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Correctly Budgeting for Your Crowdfunding Campaign

Thu, 2012-03-15 12:55 — Lucas

The other day, I posted the results of a survey I'm working on as an on-going project to get a better sense of how perks are distributed across Kickstarter campaigns. I won't bore you with the details, but basically it's a survey of almost every successful Film & Video Kickstarter campaign since August of last year (it took a loooong time to finish). Then, I spit out the numbers, put them online, and went back to drinking.

Easy, right?

How are Kickstarter Perks Really Distributed?

Wed, 2012-02-29 14:00 — Lucas

One of the biggest issues with crowdfunding in general is that so many of our best practices and truisms are based on observation. But the thing with observation is that it's bound by biases and small sample sizes and all sorts of other problems.

Add to that an influx of "experts" entering the spere to tell you how you should do things and what you get is a lot of really bad information. Even the accurate information is "bad", as it hasn't been properly vetted.

It's kind of ridiculously stupid, especially when you consider just how vital this advice is to how we get our films made.

A Very Short Crowdfunding Survey

Fri, 2012-02-17 15:20 — Lucas

Let's get some numbers. The results are updating below as the data does. The more surveys we get, the more accurate the numbers, so add yours.

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Updated (with a chart!)

Day 4 of Nicolas Citton's DECORATION

Thu, 2012-02-16 04:09 — Lucas

This is Day 4. I've yet to see a call sheet. #AYWR

Day 3 of Nicolas Citton's DECORATION

Thu, 2012-02-02 20:04 — Lucas

We're up for a 9am shoot on a bridge. It's a small scene, meant to exist near the end of the film, so I'm not going to talk about it too much, other than to say we all drove out there and shot a scene near the water. The rest isn't all that important. Nothing complicated. Nothing exciting.

Day 2 of Nicolas Citton's DECORATION

Thu, 2012-02-02 11:12 — Lucas

Call time for my second day on DECORATION is 9:30am. I'm ready to go a little before then, call it 9:20. Call time comes and goes. Nothing happens. And by that I mean nothing. People aren't ready, and why should they be? We aren't moving.

Day 1 of Nicolas Citton's DECORATION

Wed, 2012-01-11 12:59 — Lucas

One of the questions I get the most in regards to A Year Without Rent is how it is I find these projects. I've covered it before (even if I am too tired to go look up the links right now), but it never hurts to repeat it, especially when serving as an introduction to a film.

Ryan Demers' THE HONEY COOLER

Wed, 2012-01-04 14:12 — Lucas

And then?

Sat, 2011-12-31 11:29 — Lucas

Brendan Flynn's A WINDOW

Fri, 2011-12-16 12:57 — Lucas

The email from DP Connor Hair says the film is about a mime, kind of a riff on a French style. Fair enough. I'm a big fan of French films. Give me some Renoir, some Truffaut, some Godard, Jeunet, Attal, and I'm a happy guy. And if you're going to do a French thing, a mime is as good a start as any.