Crowdfunding video questions and enemy of man questions

Crowdfunding

• What is the film called? Unsound
• What was the Kickstarter project for? Raising 15 thousand pounds for attorney fees, professional sound mixing 
• How long did they spend developing the concept? three weeks
• How many days do the most successful campaigns run for? 30 days
• What figure did they decide on? 15,000
• How did they promote the project? Social medias, personal social medias, movie Facebook pages, twitter account, messaged all friends, ex military friends, emailed doctors and teachers, and created 4 group chats. 
• What is the pyramid marketing structure? The social media engagement rule - 1%Creators    9%Commentators  90%Lurkers.  

Kickstarter - 3,700 ongoing campaigns(2014)

Average campaign contribution - $75.00

Enemy of man

• How much money were they asking for? $250,000
• How much did they get? $255,564
• How many backers were there? 2,712
• Who is the director and why is this important? Vince regent 
• How els is the project being funded?
• What was the funding for? pre-production
• Why do you think this was successful in gaining funding? The actors involved 
• What has happened since it was funded? still in development 

• What is the purpose of the music video? sponsoring Chevrolet
• Who is it sponsored? Chevrolet 
• Why did ok go agree to this? what is their view on the music video? The video went on TV/ To create art. Ok Go want to make videos to please their virtual audience.
• Which companies have sponsored ok go’s work so far? Land Rover, samsung and state farm insurance 
• How much sponsorship did they receive from the company? Somewhere between $500,000-$1million 
• What did the sponsorship buy? Couple of sonics (cars) 1 modified, paid to set up the band for two months. All the instruments, payed for lead singer to go on stunt driving school. Rented out a canyon in LA for four days.
• Where was the filming location anyhow many separate location set ups did the production team need to create? Canyon in the Mojave desert LA. 5 set ups within the one location.
• How long did the video take to film? Four days

Kickstarter is a website filled with campaigns, where people who dont have the funds needed to make their film without any outside help can pitch the idea of their film to the public and ask for contributions towards the film in return for credits in the film and or other goods that may come with depending on the size of your contribution. Kickstarter is a great platform for anyone to use to get their chance at producing a film.

In this blog i was tasked with answering questions that where based on two videos we watched in class, on about crowdfunding and the other about enemy of man. Crowdfunding was about using kickstarter to raise £15k for a film called 'unsound' where as 'enemy of man' was a film in its self.

From this i was able to learn a lot about how many low budget films get the majority of their funding and how easy it really is to get the funds you need if you pitch your idea well enough to make people want to contribute and be a part of the project.

I will certainly be able to use this information in my future revision when revising pre production and funding of films.