kickstarter – The Story Department https://www.thestorydepartment.com Story. Screenplay. Sale. Wed, 13 Aug 2014 08:14:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.thestorydepartment.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-fav-32x32.png kickstarter – The Story Department https://www.thestorydepartment.com 32 32 2808072 [Video]: Nailing a Crowdfunding campaign https://www.thestorydepartment.com/video-nailing-crowdfunding-campaign/ https://www.thestorydepartment.com/video-nailing-crowdfunding-campaign/#respond Wed, 13 Aug 2014 08:14:20 +0000 https://thestorydepartment.com/?p=32042 Read more]]> With disappearing government and industry support for emerging filmmakers, many creatives are turning to the wonders of Kickstarter (and its Australian equivalent Indiegogo) to fund their break-out ideas.

If you’ve got a few friends, a Facebook account and a great idea, why not try running your own social media campaign to get some of that sweet, sweet crowdsourced cash?

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:: ‘Back to the Future’ Screenplay Analysis and Podcast Now Available
:: The Five Factors of Filmic Subjectivity
:: Great Scene: “Manhunter”
:: Amateur TV Pilot Week – Mail Order Groom
:: Story Concept Suggestion

Script Perfection

:: The Un-Rules of Screenwriting: Joe Gazzam’s List
:: Transcript of Scriptnotes, Ep. 99
:: Scriptnotes, the 100th Episode
:: The Significance of 100,000 Words
:: Two-Sentence Horror Stories are Actually Pretty Chilling

Pitching & Selling

:: The Real Reason Hollywood Makes Bad Movies
:: If a Coverage Service Likes My Script, How Can I Capitalize on That?
:: Another Reason to Self-Publish by Mike Monson
:: If This Script is Flawed, How Did it End up on the Black List?

Best of the Rest

:: What It’s Really Like to Be a Screenwriter
:: My Take on Spike Lee using Kickstarter to Fund His Latest Movie
:: What Spike Lee’s Kickstarter Can Teach Other Crowdfunders
:: Jason Eisener’s One-Minute Long Horror Short ‘One Last Dive’
:: Interview: Craig Mazin – Part 1
:: John Williams on Scoring the new Star Wars: Episode VII
:: Every Day is a Mountain
:: How ‘Breaking Bad’ Almost Wasn’t
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With thanks to Jamie Campbell.

Enjoy!

Karel

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:: Story Inspiration
:: Script Review: Star Trek Into Darkness
:: Screenplay Review: Superman (JJ Abrams 2002 draft)
:: Amateur Friday – Going Postal
:: Steven Spielberg’s Techniques and Themes
:: 10 Screenwriting Lessons You Can Learn From Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

Script Perfection

:: The Devil We Know
:: The 52 Script Master List
:: How Kickstarter Can Make You A Better Screenwriter
:: The Flickering Myth Podcast #9 – Roman Coppola Interview
:: How I’d Fix Mad Men
:: Do Better

Pitching & Selling

:: Interview: Justin Marks – “My Life as a Screenwriter You Never Heard of”
:: Must-Have Screenwriting & Career Tips May 19, 2013

Best of the Rest

:: ‘Star Trek’s’ Damon Lindelof on Brad Pitt and Having Power as a Writer
:: Summit Entertainment Has Already Hired Writers to Script ‘RED 3’
:: Video Interview: Baz Luhrmann (“The Great Gatsby”)
:: 25 Greatest Unscripted Scenes in Films
:: Xbox One vs PlayStation 4
:: What Franchise Would You Want to Pull a FAST 5 On?
:: Sequel Bits: ‘Transformers 4’, ‘Expendables 3’, ‘Transporter 4-6’ etc
:: Big Bad Bruce
:: Only God Forgives – Video Review
:: The 50 Best Television Pilots of All Time
:: First Trailer for Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Directorial Debut ‘Don Jon’
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With thanks to Jamie Campbell.

Enjoy!

Karel

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