious voyeuristic view into personal relationships of friend and stranger alike by taking viewers behind New Yorkers’ closed doors to reveal the secret and authentic humans of New York.
In today’s digital age, the show also explores the difference between initiating a breakup or job resignation via text or email versus paying another person to deliver the message and experience the emotional results as a surrogate. What happens when we pay other people to say the things we feel too scared, vulnerable, busy, or angry to confess in-person?
At the heart of the show are the character journeys of Trisha, Lily, and Margot, who are trying to navigate the rocky waters of being millennial businesswomen and artists in sectors dominated by men. These women are real, raw, and filled with grit and heart—personas severely underrepresented on TV.
The World of Human Telegraphs
The heightened comedy of shows like Arrested Development meets the voyeurism of High Maintenance in this quirky series. Like 30 Rock and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, the expansive color and diversity of the city is present, yet elevated to an off-the-wall cartoonish playfulness that reflects the inner world of the protagonists and the outlandish characters they encounter. While the comedy is stylized and buoyant, the show is rooted in reality through the protagonists’ very human plight of trying to find their places in the world.Season 1 Breakdown
Episode 2: Out on a Limb Part I
The joke's on Margot when a message delivery to a comedy club is more than she bargained for, while Trisha and Lily are asked to deliver a mysterious message that gives them the creeps, but will it be an offer they can’t refuse?
Episode 3: Out on a Limb Part II
The girls find themselves in the middle of a heated drama dating back to the Renaissance and Margot has the best day of her life.
Episode 4: H Team Vs. The Pemberlies
Apartment wars in Brooklyn mean blood --- what will the girls do for the perfect Brooklyn co-op next to their favorite farmer’s market and boasting a tree outside their window? Lily follows through on a promise.
Episode 5: This Isn’t What I Thought It’d Be Part I
Singing messages go sour, Margot gets a rude awakening, Trisha goes on a dream date and Lily’s feminist play debuts with an imposter on stage.
Episode 6: This Isn't What I Thought It'd Be Part II
Sparks fly when Lily meets her arch nemesis, the girls get entangled in doggie doodoo drama singalongs, and Trisha lets something go.
Episodes 7: Bringing It Back Part I
An office romance may be going asunder with one message, Human Telegraphs get the opportunity of a lifetime, and Trisha finds her groove.
Episode 8: Bringing It Back Part II
The girls attempt to pull off a message performance of a lifetime for the great French avant-garde artist, Eliza Bonheur, at her 80th birthday party without dying in the process.
Incentives
$1
You Magic Maker, You!
It goes without saying, but we're happy to say it! We'll shout out your magical awesomeness all across the social [media] sphere!
$10
Hey, you're awesome!
Get a personalized image on social media declaring your awesomeness!
$25
You’re So Awesome, We’ll Thank You In Motion!
Get a personalized GIF from Season 1 on social media! It'll be like getting your very own reaction GIF to telegraph to friends!
$50
We’ll honor your name in a doodle!
See your name in a one-of-a-kind doodle, delivered to your door! (By your friendly local mailperson that is, not a Human Telegraph!)
$75
Location location location!
We traveled far and wide across NYC to film Season 1! Which NYC establishment was repurposed into 2 or more Human Telegraph locations? How many establishments did it take to represent one single Human Telegraphs location? Get your super-special Season 1 Locations Map* here!
- Plus your choice of a thank you image, GIF, or doodle.
*This map was a prop used in filming. Your map will be digital!
$100
*NEW* Social Media Marketing Consultationg with Producers Kayla Conroy & Fern Lim
Have you been following our social media and like what you see? Want to know what goes into creating and running a successful social media campaign? Producers Kayla Conroy and Fern Lim are here to help!
From creating social media calendars to tools for when you don’t want to pay for Photoshop, we got you covered!
- PLUS! You'll STILL get the other $200 incentive of The Big Reveal!
Plus you'll get your name immortalized as a Magic Maker on the HT website! ($100 incentive)
Plus the super-special Season 1 Location Map ($75 incentive)
Plus your choice of a thank you image, GIF, or doodle.
Sold Out!
$100
You, Immortalized on the HT Website! + Location Map
Get your name credited on the HT website as a Magic-Maker!
- PLUS the super-special Season 1 Location Map ($75 incentive)
- Plus your choice of a thank you image, GIF, or doodle.
