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 I recently launched a Kickstarter for the fantasy novel I'm working on. You can find the campaign here. All the details are on the Kickstarter, but here's the gist: I'm a longtime journalist in the middle of writing my first novel. Here's the story synopsis: In a world of kingdoms and empires, mages and sorcerers, there was a prophecy. It was said that a man would bring about a golden age. This messianic figure would be known in history as the Evenarian. But he must be stopped. A strange wanderer valiantly tries to prevent the dystopia that awaits in this "golden age" in which magic is removed from the world. Our hero embarks on an epic journey. His young friend, a student of magic, testifies this tale - perhaps the greatest story their history has ever (or never) known. I also put up an excerpt from one of the chapters here. I've decided not to do the self-publishing route (for now) and am instead raising money to pay for a professional editor to go over the MS and for fees related to distributing the MS to agents/publishers. As of today (11/5), I've raised about $3,000. If you're interested, please make your pledge ASAP because I'm not only trying to get to the main goal of $5,000 - there's a push goal of $7,000. I'll gladly field questions here.
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Hey there Goons, I launched a kickstarter with my band today, which you can check out here. Our goal is to get funding to record a full length album, as well as send a 3 foot by 5 foot sheet cake of the three of us to Conan O'Brien. We initially wanted to go larger than that, but when speaking with the bakery I discovered that would have pushed the kickstarter up to "Yeah good loving luck with that" levels of funding. If you're interested in checking out what some of our other stuff sounds like, feel free to check out our bandcamp, we have some free music for download if you're interested. Thanks for any support! I'm more than willing field any questions/comments that anybody has.
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Hi Goons, We just launched our fundraiser for our Web Tv Series Metalhedz  here: http://www.indiegogo.com/Metalhedz where there are a lot more details however here is the lowdown. The Show: It's an 8 episode comedy webseries about the lives and loves of a group of Scottish Heavy Metal loving 20-somethings. There is the resident slease, his wallflower best friend, their cuttingly sarcastic female flatmate and their annoying sex pest waster friends, who just won't go away! Over the course of the series we'll see them laugh, cry, fall in and out of love as they try to find their way through life. The concept is to make a show that falls comedy-wise somewhere between the Exaggerated but familiar cruedness of The Inbetweeners and the fantastical sillyness of Coupling, with a distinctly Scottish foul mouth and a Rock and Metal twist. Expect lots of harsh but realistic language, course and occasionally offensive humour and some downright hysterical moments. The Fundraising We've put together a test pilot which should give a taster of what the final product is likely to be once we've got the funding to film the entire series. It's on the indiegogo page. Ultimately we'll re-shoot the pilot to keep it in tone with the longer subsequent episodes. We've already cast, scripted, location scouted and secured a basic crew. What we need now is the funding to pay for the transport, equipment hire and catering for the cast & crew over the 20 days of shooting. We really want to get this project off the ground, as raw and course humour is something that is shyed away from on TV these days, in favour of soulless, ball-less, middle-aged, network-friendly canned laughter fare. We just want the chance to make something a little more edgy. Thanks for you support, we really do appreciate it. kizeesh fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Nov 9, 2012 |
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RembrandtQEinstein posted:Thanks for any support! I'm more than willing field any questions/comments that anybody has. edit: oh, to be clear, I don't mean "curious what price you were quoted for the cake" to sound like I'm grilling you about expenditures or whatever; I guess it's really more "out of the profits on this kickstarter, roughly what % goes to the cake versus recording the album?" het fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Nov 9, 2012 |
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het posted:I'm curious what price you were quoted for the cake, and also what you think the likely outcome of this is, assuming you are able to raise enough money to do the whole cake thing. It's the sort of thing I could see panning out, but it sounds like a real longshot that you guys would ultimately benefit that much from it. Like maybe a 20 second mention on the show, a few tweets/retweets? There's the chance it "goes viral" or he has you guys on the show or something, but those seem really unlikely to me. Roughly 1/3 of the cost of the kickstarter is the album (approximately 31%). The cake is around 40%, the rest is money for rewards/shipping rewards. When I was assessing the final costs I was starting to understand why so many people have "We will give your our eternal thanks!" or very small items as rewards. As far as potential gains from the cake, I personally would consider a 20 second mention on Conan an absolute success. If we manage to get it funded a more realistic goal would be getting an e-mail that says "Thanks for the cake, I really enjoyed eating your face" or something. A lot of people (like us) really like Conan O'Brien, so we figured that it was a decent idea for helping spread it around. The more goon help we can get on this the better the chances are of anything positive happening are, obviously. We have already had one person request that we play at their high school prom (they work at the school) if they contribute $200+. (We're figuring out logistics before they contribute). Gotta say I never expected to do something like that.
