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     

It's Gonna Take Time & Cardboard Boxes a Whole Lot of Cardboard Boxes

‘It’s gonna take time, a whole lot of precious time it’s gonna take patience and time... to do it, to do it, to do it, to do it, to do it, to do it right, child,’ as George Harrison famously sung once.  I love the video for that song, very entertaining and very simple. These days most film makers, whether it be movies, adverts, TV or advertising seem to be less able to take a thing, a talking stuffed deer head for instance, and make something special out of it without using a MAC or god forbid a PC.  I like the fact that George’s video was all real, like a living cartoon.

 

Anyway, with that said I would like sh*t loads of cash to do as I please with on our little productions.  However, that is not going to happen and this leaves me with my two cardboard boxes. These two boxes are going to be soft boxes for lamps to light my delicate face (and other things) when we make our little movies in the near future.  Behind the scenes we are pulling strings and cutting up cardboard to build our little filmic world and no one will see or notice (unless they watch some of the behind the scenes videos we intend doing).

With my knife (craft knife don’t get concerned) in my hand I will soon be carving out the first of these bits of kit to help to produce the first of our videos a segment called Tag Hour, which will be me talking to camera much like most of the more famous YouTubers out there.  From my research it seems that you guys like this sort of thing so we are going to give it a go, but what to say, what to say...  

What the hell do you people find funny?

If I call it performance art no one can criticize, right?

Anywho... I hope you like my face. 

P.S. Don't forget to follower us on Twitter @Transmit7 or search for us on facebook 'Transmit Seven' (we couldn't get Transmit7 for email reasons.)

Behind The Scenes of Transmit7 - are you serious?!

Hi, just set up our secondary blog page to give you all the behind the scenes kind of stuff we'll be doing. Hopefully we'll remember to film some sh*t for you.

So go check it out at transmit7bhs.blogspot.com Now I better get back to the scripts... a nun and a penguin go into a bar and....

The End of The Website... WTF?

The www.transmit7.co.uk website, or at least a holding page, was launched a few days ago. We thought that we would try and get something up to show that we were really trying to get the ball rolling. Unfortunately, having nothing to put on it at this time was just wasting your time... so we pulled it.

If you are reading this (at the time of publishing anyway) you will know that if you visit www.transmit7.co.uk it takes you straight to our blog pages, which has all we have to offer right now. If that makes sense? I hope so. The blog pages are easy to update and incorporate our video bits and bobs, quite frankly I don’t know why we were trying to do a website as well. Maybe in the future when we are big and famous then we’ll pay someone to do it for us, for some reason or other.

Anyway, to more important things, over the last three weeks we have been working on building our twitter following for @Transmit7 and after only a short time we have gone passed 300 followers. Thank you to everyone who is taking the @Transmit7 ride, we know that it is a slow one at the moment, but when the momentum picks up you’ll be in for a... well a slightly more entertaining trip.

Please get as many of your followers to jump on board and remember we all like a good rant and if we offend anyone by doing so (Harry Potter fans in particular) we are truly sorry... resisting another dig at the Harry Potter franchise right now. 

Please follow @Transmit7 we want 350 followers by the end of next week or the big dog will bite my leg for not trying hard enough.