by Charles » Tue Aug 12, 2014 4:45 am
Justin,
I understand the dilemma of you being just one person, and while I sympathize with that, it doesn't change the reality of the very difficult challenge that you have created for yourself.
Look at it this way, you ask asking for twenty-five thousand dollars. That's a lot of money. The problem is not that there's not enough people who use or visit KickStarter to raise that amount. Some projects on here have raised millions of dollars in pledges - even in instances where they haven't sought anywhere remotely approaching such humongous sums.
But, even still, we're talking about twenty-five grand. It's still a LOT of money.
Ultimately, people are free to support any project that they want to, and they don't even have to have a reason. They can pledge to support a project based solely and only upon their own whims. Often, though, people tend to be persuaded by what they see or interact with.
Your project page has a few sentences on it, at present, a video, and a few images joined into a single, larger image. Taken individually or as a whole, what about your Kickstarter page do you think should be persuading people to jump on this project with their pledges?
You have 722 Facebook friends, and currently, you have zero backers. You've managed to lose the one backer that you had, previously, it seems. You are regressing, rather than progressing. You need to raise an average of $735.30 PER DAY< for each and every day reaming in your Kickstarter project's funding period. Do you have a Plan B? From my perspective, you don't even have a Plan A.
It's not that your idea has no merit. People have fantastic ideas everyday that do not get executed successfully to become a reality. You're the one asking for people to part ways with $25,000, so it behooves you to be pretty darned persuasive.
Your project page states that your objective is: A conspiracy theory web series drama, creating a pilot direct to dvd.
Now, why it requires $25,000 to do that, I don't know. I've created DVDs at no cost, before, aside from the cost of the DVD.
Your project page also states:
When you shoot something on this type of budget you have to be willing to allow some time to finish the project. Putting this in perspective it takes 2 days of professional editors like me working around the clock, with great equipment, and a lot of producer planning to get a 23 minute show out.
As we move up the stretch goals this can be avoided. A leap in funds helps me rent better equipment, assistants, maybe even contract a true VFX artist but all that depends on you.
YOU NEED TO GET THE WORD OUT: share, tweet, pitch in another buck or two. GET THE WORD OUT.
Instead of it falling to others to get the word out, it actually falls to YOU, not to THEM.
Out of 722 Facebook friends, not so much as a single, solitary one of the people who know you through Facebook seem willing or inclined to support your project with even a minimal donation of one dollar. That doesn't speak well for your prospects to raise thousands of dollars from complete strangers, if the people who know you aren't willing to support your project, at all. Zip. Zilch. Nada. None.
A few hours ago, you posted on your Facebook page the following: A lot of you are asking "WHAT ???" to END the LIES and #helpmeplz so this is what it is, explained. You also included that large image from your Kickstarter project page.
Now, you don't say what "a lot" is, in that particular context, so there's no way for me to know. But, if they are inquiring about the project, but then still won't pledge to support it, then that's a pretty strong indicator that your marketing of your concept is failing. I have seen all kinds of things sold to the public, ranging from pet rocks to chicken manure converted into jewelry. So, if rocks and manure will sell, then pretty much anything has the potential to sell - and to sell well, as far as I am concerned.
You acknowledge that you "only know very little." Well, there's no shame in that. Many people who know quite a bit about such things have still launched Kickstarter projects, only to fail.
On the one hand, you know very little, but on the other hand, you decided to ask for twenty-five thousand dollars.
I will say this - I don't think that your core concept is without merit. Every Kickstarter project rises or falls upon their own respective merits and demerits. If your current project page isn't working, and if it's failed to generate any funding flow, then why not just experiment with it a bit, and see if anything that you do generates any movement on your backer numbers. What do you have to lose?
I don't have any magic solution for you, Justin. I simply try to give people feedback, from time to time, to try and help them figure out strong points and weak points, for the most part. In this particular project's case, I think that it will require an actual plan, and an actual investment of time, money, and/or skill, in order to raise anywhere near $25,000 dollars. But, that's just my opinion of one. Others might feel otherwise. You, yourself, might feel otherwise.
Your website isn't terrible. It's OK, but aside from telling us that we're being watched, so what? We already know that. Edward Snowden made sure thatw e all knew it, although the public at large already knew it. Some aren't bothered by it, and others are. It's the details that get people's adrenaline flowing - and that's in real life. You're concept is what? Dealing with fact or fiction?
Ultimately, you are creating a DVD, which is a film, right? Is it a documentary to inform, or purely for entertainment?
You are advocating that we are being watched, and that they are listening. Who is doing the watching and the listening? The less that you tell people, the less that they know or can relate to it.
The project website states:
A smalltime university economic professor receives a txt message from his most promising student. On reply he becomes involved in a WAR between CEO Aaron Caloss of #OmNiCorp and the god of this uniVERSE.
Aaron's wife Jezebel (Jezy),won't stop till the entire nation falls under her diabolical clutches as she wipes out #the_Connected and anyone else in the way of her family's future empire. ∆
OK, so there's a religious connection. There's this war between some CEO and God. That doesn't seem like much of a match-up, to me. OK< so there's a woman named Jezebel (Biblical connection there), and she's diabolical. So what? Millions of people in the world are diabolical, every single day.
Well, there's OmNiCorp. I'm not sure if the omni aspect is relevant, or if the letters that are capitalized are relevant. Jezebel is wiping people out, if they are in the way of her family's future empire.
Ho hum.
It doesn't excite me, but then again, I'm probably not your target audience. For that matter, though, who do you see as your target audience? Or have you given that any thought?
I don't like to rain on anyone's parade. I simply try to be realistic. If your project isn't already in what's known as the Dead Zone, then it soon will be. You have managed to develop no momentum going into that phase of Kickstarter reality. That makes it extra tough on you to meet your funding goal.
I wish you well with this project, but honestly, I just think that it is doomed. There's simply no positive indicators in your favor, at the current moment. A miracle can always happen, and you know that as good as anybody, but many Kickstarter projects fail. That's just the way that it is.
What kind of feedback are you getting from people that you know,w ho know about this project?
Insanity: #planetj1.com