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Hey goons! I have a comic Kickstarter going right now, and it could use some support. It's called PARADOX:  http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jackmcguigan/paradox-vol-1 It's a time travel book, about a cowboy and a teenage girl from the 1980's who travel through time closing wormholes. 5 issues, 126 pages, full color. $25 for the trade, more if you want extra stuff. The first issue's done, and you can read the whole thing online here: Scrolly Thing: http://paradoxcomic.com/issue-one/ PDF Version: http://paradoxcomic.com/Paradox01.pdf CBR Version: http://paradoxcomic.com/Paradox01.cbr Thanks!
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 Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days Hey, one of the members of my podcast is part of a Kickstarter. Its a anthology of apocalypse themed poetry and stories. This is one that my fellow hosts wrote. I may be a bit biased, but I really enjoyed that one. Pinckney Benedict's "The Beginnings Of Sorrow" is another one I've read before, and its a super creepy story about the end times and what happens when the family dog is possessed by something. Other notables in the collection are Margaret Atwood and Rodney Jones. Heck here's the whole list. quote:Alexander Lumans's "All the Things the Moon is Not"  Hey they made their goal! Thanks to any goons who helped. They have stretch goals, so its not too late! Ulta fucked around with this message at 04:52 on Dec 1, 2012 |
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Hey goons, I'm attempting to start my own business solely through crowdfunding getting a small business loan without collateral or cosigner is ridiculously difficult. .Half of the business involves traveling to different Magic: the Gathering tournaments as a dealer on the weekends, while during the week providing 40+ hours of live streaming content. More information is at my IndieGoGo page: http://igg.me/p/283085/x/1802638 I know quite a few of goons play Magic, watch streams, and buy/sell/trade on these forums. If you don't feel like donating, please understand that sharing the link is something I'd be very, very grateful for. Eyeballs on the page mean nearly as much as donations do, I can't stress that enough. However, if you DO feel like donating, I want to extend a special goon-only offer: Any goon who donates on the $15 or $30 tier will additionally receive the $50 perk, entitling them to the special 10% lifetime discount version of the business card. I wanted to do this because I plan on doing a lot of business with goons if this succeeds. Thanks for reading. p.s. I know that trying to raise money for a for-profit business through crowdfunding is sort of like putting my balls out there and asking people to kick away, but I am pretty passionate about what I want to do. Mob fucked around with this message at 20:44 on Nov 30, 2012 |
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Mob posted:Hey goons, I'm attempting to start my own business solely through crowdfunding getting a small business loan without collateral or cosigner is ridiculously difficult. .Half of the business involves traveling to different Magic: the Gathering tournaments as a dealer on the weekends, while during the week providing 40+ hours of live streaming content. Your campaign: Flexible Funding, Indiegogo, no video. I'll be shocked if you raise more than $300. Your $750 reward is really bad and doesn't demonstrate a lot of confidence. You need a video. You need to demonstrate that you believe in yourself so much that strangers should also believe in you. Content: I just don't understand this at all. Your plan is to provide 40+ hours of live streaming content per week? But you don't give any examples of what that would be? Is this just going to be you running a twitch.tv account while playing Magic Online and occasionally saying something? Is something preventing you from doing an example episode? Will your content be compelling? Will it be technically sufficient? Is your voice grating? Are you funny? Who knows? Are you a national tournament winner? The other aspect of your business. If you knew what you were doing insofar as dealing and trading, you wouldn't have to ask the internet to buy you $7,500 in magic cards. You've been doing this for 18 years: how do you not have a massive collection already? If you do, why do you need more? What is your business model? How do you compete with the big websites who have massive inventory, next day shipping, bigger flashier booths, and can offer better prices than you? What are your margins? I could go on and on with this stuff. You mention the difficulty of getting a small business loan. Did you apply for one?