$150
Telegraphed Guidance, Just For You! + Website Credit + Location Map
Lily, Trisha, and Margot perform a personalized Goddess Card reading just for you!
- PLUS! Get your name immortalized as a Magic Maker on the HT website! ($100 incentive)
- Plus the super-special Season 1 Location Map ($75 incentive)
- Plus your choice of a thank you image, GIF, or doodle.
Claimed: 4 of 10
$200
The Big Reveal! + Website Credit + Location Map
Itching to know what really went on behind-the-scenes? Get an exclusive commentary from the producers, director, writer, and art director and hear all the crazy stories from the creation of Season 1!
- PLUS! Get your name immortalized as a Magic Maker on the HT website! ($100 incentive)
- Plus the super-special Season 1 Location Map ($75 incentive)
- Plus your choice of a thank you image, GIF, or doodle.
$200
*NEW* Exclusive Re-Tune Your Chakras Workshop!
In celebration of Eclipse Season, we’re offering a special promotion: A Chakra Balancing and Re-tuning session! Eclipses symbolize transformation. They energetically support us in letting go of the old and what's no longer serving us and help us step into a more authentic, empowered, loving way of living. They are a time ripe with supportive energy to create new in your life!
All change begins within you! Here is an opportunity to energize your personal power and spiritual centers, get in touch with your inner wisdom, and give yourself on a strong foundation for starting that new creative venture, new move, new relationship, new health goals, and any other new undertakings in your life!
Join Rachel Kay Barclay for a one-on-one, in-person or skype session that will energize and align your chakras (the energy centers in your body), offer clarity to the next steps in your life path, and help you reach your goals that are aligned with your authentic self!
- PLUS! You'll STILL get the other $200 incentive of The Big Reveal!
- Plus you'll get your name immortalized as a Magic Maker on the HT website! ($100 incentive)
- Plus the super-special Season 1 Location Map ($75 incentive)
- Plus your choice of a thank you image, GIF, or doodle.
Claimed: 0 of 1
$200
*NEW* Exclusive “Produce Your Own Content” Consultation with HT Producer Kayla Conroy!
You have an idea for a pilot episode. Or maybe it's a short film about a cause you're passionate about. But where do you even start?! How do you scout and select locations? What about casting actors? What about—gulp—PAPERWORK. And how do you even find—and hire—a DP or a 1st AD not to mention maybe even 2nd and 3rd ADs? And what's the deal with all these acronyms?!
Producer Kayla Conroy is here to help! Not only is she a producer on Human Telegraphs, she has also produced many other projects AND been a wise guide to other brand-new producers getting their babies off the ground for the very first time!
- PLUS! You'll STILL get the other $200 incentive of The Big Reveal!
- Plus you'll get your name immortalized as a Magic Maker on the HT website! ($100 incentive)
- Plus the super-special Season 1 Location Map ($75 incentive)
- Plus your choice of a thank you image, GIF, or doodle.
Claimed: 0 of 1
$200
*NEW* Exclusive Writing Consultation with HT Creator and Writer Rachel Kay Barclay!
Have a story, novel, or screenplay in you, but have no idea where to begin? Want to write a memoir or autobiography for your grandchildren or children, but feel overwhelmed by the process? Want to share your specific expertise via a non-fiction book?
You can and will with this exclusive one-on-one writing consultation with the creator and writer of Human Telegraphs, Rachel Kay Barclay!
No matter where you are in the process, this consult will help you hone deeper into the writing process on both an intuitive/creative level and a structural and technique level. Learn more about Rachel at rachelkaybarclay.com.
- PLUS! You'll STILL get the other $200 incentive of The Big Reveal!
- Plus you'll get your name immortalized as a Magic Maker on the HT website! ($100 incentive)
- Plus the super-special Season 1 Location Map ($75 incentive)
- Plus your choice of a thank you image, GIF, or doodle.
Claimed: 0 of 1
$250
Your Very Own Vagina!
Get a beautiful Vagina Costume created by Conceived In Brooklyn in peach or mocha! Yes, these are the very Vaginas that appear in Season 1 of Human Telegraphs! Delivered to you by Kayla. (Only if you live in the CT/NJ/NYC area.) OR, if you live outside these areas, have shipped to you (shipping costs will apply separately.)
