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If you want to make a series on "The Valley", why don't you just do it? Looks like you already have the cameras, audio and editing equipment. Putting it up as a
by jbail 15y ago
If you want to make a series on "The Valley", why don't you just do it? Looks like you already have the cameras, audio and editing equipment. Putting it up as a web series would be pretty cheap/free. If it's good, you'll attract an audience and you can make money on it.
Asking for $25,000 on Kickstarter doesn't compute with me. If you were really scrappy, you'd already be doing it.
- fapi1974 15y agoI've spoken with a lot of people about this, and the most compelling thing for me about going the Kickstarter route is that you can really test out the audience for your idea, and hopefully create a group of people who have a vested interest in seeing it succeed. There are so many stories of guys who quit their day jobs to produce a web series - which believe me costs much more to produce than you'd think - and end up way out of pocket with something that doesn't rate and/or can't be sold. I actually really want to tell these stories and I can certainly do it in an efficient way, but I'd definitely like to break even!
- pork 15y agoI would pay if I could see a sample of what I was getting, i.e., the finished polished first episode.
- brador 15y agoFree money you never have to pay back.
- fapi1974 15y agoIsn't that sort of true of any Kickstarter project? There's an inherent leap of faith in supporting anyone's efforts. I suppose I never say it in the pitch, and perhaps I should, but all of the money would be spent on production - writing, actors, location permits, etc. I assumed that was a given but perhaps I should go back and edit it. Would you be concerned I was going to run off with the money based on what I've filmed and or written?
- brador 15y agoSorry, yes. It was a reply to "why use kickstarter?". I guess to put it another way would be "risk mitigation". But it's a free market, if people are willing to pay into the project, then more power to you. Good luck I say! Although, I'd be interested to hear the legal side of handing out "shares" in a project like this...I've never seen that done before.
- fapi1974 15y agoOh the shares are for fun only - is that not clear? I'll put in a disclaimer right away - good catch!