We’ve had a few posts about crowdsourcing initiatives in the movie business. Interestingly enough, yesterday Techcrunch TV posted a very interesting video on this subject, with Gene Massey from Cinema Shares.
Also if you get a chance after the video, check out the interesting discussion going on in the comment section on Techcrunch.
But first, here’s the [...]
The news broke today in multiple sites that David Lynch is looking to fund his next movie – a documentary about his life and work – by his fans.
Here’s the deal: fans donate $50 and get a limited edition print, t-shirt or tote bag with an abstract self-portrait the director made himself, in return.
Plus, the [...]
From Aintitcool.com comes the news that the SyFy channel will be asking its audience (and everyone, really) to contribue to an upcoming TV movie.
This fits in the recent trend and examples of crowdsourced movies and filmmaking in general, but mostly to brands realizing they must highten the engagement of their audience, and this brings them [...]
Last week we made a post talking about a crowdsourced movie in the Netherlands, and a great presentation about the process and on how the types of incentives can be linked with Maslow’s theory of needs.
And in the comments we had a very pleasant surprise, by none other that the movie’s director/producer Jan Willem Alphenaar, [...]
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Now, onto business. What makes people, or the crowd, participate in crowdsourcing? I mean what makes a person painstakingly edit a Wikipedia entry for apparently pretty much nothing in return?
The incentives can be several, and [...]