Since it's apparently coming up soon, here's (a) plan for 100k: I want to tell the story of this channel, documentary-style.
Here's the lore. My first video that really blew up was a video on my journey in competitive programming. The success of that video inspired many other ones in a similar vein, and eventually my whole channel became focused on more general-style videos rather than the low-effort contest recordings I started my channel on. From there, a lot of changes and learning happened, and now we're here.
To pay a tribute to that journey video, I want to remaster it and talk about my journey on YT. For example, the rich details behind the channel's huge successes/failures, the stuff I learned and incremental changes made to each next video, the general progression toward better and better quality, etc. I will make an entertaining story out of it.
And I want to produce it with the quality and style of a documentary. If you're concerned that I've never worked with this style before, don't be. I will be taking a lot of feedback throughout, and I will also learn the general gist of storytelling and how to make good stuff. I want to make this good, and I'm a fast learner, so look forward to it.
And speaking of feedback, I will need as much help as I can get, particularly gathering opinions on why certain videos behaved the way they did (I can speculate with pretty good accuracy, but ultimately, I am not my target audience, so it would be very valuable information to get from other people) and giving general feedback on incremental versions of the video.
I will post a video about my plans soon. That will include the way to offer said feedback, and will also include more info than just this, so you should watch it even if you've seen this post :)
Colin Galen
Since it's apparently coming up soon, here's (a) plan for 100k: I want to tell the story of this channel, documentary-style.
Here's the lore. My first video that really blew up was a video on my journey in competitive programming. The success of that video inspired many other ones in a similar vein, and eventually my whole channel became focused on more general-style videos rather than the low-effort contest recordings I started my channel on. From there, a lot of changes and learning happened, and now we're here.
To pay a tribute to that journey video, I want to remaster it and talk about my journey on YT. For example, the rich details behind the channel's huge successes/failures, the stuff I learned and incremental changes made to each next video, the general progression toward better and better quality, etc. I will make an entertaining story out of it.
And I want to produce it with the quality and style of a documentary. If you're concerned that I've never worked with this style before, don't be. I will be taking a lot of feedback throughout, and I will also learn the general gist of storytelling and how to make good stuff. I want to make this good, and I'm a fast learner, so look forward to it.
And speaking of feedback, I will need as much help as I can get, particularly gathering opinions on why certain videos behaved the way they did (I can speculate with pretty good accuracy, but ultimately, I am not my target audience, so it would be very valuable information to get from other people) and giving general feedback on incremental versions of the video.
I will post a video about my plans soon. That will include the way to offer said feedback, and will also include more info than just this, so you should watch it even if you've seen this post :)
With all that, as always... what do you think?
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