It's such a great idea - and (as so often with great ideas) so simple: - Buy a download before the film is made, get a percentage of its profits.
Imagine, you're working on a project, a film, a series, you're (video) blogging the process and you're building a big following of people who love what you're doing. Now you'd be able to say, "Hey, if you like what we're doing & like our idea, give us 10 bucks *and you'll get a share of our profits*. It's not just one of those unattractive one-way Paypal Donate buttons. It's participatory, incentivised, structured and beautifully capitalist. I can't wait until next year! Launch it now! Launch it now! ;) On 15 Sep 2007, at 06:50, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: In the interview, Arin nails it when he says that it's about creating a community around the film. What we're planning to do at Kinooga funding film projects of all shapes and sizes by allowing individuals to basically 'buy a ticket' to a film project before it's made is to tie a film's ability to break even to any filmmaker's (videobloggers included) ability to create that community before production begins. This allows the filmmaker to concentrate purely on craft during production and post-production and placing the marketing and distribution conversations post-post-production. My belief is that we still are trying to force the square peg of old advertising, distribution and revenue models into the newly-bored round hole of really and truly independent film. We've shaken up the models of filmmaking, but haven't shaken the models of funding and profit yet for a host of reasons. I'm abundantly clear after watching this space and others that change is possible, that there are many audiences that have passionate interests in which they want to invest and that the processes of filmmaking as we know it can be changed forever if we learn how to channel that passionate interest properly. Full Disclosure: Because I believe in creative people concentrating on being creative as much as possible and thinking about money issues as little as possible (or at least being able to choose WHEN to concentrate about money issues), I'm the President and COO of Kinooga. We'll be doing a full- fledged launch early next year, but you can look at our far-more-complicated-than-intended and incomplete demo site at http://kinooga.com for just a little while longer before it goes under password protection. If you're reading this message and it's too late to see the preview, mail me and I'll let you in. All things being equal, we'll be launching early next year. On 14/09/2007, Jay dedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> In the end, the writer felt they were a success on their own terms; a > mix of >> the old (distributor/booker/publicist) and the new (all of the above) > would >> be something to strive for. >> Food for thought > > agreed. > if you listen to Arin's recent interview, he totally admits they would > have done things much differently. > > I guess the take away is that without their own grassroots efforts, > they would have gotten zero love from the traditional system. Imagine > how many movies die on the film circuit (which filmamkers pay to be > in), hoping to be given attention. > > Arun responds here: > "Thanks for forwarding. We've grossed more then that and way more > people have seen the film since it's been on youtube and we've sold > more DVDs since then as well. > I haven't seen the article in release print but for the most part, it > sounds like they basically get it. > But actually to date we've grossed over 130K between theatrical, > sponsorships, dvd sales to our audience and download sales. > And soon we should be talking about a TV deal thats pretty cool and > also getting the film onto more platforms." > > Jay > > -- > http://jaydedman.com > 917 371 6790 > > **check out the new look: ryanishungry.com** > > -- Jeffrey Taylor President and COO, Kinooga Mobile: +33625497654 Skype: thejeffreytaylor Googlechat/Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
