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INDEXcrowdunder.co.uk crowdfunding help needed in attracting investors
7 years, 11 months ago - richard kelly
Hello from Richard in the uk, I need Crowdfunding help in attracting investors to a film project on crowdfunder.co.uk
It is a low-budget horror film, set during the Spanish inquisition, called The Inquisitor, http://www.theinquisitor.aba.ae
I have previously tried to launch on indiegogo, I hired the crowdfunding center, they were not helpful. I have been told that in order to attract people-in the first week or so I should get bids in. I do not have a base of friends to contact to invest-which I know has been a problem in the past. I am also wondering how to use social media such as either instagram or podcasts-I know there is one called horrormoviepodcast, that has an email horrormoviepodcast@gmail.com but no reply, I think someone called jay runs it there are other podcasts, killer Pov, tales from beyond the pale, and Kickcast podcast, that could be of help. Press@ukhorrorscene.com could too. There is a thing called Promoting Box, should it be used, I know you get what you pay for, this would be my first feature, no production company, I would direct, I also have a site www.creatorownedgraphicnovels.co.uk please please help with advice or what to do next, I have not launched this on Crowdfunder.co.uk yet, as I would rather seek an experts help on attracting actual investors as I have no base to draw from, please please reply with help, and advice, thanks.
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7 years, 11 months ago - John Lubran
Crowd funding a dramatic feature, solely using the virul medium of Internet websites focused on crowd funding, is only likely to succeed where the project has immensely impressive people attachments and provinance or has a socio-political aspiration subscribed to by a lot of people.
Even then a campaign needs a 'pre crowd' that reveals an existing level of support necessary to assume funders that it really is a goer.
It's worth asking oneself, to put it mildly, why would anyone wish to put money into a thing in the first place? If ones project has no commercially empowering attachments or compelling producorial track record then the odds of achieving distribution, let alone any profit are low to non existent. The real work ought to begin way before launching a crowd funding campaign.
We are sometimes times led to believe by operators of crowd funding businesses that the statistical odds of success are a lot better than viable reality actually is with dramatic features. Where some degree of success occurs, typically where a low budget is required for a non commercially viable project, it's usually because of the work and pre networking achieved before the website operator has been involved. For the website operator it's all about three percent of everything that gets raised across a broad range of campaigns using their site. Talking up the possibility of success is their thing. A small percentage of lots of little things adds up.
There's lots of crowds out there. Millions of them. One need not wholly rely on facilitating companies to reach out to them. Producing is one of the most eclectic skills. If one is a great director or creative film maker but not a creative producer then I'd say getting such a person is essential.
Response from 7 years, 11 months ago - John Lubran SHOW
7 years, 11 months ago - Alice Charles
I was sent this by a former Universal Studios development exec. It's the definitive crowdfunding guide:
http://fourhourworkweek.com/2012/12/18/hacking-kickstarter-how-to-raise-100000-in-10-days-includes-successful-templates-e-mails-etc/
Response from 7 years, 11 months ago - Alice Charles SHOW
7 years, 11 months ago - John Lubran
Selling water filters, or even more impressively, self tapping honey from better bee hives (several million dollars from a 40 day Indigogo campaign) is quite different to crowd funding a movie. There's some interesting ideas in fourhourworkweek's suggestions but they don't amount to being definitive. I do agree though that working smart is likely to be more rewarding than working hard.
Response from 7 years, 11 months ago - John Lubran SHOW