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bcislandguy · 01-08-2018

If you want to crowdfund you need to show people what they are getting, you need to put the work in and at least do a short video of what your planning to do. You need to prove you have the equipment to do the job already and some credit to your name. Crowdfunding has just become a form of modern day street begging from every nobody out there who has an internet connection.

It's like the same situation as telling people your a carpenter and you will build someone the house of their dreams....but first they need to give you money up front to go to trades school, then pay for all your future use tools and when your feeling up to it you will get to work on the house....that dosn't happen in real life and producing a film is no different.

Also realize you may encounter a lot of people not wanting to invest cause they have been burnt before, look at a classic case like Abrownrigg's Freeborn, he produced 2 short films about the movie, both has elements of TF implied stuff and many people including myself funded him. He had a production background and the equipment....but it was a straight up cash grab for him to make some art film he wanted to do and now has all but vanished from the community.

01-08-2018	#33
bcislandguy Process Fan Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 64	Re: Hoping 2018 will be a better year for tf If you want to crowdfund you need to show people what they are getting, you need to put the work in and at least do a short video of what your planning to do. You need to prove you have the equipment to do the job already and some credit to your name. Crowdfunding has just become a form of modern day street begging from every nobody out there who has an internet connection. It's like the same situation as telling people your a carpenter and you will build someone the house of their dreams....but first they need to give you money up front to go to trades school, then pay for all your future use tools and when your feeling up to it you will get to work on the house....that dosn't happen in real life and producing a film is no different. Also realize you may encounter a lot of people not wanting to invest cause they have been burnt before, look at a classic case like Abrownrigg's Freeborn, he produced 2 short films about the movie, both has elements of TF implied stuff and many people including myself funded him. He had a production background and the equipment....but it was a straight up cash grab for him to make some art film he wanted to do and now has all but vanished from the community.