Filmmakers using Kickstarter in a different way

I've seen a couple of other campaigns like this, and so far they've all bombed. ( people don't want to fund completed work )
 
Yeah seems strange.

Seems like the only reason you would do it is if you knew you had a turkey on your hands that no one would want to pay to go and see. This way you could sell overpriced BluRays to people before anyone ever sees it or gets to review it.
 
People fund kickstarter to get something made that otherwise would not have. They feel they contributed, a sense of ownership, that it wouldn't have gone ahead without their investment. It's the ability to say that you were at woodstock. This defeats the purpose.
 
I think the problem is people don't understand how difficult it is to recoup production money.
Most people still think filmmaking is a glamorous occupation. Just look at that TPB AFK documentary. Filmmakers are considdered Goliath.
What people also don't understand is how much time and money it takes to market and sell a film.

I've been toying around with the idea of self distribution and possibly crowdfunding a marketing campaign that could pay for internet ads, but I've seen a lot of campaigns like that fail because people think if a film is finished there's no reason it won't make money.

Truth is, it takes three or four years for money to start coming back into a feature film and if people knew all these things, a crowdfunding campaign when the film is finished to recoup the budget would make a lot of sense.

But they don't, and that's the problem.
 
Jawa Ex Machina said:
Truth is, it takes three or four years for money to start coming back into a feature film and if people knew all these things, a crowdfunding campaign when the film is finished to recoup the budget would make a lot of sense.
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Or they just use a crowdfunding campaign to raise the budget in the first place. Like it was meant to be used.
 
simonpwood said:
Or they just use a crowdfunding campaign to raise the budget in the first place. Like it was meant to be used.
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Actually, no. It's called Kickstarter, people. It's meant to, you know, kickstart a project, not fund it completely. Which is a portion of the reason that so many fail (that and those that rely on getting the word out by solely spamming their social media circles when trying to raise $90,000).
 
Was a DVXuser (Can't remember his name right now) from (Germany I think) recently that basically did this for his creature horror movie. He was able to get his goal.
 
Yeah, I know. But most people are interested in kickstarting a project they would like to see get made, from the beginning, so they can say they helped it, from the start. I have funded a few myself for that reason.

People would less likely be interested in essentially just buying overpriced BluRays ($40) of a film thats is essentially already made, but no one has seen yet.

Its a backwards way of using Kickstarter, which is the reason that there is even a thread about this, and they say as much on their own page.
 
simonpwood said:
Its a backwards way of using Kickstarter, which is the reason that there is even a thread about this, and they say as much on their own page.
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Yes, and if it barely raises more than $550 after 40 days, what will it have to say about the process that hasn't already been said?
 
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