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My IndieGoGo Campaign: SCARLET (short film)

Sweeney Jet

Sweeney Jet

'Ello. :cool:

So, funding with another source didn't fall through for my intended feature film. So I began writing a sci-fi mystery short instead and I feel this will better prepare me for my next feature-length film. Other filmmakers I know suggest Kick-Starter, but I went with IndieGoGo instead. I never tried crowd funding online, so anyone with any experience with it -- may I please get some advice?

Anyway, please check out, and if you choose, help fund my next project which is entitled SCARLET. More information on the actual IndieGoGo project here:

http://www.indiegogo.com/SCARLET-A-Sci-Fi-Mystery-Film

Thanks a bunch for reading! :D
 
Advice from a successful Campaign: Kickstarter.

Moving on from that. First advice is to restructure your video and put the more interesting content up front. Reels, etc, the best stuff that you can find to pitch yourself. It's really talky in the beginning, immediately makes me want to skip ahead to see what I'm supposed to be interested in here.

Second, the goal's pretty low? Oddly enough, the lower the goal the less interesting the project is. AT that point the primary question is: why don't you just ask friends and family? The higher the goal, the more important it looks. Naturally, you'll want to make sure what you're pitching is on the same level.

Lastly, being that the goal is so low, use text-based communication in a more efficient manner: spell out what one-thousand dollars will help you do in production and post. Rent a dolly? Hire a friend who's really great at compositing?

That's my advice.
 
cameronchapman said:
The big downside to Kickstarter, though, is that if you don't raise the full amount, you get nothing. With Indiegogo you keep whatever you raise.
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This is true. It's also probably the prime reason why you can raise more on Kickstarter than you can on IndieGogo.

If I told you I needed five-hundred dollars to fix your roof but you could only pay me two-hundred and fifty, do you trust me to still fix your roof properly?

The security behind Kickstarter is the big draw. Those people who are not friends and family are more likely to pitch in due to this, versus just giving you money (which his technically what's happening when you don't raise your goal with IndieGogo.) In an already "iffy" category of fundraising techniques, this looks even more unprofessional.

Compare IndieGoGo's ratio of successful campaigns, numbers raised, to Kickstarters for an illustrative and telling example.

On top of that, not only does INdieGogo take a larger percentage if you do not raise the goal, but you still have to make good on pledges after your IndieGogo campaign ends as well, which also adds an extra strain.

Although this may not be the thread for it, that's the explanation behind why one should go Kickstarter over IndieGogo, or one of many factors.

AT 1,000.00, though, it probably doesn't make much of a difference.
 
Hey guys this is his promotion thread not a discussion about other services.
 
No you keep the money you raised -9%, if you reach the goal, -4%.

Good luck with your fundraising!
 
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