CROWD FUNDING

Due to our film being considered independent due to lower budget and non pre established fan base, crowd funding for us would be vastly necessarily. Films such as 'Four lions' vastly relied upon crowd funding due to the controversially of the film as it was humouring a classic and deeply rooted racial stereotype of the British-Muslim community: radicalisation. The film was originally rejected by both the BBC and Channel 4 due to both controversially and if the film would be a success, therefore the director Chris Morris would have to have 'proof' that film would attract an audience. This therefore required Morris to seek other methods of funding. He therefore resulted in relying upon crowd funding. He succeeded in this by sending an email titled ' funding mentalism', where fans could contribute £25-£100 pounds each to the production costs of the film and as a perk would be able to appear as extras in the film. Both beneficial for the fans and the creation of the film. Through this, it enabled morris to provide evidence for securing a target audience, hence why at the box office it made 6.9 million.  The film secured funding in October 2008 from film 4 production and Wrap films, with Derrin Schlesinger and Mark Herbert producing. Within in mid 2009 ( May), filming had begun. 

Crowd funding for our film would be certainly a must have due to the psychological narrative which may appear confusing at first glance. Additionally crowd funding would also be necessary in terms of production costs in particular,due to our low funding budget and the film being independent  rather than considered to be 'mainstream'. 

Idea for crowd funding:

One possible idea for crowd funding would be in the same way morris had sent an email out asking to star as extras if they paid a small some of £25 to £100. However due to our age group being 15+ we would send the email to students at university and Alevel age due to 1. finical issues and 2. success in getting individuals to want to take part in a film. One persuading benefit would be gaining experience which may help them in a job prospect i.e. a student studying film, media or theatrics. Both again offering benefits for the producer and the contributor.