Is the author going to sell this film...? do the donators get a piece of the revenue generated? I've worked paid online videos and you can actually get paid for broadcast in various markets or exclusive deals for broadcast on cable or online sites. Netflix can pick this up... do the contributors get a piece of this action...?
It's just strange... help fund my project and I have full rights to the project and revenue generated in exchange for your donations... It's like getting an investor with whom you wont share revenue with....
I have thought about producing documentaries I get started I lay out the costs involved and see if I can fund it myself. On the one hand documentary costs can add up but asking for funds to complete a movie like this is strange I would just go the investor route...I would not have even started without hte cash on hand to see it through...but that's me... everyones situation is unique.
In this case the donators/ investors look as it they are getting something for the contributions...at any rate good luck to all those invloved. I do think the community is rife for scenarios of folks announcing a project then asking for cash on a project. Can the producer list screen credits or samples of his work? how about a resume? a track record of completed works would be nice.
The whole point of KickStarter is to enable budding film makers to fund their projects and produce a piece of work that the backers & more would like to see...
Almost 90% of amateur/ semi pro movie makers are funded by the people through the likes of KickStarter. There is nothing strange about it....
Many box office hits (Trainspotting for example) were funded in this way, it's not about profit or asking folk to back them just to enable them to make a profit (as most of them don't), it's quite simply about backing and encouraging folk to produce something that otherwise would never be seen without backers helping out...
It's just another way for amateur/ semi pro movie makers to generate funding for their projects instead of just relying on family, friends and associates to try and fund these movies...
Surely the Amiga at the very least deserves this documentary to be made to preserve it's illustrious future for the part it has played in the evolution of home computing, after all, apart from the groundbreaking technology it was for it's time you have to remember that a lot of software companies and programers that make stuff for the PC & Mac today got their start on the Amiga and without that start you wouldn't have half the stuff there is today for these other platforms...
If you really think the Amiga's history deserves to be preserved in this way then I urge folk to back this film now, what's a few bucks in the grand scheme of things and if the target is reached and the film produced you can at least feel satisfied & happy knowing that you played a role in making this movie possible...
