Bluestone wrote:Heroine Addict wrote:Aren't refunds only given if the campaign is specified as Fixed Funding, Blue? Seeing as your campaigns were set up as Flexible Funding, you will incur fees of 8-10% on all funds raised plus a one-off charge of $25 to transfer the funds to your non-USA bank account.
https://support.indiegogo.com/hc/en-us/ ... ls-on-Fees
Not sure how the refund thing will work, unless you can switch to Fixed Funding at this late stage.
You are entirely correct. That's why I initially didn't go for Fixed Funding, but I'm trying to re-assure people that there is no downside to investing in this project. I am now offering a full refund, even though it will mean that I'll be eating about 10% of everything that I've raised. Store credits seems to have been a sticking point for several people, so I removed them. Hopefully, this will result in a more successful campaign than we already have. I'm trying to do what I can in order to make it easy for more people to contribute.
AvaHeinz, I appreciate your advice, but it doesn't really apply to this project, because the project is based not on what I'm going to produce, but on what I've already produced. With your student film, you couldn't really show investors what they were going to get. In my case, I have loads of produced videos that most of the fans here have viewed. They know the quality. They know the type of content that we produce. I am not simply trying to get a couple of videos produced. I am trying to save a whole line of videos that cater to this fetish community. That is the sole purpose of the campaigns. It's not even meant to raise 100% of the costs of these two productions, because they are going to cost closer to $10,000 each to produce.
So, I hope those who haven't already contributed will contribute now in the next couple of days, since as Heroine Addict has just pointed out, I'll be paying money out of my own pocket just to get your investment back to you, if these videos aren't produced, plus if they are produced you'll be getting them for a 20% discount. That's GOT to be the BEST DEAL EVER!
Blue
Hi Mate,
I think you misunderstand what I said.........
I don't mean that people don't buy or prepaid because of your quality, your quality is top notch, let get this out in the open, the problem is, people generally buy stuff that's already finished and something tanigble you can watch, see or touch. You need some hook to hook people in so they will back what's not there. That's why I think your crowdfunding is going into a wrong direction.
Instead of offering an issue that may or may not happen or put into the final cut, you should offer these alternative as an bonus to people who bought them. So it will be physically distingiushable between those who believe in your campaign and bought a pre-paid copy from crowdfunding and those who bought the same video afterward on your site. Like what they do to "Pre-Order Game" here in Australia, you get soemthing more than just the game (like a limited edition of the game), that's why I am willing to pre-order something that does not exist yet.
IMO, what you should do is to produce a standard video that without any of those your are voted for (maybe you can put some in, I don't know) so, when people contribute to your funding campaign, they will get a "Special" cut of the movie instead of the standard one. Say for example, your standard movie is without bearhug and OTS carry, but you can always alter the script and shoot a Bearhug scenes and an OTS scene which you can intercut with your main scene, then when someone contribute to the campaign, say they pledge $25 for OTS carry, then you can put an OTS scene (or pre-make them) and cut it into the main scene and give that, instead of the standard video, to the backer. That way, the backer will have a reason to actually back your production, cause they are getting something different. Otherwise, if I understand your current method, it make no different between the person who back a video in pre-production and a person who bought a copy after the movie have hit the market. they will get the same video in the end. If this is the case, then I will simply wait for it to go live and buy it from your store, instead of backing your campaign.
Another way you can make people contribute is by offering something you won't get if you simply buy the video from your site, you need to laid a hook to people so they have a reason to contribute, otherwise, if it make no different between contributing and buying off from you afterward, most people will choose the latter.
It never about quality of production, or whether or not risk is involve, as I said, I used to work as an intern in an Aussie Big Budget producer, they have the same problem with financial backing, if you gave your backer the same product than anyone else who went to see your movie afterward, then I will not back your production and will simply go watch your movie in a cinema. As it make no difference. In Movie Prodution world, you back a production either because of financial benefit (like I got some of the proceed or right if I back your movie) or prestige (like credits or meet up with cast and crew) or soemtime people back a movie because they can literally take a part of the movie and own them (like props or costume)
I hope you understand what I meant, maybe I wasn't clear in my last post? I type that at 3 am.....Or maybe because my English is not good? I am half German, half Swedish, English is my third language....
Anyway, hope your campiagn a success, and you should not stop making these video even if this campiagn did not succeed, your video is very good quality, I watched a lot of your video to get inspiration.
Ava
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