Job: Videographer Description: Conceive, shoot and edit 3 minute Kickstarter.com video or animation.Campaign not yet live. Below is campaign info which is at: http://memoirandutopia.weebly.com/ Viral is what I'm looking for! I used to did photos on music videos in the early Run DMC days and wonder it that is a good route. I don't know what will catch on and get folks to donate. Cat videos are the most popular on youtube. Perhaps show a drive by shooting among cats???? Then there is the crazy stuff, like the guy eating Patty LaBelle pies. I'm looking for sharp and exact focus and a narrative that smacks people in the face.
For whom: Professors, how to reach young leaders/educators Yearly, in the best case, each professor may teach 2 classes per semester for which this book is relevant. Each class may have 30 students. Therefore, each professor may expose this book to 60 students per semester or 120 students per year. Thus 1000 professors may expose this book to 120,000 students per year. I may even include a sample curriculum, although some professor may find this intrusive. What is the campaign: The campaign is to give 1000 professors free review copies of the book, BLUE SKY FOR BLACK AMERICA, so that they can choose to assign it to their classes. BLUE SKY can be purchased at either the distributor or the publisher, Nortia Press via Amazon.com Why spend money with campaign rather than dinner: The time is now: Black Lives Matter, all the way to the White House From new media to the White house, suicide by cop, Black males killing each other and White cops killing Blacks are at the top of today’s domestic topic list. The root problem here is that urban Blacks are not studied in the economic and political systems that dominate their lives. BLUE SKY presents a method to get young Blacks interested in these socio-political systems in which they are unknowingly enmeshed by imagining then creating their own, utopian worlds that they can compare with and critique the real world in which they live. Where can you donate: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1072343126/1752768863/edit#the-story HOW MONEY WILL BE USED: The 30,000-college professor member Modern Language Association, MLA, will have its annual meeting in Austin Texas in January 2016. Professors in such fields as English, American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Sociology and other Comparative Studies use utopian literature in their classes to outline the various government types and the systems and structures, which compose them. The specific MLA academic areas and member numbers likely most interested in this subject matter are as follows: D007 Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature..............3,800 D040 Sociological Approaches to Literature......................3,100 D018 19th-Century American Literature................................5,400 D019 Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American Literature….......4,800 D020 20th-Century American Literature………………………………..9,400 D076 Black American Literature and Culture....................................3,400 D031 Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century English Literature..............3,700 D032 20th-Century English Literature……………………………..……4,500 D086 Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture…......................6,400 G038 Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature…..........3,200 Therefore, if money is collected in this Kickstarter campaign it will be used to rent 1000 names from MLA’s mailing list at $150/1000 names and to then send a free review copy of BSBA to professors in relevant fields at the author discount rate of 50% off the list price plus postage, currently about $4 in the contiguous USA. I will host a special session at the 2016 MLA convention entitled “Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures” where I will give an overview of my book and three other scholars will present research papers on relevant subject matter. MLA List Rental: = $ 150 Book: 1000 x $15 = 15000 Book Mailing 1000 x $ 5= 5000 Rewards= 1000 $21,150 However, I will divide the overall Kickstarter.com campaign into mailings of 100 book at a time. This means that if the firs campaign of 100 is successful, I will then mount a campaign for the second 100-book mailing and so on until 1000 books are mailed to 1000 professors. I plan to perform this campaign in 5 stages at around $2350 each. In each stage I will send 100 books to 100 professors. List Rental 150 Mailing 500 100 Books 1500 Rewards 200
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