You are tempting me to donate. What does $5.00 get me? I want my name in the credits and a one second shot of a penis spliced into your film ala Fight Club style.
For $5 gets you name in the credits.
$1000 gets a 1 frame penis slice.
Also, we are only $5 away from me dying my hair green (either during production, or for st. Patties, gonna let the other producers choose).
i dont understand why "ill go out and play paintball with my friends!" is an incentive for me to donate.
It's not "I'll go out and play paintball", the plan is that we will each start back to back and blindfolded. We will walk 20 paces, turn and unload (still blindfolded). We wouldn't be using any of the fundraiser money for that, we would fund that ourselves. (this wasn't my idea)
Anyway, here's the thing. Honestly, everyone I talk too that reads the script loves it, I'm trying to convince the director to let me post it somewhere so people can see it and see why it would be such a good movie, but we don't want someone to snatch it up and make it. There's a VERY good chance the short will make it into the Chicago Film Festival and from what people are telling me, they think it could be a festival favorite and possibly a winner.
Beyond that, I'm investing $500 of my own money, and the director is investing $900 of his to push us up (we are doing direct-deposit to the bank account). Any money we get from crowdfunding is basically just increasing the quality, and giving us a chance to make it better.
Our minimum amount needed (super bare bones), to make this, is about $2600, which we will hopefully be able to get (we only need about 700 more). Once we get that, we are green-lit. We are applying for a number of grants, and our plan with crowdfunding, is to try and take the "Weight" off the grant requests in order to try and increase our chances for them (it's easier to get $1000 than $3000).
As of right this exact moment, our current total from all fundraising is:
$495 from indieGoGo
$500 from me
$900 from Director
Total: $1895. This means we are going to be requesting about $2000 from the grant (hopefully we'll get half). With $3,000 we'll be able to hire our SFX guy for the blood/gunshots, rent the guns, pay for a fire-marshall and police officer to be on-location for the shooting scenes (chicago law), provide Craft Services for the cast and crew, and cover our expendables. Not to mention, anything we get that pushs us over $3,000 gives us a nice cushion to be able to cover unexpected expenses that might come up.
Let me point out, this isn't some "random no-budget short". We are shooting on the RED Epic, that is the same type of camera The Hobbit, Jumper, and Star Trek: Into Darkness were shot on, and is the same camera that the next Thor movie will be shot on. We got VERY lucky and got a Director of photography to sign-on (for free after reading the script) who has access to this Super expensive and high-tech camera. We have hired SAG (screen actors guild) actors, who are working for waived payment as a favor to one of our instructors, and because they really like the script.
I am saying this in all seriousness, any donations help us make this short better. Were locking locations and dates, but it's much easier to get a location if we can pay them for it, and our special effects guy is the biggest expense we have. With our current funds, we may end up having to go digital effects (which to be honest, looks like complete shit on the RED Epic). Were applying for grants, and talking to investors, but if this movie gets made, unless a random investor decides to drop a grand, it will be because of small donations ($100 and less) from people I know both IRL and on the internet.
So again, I ask, please, if you can afford to give even $5, it's a great help for us.
Topic: How desperate am I to fund my short film? THIS DESPERATE. (Read 1777 times)
Recent Posts