Friday, September 21, 2018

The kind of Supercars videos that I want to make.

I don't know if the idea came through in my Supercars retirement video, but my videos will not be just my opinion, but an argument based on things that I have learned from doing research, watching relevant videos, reading articles, and looking at race results.

Retirement is a topic close to my heart. Early on, when I started learning about the drivers and teams in late 2016, I realised that things don't always work out well for drivers.

That video idea did not come easily either, so this time around is just as difficult.

I don't want to just spout my opinion. Anybody can do that.

I want to make videos that get to the heart of an issue and engage people in a way that helps them think more critically and impartially (or as impartial as possible) about things.

The five topics that I've done this past week are:
  • when the golden era of Supercars was
  • what it's like to be a fan of Supercars
  • Supercars.com sucks
  • the Foxtel deal with Supercars
  • is Supercars dying?
Foxtel and Supercars dying are the two topics that I'm more passionate about, but I don't think it's quite clicked yet.

Last time it was Craig Lowndes' retirement announcement that saw be burn through a day writing the essay. I don't know what I can do except to just keep at it.

I figured that I should write down what I want in my videos, so there you go.

See Ya!

Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Have I been meeting the plan?

Hey guys,

The transitions across my three channels, but especially MrMabeanie, have been slow. Despite this, I am staying true to the plan. I will now list how Friday Night Fun has been going, since it has been uploaded on both TheMabeanie and MrMabeanie. This month, it will be on both channels with either 2 episodes on each channel or 3 on TheMabeanie. So here we go, a list of my Friday Night Fun episodes across the board since and including June 2018:

June 2018 (episodes on TheMabeanie to get people warmed up to the idea)
IHNT hard questions - 15th June, on MrMabeanie.
Angry V8s - 22nd June, on TheMabeanie.
Realisation and Davison - 29th June, on TheMabeanie.

I launched the plan on the 20th of June.

July 2018 (100% episodes on MrMabeanie)
Thanks Lowndesy - 6th July, on MrMabeanie.

Was busy working on my Supercars retirement video.

August 2018 (75% episodes on MrMabeanie)
Sydney SuperNight game - 3rd August, on TheMabeanie.
Fords only - 17th August, on MrMabeanie.
Hard fought - 24th August, on MrMabeanie.
Fun but then not - 31st August, on MrMabeanie.

The main thing that I do is upload the episode onto TheMabeanie so that I am staying committed to the plan, whether or not there are any episodes for the rest of the month.

I will probably do two Fridays in a row on TheMabeanie for this month. I don't have any plans for those days, although I might go out for drinks with mates. Who knows.

Nevertheless, so far so good for the plan. I haven't uploaded the parts of Ihasnotomato and I's discussion about the essay-type videos that we both now do, but Mabeanie2 will get those videos starting on the week of the 26th of September at the earliest.

I'm organising my time to focus on the various things that I do these days: applying for jobs, working on my comic, working on Supercars videos, and posting videos onto YouTube. This week is jobs week, then it will be comics, then Supercars (because the Sandown 500 is on the 16th), and finally videos. I still post AIM videos, but I'm not working on any other video - no matter how much I want to do it. Whenever I get an idea for a Supercars video, you can bet that I'm writing that down.

That's everything that I have for you now.

See Ya!