Crowdsourcing

My first real experience with crowdsourcing was last year for my 495 film. During talks about making plans for funding our short student film the use of Indiegogo and Kickstarter were brought up. Both Indiegogo and Kickstarter are crowdsourcing websites where you are able to set up pages for whatever your project is and they crowdfund.

We chose to do a Indiegogo and for the most part it was very effective. We set a goal for what we were wanting to raise and we reached our goal. However, the main reason this worked is because we got funding from our close family and friends as opposed to random people and a real "crowd." That idea really only seems to work if there is already a "crowd" in place, like with the Veronica Mars movie. Since there was already a big show following it was much easier for them to get funding than it was for a small film like ours, which had no guarantee as to what the funding would get them.

The Wikipedia concept I think is incredibly interesting. I like the idea of using so many minds to form something. It seems to be so true that two minds are better than one (thoughtful minds, that is). It is interesting how many people want to have a voice on things like Wikipedia and how important it is to take advantage of crowdsourcing opportunities.

I really do like the idea of crowdsourcing. Even with the frames that we are making for class, i love seeing all the of the work that everyone else has done. It is so interesting to see how each individual sees similar figures so differently. Crowdsourcing really manifests itself well in the creative community because each person has such different creativity!