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How Ski Crews Can Make Money While Still Releasing Free Content

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vibe.crudo
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So if you know me, you definitely know I love to pay for movies, and I know a lot of people still like to support dope crews financially. Now with the release of Most Gutter, I finally had an idea of an approach these crews could use to monetize their skiing while also releasing free content to watch.

I think people should start releasing movies for free on the internet, while also selling some like "bundles" online. These "bundles" can include like shirts, posters, DVD copies of the movie (With BTS stuff and some exclusive edits and scrapped footage). I think this way it's the best of both worlds, people get to watch their skiing for free, and the die-hard supporters can give them money in exchange for something cool.

This isn't a revolutionary idea, people have definitely though this or said this before, but I saw the picture somewhere on instagram of the Most Gutter movie poster and it was framed and my first thought was "I would literally pay for that". And I bet a lot of skiers would, it would probably sell out. Merch has never been my thing, but I did think it was cool when I preordered "Less" like 8 years ago and got a Tall t and a Poster.

Is there a reason crews don't already do this? Just thought it would be a cool concept and it's something I really appreciated back in the day when pre-ordering a movie got you cool bonus stuff.
Nov 16 2021 3:42PM
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hi_vis360
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yes to DVD copies of movies
Nov 16 2021 6:07PM
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-Dan
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I been thinking of starting like a ski movie scholarship sorta. haven't developed the idea much. The way it could function is a mutual fund where supporters can donate once or monthly and then whatever money comes out of it would go to the crews who made videos that were nominated by the supports. We can vote on 2, 3, 5, however many videos to win the scholarship each fall to be put to use towards their next project. I'd wanna make some exclusionary rules like if your video has an energy drink sponsor you can't win. Really unsure of how I could operate this whole thing, or if there would be enough interest in it to make it worthwhile. just one of those ideas I had when I was gone off a mocha latte somewhere on a drive across the country.
Nov 16 2021 8:06PM
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vibe.crudo
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-DanI been thinking of starting like a ski movie scholarship sorta. haven't developed the idea much. The way it could function is a mutual fund where supporters can donate once or monthly and then whatever money comes out of it would go to the crews who made videos that were nominated by the supports. We can vote on 2, 3, 5, however many videos to win the scholarship each fall to be put to use towards their next project. I'd wanna make some exclusionary rules like if your video has an energy drink sponsor you can't win. Really unsure of how I could operate this whole thing, or if there would be enough interest in it to make it worthwhile. just one of those ideas I had when I was gone off a mocha latte somewhere on a drive across the country.

Interest is probably there, I think the hardest part would be making exclusionary rules IMO, that sounds like a real headache to figure out
Nov 16 2021 9:25PM
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