This semester of University I am making another video essay for my YouTube channel of 2.7k subscribers. I had high hopes for this task and plans to look into the future of gaming… Oh how I was wrong 😂 As i stated in the video, I dove deep into researching the trends of Influencers and …
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The Start of Something New… Sort of
This semester I have yet again chosen to make a Video Essay to be put up my YouTube channel. Last time I did a video like this it sparked a good amount of conversations and was the most audience retention and variety of comments I had even received. There are two main goals with this …
Tranium’s TikTok
By James Mackay (@jamesmacuow) For the past year I have been working alongside a content creator under the name Tranium as his video editor (and help with some channel manager ordeals as well) and for a while we’ve been looking for ways to grow his YouTube channel and when this BCM206 project came up I …
Trouble in TikTok Town
For this project, I went along and decided to make a help make and grow a TikTok account for a YouTuber by the name of Tranium who I work with as his YouTube editor. I came to him with this idea and he was all for it because he doesn’t use TikTok personally but wanted …
Learning and Growing from our Mistakes
So far, the TikTok has been a great success for myself and Tranium. Without ever plugging the TikTok account on the YouTube channel we have gained over 400 followers and had a video reach 5x the number of interactions than a usual video which helped a lot with the growth. I ended up speaking with …
Making of a Master Piece
My DA is a video essay with some entertainment sprinkled in to be posted on YouTube for people to engage with and spark up a conversation on whether the quality of video games has increased or fallen over the years. Multimediality: This project will exist as a YouTube video for people to enjoy, analyse and give …
Learning to take over TikTok
Throughout posting to TikTok and understanding Tranium’s current audience, i have come to learn he’s content attracts people who enjoy memes, reddit and that sort of online culture BUT because of his love for working out that has also merged into his content a lot and he actually has a couple of “gym bros” as …
Do my Classmates hate me, or do I just need some sleep?
When reviewing and giving back feedback to my classmates only things that went through my head were, “Please don’t hate me 😅”, “I hope this feedback helps”, “Is what I’m saying even going to help” and “How am I 22 and still can’t spell ‘Definitely’! “ But what I ended up learning from commenting and …
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Content Creation 101
When people think content creation, most people think of YouTube and being a famous. But I see it as so much more… Creating content is so much more than film something, upload it and waiting for the millions of views to roll in. Creating content is when someone gets to let their inner creative out, …
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