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Lynn Cress
Lynn Cress
Lynn Cress
Lynn Cress
"Cordcutting, Crowdfunding and the Changing Face of Television"
Research Project in Business - 2015
As a final project at Washburn University to complete my MBA, this video explores the effects of cordcutting on the cable companies and looks at the growing trend toward crowfunded programing.
During production in the summer of 2015 I came very close to predicting the lawsuit in 2016 between Paramount, CBS and Axanar Productions. Axanar's "fan based" film was crowdfunded legally on Kickstarter but the studios took exception to professional actors and effects artists working on the film.
The shakeout of the video industry is far from over. This project explores what has worked so far and what may lie ahead.