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Crowdfunding works for small scale stuff like radio shows, podcasts, and sometimes simple documentaries. Good films and TV shows are too expensive.
by api 8y ago
Crowdfunding works for small scale stuff like radio shows, podcasts, and sometimes simple documentaries. Good films and TV shows are too expensive.
- icebraining 8y agoCrowdfunding is already giving out in the range of $10-20M for some video games, which is enough to fund an excellent movie, and that's despite competing with the other model. If it was the only way to get new movies, I'm pretty sure people would contribute much more (though probably not nearly enough to fund at current levels).
- EpicEng 8y agoPeople pay a lot more for a new video game than they do a lovie ticket.
- naravara 8y agoLike I said. Counterfactuals with learned preferences are hard. We're accustomed to extremely high production values in television, so we think "good" TV shows are expensive. But there is no reason our definition of "good" needs to correlate to that level of production value. A different equilibrium would have just had lower production values as a norm and we'd likely would have been ok with it. For example, once upon a time it was fine to have people in all-black leotards walking around a stage production picking people up and carrying things around to simulate poltergeists. People were fine just ignoring them. Now people expect wirework in stage production to maintain the same level of suspension of disbelief. It's just about what you're used to.