"The Dolls" film made the minimum target last night and a little over!
Thank you so much to everybody who has pledged and shared the project. It's a great position to be with still a couple of days to go.
However, I never celebrate until these campaigns are over. I have done a few of them, and in every campaign, some people have pledged, then lowered pledges up and down, and even several who have taken money away. Which can collapse the campaign if it's at the last minute.
On kickstarter, you still have to be at the 100% when the campaign ends. If you go back the way, and go under 100%, you get nothing! That's why I always push to get a good bit over the target.
On a platform like indiegogo, you get the money right away, it's not a pledge. Which I would use for smaller budget targets.
I use kickstarter to protect my backers. if I used indiegogo, and I only raised £5k on a £19k target, I can't make the film and I have people's money. At least on kickstarter, I know for 100% I'm making the film if I hit the target.
Thankfully, I have a lot of great supporters on "The Dolls" Solid supporters from the previous campaign, and others connected to solid supporters I know. So we should be good, but I never count my chickens.
However, we're not sitting with £2k on kickstarter and two days left, so it's looking good. I just want to grab as many supporters as I can. Also, you can always do with more funding on these micro budgets flicks. I pay everybody on my films.
Thank you!