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，你有沒有什么創(chuàng)新的想法計劃因苦于資金問題而無法開展？

主持人乙：其實，過去四年間，網(wǎng)站Kickstarter通過“大眾集資”幫助很多普通人啟動了自己的計劃。主持人丙：自2009年起，超過十萬個項目都是在完全陌生的人的支持下開展的。他們捐助資金，然后也得到了一些小回報，或是得到一個臨演的機會，或是出現(xiàn)在影片最后的致謝名單上。

在一個“金錢至上”的行業(yè)里，對于那些初出茅廬的年輕電影人來說，要想把理想轉(zhuǎn)變成現(xiàn)實是非常艱難的。但有一個網(wǎng)絡(luò)平臺給了這些追夢人一個機會去實現(xiàn)夢想。

揚西·斯特里克勒（Kickstarter.com的創(chuàng)始人之一）：Kickstarter是一個為創(chuàng)意項目而建的集資平臺。這是個畫家、音樂人、電影制作人、游戲設(shè)計師，以及其他從事創(chuàng)意產(chǎn)業(yè)的人把想法呈現(xiàn)給公眾的地方。

男人甲（項目錄影帶中的聲音）：所以這個創(chuàng)意是這樣的……

揚西：如果你有了一個想法，就說說你想要如何實現(xiàn)以及你需要多少錢。

盡管該平臺鼓勵獨創(chuàng)性，但還是有一些規(guī)則要遵守。

揚西：我們提供一些簡單的說明，以確保這是一個創(chuàng)意項目。我們不允許在這里發(fā)起慈善募款項目，或是“投資我”這類的項目，除非……記者：所以在Kickstarter.com上，沒有“資助我上大學(xué)”這樣的東西。

揚西：沒錯。我們只為“創(chuàng)意”買單。

自網(wǎng)站成立以來，這些“資助人”已經(jīng)為各類項目籌集了超過七億美元的資金。

揚西：那些資金都是由無數(shù)個25美元堆積而來的。

而且創(chuàng)業(yè)者和資助人都來自不同領(lǐng)域。揚西：涉及面很廣，無論是肯塔基州六年級學(xué)生還是佛羅里達州九十歲的老嫗，都能在網(wǎng)站上放上他們的項目計劃。