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8. 3 Actions You Can Take Now
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Crowdfunding to Build Independence
11:10 2Who is Your Audience?
13:52 3Messaging to Your Audience
14:38 4Specifics of Crowdfunding and Incentives
13:07 5The Good and Bad of Pitch Videos
05:00 6Pre-Production for the Campaign
19:42 7After the Campaign and Q&A
11:48 83 Actions You Can Take Now
04:09Deep Dive into Crowdfunding with Nathan Williams and Natalie Johns
17:07 10Pitch Videos Done Right with Nathan Williams and Natalie Johns
18:01 11Incentives with Nathan Williams and Natalie Johns
13:18 12Campaign Execution with Nathan Williams and Natalie Johns
11:43 13Unexpected Pitfalls and Benefits of Crowdfunding
18:28Lesson Info
3 Actions You Can Take Now
I believe a lot in the culture of plenty. I talk about this all the time. I think if you want to participate in Crowdfunding as a receiver, you also really have to participate in Crowdfunding as a contributor. And part of that is to discover what is it that compels you in the first place, right? That's really good information to get. If you want to discover what compels other people, go out and discover what compels you. So go search the Internet for crowdfunding campaigns. Let's keep it in film because you know we need toe. We need the rising tide that lifts all these boats. Of course, I would love it if we're seeding spark campaign, but I don't care ago where everyone and take five bucks or 10 bucks and contributed to a crowdfunding campaign that just uniquely compels you. If you don't have five or 10 bucks, share the campaign and tell people why, right or even right pretty much on every platform, you can message the filmmaker in one way or another. Let them know what you loved about...
it. Give them a piece of feedback that's useful to them. That's really helpful. A swell. Um, if you wanted to tweet about the stay and detour, have text a detour, which is what this class is. Um, I think we're teaching, like 80 of these classes in 2015. There a little bit different. This one is much more in depth as we go. Is particularly we go into the second segment, but let people know that this information is out there. We just really want everyone who wants a shot at this to be good at Crowdfunding. And of course, you know, we really want everyone to be able to build the independent career that's exciting to them. We also want your feedback. So if you want to tweet about the stay and detour, we take a look at that hash tag. We want to know. What more do you want? What was there too much of? You know what? Our questions we didn't answer because this this changes all the time. Lindy's probably seen this. I don't know four times now, and there's a little bit more each time because our crowd tells us a lot about that. The most important thing is we our collectively, our own best advocates, right We are the first consumers of independent film, and I think there was some amazing statistic that one word of mouth recommendation is as effective as 200 television ads. Whoa! Do you know how much money that's worth? So when you make a word of mouth recommendation about an independent film that you watch that you love that mattered to you that is hundreds of thousands of dollars. You're contributing to a filmmaker's campaign for distribution. Right? So take those really seriously. I like to apply them liberally. I see independent films that I love, and I want to tell the entire world about them because I want everyone to see them and have that experience with me and, you know, and then you get to talk about it later. But really, take that seriously. So, um, tweet about an independent film that you think everyone should watch or Facebook or post an image from instagram or wherever it is you like to hang out. Tumble it. Uh, red did it it? I don't What is to read it to read? He read a vote? I don't know. Um yeah. So consider just taking actions once a day to support someone else. That shit will come back to you for sure. And then I just want to be clear that you can contact us. You can tweet us at seed and spark. You can tweet it. Tug. If you have questions about what they're doing, they've developed a whole educational and non theatrical division, which is a huge potential revenue source for independent filmmakers that they never even think about. Go learn about that. Go to tug site and learn about educational a non theatrical distribution. You can get this deck if you text 1 44 with the word spark and you enter your email address and we send stuff to you, and we'll also send you a whole bunch of special offers. If you do that and then you can just email us hello at CNN's bark dot com. Um, and this vest concludes the first segment
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a Creativelive Student
Excellent source of information re crowd funding for films (docs & narratives, short & long form.) THANK YOU Emily Best!!! You were great, love what you are doing with Seed & Spark. THANKS Creative Live. Love how you bring creative learning to your audience.
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This was my introduction to Seed & Spark. Since I have read a number of articles on the same presented by Emily Best and her business partner. So impressed with what they are doing, I have recommended it to all of my readers--all of whom are filmmakers. Emily's approach to crowdfunding as explored in this video series is top notch. I would recommend this series to everyone whether the novice or the more experienced crowdfunder. David W. King, Michigan Movie Media 2.0
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So happy to have found, AT LAST! a comprehensive approach to fundraising. Information on this subject is often contradictory and sketchy. Emily brought it all together. Thank you.
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