just wait and see

If anyone has seen The Tunnel you might notice is was a okayish movie. It is definitely low-budget film but as a horror movie the main aim is to give people a scare, and it definitely managed to do that. Anyway the interesting thing about the movie was it was Crowd-Financed then put on the P2P network for free.

Kickstarter is a crowd-funding website, essentially you pitch your idea then people give money to your cause. Kickstarter adds benefits to some of those who pledge money (Like a signed copy etc) and I reckon it is such a good idea.

Imagine if the norm for film producers was crowd-funding, rather than going to some rich financier they went to the end users for money (Before making the film). All profits would be redistributed to the people watching it, but the end users don’t want profit they want the film for cheap. I feel like the effect would be to bring movie production to the masses, instead of it being focused around the few talented (Like how digital photography opened up the field for many people).

I understand that there are many disadvantages to this model of financing but it is nice to dream (Also its good to know alternatives to the normal always exist).