But what's more important than reading guides is spending time on the website you'll be using, whether it’s Kickstarter or another platform.
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There are many wonderful Kickstarter guides out there, and Google is full of advice. The biggest mistake you could make is to go live expecting money to pour in on its own.
Then, once the campaign begins, set aside four to five hours a day to run and manage it. That said, for a considerably-sized campaign, ($30K and up), plan to spend at least one month ahead of time preparing.
Most of these apply to pretty much any kind of crowdfunding platform, and fundraising in general, so without further ado, here’s a rundown of the advice we’d give to new Kickstarters.Ĭampaigns can be very short (as short as a day!) or stretch out over two months, but Kickstarter suggests (and we agree) that 30 days is the perfect length for a campaign. We learned a lot during that month of Kickstarting-including a few things we really wished we had known before we launched. To get ourselves started, we ran a Kickstarter campaign that successfully raised $50,000. We started our own production company, Bicephaly Pictures, last year, right out of grad school, and now we're embarking on our first feature film, Days Of Gray, that we started filming in Iceland this summer. So, a few of us decided to take matters into our own hands. We'd so much rather just be, well, filmmakers.īut the truth is, this year, not a single film in competition at the Cannes Film Festival was directed by a woman. We hate even mentioning it, because we don't want to be women filmmakers.