- PLUS! Get your name immortalized as a Unicorn on the HT website! ($100 incentive)
- Plus The Big Reveal behind-the-scenes commentary ($200 incentive)
- Plus the super-special Season 1 Location Map ($75 incentive)
- Plus your choice of a thank you image, GIF, or doodle.
Sold Out!
$300
You, Human Subway'd! + Big Reveal + Location Map + Website Credit
You’re riding the subway early on a Monday morning when- wait, is that YOUR face above the groggy subway rider across from you? Could it be? You’re in your very own personalized subway ad?! It CAN be! Just give us a photo of you and a cause you care about and we’ll make you into your very own NYC MTA subway ad!*
- PLUS! Get your name immortalized as a Unicorn on the HT website! ($100 incentive)
- Plus The Big Reveal behind-the-scenes commentary ($200 incentive)
- Plus the super-special Season 1 Location Map ($75 incentive)
- Plus your choice of a thank you image, GIF, or doodle.
*Digitally that is. We won’t actually be submitting this ad to the MTA for approval... so get creative about that cause you care about!
$500
Get Answers! + The Big Reveal + Website Credit + Location Map
Hey you, creator! Yes you! You’ve got brilliant ideas percolating in your noggin right? Let us help you bring them into existence in the real world! Get a 90-minute Creating Consulation with all 3 producers (and writer, director, and art director) of Human Telegraphs. How do you produce your own project? How do you handle branding? What tools help smooth the process? Where do you even start?! We’ll share all our secrets!
- PLUS! Get your name immortalized as a Unicorn on the HT website! ($100 incentive)
- PLUS! The Big Reveal ($200 incentive)
- Plus the super-special Season 1 Location Map ($75 incentive)
- Plus your choice of a thank you image, GIF, or doodle.
Sold Out!
$1,000
Tour NYC, the HT Way! + The Big Reveal + Website Credit + Location Map
Join a human telegraph on a special Human Telegraphs Tour of NYC (or LA or SF)!* Visit their favorite haunts and learn quirky NYC facts. (Travel, meals, and lodging not included.)
- PLUS! Get your name listed as a Magical Unicorn on the HT website! ($100 incentive)
- PLUS! The Big Reveal ($200 Incentive)
- Plus the super-special Season 1 Location Map ($75 incentive)
- Plus your choice of a thank you image, GIF, or doodle.
*NYC tours will be with Margot and Trisha and must be claimed by August 12th. LA tours will be available with Trisha after September. SF tours will be with Lily.
Claimed: 0 of 3
$5,000
You, Associate Producer Extraordinaire! + IMDb, Website & End Credits + The Big Reveal + Location Map
Spread your name far and wide!
You'll get Associate Producer* credit in every single remaining episode of Human Telegraphs Season 1 AND credit plus link on the HT website AND your very own IMDb credit!
- PLUS! The Big Reveal ($200 Incentive)
- Plus the super-special Season 1 Location Map ($75 incentive)
- Plus your choice of a thank you image, GIF, or doodle.
*There are 2 Associate Producer credits in total. 1 is offered here.
Claimed: 0 of 1
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$1
You Magic Maker, You!
It goes without saying, but we're happy to say it! We'll shout out your magical awesomeness all across the social [media] sphere!
$10
Hey, you're awesome!
Get a personalized image on social media declaring your awesomeness!
$25
You’re So Awesome, We’ll Thank You In Motion!
Get a personalized GIF from Season 1 on social media! It'll be like getting your very own reaction GIF to telegraph to friends!
$50
We’ll honor your name in a doodle!
See your name in a one-of-a-kind doodle, delivered to your door! (By your friendly local mailperson that is, not a Human Telegraph!)
$75
Location location location!
We traveled far and wide across NYC to film Season 1! Which NYC establishment was repurposed into 2 or more Human Telegraph locations? How many establishments did it take to represent one single Human Telegraphs location? Get your super-special Season 1 Locations Map* here!
- Plus your choice of a thank you image, GIF, or doodle.
*This map was a prop used in filming. Your map will be digital!
$100
*NEW* Social Media Marketing Consultationg with Producers Kayla Conroy & Fern Lim
Have you been following our social media and like what you see? Want to know what goes into creating and running a successful social media campaign? Producers Kayla Conroy and Fern Lim are here to help!
From creating social media calendars to tools for when you don’t want to pay for Photoshop, we got you covered!
- PLUS! You'll STILL get the other $200 incentive of The Big Reveal!
Plus you'll get your name immortalized as a Magic Maker on the HT website! ($100 incentive)
Plus the super-special Season 1 Location Map ($75 incentive)
Plus your choice of a thank you image, GIF, or doodle.
Sold Out!
$100
You, Immortalized on the HT Website! + Location Map
Get your name credited on the HT website as a Magic-Maker!
- PLUS the super-special Season 1 Location Map ($75 incentive)
- Plus your choice of a thank you image, GIF, or doodle.
$150
Telegraphed Guidance, Just For You! + Website Credit + Location Map
Lily, Trisha, and Margot perform a personalized Goddess Card reading just for you!
- PLUS! Get your name immortalized as a Magic Maker on the HT website! ($100 incentive)
- Plus the super-special Season 1 Location Map ($75 incentive)
- Plus your choice of a thank you image, GIF, or doodle.
Claimed: 4 of 10
$200
The Big Reveal! + Website Credit + Location Map
Itching to know what really went on behind-the-scenes? Get an exclusive commentary from the producers, director, writer, and art director and hear all the crazy stories from the creation of Season 1!
- PLUS! Get your name immortalized as a Magic Maker on the HT website! ($100 incentive)
- Plus the super-special Season 1 Location Map ($75 incentive)
- Plus your choice of a thank you image, GIF, or doodle.
$200
*NEW* Exclusive Re-Tune Your Chakras Workshop!
In celebration of Eclipse Season, we’re offering a special promotion: A Chakra Balancing and Re-tuning session! Eclipses symbolize transformation. They energetically support us in letting go of the old and what's no longer serving us and help us step into a more authentic, empowered, loving way of living. They are a time ripe with supportive energy to create new in your life!
All change begins within you! Here is an opportunity to energize your personal power and spiritual centers, get in touch with your inner wisdom, and give yourself on a strong foundation for starting that new creative venture, new move, new relationship, new health goals, and any other new undertakings in your life!
Join Rachel Kay Barclay for a one-on-one, in-person or skype session that will energize and align your chakras (the energy centers in your body), offer clarity to the next steps in your life path, and help you reach your goals that are aligned with your authentic self!
- PLUS! You'll STILL get the other $200 incentive of The Big Reveal!
- Plus you'll get your name immortalized as a Magic Maker on the HT website! ($100 incentive)
- Plus the super-special Season 1 Location Map ($75 incentive)
- Plus your choice of a thank you image, GIF, or doodle.
Claimed: 0 of 1
$200
*NEW* Exclusive “Produce Your Own Content” Consultation with HT Producer Kayla Conroy!
You have an idea for a pilot episode. Or maybe it's a short film about a cause you're passionate about. But where do you even start?! How do you scout and select locations? What about casting actors? What about—gulp—PAPERWORK. And how do you even find—and hire—a DP or a 1st AD not to mention maybe even 2nd and 3rd ADs? And what's the deal with all these acronyms?!
Producer Kayla Conroy is here to help! Not only is she a producer on Human Telegraphs, she has also produced many other projects AND been a wise guide to other brand-new producers getting their babies off the ground for the very first time!
- PLUS! You'll STILL get the other $200 incentive of The Big Reveal!
- Plus you'll get your name immortalized as a Magic Maker on the HT website! ($100 incentive)
- Plus the super-special Season 1 Location Map ($75 incentive)
- Plus your choice of a thank you image, GIF, or doodle.
Claimed: 0 of 1
$200
*NEW* Exclusive Writing Consultation with HT Creator and Writer Rachel Kay Barclay!
Have a story, novel, or screenplay in you, but have no idea where to begin? Want to write a memoir or autobiography for your grandchildren or children, but feel overwhelmed by the process? Want to share your specific expertise via a non-fiction book?
You can and will with this exclusive one-on-one writing consultation with the creator and writer of Human Telegraphs, Rachel Kay Barclay!
No matter where you are in the process, this consult will help you hone deeper into the writing process on both an intuitive/creative level and a structural and technique level. Learn more about Rachel at rachelkaybarclay.com.
- PLUS! You'll STILL get the other $200 incentive of The Big Reveal!
- Plus you'll get your name immortalized as a Magic Maker on the HT website! ($100 incentive)
- Plus the super-special Season 1 Location Map ($75 incentive)
- Plus your choice of a thank you image, GIF, or doodle.
