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Here it is, at long last: my first feature, Man-child. I’ve spent the past year writing it and many more years dreaming about it. I’ve just launched an ambitious Kickstarter campaign to try to turn the dream into reality, and I’m hoping and praying that, if you’ve found NoFilmSchool to be a valuable resource, you’ll consider helping me. I hope to share everything I learn during the production of the film here on this site, going beyond DSLRs and technology, and getting into more content about financing, directing, producing, the film festival circuit, distribution… absolutely everything I learn along the way. But of course, to do that I have to make the movie first, and I need your help to do so! More »
Novacut is a work-in-progress HTML5-based collaborative editor that is currently fundraising on Kickstarter. It will run as a desktop application, but will also be made available in an online incarnation, and the entire project is open-source. It’s different from established NLEs like Avid, Premiere Pro, and Final Cut Pro in that it’s being designed from the ground up to allow editors to collaborate in real time over the internet. Here’s Arin Crumley (Four Eyed Monsters) and Christie Strong on the NLE: More »
Here’s an interesting interview with Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler, wherein he talks about the history of the popular crowdfunding web site. The interviewer for ThisWeekIn is entrepreneur Jason Calacanis, whose Weblogs, Inc. network I used to write for (DVguru, to be specific). Even if you’re already familiar with Kickstarter, it’s a great story — including the tidbit that films have collectively raised 25 million dollars (!) to date: More »
Many folks seem to think that crowdfunding is some magical new way of raising money that works like the Staples Easy Button. People love to talk about the success stories, but of course there are hundreds of campaigns that fail (and no one hears about them). With this in mind, marketing and publicity specialist Sheri Candler has written a great post about mistakes to avoid when about running a Kickstarter or IndieGogo fundraising campaign. Her post is a must-read for anyone thinking about crowdfunding. Here’s one of her reasons: More »
Now that U.S. troops are leaving Iraq, we’ll probably be hearing a lot less about Iraq and a lot more about Afghanistan (and innocuous mosques) in the daily news. But that is not to say that the ongoing conflicts in Iraq will be lessened in any way, other than in our perception. One such Iraqi conflict relates to rise of homophobia in the muslim world. From Baghdad to Brooklyn is a DIY documentary focused on this conflict, though after watching the trailer I did find myself left with one complaint. Well, two really: More »
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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