For this week I did my homework assignment about crowdfunding and crowdsourcing.
I found two examples of crowfunding projects, which seems very interesting. The first one that I found is the so called ‘Windcentrale’. This project has raised seven million euros. 5500 households could buy a piece of a windmill, which provided them free power for the rest of 16 years. Households needed to invest a minimum of 350 euros.
The second example I found was about a movie. In 1993, the moviemaker George Sluizer started to make the movie Dark Blood. But, one of the main players died during the making of it. So, the recordings needed to stop. The insurance company said that the movie was total loss but, paid the money and became the owner of the materials. For a long time nobody wanted to have the movie, so they decided to burn the rushes. Sluizer heard of it and immediately sent someone to Hollywood to steal the materials. Because Sluizer got sick and didn’t had a long time to live, he decided to finish the movie. He raised 17.513 euros and the movie was showed on the city theatre in Utrecht.
In my homework assignment I also addressed reasons why funders want to give their money to a project.
