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INDEXAny experiences / thoughts on IMDB credits as rewards on Kickstarter?
8 years, 4 months ago - Nicholas Vince
I'm about to start my first campaign to raise funds for a couple of short horror films and like many other campaigns I've seen, for my top tiers I'm including either an Associate or Executive Producer credit. These are the only credits I'm intending to add to IMDB, other thanks will be on the credits of the films, website and social media only. I have two questions:
1.) Is this allowed by IMDB? I have in the back of my mind that IMDB don't encourage or perhaps allow this, but the only post on the topic I can see on their forums is 4 years old - which basically advises 'be reasonable' in the number of credits.
2.) I know of a couple of cases of very enthusiastic backers purchasing a 'producer' reward, and then representing themselves as largely responsible for the whole production, causing the real creators some embarrassment. Anyone else had a similar experience and if so, what did you do?
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8 years, 4 months ago - Paul Campion
I partially funded my latest short film The Naughty List with a successful Kickstarter campaign. 3 backers took the Associate Producer credit : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulcampion/the-naughty-list-a-wicked-black-comedy-short-film?ref=nav_search
IMDb is just a database, you can have as many producer credits as you want. We have a few people that contributed in various ways to the production and they were also given Exec Producer credits: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5528356/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
I did have a similar experience where a potential backer approached me in the closing hour of the campaign, wanting to pay a substantial amount of money for a separate 'Company Credit' and claiming that 'he'd only just found my campaign and wishing he'd seen it earlier'. He knew exactly what he was doing, pretending to come in at the last minute hoping he could lever against the ticking clock and thinking we'd be desperate to score a big chunk of last minute money to get us to agree to his terms. Luckily we weren't desperate - we'd hit our funding target within the first 3 days, but more money is more money. But straight away my gut feeling was he's going to be a problem, especially when he started wanting a contract and to put his company logo at the beginning of the film, taking credit as one of the production companies responsible for making the film. I thought he was going to be a lot of hassle and possibly doing exactly what you say above - taking credit where it wasn't due and possibly wanting some level of creative control. I checked out his website and in IMDb and he'd backed a few other campaigns, but he did seem to be claiming more than was due to him. I was happy to give him an Exec Producer credit for bringing finance to the table, but he wouldn't take that, so I turned him down.
I the end you've got to figure out how much you need that extra money that they'd bring to the table.
All the people who backed us and got the Associate Producer credit have been great, although a few of them were friends of people on the production, so they knew the deal.
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8 years, 4 months ago - Marlom Tander
If you sell bragging rights, don't be surprised if the buyers turn out to be braggarts :-)
Response from 8 years, 4 months ago - Marlom Tander SHOW
8 years, 4 months ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin
Credits for cash is pretty much 90% of production credits on a film
Response from 8 years, 4 months ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin SHOW
8 years, 4 months ago - Richard Anthony Dunford
It's usually popular on kickstarter so worth trying.
Response from 8 years, 4 months ago - Richard Anthony Dunford SHOW