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Josef Astor on "The 4 Scariest Things About Kickstarter"
- By Ted Hope
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- November 1, 2011 11:00 AM
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- 7 Comments
A few months ago, Jennifer Fox wrote a guest post for this very site, a three-part, 29-point guide to running a successful Kickstarter campaign. Fox’s groundbreaking documentary My Reincarnation had recently broken all Kickstarter records and would ultimately go on to raise over $150,000, so her posts weren’t just informative and useful, they were a manifesto, a victory lap for the very concept of crowdsourcing.
Video: How The Film Industry Has Changed & Where It Is Going
- By Ted Hope
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- September 25, 2011 1:00 AM
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- 3 Comments
Koo On "Your Audience is Worth More Than $"
- By Ted Hope
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- September 19, 2011 12:30 PM
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- 2 Comments
Film may be 110 years old, the Film Industry a century, Amer-Indie, as a semi-organized infrastructure and process, 30 years, but as a creative community we are only a few years, at best, in. Sure the guilds have been here longer, but as an open & transparent, group, activity sharing information and aspirations, it's taken the rise of blogging culture to bring us together.As much as we are coming together on a general basis, indie film communities come together now around specific voices. Nonetheless, other than Kevin Smith there are very few folks who have truly built and served their audiences to such an extent that that audience is in fact a community that can be depended on to support a film to the extent necessary to move it through production and release. Or rather, until recently. Crowdfunding, more than just a money raising tool, allows us to measure how communities can truly make movies happen. Koo, who has built the much loved and very useful blog No Film School, now is making a film, and as he shares below, he couldn't have gotten so far with the support from the community he has so loyally served.
Interdependent Film
- By Ted Hope
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- September 17, 2011 1:00 AM
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- 4 Comments
It is not independent film. We are all connected.
The Costs Of Crowdfunding
- By Ted Hope
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- September 5, 2011 5:30 AM
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- 11 Comments
Filmmakers speak of crowdfunding as if it is free money. It isn't. In some instances it isn't even close to being so.
Lynette Howell on "Producing Is Supporting New Talent Through More Than Just Production"
- By Ted Hope
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- September 2, 2011 3:00 AM
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- 5 Comments
If you are a regular reader of this blog, or follower of mine on Twitter, I think you know that for me a Producer only deserves that credit when they truly commit to support the project from beginning to end. You also probably know how challenging I find the calling of producing these days, when we are required to do more and more, and are rewarded, at least financially, less and less.
Ed Burns On Learning To Love To Engage With The Crowd
- By Ted Hope
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- August 10, 2011 2:59 AM
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I have truly enjoyed my collaborations with writer/director/actor Ed Burns. We started working together on his first film and did the next two together. Although we didn't make a movie together after that, our get together share-sessions over beers have always been both fun and informative. It's been truly inspiring for me, to see how he keeps learning -- and having fun doing it.In both watching, working and hanging out with Ed, you quickly see that he really enjoys and respects people. He knows everyone's name quickly on his shoots and never forgets he too was once a production assistant who never knew if he'd have a shot at making his own movies. It is not a surprise that he has not only embraced social media, but found excellent ways to integrate it into his creative process. I reached out and asked him to share a little bit of how he learned not just to love the crowd, but to embrace them as a community that he is but one part of.
Guest Post: Jason Brubaker "The Modern Movie Making Movement"
- By Ted Hope
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- July 22, 2011 3:00 AM
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- 8 Comments
Times HAVE changed. In many, many ways. But what we call Indie Film is an era gone by. The opportunity to create and connect has never been greater -- and it means other changes are afoot. Jason Brubaker reached out to me with what I felt was an important idea, but like many I encounter, I was too busy to participate unfortunately.Jason recognizes that filmmakers no longer need "discriminatory distribution" and can reach audiences with their work in new and different ways. But Jason also recognizes we need to share the info on how we do it. Most importantly, he recognizes this is a community effort. He has done a great service to our community and deserves our thanks. But I am going to let him tell you all about it with a guest post. Thanks Jason!
Guest Post: Joke and Biagio "How to Build an Emotional Connection with Your Audience"
- By Ted Hope
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- July 16, 2011 1:00 AM
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- 2 Comments
Posts about how to use crowdfunding effectively have become a bit of mainstay in the indie film blogosphere. But that doesn't make them any less crucial. Crowdfunding has become the most-talked about new tool in a filmmaker's arsenal for getting your movie financed. It's an intimidating commitment, particularly if you want to do it well. Luckily we all have a community to turn to, a community that has been very generous with their shared knowledge. Joke and Biagio, a husband & wife filmmaking team, collected their favorite & most helpful crowdfunding posts recently -- and having included a post from this site SPRANG to my attention. They not only found posts that were useful, but also were then able to recognize what was missing. Today they guest post and fill in one of those gaps: the emotional connection between your crowdfunding campaign and your audience. Thanks guys!
Video: Yancey Strickler of Kickstarter
- By Ted Hope
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- July 15, 2011 8:00 AM
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- 0 Comments
If Indie Film had a person of the year, it would be Kickstarter this year. It's given more movies the needed boost than anyone else this year (as today's earlier post can attest. Thanks to Dan McGuire for the tip on this!
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