Fundraising Is A Demon In Disguise

Distracted and Exhausted

perhaps I need a team

Here's the deal, my fundraising campaign has taken over all of my time. the actual documentary has taken a back seat which everybody agrees is a dangerous thing. Fundraising through KickStarter is a full-time job of networking and I just don't know how to do it. I have exhausted all of my call-in favors and all I can think of is The Godfather. if the Don were to call in more favors than he gave his reputation would be ruined and respect lost... my hope is that real life is a little more forgiving and that by calling in all these favors I'm not damaging friendships.

Day 2

sort of

At the end of this post I will be listing everyone who has backed me thus far and believe me when I say that I am extremely grateful to all of you. As I'm typing this I'm at 31 backers and $2,604! how crazy is that! it's an amazing amount in just over 24 hours and I still have so far to go. Like a rocket I have burned out my first set of engines or whatever... (do they still do that?) and I'm hoping they got me far enough that I can burn steadily from here on out.

[don't judge me for my lack of accurate rocket knowledge]

3, 2, 1, LAUNCH
bbbbrrrctrctrffff (rocket blastoff noise)

I started off the morning tweeting a lot which included talking directly with @hybridvigorfilm. He was nice enough to give me networking/marketing advice even though I couldn't donate the amount specified for the marketing package.

I launched my campaign and already have 8 backers, totaling $265 which is great!

the campaign link is http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2050552348/a-greater-binghamton-area

I've been networking for hours now spreading my link and informing people about my documentary. Twitter has become an essential source of information/communication and I have amazing friends who have been helping me spread the word. I am a lucky man.

More to come. this next few days will be turbulent
now I need to figure out how to effectively use the Updates function on KickStarter.

Hopefully I can reach the staff pics or popular this week section sometime. that would be awesome.

Spread the word, folks!

-KEvin

The Wait Is Over
and in a few days we will approve or deny your project


Woohoo! Amazon Payments account has been verified! now KickStarter says I should submit my project and they'll approve or deny me within a few days.... Wait, what? Oh My GOD I am so tired of waiting for approval before I can start fundraising! <so frustrating>

In other news, I showed up an hour early to my interview with Caroline Quidort and it went swimmingly. She was very helpful and also passionate about my subject matter. she gave me people to contact about different things and helped me brainstorm and gave me basically really great information. Although I have begun to realize that with each new good piece of information my project becomes ... wider. so now I have more information to sift through for THE prime nuggets of knowledge for storytelling.

Anyway, my video is done I just have to figure out how to export it from FCP7 so it is less than 500mb but also good quality... possible?

So yeah. today went well and the countdown is on to the actual launch of my campaign. I am so worried I just haven't marketed effectively through social media and all that.

Idk how @HybridVigorFilm does it, man. such hype around something so vague!

more updates tomorrow.

-Kevin