Kickstart crowd funding + Enemy of man (LO3)

Kick start crowd funding

1.What is the film called? = Unsound
2. What was the Kickstarter project for? = $15,000 à eternys, professional colour correction, film festival fees, lodging and travel
3. How long did they spend developing the concept? – 3 weeks
4. How many days do the most successful campaigns run for? – 30 days
5. What figure did they decide on? - $15,000
6. How did they promote the project? – social media outlets, and personal, friends and family, film making forums. International posts
7. What is the pyramid marketing structure? – 90% lurkers, 9% commenters, 1% creators

Enemy of man 

1.How much money were they asking for? - $250,000

2.How much did they get? - $255,564

3.How many backers were there? – 2,712

4.Who is the director and why is this important? – Vincent Regan, it is important because he has created other successful films such as: 300, Troy, The messenger, Snow white and Clash of the Titans.

5.How else is the project being funded? – even if you didn’t donate, you could make a wave on social media, they were also selling t-shirts and posters

6.What was the funding for? – taking the film into pre-production

7.Why do you think this was successful in gaining funding? – because a known successful director and very well known actors already there makes it seem more likely for the movie to actually be made and make money from it

8.What has happened since it was funded? – it got cancelled

Comments

  1. JCoSS Media Dept3 November 2017 at 02:44

    Ok, you have answered the questions to a sufficient standard. Could you please just put the link for the articles of where the questions came from and also answer these three questions.

    What was the task?
    What did you learn?
    How will this help you prepare for your exam?

    All the best

    Mr Cooper

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