Hello Brook, my experience has been that if you treat your audience like they're a bunch of youtube using babies who can't figure anything out, then that's the audience you get. To get a quality audience you need to make demands of them.
My latest video is a 39 minute, 700 meg monster. I made a promo on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnxyOO200ho As a result, I've sent over 200 emails in the past week. And the video has been downloaded over 100 times. It may seem a little disappointing, considering the promo has received over one thousand views. But responding to people individually has given me a concept of scale. 100 people is a crowd. I'm forwarding the torrent to your email address. Anybody else who wants it can write [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think underground video has the potential to become a wild beast. A longer format. More like an album. Hope you enjoy it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Brook Hinton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The only people I know who torrent are some people on this list and on > twitter who have said they do, a tiny fraction of my students, and > some friends who work in tech and who have towers at home that stay > on all the time. > > Also, many ppl I know who are biased toward things underground and > obscure not only aren't online enough to bother with a torrent but > have to really be pushed to investigate online video in the first > place, though once they see the good stuff they go back to it. > > When I was doing Trace Garden I had more people who wanted me to email > them every time there was a new video than I had subscribers - I > couldn't even get them to bother with the automatic RSS-email > approach. Even RSS was too techy-geeky for them, and these were people > who would have been happy to watch a new episode every day. > > My STUDENTS - mostly late teens and twenties and a few early thirties > - don't use RSS and very few use torrents - and when they do, it's to > get software. For them social media means facebook, except that they > stay on myspace for info on their favorite bands, online video means > youtube, and finding out about cool new things happens via text > messages. Those who are more in the know on this stuff are the ones in > their thirties. This may be an inaccurate sample - these are art > students (though they are primarily media arts majors, including a > sizable number of net art people). > > I think we get a distorted picture of how many potential viewers > inhabit the web the same way we do. > > Brook > > > > > > _______________________________________________________ > Brook Hinton > film/video/audio art > www.brookhinton.com > studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab >
