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- INTRODUCTION
TO THE SERIES
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| JESS
(Tom Hern) is on a journey through life
and time... |
Sometimes each
of us wonders "what is life all about?"
In our journey through life we experience
a range of emotions - from happiness to
sadness, hope and fear, tears after a tragedy
to tears of laughter at a funny joke. These
feelings are universal and have been felt
by people of all ages - and periods of history.
"Revelations - the initial journey" is a
drama series that follows a sixteen-year-old
boy's journey through life and time itself.
An ongoing anthology series in 26 x half-hour
episodes, the series targets a mainstream
family audience with a child/adolescent
bias.
Each episode of the
series is set against a unique backdrop
in history. Soldiers patrol the Roman Empire
in 52 A.D… in 1959, rock n'roll teenagers
nervously prepare for a High School dance…
in 1580, a European encounters a Maya village
in Central America…a family is caught
up in the French Revolution in 1792…
a teenage girl tries to rebuild her life
after a serious accident in
the present times...
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| Hepsibah
and Sarah from 1692 North America in
episode "False Witness" |
The series is driven
by human drama and interplay in the different
settings. A sixteen-year-old boy, Jess,
is the "narrator" and appears in each self-contained
episode, telling the unfolding story from
his point of view. On his journey through
history, Jess meets people with a diverse
range of ages, different beliefs, religions
and personalities - each of whom is struggling
to deal with difficult situations and predicaments
in their lives. Jess also faces moral dilemmas
and decisions that must be made and the
aim is that many in the audience will question
what they would do if they were in the same
position as Jess.
There are moral dilemmas
and themes but Revelations is not
a "religious" series - it is a drama series
to challenge, educate, and stimulate viewers
in an entertaining way as the audience joins
in a journey through history involving romance,
adventure, danger, intrigue, jealousy, humor,
peer pressure, bullying, despair, animals,
compassion, superstition, warfare, family
feuds, love, and other characteristics of
the human condition and life.
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| British Soldiers
traverse the sweeping hills of South
Africa, 1898, from episode "Incident
at Whitewater" |
"Revelations - the
initial journey" has very high production
values. The series has been filmed in New
Zealand and enjoys spectacular scenery with
beautiful locations including mountains,
rivers, lakes, forests, deserts, the countryside
and more. Detailed production designs and
sets recreate villas from the Roman Empire,
a Maya village in 1580, pioneer towns from
the 1850s, European royal palaces. 26 periods
of human history are represented in the
26 episodes.
There are fantastic
costumes, hair and make-up that bring to
life what it was like to live in medieval
Europe in the 1300s, central America in
the 1500s befrore the arrival of Europeans,
colonial North America in the 1600s, the
French Revolution in the late 1790s, Africa
in the 1800s, the wild west of the USA in
the late 1800s, the changing world of the
1950s and 1960s - and right up to contemporary
2002.
NOW SHOWING
The first series of "Revelations - the initial
journey" is now available for delivery as
26 x half-hour episodes and is being distributed
worldwide on behalf of the Cloud 9 Screen
Entertainment Group by Southen Star.
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