Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age

Indiegogo:  "More and more independent filmmakers are turning to crowdfunding as an option to help raise money for feature-length and short films, documentaries, TV show pilots, web series and transmedia and VR projects. To help aspiring filmmakers achieve their dreams, we analyzed over 22,000 film campaigns to find best practices and insights. Here are 8 key film crowdfunding stats you need to know."

Keith Barclay:  "From her crowdfunding campaigns [Gemma] Gracewood offered a few pointers and a blueprint for a four week crowdfunding campaign to keep things moving."

Klint Finley:  "The world's first publicly traded person and Kanye West's former technical consultant want to help you IPO anything."

Sarah Salovaara:  "The crowdfunding boom has proved an altogether blessing for entrepreneurism, artists and consumers alike, with the role of sites like Kickstarter now extending beyond a helpful platform and into the campaign afterlife" ...

Dan Soloman:  "There's a lot riding on the success or failure of Veronica Mars as a commercial entity--but all Rob Thomas cares about is whether or not the movie works for the fans."

Steve Ramos:  'The creators of "Indie Game: The Movie" found success with their Kickstarter-funded, self-distributed Sundance hit. They recently posted an exhaustive case study on how they did it and discuss the highlights here' ...

Paul Spinrad:  "A new wave of infrastructure is decentralizing crowdfunding — which, given crowdfunding’s democratic nature, seems only fitting" ...

"For some reason crowd donations have come to be characterized as replacement film financing for private equity. In truth, those pledges are really another iteration of soft money, one that comes with the added bonus of indicating future audience demand [with infographic from Slated]" ...

Good advice for anyone thinking of running a crowdfunding campaign.

AUTHENTIC ALL IN CAPS is described as:  "A satirical *web audio adventure* where you travel across the web with characters who face ridiculous obstacles to being themselves."

You can also listen to Robert Pratten's Transmedia Podcast with Christy Dena here and support her crowdfunding campaign here.

It's only 4 crowdfunding tips but boy are they pertinent!

Noah J Nelson talks with Alison Norrington and Steve Peters about crowdfunding Dark Detour 2.

Oakley Anderson-Moore:  "While it's true that many Sundance films get distribution deals, they aren't always the deals of the filmmaker's dreams. With over a dozen feature films at Sundance this year that raised part of their budget on Kickstarter, is it possible to use that crowdfunding platform as collateral to attract a distributor? Or can you bypass a distributor all together using Kickstarter?"

Sandeep Sood:  "Ever been to Indiegogo? Kickstarter? Spend any cash? What’d you leave with? Why does anyone buy a product that doesn’t exist yet...and may never exist?"

Paula Bernstein:  "Indiegogo has released the Indiegogo Film Handbook which provides tips for filmmakers on how to crowdfund their next project."

Jennifer M. Wood:  "While Hollywood insiders talk about which big-budget studio movies made and lost the most money in 2013, there’s a far more interesting number to consider: 3,000,000. That’s how many people backed crowdfunding projects for a total of $481,788,567 last year — and that’s on Kickstarter alone."

Patrick Klepek:  "How the ubiquitous online payment system has systematically crippled project after project, until creators go public and criticize the company in exchange for help."

Stephanie Spiro:  "I'm interviewing filmmaker and director, Christie Strong of Strong Features about what it means to construct a transmedia story and how she's developing her own unique project using various social media sites to provide an interactive, immersive and ever-changing environment for her audience."

And, here's a direct link to the kickstarter campaign - Bombshell: the life and death of a pinup.

This is a fabulous transmedia work and thoroughly deserves its success.

An interesting look behind the scenes of a current kickstarter campaign, The Daring Adventures of Captain Lucy Smokeheart.

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A great sharing of information and experience.