This week I went along to the Broadcast Video Expo and The Production Show down in Earls Court London. It's a large event that takes place over 3 days from the 14-16 February, though I only attended one. The hall was filled with loads of stands and theatre space for talks and demonstrations. For anyone interested in cameras and lights and cranes etc it's a toy wonderland.
A model tries to hit ping pong balls falling from the ceiling for a slow motion camera
It was a very interesting place to walk around. Lots of expensive gadgets to look at. I love slow motion so enjoyed the displays for the Phantom and other slow mo cameras. As well as the stands there were talks going on every day and they were very popular, it was almost impossible to get a seat. I went along to 'Financing your feature and Cannes on a budget.' I found it very useful. I already knew some of it but it's always good to be reminded of things plus it helped me to focus on the goal of going to Cannes this year.
It’s gone midnight and I was about to head off to bed but I thought I’d check on the BoH viewing figures on YouTube and we’ve hit 6 millon views which is amazing!
It’s fantastic to know that my film has been seen so many times. This year in particular has seen the viewing figures rise significantly which we just didn’t expect to see considering the film has been out for over two years now. I suppose people are getting more acustomed to watching content on their computer. It is even possible to connect the internet to stream via your HD TV so you can sit in comfort to view the film like any other DVD off your self. To all those viewers, old and new I send my thanks and I’m glad so many of you are enjoying it.
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So I feel like I just spent most of my day watching Youtube. The sad thing is that this is very easily done. I'm easily distracted...oooh puppies...
I spent a lot of time trying to get my two main channels both linked to my Adsense. I finally managed after many hours reading help forums and watching tutorial videos. Eventially I managed to unlink my channel that was linked to a blocked adsense and relink it to the proper one. Sounds easy I know but believe me, it wasn't. I do find it odd that you need a seperate google account for each of your Youtube channels but you can only have one Adsense.
I even rediscovered a Youtube channel I set up back in March 2010 called KatemadisonTV which I'd totally forgotten about. It's badly in need of content.
So I decided to look into this as I am lucky enough to be a Youtube Partner and although I have some ads on some of my videos I have yet to see any, ££££ benefits :-)
So I started looking around at what people say about making money from Adsense and Youtube. I been subscribing to various Youtubers for a while now and am always thinking how cool it would be to be able to make a living from Vlogging but have yet to try it out.
I mean you can see some attempts on my Actorsatwork Channel like my vlogs from Cannes last year etc but my problem has always been to get the videos editted and out promptly and keep them interesting.
So the conclusions of the day are that I need to blog and vlog more. Oh and not get distracted and to get on with the rest of my stuff on my to do list. ;-)
I just watched Tristan & Isolde plus the making of. They kept talking about the very small budget and how it was so hard to do anything with such a tiny budget. However no one actually stated the budget. After much googling some sources say it was $31 million.
Now I'm watching The Last Legion which is said to have had $67 million though I don't think it looks as good personally.
Anyway for my next feature I planned to try to find a "small" budget. By that I meant between £1-5 million. I managed to do 'Born of Hope' for only £25,000 with a lot of beg, borrow and stealing, however if low budget for a historical fantasy is about $31 million or £19.3 million then expect I must be nuts thinking we can make The Last Beacon for so little. Ah well, never stopped me before ;-)
