Hey everyone, I know this is the topic that literally EVERY filmmaker foams at the mouth to find answers for. Here's what I'm doing...
We wrote a feature length horror/slasher flick a couple years ago for two reasons,
1. To make our first feature film along the lines of some of our favorite low-budget films that influenced our love for movies
2. As far as the research and word of mouth, horror is the top "Most Selling" genre for low-budget films. It seemed to make sense economically.
Last year, we shot and edited the opening 10 minutes to use as a tool for raising the funds to finish the rest of the feature. The opening plays similar to the opening sequence from Scream, and the characters are never seen again for story progression. We took this film to festivals and received some positive feedback all around, and it really played well to an audience.
From inception until now we have been trying to raise funds to shoot the film. We've heard it all from "We can easily get you $300k" to "I have people who would put $1m into a sellable project" and even "Shoot a trailer, get some names, then we'll talk." As you may know, we have raised almost nothing to get this moving forward.
So, now, we are on kickstarter trying to raise $50,000 to finish our simple slasher flick. We have 25 days left, at this point, and are not even at 1% yet. We want nothing more than to finish this for our career goals, sell it, show we can make money back, and move on to another feature film. It would be quite a heartache to have to let it go because we can't raise our goal.
So, what are your thoughts as professionals and peers at this point? I'm starting to get burnt out on the whole "short film/festival" scene and am really thinking Web Shows are the future for the audience. However, I want to be a feature film director. If we don't raise the $50k, what is our best option? We are leaving no stone unturned and giving this our all, and it's nothing I want to look back at with bitter memories of a failed venture.
If you're interested in the kickstarter page, which has the short film embedded on it along with all of our info, you can check it out at http://bit.ly/HunterKick. I would really appreciate any feedback whatsoever. Thanks!
We wrote a feature length horror/slasher flick a couple years ago for two reasons,
1. To make our first feature film along the lines of some of our favorite low-budget films that influenced our love for movies
2. As far as the research and word of mouth, horror is the top "Most Selling" genre for low-budget films. It seemed to make sense economically.
Last year, we shot and edited the opening 10 minutes to use as a tool for raising the funds to finish the rest of the feature. The opening plays similar to the opening sequence from Scream, and the characters are never seen again for story progression. We took this film to festivals and received some positive feedback all around, and it really played well to an audience.
From inception until now we have been trying to raise funds to shoot the film. We've heard it all from "We can easily get you $300k" to "I have people who would put $1m into a sellable project" and even "Shoot a trailer, get some names, then we'll talk." As you may know, we have raised almost nothing to get this moving forward.
So, now, we are on kickstarter trying to raise $50,000 to finish our simple slasher flick. We have 25 days left, at this point, and are not even at 1% yet. We want nothing more than to finish this for our career goals, sell it, show we can make money back, and move on to another feature film. It would be quite a heartache to have to let it go because we can't raise our goal.
So, what are your thoughts as professionals and peers at this point? I'm starting to get burnt out on the whole "short film/festival" scene and am really thinking Web Shows are the future for the audience. However, I want to be a feature film director. If we don't raise the $50k, what is our best option? We are leaving no stone unturned and giving this our all, and it's nothing I want to look back at with bitter memories of a failed venture.
If you're interested in the kickstarter page, which has the short film embedded on it along with all of our info, you can check it out at http://bit.ly/HunterKick. I would really appreciate any feedback whatsoever. Thanks!