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Fill in your patron tiers — Cinema sets the names, you set the contents

Every filmmaker on Cinema uses the same three tiers — Crew · Director · Producer — at the same prices. Locked site-wide so fans always know what they're getting. What goes inside each tier is yours to decide: which episodes unlock, which perks ride along, what the welcome note says.

Connect payouts
Stripe linked · paid weekly
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Fill the three tiers
Tagline, perks, welcome
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Gate content
Which films at which tier
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Welcome & launch
Custom thank-you note
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How the three tiers work

Cinema's three tiers — Crew $5 · Director $12 · Producer $40 — are locked site-wide so fans never have to learn a new ladder. Your job is to decide what goes inside each one: which episodes unlock, which perks ride along, what the welcome note says. Aim for each tier to add one clear new thing; the Director tier (middle) is where most patrons land — make it feel like the obvious pick.

Active patrons
412 this month
▲ 38 net new
Patron MRR
$3,488
▲ 11.4% MoM
Median tier
Director $12
62% of patrons
Patron lifetime
7.4 months avg
▲ 0.6 vs Q3

The three tiers · fill in the contents

Names & prices locked site-wide
Tier names and prices are fixed. Crew at $5, Director at $12, Producer at $40 — same on every filmmaker's page so fans don't have to learn a new ladder. You set the tagline, the perks, the gated episodes, and the welcome note.
Crew — Tier 1 · locked
Entry tier — every patron starts here
$5/MO
184 patrons
$920 MRR
⛬ Crew · $5/mo · part of every filmmaker's ladder 9% of patrons choose this tier
Director — Tier 2 · locked · most popular
Where 62% of patrons land — make this one feel like the obvious pick
$12/MO
198 patrons
$2,376 MRR
⛬ Director · $12/mo · part of every filmmaker's ladder 62% of patrons choose this tier
Producer — Tier 3 · locked · top tier
Top tier — credit, calls, the inner-circle stuff
$40/MO
30 patrons
$1,200 MRR
⛬ Producer · $40/mo · part of every filmmaker's ladder 2% of patrons choose this tier

Quick-start presets · prefill all three tiers

Don't want to think about it? Apply a preset and Cinema fills in the perks for Crew, Director, and Producer based on what works for that kind of project. Edit anything afterwards.

Content access matrix

8 titles · 51 items

Click a column to grant access at that tier. Cascading on: if eps 1–6 are Public and ep 7 is checked at Reel, every higher tier auto-unlocks ep 7 too.

Title Publicfree Crew$5 Director$12 Producer$40
S01 Cattle Gate — mini-series · 50 episodes · 6 public + 44 patron
E01 Pilot — "The fence at the back forty" 22:14 · 481K plays
E02 Episode 2 — "Brand inspector" 19:50 · 412K plays
E03–E06 Episodes 3 through 6 collapsed · all public · 1.2M total plays
E07 Episode 7 — "First patron-locked drop" 22:31 · 38K plays · patron
E08–E24 Episodes 8 through 24 collapsed · all Crew-tier · 312K patron plays
E25 Episode 25 — "Sundown ride" 28:14 · 12K plays · midpoint · Director-tier
E26–E49 Episodes 26 through 49 collapsed · all Director-tier · in edit
E50 Episode 50 — "Finale" 42:08 · scheduled Dec 14 · Producer exclusive
F01 The North Pasture — feature · 96min · released 2024
BTS Behind the scenes — ongoing feed · 24 posts · patron-only
· Director's video diary — episode 32 cut 14 days ago · 8min
· Q&A livestream — November 2 days ago · 1h 12min · replay · Director+
· Monthly producer call · December scheduled Dec 12 · live · Producer only
Public — anyone on Cinema Crew $5 — entry patrons Director $12 — most patrons Producer $40 — top tier Faded ✓ = auto-cascaded from a lower tier
6 public · 38 on Crew · 5 on Director · 2 on Producer Auto-saved · 12s ago

— What fans see on your patron page —

This is your three-tier ladder rendered as it appears on your public creator page. Fans see this after they're already on Cinema's free or paid plan — patron tiers stack on top.

— Crew —
$5/MO
Eps 1-25 unlocked
+ BTS feed
— Director · most popular —
$12/MO
All 50 eps · ad-free
+ Director's notes
— Producer —
$40/MO
Everything above
+ Producer credit + Q&A
All changes auto-save. Publishing makes tiers live for new patrons; existing patrons keep their grandfathered terms.
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