{"id":7411,"date":"2014-05-17T15:15:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T21:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=7411"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:47:03","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:47:03","slug":"projects-need-green-to-hit-screens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=7411","title":{"rendered":"Projects need green to hit screens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two weeks ago we first wrote about the impending film production FOOD<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span>, for which crew and cast will shoot on location in and near Champaign-Urbana<\/strong> beginning next weekend. Many local talents who actively feed into \u201cthe film scene\u201d covered by C-U Blogfidential<\/strong> will no doubt take part, while an inevitable cloud of curious onlookers, media reporters, business leaders, and arts proponents will hover around the periphery to try and better understand how such an occurrence impacts our community, if not merely to be nosy. Although FOOD<\/strong> might not exude the scope or star power of something like THE INFORMANT!<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span>, it will be too easy for everyone to get caught up in the excitement.<\/p>\n

How can<\/em> the non-filmmakers du C-U help if they are not already lending FOOD<\/strong> services, locations, props, vehicles, or their pretty faces? We suggest they investigate other ways in which to aid our subculture, such as giving the gift of funding to those already<\/em> making movies in our shared backyard. You\u2019ve no doubt heard of \u201ccrowdsourcing,\u201d the Internet fundraising method popular with producers who use it to appeal to potential consumers in order to secure budgets for various aspects of film production, post-production, marketing, and merchandising, yes? <\/em>Several camps amongst us currently need you<\/em> to help achieve their goals via said methods, so let’s take a look at the details!<\/p>\n

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A pair of active crowdsource campaigns running since April provide interesting contrasts in pitch and prizes. One close to hitting its monetary plateau is the Kickstarter<\/strong> push for funding a second season of the sprightly \u201ctransistorpunk\u201d series ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE 1970s<\/strong><\/span><\/a> by Kill Vampire Lincoln Productions<\/strong><\/span><\/a> of Champaign. As of 12 p.m. today, 142 backers had pledged $7,029 of the $8,000 goal, earmarked for \u201cproducing additional episodes, preposterously large robots, and (most importantly) compensating the cast and crew\u201d per their campaign set to expire at 1:30 p.m.<\/strong> this Monday, May 19<\/strong>. In the following video, creators Chris<\/strong> and Anne Lukeman<\/strong> talk about their aims with assistance from \u201cStumpy the Pimpbot\u201d of the \u201c1977\u201d episodes in Season One:<\/p>\n