This is why funny is good, this is why funny is needed and this is why I do funny.

Les that's right here i am, I know it’s hard to believe that finally you get to hear from the eye brows that are the black and white face on the right... I knew i should have photo-shopped myself or at least had some “threading” done. 


So what am I here to talk about? Well I have no idea really, I am just banging away at the keyboard in the hope that something will come up.....Hang on.... that last sentence was simply rude. Well it was to my mind.

Anyway, what does @Transmit7 hold for me? Well I like to be funny and where possible funny is where i want to be. There are a lot of serious short films out there all proving a point and making a stand. I don’t feel this is me. Yeah I can be serious but don’t want to be serious.

The world is currently in melt down. People are rioting in the streets, the economy is in the toilet and the stock markets are heading down down deeper and down and to make things worse the X-Factor is back on ITV... 4+ months of what can only be described as humiliating TV.

So how do we escape this mire of depression, we turn to something to make us feel better about ourselves. Something that will cheer us up and make the world seems less of a shit place. We turn to comedy. Let’s look at the evidence, let’s look at the decade that created some of the UK’s finest comedy talents the 80’s.

In the 10 years that fashion forgot, we had riots, a declining economy and on the goggle-box Opportunity Knocks and Stars In Your Eyes...  oh and there was a Conservative government. This all sounds so familiar.

It is looking like we are heading into another decade of troubles, Instead of the miner’s its the public sector workers. The IRA has been replaced by Al Qaeda as national threats and we may not be bombing Libya but we are still getting involved.

Lets not even think about wars, a cold island off of Argentina is now a dusty sweet box in Afghanistan. This is all a bit freaky... As yet the closest I can find to phone hacking is something to do with Helicopters.

No I am not saying @Transmit7 is going to make us international comedy stars and change the world, but I do think the time is right for a new way of doing things, a new way to make people laugh and I think we are in the perfect position to push this forward. So please join us as we make funny.  

Please supports us by following us on Twitter: @Transmit7 and facebook.com/transmitseven.

1000 People Don’t Hate Us!

For the last few weeks we have been trying to get as many followers on Twitter as possible. We’ve been hammering out random thoughts and hoovering up as many followers harvested from the accounts of the YouTubers that we aspire to be like.

 

Finally today the 17^th August 2011 we acquired our 1000^th follower.  Hannah Tweddle known on Twitter as @theveryshortone was that very lovely person, who also has actually just read the previous blog post.  At the time of writing this she has tweeted 4 times and our paths crossed because of @PhillyD as we both follow him and his YouTube show.

We are so pleased that we have now over 1000 followers on Twitter. @Transmit7 may now have a small slice of an audience that will help make our little efforts (when they are released) shine just a bit more than they would have otherwise.

What Do You Think?

In our vain attempt to break in to the YouTube world and show off our Transmit7 talents to whoever might be watching out there we have come across several issues to do with production that probably bug most people who want to make video content, mainly costs, time and direction.

A lot of the stuff that proliferates the YouTube-iverse, when you take away the video game uploads, falls in to several categories or random. Firstly there are the bloggers or vloggers that spend no time, money or real effort in constructing their videos. Some have real talent and can pull this straight to camera walking down the street stuff off. Others just look pointless, we hope Transmit7 doen't fall in to the pointless pack.  

Then we get the well planned and constructed videos that you know a bit of time and money has been put into it. These videos get my full attention and I generally don’t click ‘next’ after twenty seconds. Hopefully we will be in this league of YouTube film makers, but money and time where does that come from? 

Short films really get my eyes fixed and focused on and the ones with really strong presenters tend to get a little more of my time. However, from what I’ve seen, some of the top rated and most viewed channels are viral video regurgitation sites. I say ‘fair play to them for making money out of other people’s failures in life’. We don’t have the time to put to such endeavours and nor do we at Transmit7 want to go down that path, but what path will we be taking?

We want to make shiny, polished and entertaining films that people everywhere will enjoy, but that takes time and effort.  We are willing to put the effort in, but time as always is against us. We have families to look after and day jobs not to get fired from.  

So how do you choose the best style or path to go down when making your own videos? Obviously you have to enjoy making the type of stuff that you will end up doing over and over again to please your audience. Secondly you have to be happy that the quality of content and style you end up using pleases you.

Do you stumble upon the recipe for your success or can you construct it? This is the question we find ourselves asking right now. Do we just push any old Transmit7 video up on to the interweb and see which sticks and gets the comments or do we hold on and take our bit of coal and give it a polish?

Let us know what you would like to see us do by befriending us on Facebook (search for Transmit Seven) or on twitter @Transmit7