I'm honestly just glad someone is listening to me.
No, honestly, in this case, you're an executive producer, guiding the project along, putting in an intervening hand when it becomes necessary. Once shooting gets underway, unless it's near where you live, I'd imagine you'd be closed off almost to the extent of being uninvolved (merely so those on the production team can effectively pull off the vision you guided us to create).
Personally, I like the idea of either commissioning or asking someone like Cursebearer to write us a story outline or let us use one of their stories, and then letting people familiar with the art of audiovisual storytelling take it from there. If Cursebearer is so blessed with the gift of writing a script with only what you can see and hear (and nothing else), then I'd be more than willing to allow him to write. But we should all still act as executives, throwing our concerns, nitpicks, and suggestions out into the open until we all meet a consensus on how we believe Cursebearer's script should be edited, if at all. If we're doing American Shewolf in London, I believe there's already someone who has done it, but without any effects. I think we could gather up the resources and have people research make up to dress her up all wolfy if that's what we're going to do.
I am a film student, I'd like to help out in anyway I can. The problem here is that if too many people get involved (which I don't like to say, because I want everyone to collaborate and have input), nothing will get done at all. What we need is two or three people to produce, write, and mould a potential project and then show it to everyone else (or a large group of "advisors") who can say whether or not the project is worth pursuing money-wise and from there we will pitch to a make up and/or effects artist. Once we get a yes, that will be when we advertise the project and push for funding on one of the many crowdfunding websites (which must function in such a way that anyone from any country can contribute money to, none of this US-only bullsh*t - no offence).
Also, these crowdfunding things lose a LOT of money when you attach prizes and gifts for contributing money. I know it's a way to get money, but let people donate what they can. Maybe if they contribute the price of the final video, they can get a free download. NOW, WITH THAT SAID: I think, since we will have paid everyone for their resources and efforts during the production with the money we raised, we should make the video available for free wherever we can, THEN track how many views/downloads/embeds/etc. it gets. If it's popular, we know there's a fanbase and a demand and we can get the ball rolling on further videos, possibly longer and more complex and with different animal transformations and more actors and more transformations and the like... THAT is when we can begin charging money. If you give them a taste, they will have an urge to continue purchasing. I'm assuming piracy is not a big issue with this community, given that it's bloody difficult to get one of Locofuria or Jitensha's comics from even the darkest corners of the web (sorry, broke guy over here was curious... I try to pay when I can
). If it isn't an issue, more people will buy the videos and then we have created a brand new market for TF live action videos. Momentum will follow, and mass media will pick up on this trend and even more high quality TFs, porn and non-porn, will come to fruition and the market I've always craved will exist.
Any questions?