One of the great things about the internet is that it allows for worldwide communication with virtually no barriers, bringing people with highly specific interests together regardless of geographical boundaries. A great example is this forum of course!
As a filmmaker, it is my desire to make high quality, interesting ASFR stories with real plots that you can react to both at a visceral and emotional level (hence my company name Visceral Psyche!). At the same time I believe that my art is possibly one of a handful of options we have for getting not just a random shot here or there in disparate movies of ASFR content, but actually realising your exact fantasies in full blown genre specific movies. Content that is tailored for you, the ASFR lover.
I want to leave exact fantasy scenarios out of this particular thread. What I do want to do is open a discussion on how I (and others) can generate enough funding to bring some of these ideas to life in a way that does justice to the genre and most importantly, creates a SUSTAINABLE model for getting more content made in the future.
One idea that has recently begun to surface is the idea of pledge financing, with one such option beingKickstarter. The idea behind this is that the project originator nominates a project for funding and a time limit to raise that funding. Then people pledge to pay whatever amount they see fit with various benefits allocated them based on their level of funding input. If the limit isn't reached, no one is out of pocket and the project simply dies away. The only gotcha for this concept currently is that the project originator needs to be based in the U.S. with a local bank account. I am not, being based in Tokyo, so it would take a trusted member of this community who resides in the U.S. to start this particular method if it were to go ahead (say for example to fund the first episode of my Visceral Black project entitled "Virginal"). I mean, if there are say 5000 people worldwide who are REALLY into ASFR, and each was willing to put in $1, we could raise $5,000 for a project as long as the word got out to those people.
Another idea, not so directly related to funding but more one of getting word out that this project even exists, is the idea of Twitter feeds using particular keywords such as #fembot #gynoid etc. I have a Twitter account specifically for my Visceral Black project @visceralblack which I can begin to use more frequently to accomplish this, but it is only one voice in the wilderness until more people join in promoting it.
These ideas (and many more I hope you will raise in this thread) are hopefully a way to begin to take our love of such a specific fetish and convert it into a community momentum to generate new and interesting content geared to exactly what we want to see.
Looming over all this is also the ever-present spectre of widescale piracy of content. I'd like to see this discussed as well and how we can successfully navigate the morass in a way that keeps the funding model sustainable. I am under no illusions that this is an easy task. I don't expect to become a millionaire based on selling ASFR content. But sustainable means that I can generate enough income for both the cast and crew of my productions to make it an ongoing venture and keep people fed, clothed and sheltered. In other words, a decent remuneration for the work put in to give you what you want.
So! Let's discuss ideas to bring these ventures about (and of course I want to see others making this stuff too, not just myself, though naturally I'm biased towards seeing that my ideas come to light!).
The objective is to figure out how to crowd-source enough funds to get specific ASFR content (in my context that means movies) made in a way that allows it to be both high quality in scope and sustainable in a financial sense, while getting the word out to as high a percentage of interested ASFR lovers as possible.
Discuss!!
Paul
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