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 Galaxy for Hire is an Hero-based Tower Defense game where you fight alongside your friends, completing missions in various game-modes, gaining power and shaping the galaxy. Choose your mercenary, and fight against hordes of enemies by utilizing your powerful abilities, items and by building defensive structures in this online cooperative action game. Features:
For more information, please visit https://www.galaxyforhire.com Sounds pretty fun right? The good news is Galaxy for Hire is not just a concept. We have been developing a prototype for the past two years. But now we need YOUR help! We have a Kickstarter campaign running right now to raise the necessary funding to make this game a reality. If you'd like to play Galaxy, please consider donating to our campaign. We have some really great rewards, like digital copies of the original soundtrack and artbook. Even if you can't spare the money, help us by spreading the word amongst your friends. Share us on Facebook or Twitter. Without the support of an awesome community we won't be able to make this happen. Thanks! Our Kickstarter: http://kck.st/RSopGK Co-Founder and Creative Director - Trench Games, LLC
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orenji posted:Um, so it's probably partially to do with the the time of year, but I'm getting an abysmal response. Video and project critics - knock yourselves out. What do I have to do to make this better? The time of year is definitely working against you. The following will get pretty harsh, but I think a revamped campaign would perform a little bit better. I don't know if it will perform well enough to net you five grand, but here goes: 1) You should probably have a talking head video. You show your work, and that's great, but it doesn't connect you to your audience. I'm not moved by your photography, but I might be moved by you. 2) Niche content. Aside from it's growing pains with democracy, Burma doesn't get much press in the Western media. It used to be called Myanmar right? I know this isn't something you can change, but it might help to explain the poor campaign performance. 3) You mention that your work is being shown around Australia. That's a vague statement. Is there any press about it? 4) You direct people to your instagram account to see more of your work. I get that you can have professional work there, but it's mainly known for lazy people who want to quickly add sepia filters because they're now a "photographer." 5) Cynically, is this just a vacation where you'll take pictures? A few posts above yours is a guy who is begging the internet for thousands of dollars for magic cards. 6) Photography is mundane. Every person with a smartphone thinks they are a photographer. I'm not saying you fall into this category, but if you have bona fides that would separate you from the chaff, you should discuss that. Are you formally educated in photography? Have you won awards? 7) It's unclear why you need the money. You didn't mention needing money for your prior trip. Are you recently out of a job? Are you spending all your money on your dog who is on life support? 8) You seem unsure about what the end product of this trip will be. Another art gallery showing but also maybe a book? You should have a more confident plan about what you will do with the media from this trip. Happy Holidays!
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orenji posted:I do think it has to do with the time of the year. None of my friends have really even gone to check the link out. I think it also has to do with, as you said, a niche market too - i just figure that there would be enough of them to care and donate. The people I'm aiming this at are OLD and NOT technology savvy, I wonder whether I should take up a collection, manually - and then donate that somehow through someone else. If that's your target audience then some other outreach tool is required. KS requires a few different internet accounts (KS, email, amazon) and an inherent trust of those entities AND your campaign. The old people in my life have zero tolerance for that (god forbid there's a captcha anywhere). quote:Thanks again for your critique! I really appreciate it. Thanks for posting the campaign, and I hope you're able to pull it off.
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I'd like to submit a recent Kickstarter project being held by a friend of mine to raise cash to afford the assistance of other artists to help polish up her senior thesis in animation, an ambitious ten minute cartoon due this May (but she'd finish it herself eventually come hell or high water): http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1940350729/welcome-to-hell-an-animated-student-film Why should you throw money at her to basically help her do her homework? Well, as her explanatory video says, she's gotten positive feedback from animators of popular works such as Adventure Time, but I know she's also been in touch with animators from The Simpsons and some of her fan work for South Park was exhibited at the 2011 San Diego Comic Con. Oh yeah, and she recently got contacted by someone from motherfucking Pixar to send a demo reel in, but she's trying her hardest to stay humble about that. Oddly enough, she seemed the most excited when I mentioned seeing some of her work posted somewhere deep into the PYF Weird/Awesome Fanart threads, and she isn't even a goon! Here, have some more links to her stuff, just click before ranting about how nobody in those hugbox sites has talent: http://welcometohellfilm.tumblr.com/ http://real-faker.deviantart.com/
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orenji posted:Burma I tried really hard to find a compelling reason to donate, but I just can't find one. As a photographer your current work is poorly documented, with no links to your work outside of your SmugMug website. You mentioned that you're in a few shows, links? No mention of the gear you use, own, or would like to get for your trip. On top of that your website is just a collection of photos, no write ups which give me a better sense of who I would be donating too. Start a blog, write about your style, your goals. I don't mean to be harsh, so I hope this info helps your future efforts. Oh My Science fucked around with this message at 06:34 on Jan 8, 2013 |
