Crowdfunding with Support of the Steemit-Community [Update]
Dear Community,
a few weeks ago I posted an article at Steemit called: Please help Crowdfunding a unique Documentary about Damo Suzuki.
Energy: A Documentary about Damo Suzuki
The film will be called "Energy" and in my blogpost I basically asked the Steemit-community to support the Indiegogo campaign to fund the postproduction of an independent documentary film about Damo Suzuki, who is probably best known as the former lead singer of the German krautrock group Can.
Image taken from the Indiegogo page.
Please support the postproduction of a feature documentary about one of the most interesting musicians of the "Krautrock" era, Damo Suzuki, as he fights cancer to continue his never-ending tour. You can do so by visiting the projects Indiegogo page or by simply upvoting this post.
After I shared the link to my post at twitter, I received the following thank-you tweet:
> $90 collected
As you can see in the following screenshot, I was able to collect more than $90 with my post, thanks to your generous upvotes.
And spent at Indiegogo
Although the final payout was a bit lower (because of the curation rewards), I went to the Indiegogo page and bought "The Works" perk for £80 GBP (about $110 US).
THE WORKS
A set of Energy limited edition rewards, including: - 1 x limited edition badge - 1 x limited edition tote bag - 1 x limited edition t-shirt - 1 x limited edition signed & numbered photoprint (We will contact you to confirm t-shirt size)
I cannot exactly remember, why the website showed £90 instead of £80 (maybe because it adds the shipping costs), but as you can see, I mentioned the "Steemit Community" as the name of the supporter.
Spreading the word at Twitter
After that, I tweeted about my contribution:
Reaction
And received the following tweets by @energythefilm:
Video Shoutout
Shortly after Michelle Heighway, the director of the documentary, published a short video update at the Indiegogo page, in which she mentioned Steemit and my efforts to support the film:
Crowdfunding Update - Energy A Documentary About Damo Suzuki from Michelle Heighway on Vimeo.
As the sound level is a bit low, I transcribed the respective part. It starts at about 1:30 min.
I just wanna say thank you so much! It’s been 20 days now and I’ve not done any video update, so I just want to say hi and that I really appreciate everybody’s help so much.
And I’d also like to thank you to - his name is shortcut on twitter. He did also a really lovely blog last week and manged to raise £80 Pounds through a platform called Steemit, which enables people to put comments and then they can pay like a certain amount of money and he collected all of that and then purchased some cool T-shirts and totebags etc., which is really cool.
Wow!
I never expected to get such a great feedback. So I thanked Michelle and her production company by sharing the video update on twitter.
Just a few days to go
Currently there are 57% of the required £20,000 funded with the campaign ending on June 20th. As I certainly would love to see this documentary happen, I will use all the rewards of this update post again to support the project. (As the payout of this post will be after the end of the campaign, I will spend the money, the post will make after 6 days.)
It's a real win-win situation, as your upvote will help to proove the real world impact of Steemit and spread the word about this through Twitter and beyond.
If you haven't already, you could also go to the Indiegogo page and buy a perk for yourself.
Please help make it happen!
Image taken from the Indiegogo page.
For example you could get the digital download of the finished documentary for £10 or buy some fancy vinyls of Damo for £65 GBP.
Thanks a lot in advance for your votes and resteems!
P.S.: Feel free to follow my twitter account to further spread the word by retweeting and liking related posts.
The film is going to be made regardless of the goal being reached, right? That was the impression I got from the project page.
hi there- I just made this account - inspired by you all. I wanted to reply. Yes I will complete the film - even if do not reach the goal. I will be able to pay for more archive /animation and edit time with more money -However I know I can make something amazing with what we have now! you will see this documentary in 2019 -November . Promise and thanks so much for this wonderful community spirit.
Hi Michelle, I'm amazed, that you were able to feel the Steemit spirit and even decided to join :-)
It's fantastic to know, that the film is already going to happen, but I certainly press my thumbs, that there will be some last minute sponsors.
Right now, I will be able to add the Bluray perk with the rewards of this post (incl. the extra donation, I've received). I'm really happy to be able to support such a wonderul project.
I'm very happy to connect and I can't wait to see the finished documentary. Best wishes and much 'Energy'!
Thanks so much! I dont know how to use Steemit yet. However I will read the rules and figure! Thanks again and thanks so much! This seems like a really awesome way to be creative help each other and receive payments for exchanging important information/tips/photos/art/marketing etc, etc! #AWESOME #steemit #social #cryptoblogging - - Your awesome SHORTCUT THANKS!! : ) -
You're most welcome :-) There are a lot of creative and nice people around.
Maybe you could post updates regarding the postproduction of the film at some point. I'd definitely be interested in this kind of stuff.
Feel free to ask me any questions, that might come up. I'm always happy to help!
Thanks again to everyone and to Arnold . W for the cool archive of #DAMOSUZUKI below!
That is great to hear. Crowd funding is fine, but when you have decided to donate it is a bit of an anticlimax when the goal isn't reached.
Looking forward to the film and hope you will post about it here.
Thank you so much for your renewed support!
I will certainly add your donation to the reward pool of the post.
As they collect the funding contributions regardless the total sum, it will be like this. I guess, the most expensive part will be the creation of an animation sequence and the costs to be able to use archive footage/music.
The whole project gives me hopes, that the funding of Phill will also be possible. Have you checked fundition already? It's a crowdfunding platform based on Steem.
