I thought this was pretty neat. An indie film, Trip, is receiving all of their funding to MAKE the movie from fans/supporters. They only ask for $1 per person and are giving a credit to everyone doing so. Plus they'll be doing a Q&A at a college when its completed. Check em' out: http://www.facebook.com/tripthefilm
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cool new way to get funding
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I'm actually doing the same thing for my 14th film project, Legend of Black Lotus. More information, concept videos, and animatics are located here: http://www.angelobell.com/black-lotus
good luck
Let me get my cheque book out.......
1,000 people is $1,000. Not much to make a movie. At one second of
screen time for each person (that’s 24 frames) you’re looking at a
credit crawl of 16 minutes. Most names on an end crawl are on
screen (from bottom to top) for 10 seconds. Now with only 1,000
names you’re looking at 166 minutes. Cut that in half (5 seconds
per name) and you’ve got nearly an hour and a half of credits.
For $1,000. And they want $5,000. 5,000 names flashed on the
screen for one second each - 83 minutes.
As many people who post here know, I am fascinated by crowd
funding. This was posted in April - 6 months ago. As of today (Oct
10, 2010) the Facebook page has 200 “likes” and the movie has 2
donors totaling $50.
screen time for each person (that’s 24 frames) you’re looking at a
credit crawl of 16 minutes. Most names on an end crawl are on
screen (from bottom to top) for 10 seconds. Now with only 1,000
names you’re looking at 166 minutes. Cut that in half (5 seconds
per name) and you’ve got nearly an hour and a half of credits.
For $1,000. And they want $5,000. 5,000 names flashed on the
screen for one second each - 83 minutes.
As many people who post here know, I am fascinated by crowd
funding. This was posted in April - 6 months ago. As of today (Oct
10, 2010) the Facebook page has 200 “likes” and the movie has 2
donors totaling $50.
Crowdfunding does work for films and theres plenty of examples, big and small, to demonstrate that.
One of the determining factors of success is the rewards that are given in return for the 'donation'. I'm not convinced that credits are the best way to do it. Advance copies, downloads, limited editions, screenings etc. would seem to be more attractive for people to part with their cash and for project owners to build up a total more quickly.
For those interested in giving crowdfunding a try we've just launched Crowdfunder - http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk - a UK based site open to anyone, anywhere for almost any kind of project.
One of the determining factors of success is the rewards that are given in return for the 'donation'. I'm not convinced that credits are the best way to do it. Advance copies, downloads, limited editions, screenings etc. would seem to be more attractive for people to part with their cash and for project owners to build up a total more quickly.
For those interested in giving crowdfunding a try we've just launched Crowdfunder - http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk - a UK based site open to anyone, anywhere for almost any kind of project.
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Pretty sure they'd just scroll a massive list down, not give each name a second.
Glad you get the point of my post.
When people read that they will get “credit” they get the
impression their name will be seen on the screen just like on all
the movies they have watched. Very few people think their name
will be on screen for less than one second, or in a title crawl in
a font too small to read.
I would love to know a few of those examples.
jessicathedancer got $50 immediatly from two friends and didn’t
get any more money.
Age of Stupid for a bigger one.
Just check the film categories of Kickstarter and Indiegogo (plus other crowdfunding sites) for LOADS of other ones....
Fair enough.
I was just thinking that since you had already done the
research and knew of specific films you would offer that
information. I have been researching Kickstarter and
Indiegogo and have found very few.