大众集资网站人气高涨

By Al Roker

Host A： Hey， do you have an idea for a new project， but you just dont have the money to get it started？

Host B： Well， for the past four years， the website Kickstarter has helped ordinary individuals get their ideas 1）off the ground through something called“crowd-funding.”

Host C： Since 2009， more than a 100，000 projects have launched with the backing of perfect strangers. They put up money and they do get a small reward， whether its a chance to play an extra or， perhaps， get an on-screen 2）credit.

In an industry where money reigns supreme， its hard for 3）budding young movie-makers to translate their vision into reality. But a popular online platform offers dreamers a chance to create.

Yancey Strickler （Co-founder of Kickstarter.com） ： Kickstarters a funding platform for creative projects. Its a place where artists and musicians and filmmakers and game-designers and other creative people take their ideas to the public.

Man 1 （Voice from a Project Video） ： So the idea is this…

Yancey： So you have an idea， you say what you wanna do and how much money you need to do it.

While originality is encouraged， there are

4）parameters.

Yancey： You have some simple guidelines to make sure everything is a creative project. We dont allow charity projects or “Fund-My-Life” or things like that. But otherwise…

Reporter： So no going to college on a…on a“kickstarter.”

Yancey： Yeah. Were reserved just for creativity.

Since the launch of the site， so-called “backers”have 5）kicked in over $700 million to fund all sorts of projects.

Yancey： That money has come largely in $25 increments.

And the creators are as diverse as the contributors. Yancey： Its really broad. I mean its everyone from a sixth-grader in Kentucky sending something into space to a 90-year-old woman in Florida putting out some design that she had.

主持人甲：嗨，你有没有什么创新的想法计划因苦于资金问题而无法开展？

主持人乙：其实，过去四年间，网站Kickstarter通过“大众集资”帮助很多普通人启动了自己的计划。主持人丙：自2009年起，超过十万个项目都是在完全陌生的人的支持下开展的。他们捐助资金，然后也得到了一些小回报，或是得到一个临演的机会，或是出现在影片最后的致谢名单上。

在一个“金钱至上”的行业里，对于那些初出茅庐的年轻电影人来说，要想把理想转变成现实是非常艰难的。但有一个网络平台给了这些追梦人一个机会去实现梦想。

扬西·斯特里克勒（Kickstarter.com的创始人之一）：Kickstarter是一个为创意项目而建的集资平台。这是个画家、音乐人、电影制作人、游戏设计师，以及其他从事创意产业的人把想法呈现给公众的地方。

男人甲（项目录影带中的声音）：所以这个创意是这样的……

扬西：如果你有了一个想法，就说说你想要如何实现以及你需要多少钱。

尽管该平台鼓励独创性，但还是有一些规则要遵守。

扬西：我们提供一些简单的说明，以确保这是一个创意项目。我们不允许在这里发起慈善募款项目，或是“投资我”这类的项目，除非……记者：所以在Kickstarter.com上，没有“资助我上大学”这样的东西。

扬西：没错。我们只为“创意”买单。

自网站成立以来，这些“资助人”已经为各类项目筹集了超过七亿美元的资金。

扬西：那些资金都是由无数个25美元堆积而来的。

而且创业者和资助人都来自不同领域。扬西：涉及面很广，无论是肯塔基州六年级学生还是佛罗里达州九十岁的老妪，都能在网站上放上他们的项目计划。