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 The End is a science fiction webcomic about a motley collection of nerds, dorks, and nobodies that get abducted by aliens while attending a sci-fi convention. When the alien mothership is unexpectedly destroyed by forces unknown, the unlikely crew is sent on an interstellar journey that is strange, perilous, often funny, and sometimes very sad. I'm the writer, my wife's the artist, and the two of us have put three years and a lot of love into this story; I pour a great deal of passion into the scripting and worldbuilding behind our comic, and she works her butt off to create beautiful, vivid artwork for our readers to enjoy. We just opened up our Kickstarter, and things are going great so far! Our goal is $3,000 to help cover the costs of publishing parts I and II of The End in a full-colour, 208-page graphic novel, including some neat extras like a character side-story and a bunch of bonus art. Our goal is relatively modest because we already have most of our bases covered in terms of funding, but we want to try to recoup costs and set aside earmarked funds right now so that we don't have to live off ramen noodles and starry-eyed hope once the deal is done. We're over 70% funded already, but every little bit helps! You can check out our Kickstarter here, and the comic itself here.
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 Howdy everybody. My band Blame Sydney is planning on releasing a new EP and a bunch of new merch in the near future. So we've started a Kickstarter campaign to get things rolling. We feel like we have some pretty cool stuff lined up for donors and are almost half-way to our goal. With your support we'll get there in no time. Any help at all, even suggestions/comments, are welcome and appreciated. A little background: we've been together for almost 4 years now and are one of the biggest ska bands in Alabama. And as cliched as it sounds we don't care all that much about making it big or becoming famous. We just want to put out fun ska/punk music, with a Southern'ish blend. The t-shirts, stickers, and other stuff we make help to fund our travel and recording expenses. Over the last year or so, however, the local venues we frequented closed shop, leaving us with limited options for funding our music. With two albums out and a ton of songs ready to be recorded we took to the Internet and Kickstarter to help us get our stuff out to anyone who wants it. We're asking for $1,500 to cover the cost of a 5 song EP, t-shirts, buttons, and stickers for donors. As of this writing we're up to about $700 with 36 days to go! For a sample of our music, check out our reverbnation page here And last but not least, the link to our Kickstarter is here
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Hard Luck Hank: Screw the Galaxy I'll have my full Kickstarter project up in a few days. It's a sci-fi humor novel. Most of the rewards are t-shirts based on characters from a movie I put together to advertise it. The novel is done for the most part. I have a website where I'll have updates. http://www.belvaille.com/ http://www.hardluckhank.com/ The video uses scenes and dialogue taken word-for-word from the novel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS5NxySmQIQ Mutant thug and gang negotiator, Hank, struggles with his motto of never taking sides when his backwater, criminal space station is invaded by aliens, occupied by the military and is in danger of becoming law-abiding.
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I think this is a great campaign. We get to see the band in the video, there's no pretentiousness, and it's a reasonable goal amount. My only concern is your $20 reward looks too generous. DukeRustfield posted:Hard Luck Hank: Screw the Galaxy Assuming the content you've linked to will be the content in your campaign, this doesn't bode well. The first minute of your video is a bizarre galaxy map filled with notations and overlays. It's straight out of a fever dream. I get that you've built a world and you're excited to share it, but this isn't going to draw many people in. The animation is passable, but you're trying to publish a novel, not make an animated film. I read on your website that your target audience is visual and on the internet, so that necessitates an animated video to show off the dialogue of the novel. Why are you targeting an audience that you don't think wants your product? Who are you trying to attract to read a novel that has to be tricked with animated spaceboobs? If your rewards are primarily t-shirts featuring the characters from the animated video, these won't be an incentive to donate. The artwork is ok for proof of concept stuff, but it's not something you should choose to represent your brand or your product. It's deviantart caliber. But maybe you have some other artwork and awesome designs that you haven't shown. But this is all beside the point that physical rewards, unless they're priced very high, are not going to do you much good. There are lots of Kickstarter "success" stories where campaigns reached their funding goal but then fell victim to fulfilling the rewards they promised and lost money. Your product is intellectual property: it costs nothing to give donators sneak peaks at your work in progress, exclusive character bios, etc. The writing example in your Preview portion of your website has some technical concerns. Your dialogue consists of a sentence, two line breaks, then the responding sentence, often without character attribution. Has your professional editor cleared these passages yet? If not, wait for her to do so before you show this to the world. If she has, find another editor. This is the style of writing you see in creative forum posts, not the type you see in published work. How much are you hoping to raise with the Kickstarter?
