Published: August 27th 2024, 10:17:25 am
Hi folks,
I've been thinking this for a while but I wanted to get your thoughts first...
Releasing the videos chapter-by-chapter is pretty much just ensuring the algorithm buries my channel. lol. I still don't really understand the ins-and-outs of how it all works but the algorithm looks at a number of things:
Initial views (views within the first 24 hours).
Watch time (how long is the video keeping people on YouTube)
There's probably other things but like I said; I don't bloody know!
Anyway - Definition of insanity is doing the same thing over-and-over again and expecting a different result. So I've known for a while that I should change how I release the videos. However, I guess there were two things preventing me from doing that...
1) I'm a creature of habit that, sometimes, stubbornly refuses to change lol
2) Some of the audience might prefer to watch the episodes rather than a 3.5 hour video
SO what I'm thinking is this...
Either - I just don't upload episodically anymore (sorry people that prefer that). And basically just upload a SuperCut once every several months. I, honestly, don't think I'd get the SuperCut out any faster because I am literally just one guy making 3 hour movies lol. I could, however, still upload episodes to Patreon. That could be a thing. I'm reluctant to do that though cos I really don't wanna create like a FOMO type situation with my Patreon page.
OR - I upload less often. So episodes are longer. No longer weekly but a video every 2-3(-4) weeks. Ideally about 30ish minutes long (give or take).
What are your thoughts? Which do you prefer? Or, alternatively, maybe you have a third suggestion? It's always nice to get an outside perspective.
Also - I spent a bit of time this morning trying to figure out how I'm actually going to do the Chronicle Vids. Cos it's been a while since I did that sort of video. It's been so long, in fact, that I've kinda forgotten how to make them! But I think I may have figured it out. I'm still in the 'very early concept stages' here... but I shall copy and paste the very small amount of 'script' that I have written thus far below...
Chronicle Vol. 4 Video 1:
Star Wars Opening Crawl Text
[For Some Reason; Buttress Returned...
Long ago, in a fictional universe that was great and then teetered on the edge of being shit before maybe being great again... Seven Titans born of Order were wandering about the great dark beyond. Searching for Worldsouls... which are essences of incredible power. Things that can be nurtured into becoming Titans themselves. Every time the Pantheon of Titans discovered a world with a soul, they would bring order to that planet and put life on it. Which, in turn, would help mould that Worldsoul into what they wanted it to be.
However...]
(In space)
S- "I'm Sargeras... doin' my Sargeras thing... a-hmmm-hmmm-hmmm-hmmm-hmmm..."
(flies past a planet being corrupted...)
S- "...a-hmmm-hmmm-hmmm... WHAT THE BLOODY HELL???!!!!"
(show some kinda lovecraftian hellscape on the planet surface)
Void Creature (whisper) "fuckin... suck a dick"
S- (some kind of noise that you'd make when cleaving a planet in half and killing all life on it)
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(Seat of the Pantheon)
S- "...Tainted by agents of the void. Had the corrupted Worldsoul been allowed to reach maturity... it would have risen as their champion. I did what needed to be done"
Am'- "You should be ashamed of yourself"
Eo- "We swore to protect all living things. Not explode them!"
Agg- "There must be another way, my mentor. We can defeat the Void Lords without destroying entire Worlds!"
S- "Shut your goddamned mouths. Hesitation and pacifism will achieve nothing. A dead universe is better than one consumed by the void!"
Titans- "GASP!"
Am'- "My feelings are hurt!"
(sargeras storms off)
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And that's it. That's all I've got so far. Obviously that's not 30 minutes so there will be a lot more to that episode but I feel good about taking it in that direction I think.
Thanks, as always, for your support. Apologies for the very wordy post today. But yeah - Let me know in the comments what you think of the stuff. Both the 'changing how I upload' thing and also the script thing.
Cheers mates!