1st PROJECT --- COVER ART FOR BOOK
The campaign will run for at least 4 weeks, at a budget of $200 per day, for a minumum total of $5,600. If enough money is made in the first month to pay back the cost of the commercial, then I will run it for another month, and continue doing so until the profit drops below $5,600 per month.
Instead of buying the inventory directly through a television company, I'm doing it through Google, but the commercial will play on TV exactly the same as if I had gone the direct route, yet be far less expensive of course.
email: projects(at)Alchemy-Illumianted.com 
PROJECTS
Help contribute to various works that stem from alchemy research
The 3rd edition of the book will be in hard copy format, no longer electronic. It will be complete with a registered ISBN number and quotes on the back cover from highly respected people in the alchemy community, such as other authors, who I'll let read the book before I release it to the general public. I'm looking for someone who can design the cover art for the book. Click here for an example of the kind of artwork I'm looking for. That picture was done by an artist of Alchemy Gothic, but when I emailed them to see if I could hire their artist to do the cover, they declined and said their artists are all too far behind already. They also would not allow me to use any of their pre-existing artwork.
So if you know someone who can create artwork that realistic and beautiful, please let them know about my book. I'll of course be willing to pay for their services. The picture needs to be 600dpi resolution and I'd like it to incorporate that same style of vitorian/gothic dressed female holding that same chalice because that goblet is real, manufactured by Alchemy Gothic, and will be pictured in the book. I use it for drinking my daily glass of red wine with a single drop of the Elixir diluted.
UPDATE: I finshed a cover design that I made myself, using a gothic-like patern and a photo a woman with her finger over her lips for the symbol of being silent and keeping the secret. The cover is now on the books page, as well as a seperate file when the eBook PDF is downloaded. I also now have the hard copy verison of the 2nd edition ready.
2nd PROJECT --- ADVERTISE
The 2nd important project is the advertisment of this website. So far I have already been promoting the youtube video commercial
that advertises this website at $10 per day. I've also started an ad campaign that uses 2,000 serach terms related to alchemy and this website
and is now running on Google and dozens of other popular networks. But the vistor count for this website is still under 2,000 per month,
and under 800 per day. By vistor count, I mean the number of unique IP addresses that access this website, not the number of visits, or times
per day the website is accessed. That number is much higher, in the tens of thousands.
I've also started placing ads in popular magazines like Atlantis Rising and TAPS paranormal magazine, and hopefully those will reach tens of thousands of people. The estimated reader number for Atlantis Rising is 30,000 and for TAPS is 9,000. If you know of a good magazine to place an advertisement for this site, then please email at the address listed further down the page. The ad below is one I had placed in TAPS magazine for a 1/3 page ad.
The next item on the agedna is a TV commercial. That's right, it's time to play with the big boys!
By May 1st, 2010, I will be starting a TV commercial campaign that will be aired on a total of 92 TV networks:
1- A&E Network
2- ABC Family
3- AMC
4- Angel One
5- Angel Two
6- Animal Planet
7- BBC America
8- Black Entertainment Television (BET)
9- Biography Channel
10- Bloomberg
11- Bravo
12- Cartoon Network[6am-10pm Eastern]
13- Cartoon Network(Adult Swim)[10pm-6am Eastern]
14- Chiller
15- Cable News Network
16- CNN Headline News
17- Comedy Central
18- Comcast Sports Net West
19- Country Music Channel
20- College Sports
21- Current
22- Discovery Channel
23- Discovery Health Channel
24- Discovery Kids
25- Disney XD
26- Do-It-Yourself Network (DIY)
27- E! Etertainment
28- ESPN
29- ESPN Classic
30- ESPN News
31- ESPN2
32- ESPN University
33- Fine Living
34- Food Network
35- Food News Channel
36- Fox Reality Channel
37- Fox Soccer Channel
38- Fox Sports Network
39- Fuse
40- FX
41- G4 - Video Game
42- Golf Channel
43- Game Show Network
44- Great American Country
45- Hallmark Channel
46- Hallmark Movie Channel
47- History Channel
48- History International
49- Home & Garden
50- Investigation Discovery
51- ION
52- Lifetime
53- Lifetime Movie Network
54- Mid-Atlantic Sports Network
55- Madison Square Garden
56- Military Channel
57- MSNBC
58- MTV
59- MTV2
60- National Geographic Channel
61- NFL Network
62- Nickelodeon [6am-9pm]
63- Nickelodeon - Nick at Nite [9pm-6am]
64- Ovation
65- Outdoor Channel
66- Oxygen
67- Planet Green
68- Science Channel
69- Sci-Fi Channel
70- Sleuth
71- SOAPnet
72- Speed Channel
73- Spike TV
74- SportsNet New York
75- SportsTime Ohio
76- Style
77- Sun Sports
78- Tuner Broadcasting System
79- Tennis Channel
80- The Learning Channel
81- truTV
82- Turner Network TV
83- Travel Channel
84- TV Games Network
85- TV Guide Network
86- TV Land
87- USA Network
88- Versus
89- VH1
90- Woman's Entertainment (WE)
91- Weather Channel
92- CNBC
I hope to have the 3rd edition of the book "Covenant of Silence" complete by then, and in hard copy instead of electronic format. If the ad camaign fails to reach enough of the targeted audience, I'll probably just barely make back the money I spent on the campaign. However, if the I receive enough donations, then it could take a big chunk off the amount of cash I pay out-of-pocket. I haven't received many donations yet, but the ones I have received have been fairly large. If the ad does reach enough people who are interested in alchemy, the book sales could easily rise to over 20,000 in just a few months, which would translate to $100,000 profit for me, and double that profit for Qoop.com.
But this advertisement project isn't about making money; it's about getting more people aware of this website and the reality of alchemy, and showing them just how far alchemy has come. The sacred and holy art of the ancients has been reborn, and it's now time to affect tens of thousands of lives by the elixir alchemy produces.
If you have an idea for a TV commercial, or you have skills with using video editing software and want to help produce the commercial, please join us in this advertising project. Send an email to PROJECTS(at)Alchemy-Illuminated.com and if that email still isn't working yet, then email FRC(at)Alchemy-Illuminated.com
The specifications for the video that will be required are listed below:
Format: AVI, MOV, TS (MPEG2 Transport Stream)
Size: 100MB or less
Duration: 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90 or 120 seconds (no slate)
Resolution:
- 720 x 480 @ 29.97fps (NTSC)
- frame aspect ratio: 4:3
- pixel aspect ratio: 0.9
Upper/Top/Odd field first
Codec: AVC H.264 (Main Profile 3.0), MPEG-2 (Main Profile @ Main Level), Uncompressed/RAW (except V210/10-bit), DVVIDEO
Bitrate: At least 6Mbps (CBR).
Luma should occupy full spectrum between NTSC standard 7.5 IRE black and white level at 100 IRE
# of frames for NTSC format
15 sec ad: 450 frames
30 sec ad: 900 frames
45 sec ad: 1350 frames
60 sec ad: 1800 frames
75 sec ad: 2250 frames
90 sec ad: 2700 frames
120 sec ad: 3600 frames
Audio:
Samples: 48Khz, 16bits
Dynamic Range: no greater than 7dB
Codec: MPEG1-Layer 2, AAC, PCM
Bitrate:At least 256kbps
Number of channels: 2 (stereo)