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That video is way unbalanced in audio and almost blew my ear our which just makes me mad and close the tab right away. Might want to fix that.
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Jalumibnkrayal posted:Assuming the content you've linked to will be the content in your campaign, this doesn't bode well. The first minute of your video is a bizarre galaxy map filled with notations and overlays. It's straight out of a fever dream. I get that you've built a world and you're excited to share it, but this isn't going to draw many people in. The animation is passable, but you're trying to publish a novel, not make an animated film. You can of course get a copy of the novel as a reward. But I also have lots of t-shirts. Some renaming of characters, poster, a $1 donation, etc. I like stupid/silly t-shirts. Again, not everyone does. They are priced to make a profit and that's one of my concerns. Because I say on my kickstarter page (not visible yet) that I don't live on a cotton farm and own a t-shirt factory. I obviously had to price them above what I pay for the t-shirts. So the profit margin isn't nearly as high as promising intangible stuff, but I wanted to offer t-shirts because I personally like them and ordered some myself. Different people have different styles of writing, said me. Some people believe every sentence should have a "Joe said, wistfully," and some people believe it's self-evident, especially when two people are talking. You establish it first, then let them go. I actually researched quite a lot of books to see how "real" authors have done it over the centuries and it's to each his/her own. The double spacing makes it a little harder because there's a gap, but the indents of true novel formatting don't show up, so it was a lot better than just smushing it all together. But I've had people tell me to take out the mass attributions in sentences and some people (such as yourself) tell me to put in more. I'm pretty happy with how it is. There's very rarely a situation where it's a ten person conversation and you can't tell who is speaking just based on their type of dialogue. I'm trying to raise $5K. Thanks for looking everything over.
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Hello, I'm looking for volunteer contributors for a (mostly writing) project I'm working on. Unfortunately, due to its nature, I can't reveal too many details as of yet. The format would be blog-style, satirical, and the writing wouldn't have to be perfect (in fact, depending on your style, I may prefer it to be intentionally flawed, so as to add to the character of it.) I realize this isn't much information to go on, but so far everyone I have approached regarding the idea (and given more details to) has said it was appealing to them either as something they'd read, or something they'd like to write for (and either are currently committed to writing for the project, or are too busy otherwise.) I don't do deadlines, and I view this as sort of a community project. If you prefer doing graphic design work, we would welcome you with open arms and kisses (since this isn't paid, no deadlines, and very low expectations). Anyways, if you'd like more information on the project, I can provide it on an individual basis by PM or email ( grp1mail at gmail.com ) Thanks for reading!
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DukeRustfield posted:I'm trying to raise $5K. You'll need an amazing pitch and great marketing to reach that goal. I think you're going to pull in under $500 from strangers. Good luck.
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Jalumibnkrayal posted:I think this is a great campaign. We get to see the band in the video, there's no pretentiousness, and it's a reasonable goal amount. My only concern is your $20 reward looks too generous. Thanks for this! Maybe putting the button pack in the $50 reward along with the liner notes thank you would be better? BonoMan posted:That video is way unbalanced in audio and almost blew my ear our which just makes me mad and close the tab right away. Might want to fix that. And thanks for this also. I knew the quality would be off because we recorded it on an old MacBook but I didn't know it was hurting peoples' ears.  I apologize for that and am talking to the uploader right now about fixing it and/or putting a better video up. Thanks again guys!
