Originally posted by dbinteract:Hi Remy,
Thanks for reaching out to me.
I get it. If you check out the Kickstarter page, I say very clearly none of the funds are to be used for tickets for shows. Travel to go film? Yes. Traveling to make a film is expensive.
Why do it around tour time? Well that is when U2 fans are gathering at the shows, and so its the easiest time to capture the stories from the fans, but to do that you have to get to the where the shows are.
Ive seen the fan made concerts done on tours past, Ive seen a couple fan made GA line experience films, and I enjoy them but they would not be of the quality that can be broadcast or showed on Netflix. Thats what I want to do, make a professional film. Thats what I do by trade, make professional films. When I approached this and created a budget I did it based on what the bare minimum would be to make a professional film. My time to pre-produce, film, edit and deliver is not what the costs reflect. But, for example having a Director of Photography with a grip truck (lights and electric supplies) should we be able to film interviews with the crew or management or the band, costs a lot of money. That has to be planned for in advance. Its not wise to find yourself in that situation and then have to beg borrow or steal to try an make that happen when you get to that bridge. There are plenty of fans that have some experience, that might be willing to donate to their time to the cause, but thats not really the best way to work. Its better to hire seasoned pros for that, and they cost money too. I targeted this film to be between 75 and 90 minutes long, most films that length have budgets that would be around $150,000. True some are done for less, but many are done for more.
I have done 7 films thru Kickstarter on Hawaiian musicians, each one has been done for a budget of around $30,000... but they required less travel, and their scale are not as large in terms of how many people need to be interviewed and included. I do those films because it's my way to help perpetuate Hawaiian culture, and like this film they get done for what we can raise, the bare minimum of what it would take to make the film, not what the real budget would be if my passion for the project is removed and it was just being done by a production company as a job. I've learned that if you don't do it for what you can, then nothing gets done, and its better to get it done. Hopefully my experience in doing this will be considered by fans.
To make a film that we can get onto streaming services like Netflix, and shown in film festivals.. something that the fans truly deserve is going to cost some money to make. I've wanted to do this since Elevation, I know others have wanted to do this too. This is my attempt, if the fans decide they trust me with it, and if the fans decide they want to make this a reality, for us, for each other, then it will happen. If not, then it won't. But nothing happens unless we try right? So that is why I put my proposal on the table to do it.
Again, thanks for asking what I am sure many have asked, I really appreciate that, and I hope i brought some clarity to the issue.
Originally posted by LikeASong:Whatever happened to this project? Last blog entry dates from Jul 1st
This film is the story of our extraordinary connection to the music, the band and each other. This is all of our story, and it is being made by and for all of us.
Originally posted by dbinteract:Hi everyone,
Ive been a fan since 1981.. long time now! I am a filmmaker, and I want to make a film about us.. U2 Fans. I want to call it Dream Out Loud, Inside the City of Blinding Lights, and I need your help to do it. I want to make a really professional film that the fans deserve (...)