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The tiers presented in this thread are not the only tiers we have planned. We actually have several more cool tiers that will be revealed when the Kickstarter is launched.
The tiers presented in this thread are not the only tiers we have planned. We actually have several more cool tiers that will be revealed when the Kickstarter is launched.
I know that. I just wanted to bring this up because I didn't know what else you were planning and I don't want you to miss any chances of this being successful. 
@END films, I remember Little Guys in Space. However, I don't believe that the project was ever finished, right?
Is there a reason you do not want to approach foundations for seed funding? I know filmmakers who don't like them because they want total autonomy and ownership without compromising the integrity of their work.
I am also asking because I am trying to understand American-based funding associations. I live in a Commonwealth country so it is a lot easier for us to access Commonwealth based funds. But I don't have a clear understanding of how North American funders operate and what their objectives are.
I've looked into grants before. I feel like it's pretty hard to make what you want to make with a grant, you have to come at it with the approach of coming up with an idea that fits the grant, which I'm not interested in doing. It's hard to tie brickfilming directly to a social justice cause. And yes, I wouldn't want to require somebody's approval of the finished product, my artistic and creative goals for this project are a little unconventional and I don't think it'd meet the sort of humanitarian/educational goals documentary grants tend to have.
Also they have specific time windows for their application processes, and I won't be able to make this documentary if I wait six months because I need to find full-time employment after I finish shooting it.
@END films, I remember Little Guys in Space. However, I don't believe that the project was ever finished, right?
The kickstarter was successful and Paganomation is currently working on it (for proof see his facebook page) he just hasn't finished it. (he has to do more than just work on that project)
It's hard to tie brickfilming directly to a social justice cause. And yes, I wouldn't want to require somebody's approval of the finished product, my artistic and creative goals for this project are a little unconventional and I don't think it'd meet the sort of humanitarian/educational goals documentary grants tend to have.
Also they have specific time windows for their application processes, and I won't be able to make this documentary if I wait six months because I need to find full-time employment after I finish shooting it.
Yup, I totally get that. Though there are "arts for arts sake" sort of funding available for short films. I think having to tie it to a social justice or humanitarian cause could be a common misconception though. Sometimes it is simply a matter of changing the vocabulary of the proposals to fit the funding requirements not necessarily changing the scope of the entire film.
A few months ago I had a similar idea for a documentary about the history of brickfilming, so I am so glad this is finally happening.
It sounds like you guys are far along in the planning and scripting process, but have you considered getting an interview with Lindsay Fleay, the original creator of The Magic Portal? I think that could be pretty useful for some historical background in my humble opinion.
I would be more than willing to support this project financially, and I would also be more than willing to allow the use of clips from my films if you have any sort of montage planned, and you have the need for random clips. Just let me know if I can help in any way.
Best of luck with this project, Nathan, ZachMG, Vandy, and Smeagol!
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Traveling to Australia and other countries to interview Fleay and some others there would be cool, though we could only consider it if we end up with a fairly large budget surplus, which would mean greatly exceeding our Kickstarter goal. I care a lot about the aesthetic and production values of this film, an area I feel many documentaries fall short in, so it's important to me that we travel with a crew and equipment and interview everyone appearing in the documentary in person.
We may have need of clips to include in the documentary at some point! I'll post about it on this forum if it comes up, though we won't know exactly what we're going to need in that department until post-production.
It sounds like you guys are far along in the planning and scripting process, but have you considered getting an interview with Lindsay Fleay, the original creator of The Magic Portal? I think that could be pretty useful for some historical background in my humble opinion.
I have been in talks with Lindsay Fleay and we are working on re-scanning the original 16mm short film in higher quality to be put on our Bricks In Motion Collection DVD which will be available at the $25 tier! We're also working out the details of having him provide a never before heard director's commentary to accompany the film. 
We will also get a media release from Lindsay so if Smeagol decides to touch on the history for the doc we will have the magic portal to reference.
Jeez took me forever to login, I haven't been active in the brickfilming community for quite some time.. but I am really happy to see this initiative pulling together, I certainly intended to contribute to its funding 
Vandy, my day just got awesome. Thanks for the news!
Definitely excited to have Lindsay Fleay involved! it'll be great to have a higher quality version of his film and a commentary.
I wanted to add that contributors outside the US will have some additional shipping charges. We'll try to keep them reasonable, though.
Please let me know if you know of any other sites that should be included. It definitely will be a busy day for me when the Kickstarter goes live!
boingboing.net would be a good one to try but it's quite hard to get noticed by them
also: http://indiegogo.com
0ldscratch I feel like we need to come up with an exhaustive list of blogs like that and contact them all with a brief press release. I'm just not very up on blogging and not sure how to find the volume of blogs we would want for this purpose.
I've run a campaign on IndieGoGo before. IndieGoGo's a cool site, but the traffic there is a small percentage of the traffic Kickstarter has. I later ran the same campaign on Kickstarter and raised a lot more money. We don't have the resources to pull this campaign off with a much smaller community like IndieGoGo. Only a little less than 10% of IndieGoGo projects succeed, which is less than a third of the rate for Kickstarter campaigns comparable to ours. Average contributions are much lower. There are pros and cons to either, for sure, but that's the reason behind the decision to go with Kickstarter.
Apologies for my radio silence in this thread, but Doug, that is awesome news!
Nathan Wells wrote:Brick-A-Brack.com (French-language brickfilming site)
I am really interested on this project, and as administrator on Brick à Brack I'll share the Kickstarter campaign as soon as it's launched!
That's fantastic news! So happy to hear it!
Is anyone here a member of Brickboard.de, the German brickfilming website, who might be willing to post when the kickstarter goes live?
News update: We will also offer a blu-ray version of the BiM collection for $10 more per tier.
That's great, Smeagol! Just to be clear, by doing this we get both the blu-ray and the DVD, right? It would be conveniant to have both, so I just want to make sure.
edit: Original flat "no" redacted; that's a good question, I need to figure out for sure.
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