Thanks for the update, @shortcut. It's great that the community should help support worthwhile 'real world' projects like this while at the same time putting the name of Steemit out into that world via social media, etc.: a win-win. Let's hope Michelle can raise as much as she needs to make her documentary the best it can be and a worthy monument to one of the legendary figures of modern music, the unique Damo Suzuki.
Absolutely second that! Creating value outside of Steemit is the proof, that it's reallly different from traditional social-media. If everything fails, I would even help editing the movie (for free) to make it real ;-)
I get the impression it will be fine whatever, but if it's fully funded she'd be able to make it better. Did you hear about this other Damo film by the way? Hope all well with you. Looks like BTC is about to get slapped down below the Feb 5 low, don't you think? Great - that's all i need. :o)
Hope you're right ;-)
No, please tell me more about it.
Getting a cold or something...
I really can't say. Unfortunately the downtrend may continue, but I'm very confident, that the next upswing will come sooner or later. Hopefully some of your low marketcap coins are doing better.
P.S.: Maybe you should consider crowdfunding one of your books. I guess, Stockhausen has some fans out there.
I need to sort out how to do the quotations thing you do. In the meantime I'll just reply to your points in order. :o)
Fim: check out @ZeroFilmsUK on Twitter. According to Michelle: "It’s an abstract film he’s doing with students − Damo is excited to act! (...) They e-mailed me for advice etc but we are kind of in direct competition now they used the same platform. Hopefully it won’t conflict and I can help them after my campaign is over.”
In another message she made it clear that she's not very happy that they have tapped into her hard-won 'Following' list and just followed everyone themselves.
Crypto market: I'm a great believer in JD Marshall, whose vid I RT every night. He doesn't try to call it, just gives the picture and the possibilities. Like you I'm confident an upswing will come, but like him I wouldn't be surprised if we don't make it back to $10K by EOY - which unfortunately will be too late for me.
Crowdfunding is certainly worth thinking about, though it would be for funds to finish the jazz book rather than the Stockhausen, which won't get finished. Meanwhile, getting active on Twitter has made me think how it could be a great way of getting outside eyes on my Steemit posts once I get started - which brings us full circle.
You can easily add a > sign followed by a space in front of the quote. That's all "Markdown" and you can check the possibilities here.
Thanks for pointing me to that feature film, I've not heard of it before. I don't know, what to think about it, but when a "Stone Transport" costs £3000 while "Cast an Crew fees" are £3500 and a signed poster (and a polaroid) costs £100, it somehow doesn't look like a project, that will be easily funded.
I saw you tweeting the videos of JD Marshall and I can totally understand, that it's interesting to follow the market development on a daily base. Fingers crossed, that the upswing will come earlier than any analyst predicts.
Looking into different ways of funding your projects and spreading the word, is really a good idea. I only recently rediscovered twitter as a perfect platform to connect with people outside of Steemit (especially in the #cryptoart niche). At least you could try to start writing some posts at Steemit, building your followership and maybe earning some cryptos at the same time.
Like that you mean? Great, and thanks so much for pointing me to that brilliant page. It's something I need to get to grips with before I start posting. Which, trust me, is coming soon, though I'll be building up a little stockpile first and upping them on a daily basis. That at least is the hope - let's see if I can sustain that pace.
As a formatting perfectionist, one thing that drives me slightly crazy is the space after each link, which is presumably unavoidable.
I've actually weaned myself off TA videos, which I got massively into when I was trying to work out whether to get out of the market then get back in lower down. Now I'm mostly in BNB which I hope will hold up quite well even when BTC goes sub-$6K and allow me to do a little amateur trading on Binance. JDM is my methodone after Tone Vays's hour-long vids of numbered candles. James gets it over with in 6-10 minutes, giving a very impressionistic idea of what's going on and what the critical levels are.
Exactly ;-) Posting regularly is a very good idea, but you shouldn't stress you too much. The most important thing is, that you enjoy, what you do.
They recently added this for all external links to prevent people from getting ripped off at phishing sites. The overall formatting is quite limited, but you will get used to it.
I definitely will keep an eye on those videos, because it's always good to have them at hand when needed. BNB looks quite well, I'm still hoping for some considerable moves of Steem, EOS and Stellar. We'll see.
Upvote and resteem it, only this little contribution I could give my friend @shortcut
Thanks a lot! Isn‘t it amazing, that you can support real projects just by upvoting? Also thanks for the resteem, it always helps to spread the word :-)
Yes it is my friend, it is real happiness when we can support our friends.
An amazing project about the crowdfunding to advertise Steemit at the same time! I think there is much much more potential in the Steemit Community, once things are more stable around here. Also good luck to DAMO SUZUKI for getting his project funded.
You have my 100%
Thanks a lot for your positive feedback (and vote)! It's definitely cool to use Steem for real world projects and to show the impact of this community. I agree, that there is a lot of potential in this kind of projects, because the more the idea spreads, the more powerful the community will become.
A very good cause. Thanks so much @shortcut. I have a question. Is he in any way affiliated with the Suzuki piano teaching books and pianos? For many of us in the piano world we know the name Suzuki as a well respected and established teaching series.
Thanks for your appreciation! I don't think, that Damo Suzuki is related to these piano teaching books. The name is quite common in Japan (like Miller or Smith).
I really like this amazing feature of our community. We can really do something important together. In this case, people had the opportunity to support an interesting and useful project. Many great and fresh ideas were born on the Steemit and often they are realized in real projects. I'm glad of that.
You're right! Although the documentary film is not a Steemit project itself, it's a very good example to show, how our community is able to make the difference.
Yay that's quite exciting to see when artist grows that's the beauty of them : )
Hahaha that's really funny!!!