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 Hey guys, Im producing/writing/directing a Skyrim fan series and we launched the indiegogo yesterday. Theres a ton of information on the project in the description. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/330670 You can check out the teaser here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNHS3c7zMmw If you can contribute, that would be fantastic, if you can share it, that would also be fantastic. We are trying to get the word out on this series and make it something really epic. AccountSupervisor fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Feb 6, 2013 |
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When you mention rewards like "$100 - steel laser cut Imperial symbol", aren't you concerned about legal action? I probably couldn't reward people with imitation Nike sneakers for backing my Nike fan film, right? It's probably just a matter of you being too small a fish for anyone to really care about, but then again Bethesda did go after Notch for his card game "Scrolls" because they felt it was too close to their "The Elder Scrolls". Why make an expensive high quality fan film at all? At best you make a webseries that doesn't get massive exposure so no one cares. But could you imagine if you make a really high quality product then get an injunction from the people who own this IP? The reason most fan films have low production values is because no one is being paid, because you can't really profit from them. Just make it your own IP. Skyrim is so generic that all you have to do is change the names of locations and races and you'll be free to do whatever you want. I doubt anyone has copyright on the idea of cat people, vikings, and yelling loudly enough to knock people down. And, well, flexible funding campaign. One day goons will learn.
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Jalumibnkrayal posted:When you mention rewards like "$100 - steel laser cut Imperial symbol", aren't you concerned about legal action? I probably couldn't reward people with imitation Nike sneakers for backing my Nike fan film, right? It's probably just a matter of you being too small a fish for anyone to really care about, but then again Bethesda did go after Notch for his card game "Scrolls" because they felt it was too close to their "The Elder Scrolls". We modeled our campaign after things like Fallout: Nuka Break and Fallout: Lanius. While Nuka Break had a short already made to help with the funding, Fallout: Lanius only had a small teaser and raised a good amount. Legal concerns are an issue, but its a gray area and so far game studios are generally ok with fan film fundraising. They offered similar products for their perks and were not shut down. We are fully prepared to deal with the possibility of being shut down though. But no one is being paid for this, every dime go towards the cost of the production resources. Plus, the people who are making the props already make Skyrim replicas and they make a profit off of the IP and dont get shut down so we arent worried that because we are giving those props away they will do that. Yes I know, why a fan film just make your own IP. Well, this is a passion project. I direct and work for other films but Im a huuuuge Elder Scrolls nerd and I really want to make a Skyrim fan series in the vein of Nuka Break. Its just for fun. We went to indiegogo for help with the funding because we have a lot of cool props and talent on board and its not cheap commisioning replica props and costumes. While Im fully prepared to fund this if it fails, we planned to sell the props and costumes after the production anyways so we figured doing an indiegogo would give us an extra financial boost. We also did flexible funding because regardless if our funding fails, this is being made. Money has already been spent, production is already underway and the indiegogo is to help with the production costs we still have to take care of. Seriously though thank you so much for your criticism and Im sorry you didnt enjoy the teaser. Youve seen my other films, Jalumibnkrayal and given me good crit so thanks again for that. This has been really helpful. Hopefully we can show you guys once it made that this will be worth it. AccountSupervisor fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Feb 7, 2013 |
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Hi there. I'm going to be running a crowd funding campaign real soon and I'd like to get some feedback on what I'm putting together. At the moment I have a video, a written pitch and my overall scheme for rewards. I have not tried to go for 'goodies' with my rewards, but rather access to the final product, alpha/beta access, that sort of thing. I'm going to be using Pozible, an Australian version of Kickstarter, because I don't have the resources to get all the things I'd need to get on Kickstarter (American LLC, bank account), where as Pozible links straight in to Paypal and my Australian business account. This is the video, the password to view it is 'cephalopod': https://vimeo.com/58819585 While not final, it is essentially what I want in terms of content. The video footage is a problem, I don't have access to any decent cameras (this is just a lovely camcorder thing) and am torn on taking the video to a location rather than a flat white background. Written Pitch posted:Have trouble getting control -- and keeping control -- of your life ? Spread out over too many applications? Have you given up on systems that just take too much effort to stay up to date? Pledge Rewards posted:A$10 + Reward I'm aware that this is quite a sizable target. It's what I need to make the project happen, and I'm basically at the point where either I achieve this level of funding or I drop the project to my spare time only in search of an income for my family. I am confident I can complete the project if the campaign is successful, but it's a case of being able to prove that, and getting people to buy into it. So what do you think? And how can I improve it? Maluco Marinero fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Feb 7, 2013 |
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Feb 7, 2013 02:21
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Maluco Marinero posted:So what do you think? And how can I improve it? I remember your first thread about this project, and I'll make the same suggestion: Work on the UI and the design of your website. Make it mobile friendly. You are asking for $25,000 dollars, and the website looks like its from the 90's. Also, why should I use this vs. things like Apples reminders, calanders, & notes (synced through iCloud). Lately the trend has been to seperate multiple functions into seperate apps which focus on doing that one thing better.
