Sep 15 2007
Manipulating Torchwood
Surely that should be (as anyone who has watched the BBC series knows), Torchwood manipulating us (whilst chasing after dubious trysts).
Well no, as it all has to do with the roll out with the third video blog dedicated to the long running saga that is the making of the Consumed movie. I will explain.
At the start of the summer we shot the starting and ending scenes of the Consumed pre-film. There was a long delay between shooting and editing the blog due to some equipment problems. Notably big problems with big hard drive units, but that is by the by. The end result was that during August the blog of the shooting was ready to upload. I’d noticed that part 2 of the blog had not done too well in total viewings from any one web site. Time to fix that. I decided to do a staggered roll out with popular culture tags attached to the footage.
It worked like this
1) Upload to YouTube
2) Upload to Blip.TV
3) Announce the Film in some emails and Social networking sites.
4) Upload to Myspace
5) Cover in Shared Creation.
This is the Shared Creation coverage and at the end of this post I will place links to the third Consumed Blog on all three of its hosts for you.
The staggering of the blogs announcement and its rollout has raised the viewing figures. Not to epic levels but things have improved. Obviously we need to raise the quality our film making, presentation, and post tagging. Which is the whole point of the blogs and the pre-film. To learn the art of Film Making on the Internet.
Tagging is something I should mention. This blog entry made us of Tags that covered Torchwood and Cardiff. This was done as the Pre-Film plays on Cardiff locations in the way that Torchwood does, and also taps into the Torchwood mythos. So I felt the tags were justified. I think these have also helped.
I think I may need work more on my use of tags and cover them in greater depth in another Projects post. Tags are a way of helping people find your work and they are important things to learn about.
In the mean time if you haven’t yet seen the pre-film blog entry please watch. It is silly and funny, also a little fly on the wall. A little rough but very much in the spirit of making a film. I hope you enjoy it.
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