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Vince MechMahon
Jan 1, 2008



This isn't really MINE per-say, but I am helping out on it as Assistant Director and am friends with the producer, writer, and director. It's a sci-fi drama short that they're working on for their final project at film school and are trying to raise a bit of money for. Figured I'd help them out a bit and post this here, it's one of the better put together of these at least from our school, as the producer knows what the hell she's doing.

By the way, it's flexible funding because no matter what it's going to get made, but the higher the budget the better the final product will be. Tuition covers paying the actors and most gear, but while we've got a pretty good selection available to us from the school most projects end up spending at least a few hundreds getting additional stuff from rental houses. And the school doesn't help pay for props, costuming, locations, or any of that. If you could take a look at it I'm sure they'd all be pretty grateful.

In the near future they're going to shoot an in universe commercial that will be added to the pitch video, but all they have right now is your standard "interviews with the crew" thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlkeuTlGKrQ

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Vince MechMahon
Jan 1, 2008



From the Dorkside posted:

Hello Everyone, my friend and fellow filmmaker Roy Berkeley has recently launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise money for a short he's trying to shoot in the fall. It is an anthology horror movie which focuses on a young woman who discovers a mysterious movie viewing device that has the unfortunate side effect of altering her perception of reality.

The film will feature Erin Brown a.k.a. Misty Mundae in the lead role.

Here's the link: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/inside-the-armoire

If there are any questions, comments, or criticisms I'd be glad to field them here!

Is there any chance of changing this to be a sequel to Playmate of the Apes, my personal favorite Misty Mundae film?

Vince MechMahon
Jan 1, 2008



Tatum Girlparts posted:

Number one critique: no one fucks a monkey.

There's no actual monkey loving in Playmate of the Apes, you philistine. But this is a conversation for another thread.

Vince MechMahon
Jan 1, 2008



Tatum Girlparts posted:

How much of the budget is the star that no one but obscure lovely film nerds and fans of monkey porn would know, I'm genuinely curious what the going rate for a...talent...like that is in the year of our lord 2014.

I was also kind of curious about this, but didn't want to sound like the total rear end in a top hat I am by asking it.

Vince MechMahon
Jan 1, 2008



Here's a thing I directed for this years 48 Hour Film Festival. It's got a lot of issues due to being written, shot, and edited in two days, but it was a fun time and we won "Best Use of Line." I don't think I would do it again however as with the cost of registering, the showings, and getting into the awards stuff I'm pretty sure I could have afforded to make a better film over a longer time frame.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfd0rsl_GcA

Vince MechMahon
Jan 1, 2008



Zombie Raptor posted:

I was wondering, is there such a thing as a crowdfunding site for particularly smaller-scale short film projects? I am aware of Stage 32 and JuntoBox and so on and so forth, but those sites/communities tend to work much like Kickstarter, in that the projects' target budgets are usually at least $500 and up. The short I am currently working on is a production that, even when factoring in having extra in case of emergencies, only needs a maximum of, like, $150 more before the target budget is fully realized. I realize that's a minuscule amount of money to ask the Internet for help with to most folks, and seems like a tiny budget, but the actual case is that everyone involved in the project has already put in every bit that they can afford, and now we're at this weird spot with the budget where we're nearly nothing away from having it funded, but can't start shooting until we get over this last hump and can rent all the equipment and secure some more music.

I cannot even wrap my mind around what it must be like trying to gather investors to fund larger independent films that do find themselves with Kickstarter campaigns of $10k+.It's been an uphill struggle, tooth and nail just to get as far as we've gotten at this point, and when all is said and done, it's probably the easiest one I'll ever have to find funding for. The whole miserable process is simply draining, but I love it.

As for the short itself, I can elaborate more if anyone here is actually interested i hearing about it or potentially helping out, but really this post is more concerned with the best way to go about getting this small sum needed to finish the budget. Even if it were practical to use a Kickstarter-esque site to crowd-source the funding, making sure people get incentive rewards for donating would probably run the needed budget up an unnecessary extra sum, as well.

On every project I've worked on where we've ended up only needing a relatively small amount of money like that, me or another crew member has ended up asking our immediate relatives for a loan for a while. My parents for instance usually were pretty cool about things like that as long as they got paid back in a reasonable time. But you may have already exhausted this, or just don't have that option available.

Even if you did something on KS or IGG or what not with that amount, you could still post it around asking for the money, just explain the situation in your pitch there like you did here. Maybe even make a funny pitch video using the weird situation you're in as material for it.

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Vince MechMahon
Jan 1, 2008



I didn't do this, but a buddy of mine did for our low rent, update with poo poo we want to do and don't really care about anything else website/youtube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khbe1haHmzM

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