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Thanks for the video help guys, Im just waiting on my CAD drawings and my professional prototype to be finished, then on to the video. Should be ready in a couple weeks! Researching all I can now!

That's precisely how I find these things are done: research and enacting what you learn.

I think there is one basic rule: The more you can show and the more professional your video is, the better. It's just about convincing people, that your idea is just awesome.

My campaign is for a 10 part web series so I knew that having a video would be important, but I wasn't financially able to make something very impressive (Cinema camera, professional editor, etc). I have a short that I directed previously which makes me a little more confident, but I can't help but wonder if my very simple intro video is hurting the campaign…thoughts?


'The Duel' a 10-part regency mystery web series
Just launched --> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/36 ... -a-mystery

I can say from my experience--having shot my video twice before finally becoming satisfied--that the key is to be comfortable and personal. You want your backers to know that there is a person behind the project or associated with the company. It's easier, I think, to convince others to donate their hard-earned cash to a person, especially if you're a start-up like mine and you don't have a lot of credibility in your chosen industry yet.

Make sure you have a good mic, record on camera (shotgun mic) and use an with an omni directional don't forget to clap, so you can match up the extra vocals with the speaker if needed. Getting the sound right if you have never filmed or edited film before is hard, there are somethings even a good sound engineer can't fix. Worst thing is to film a ton of footage and not be able to use it because sound quality is too poor or echoes.
Learned this the hard way

One of the things I made sure of whenever me and my girlfriend made our Kickstarter video is that we were real human beings. I don't have any previous experience with Kickstarter before this campaign, but I know I'm not a good actor so I can't really do anything except be myself. We definitely don't come off as any sort of marketing geniuses or gurus. But just being sweet and kinda goofy was the route we went and I'm happy with how it turned out.

Our campaign has been up for 24 hours now and we've raised about 20% of our goal, with almost half of our backers so far being people who didn't know us. 75% of the people are watching the video the whole way through, which I read is good. It's a short, two minute video. Any comments or input on our video is much appreciated!

Great tips!

good topic, very interesting

My video is about 5-6 minutes long (and it's hilariously bad), but I feel I can't really shave much off. Are videos longer than three minutes really doomed?