Claimed: 0 of 1
$250
Your Very Own Vagina!
Get a beautiful Vagina Costume created by Conceived In Brooklyn in peach or mocha! Yes, these are the very Vaginas that appear in Season 1 of Human Telegraphs! Delivered to you by Kayla. (Only if you live in the CT/NJ/NYC area.) OR, if you live outside these areas, have shipped to you (shipping costs will apply separately.)
- PLUS! Get your name immortalized as a Unicorn on the HT website! ($100 incentive)
- Plus The Big Reveal behind-the-scenes commentary ($200 incentive)
- Plus the super-special Season 1 Location Map ($75 incentive)
- Plus your choice of a thank you image, GIF, or doodle.
Sold Out!
$300
You, Human Subway'd! + Big Reveal + Location Map + Website Credit
You’re riding the subway early on a Monday morning when- wait, is that YOUR face above the groggy subway rider across from you? Could it be? You’re in your very own personalized subway ad?! It CAN be! Just give us a photo of you and a cause you care about and we’ll make you into your very own NYC MTA subway ad!*
- PLUS! Get your name immortalized as a Unicorn on the HT website! ($100 incentive)
- Plus The Big Reveal behind-the-scenes commentary ($200 incentive)
- Plus the super-special Season 1 Location Map ($75 incentive)
- Plus your choice of a thank you image, GIF, or doodle.
*Digitally that is. We won’t actually be submitting this ad to the MTA for approval... so get creative about that cause you care about!
$500
Get Answers! + The Big Reveal + Website Credit + Location Map
Hey you, creator! Yes you! You’ve got brilliant ideas percolating in your noggin right? Let us help you bring them into existence in the real world! Get a 90-minute Creating Consulation with all 3 producers (and writer, director, and art director) of Human Telegraphs. How do you produce your own project? How do you handle branding? What tools help smooth the process? Where do you even start?! We’ll share all our secrets!
- PLUS! Get your name immortalized as a Unicorn on the HT website! ($100 incentive)
- PLUS! The Big Reveal ($200 incentive)
- Plus the super-special Season 1 Location Map ($75 incentive)
- Plus your choice of a thank you image, GIF, or doodle.
Sold Out!
$1,000
Tour NYC, the HT Way! + The Big Reveal + Website Credit + Location Map
Join a human telegraph on a special Human Telegraphs Tour of NYC (or LA or SF)!* Visit their favorite haunts and learn quirky NYC facts. (Travel, meals, and lodging not included.)
- PLUS! Get your name listed as a Magical Unicorn on the HT website! ($100 incentive)
- PLUS! The Big Reveal ($200 Incentive)
- Plus the super-special Season 1 Location Map ($75 incentive)
- Plus your choice of a thank you image, GIF, or doodle.
*NYC tours will be with Margot and Trisha and must be claimed by August 12th. LA tours will be available with Trisha after September. SF tours will be with Lily.
Claimed: 0 of 3
$5,000
You, Associate Producer Extraordinaire! + IMDb, Website & End Credits + The Big Reveal + Location Map
Spread your name far and wide!
You'll get Associate Producer* credit in every single remaining episode of Human Telegraphs Season 1 AND credit plus link on the HT website AND your very own IMDb credit!
- PLUS! The Big Reveal ($200 Incentive)
- Plus the super-special Season 1 Location Map ($75 incentive)
- Plus your choice of a thank you image, GIF, or doodle.
*There are 2 Associate Producer credits in total. 1 is offered here.
Claimed: 0 of 1
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About This Team
Our all-female producing, writing, directing, cinematography, production designer, animator, and editing team features award-winning and critically-acclaimed writer, Rachel Kay Barclay, whose plays have premiered in London, New York City, Philadelphia, Washington DC, and most notably, The Kennedy Center, and the award-winning animation of Montana Hall. The show also features Samantha Pyra‘s cinematography, which has made its way through several film festival circuits, including the Tribeca Film festival, veteran actress Kayla Conroy’s directorial debut, editor Kate Fisher, whose multigrenre work is featured in independent shorts and webseries to performance art, and art director and actress Fern Lim, who has performed (and created art!) all over the world.
Your help, combined with the talents of these creative powerhouses, will bring Human Telegraphs Season 1 to life! (And to a laptop near you!)
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