In this episode we continue our conversation with professional filmmaker Thomas Meadmore), discussing his experience of successfully raising £40k through popular Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter) to fund one of his latest feature documentary films titled The Cancer Conflict).
Hosted by Karoline Pelikan) (@PelikanPictures) and Paul Hulligan) (@paulhully).
Episode guide:
01:10 - Synopsis of ‘The Cancer Conflict’ and it’s background
04:27 - Starting the project without funding (self financing)
05:52 - Deciding to crowdfund and approach
13:03 - Building your own niche audience, tactics
18:23 - Building the ‘machine’. Marketing tactics to gain followers and collect email addresses
35:26 - Launching the campaign, techniques
40:18 - Creating the Kickstarter ‘campaign page’
45:48 - Thoughts on its performance and response
49:27 - Managing ‘the dip’ (when people stop contributing)
52:28 - Reflections (was it worth it?) and top tips.