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Maluco Marinero posted:
So right off the bat I love the concept. The video and prototype website are rough beyond measure, but I'm able to see through it to the true usability. And that, like you mentioned, is the ability to have an almost stream of conscious entry of information that is intuitively parsed by the program. It's almost a little code-esque. It took me very little time to get the hang of it. In terms of presentation you absolutely must get somebody to help you with the video and website. Both are a mess which get in the way of the true potential. I don't know what you can do to fix that. Do you have any friends with better cameras? Use better angles. Raise the camera up so you're not looking down at it. Get the lens eye level. Redo the shots from different depths...wide/medium/close-up and cut between those as you're editing. That way you're visually breaking up the rhythm while you're delivering large amounts of narration. It makes it easier to digest. Edit out the bits of you walking to the camera to stop it from recording (and similar things). Just make that tighter. The website I can't help you with, but it doesn't even feel functional. Partly because there doesn't seem to be a lot of compartmentalization. I mean there is technically, but the site visually is just objects floating on a white background and it becomes hard to figure out where you are, how to get back to where you came from, and what parts are actually functional on the page your visiting. The idea is solid. I'd focus on the ease of use of entering info and having the system parse it for you. Show that more. Do some compare and contrasts to other systems. The split view design (code/design) you have going is nice to. I'm rambling at this point but..presentation presentation presentation!
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Feb 7, 2013 04:12
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Oh My Science posted:I remember your first thread about this project, and I'll make the same suggestion: quote:Also, why should I use this vs. things like Apples reminders, calanders, & notes (synced through iCloud). Lately the trend has been to seperate multiple functions into seperate apps which focus on doing that one thing better. You also can't do complex task management on Apple Reminders, it's just not the way it's designed. With everything being separated as much as it is, it's harder to link up Project Support Material, evaluate your whole day on a single page, or forecast your week accurately. These solutions are all reasonable when you don't have too much going on, but if you're serious about getting your entire life into the system you hit a wall of complexity that makes it hard to keep on top of things. You spend more time managing your system than doing all the things your system says you should be doing. I could be wrong on all this of course, but obviously I don't think so.
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BonoMan posted:In terms of presentation you absolutely must get somebody to help you with the video and website. Both are a mess which get in the way of the true potential. I don't know what you can do to fix that. Do you have any friends with better cameras? Use better angles. Raise the camera up so you're not looking down at it. Get the lens eye level. Redo the shots from different depths...wide/medium/close-up and cut between those as you're editing. That way you're visually breaking up the rhythm while you're delivering large amounts of narration. It makes it easier to digest. Edit out the bits of you walking to the camera to stop it from recording (and similar things). Just make that tighter. quote:The website I can't help you with, but it doesn't even feel functional. Partly because there doesn't seem to be a lot of compartmentalization. I mean there is technically, but the site visually is just objects floating on a white background and it becomes hard to figure out where you are, how to get back to where you came from, and what parts are actually functional on the page your visiting. quote:The idea is solid. I'd focus on the ease of use of entering info and having the system parse it for you. Show that more. Do some compare and contrasts to other systems. The split view design (code/design) you have going is nice to. Also, just ignoring the above advice, is the idea and pitch convincing enough that you would pledge for it? You personally. I understand that my presentation has a very long way to go, but am I showing enough that you believe I'd be able to deliver what I'm promising?
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Feb 7, 2013 04:44
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Try and look into twitter bootstrap or zurb foundation for style guides and responsive design. They are easy to use, free, and you should be able to throw something together quickly. If you have any questions they have great documentation and communities, or toss me a PM, I don't mind answering general web questions. I do like the idea, I'm just entrenched in the Apple Eco-system. I'll keep an eye on this.
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I'm only tangentially related to this one (ADing) but one of my friends from film school is adapting an SCP Foundation story for his final project. He's been working with the guys who run the site as well as the original author of the story, and with any luck will be able to make the first actually good film version of one of these things. His pitch video shows more about it than I can do justice here, and he already has a short scene in there for it. So if you're interested in SCP stuff, check it out. By the way, it's flexible funding because, as a school project, it's going to get made regardless of how much money he gets. So if he only gets $100 it'll still exist in some form, just not as good as it could have been if he hit his goal. If you've got any questions feel free to ask me and I can relay them to him. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/stairwell/x/2267777
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