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I’m going to be launching a Kickstarter campaign sometime in late July, which will be my first crowdfunding effort. Other than backing projects, however, I don’t have much experience with crowdfunding. Thankfully plenty of previous campaign-runners have shared their fundraising experiences on the web; these articles collectively add up to a sort of “crowdfunding best practices.” Joey Daoud at Coffee and Celluloid is responsible for the first three posts, from which I pulled the above graphic (about average donation amount):
- Behavior Patterns of Kickstarter Funders
- How to Figure the True Cost of a Kickstarter Project
- My Kickstarter Experience: The Good, Bad, and Ugly
- Miao Wang On The Secrets of Her Kickstarter Success
- David Branin’s Crowdfunding Cheat Sheet
(Thanks @grking for the fifth link)
[via Filmmaker Magazine]
Flood Tide is an independent feature film that’s been in the making for two years, according to the description on the Kickstarter page. The filmmakers are looking for finishing funds and are attempting to raise $10k over the next 60 days. The description:
It was the summer the gas stations closed. The summer they played music in the old mill. The summer they built a boat. The summer they left.
Flood Tide is a road movie on a river. It tells the story of four musicians who create extraordinary boats out of ordinary junk and set out for open water, fueled by dreams, desperation and a sense of adventure.
Project page and trailer: Flood Tide – Kickstarter
A lot of savvy independent creatives are using Kickstarter and IndieGoGo to fund their projects via small donations. Instead of asking ten people for thousands of dollars, you ask thousands of people for ten dollars. As seen in the Obama campaign, the internet enables mass communications and mass donations in a way that wasn’t possible before the rise of e-mail, social networking, direct deposit, and online credit card forms. I’ll be using one of these very sites come July when I launch a crowdfunding campaign for my first feature! But these sites don’t offer profit participation in a project, because they can’t — it’s illegal in the United States. Now there’s a Crowdfunding Campaign to Change Crowdfunding Law, to allow for microinvestments instead of microdonations. More »
The world of film distribution is changing so rapidly that it’s worrisome for many and exiting for the rest. Among the many advances in DIY distribution in the past few months are the announcement and launch of OpenIndie and Indie Screenings, both sites focused on allowing filmmakers to screen their films more easily. OpenIndie is an Arin Crumley project that aims to help filmmakers geotarget their audiences, whereas Indie Screenings allows anyone to put on an DIY screening of a film and share proceeds with the filmmaker; the latter site has been brought about by the Age of Stupid crew. More »
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