We decided we wanted a YouTube channel to go alongside the show so we asked James D'Arcy to set up the YouTube channel at the very start of the project. From there Dan and I continued to manage the channel by subscribing to other large channels, and making riends with ther large channels. I uploaded about 90% of all of the videos that have been put on the channel, and also for selecting and favouriting other videos on YouTube, with Dan being the onlyt other person to upload videos.
The channel has been on the website since the 1st October 2010 and since then has recieved over 4000 channel views and just under 9000 upload views. This means that thousands of YouTube users from around the world have visited our channel or listened to our uploaded songs, saw our logo, and then visited our channel where they would see the Event date post:
Fri 19 Nov 2010 12:00:00
Stratford-Upon-Avon-College
Birmingham GB
Live launch is accessed by going to www.stratcast.co.uk/stratcastoff
delete This is great publicity for the live launch as anyone who has been on the channel will have seen the (above) message advertising the live launch and would be aware of how to watch it and listen to it via the internet. The channel is currently on 46 subscribers and 25 friends. Even though they are not huge numbers yet, the channels following has grew quite significantly over the short amount of time, witth subscribers from Russia, Poland, America and Germany as well as the UK. This is brilliant because these are each examples that the music we upload is very popular around the world, but just not as widely known as such other genres of music as say rock or indie.
The channel has not had many comments so far but what comments it has recieved have all been positive.
"boys, its your channel that keeps me goin through college, everyday im on it playing the same setlist of some of the biggest dubstep tunes for hours and it never gets boring, you've got a good thing going on here so keep it up!"
"Lol@Dubstep Bogeys haha!"
"Some sick tunes" (sick being slang for good)
Despite not having many channel comments, our upload comments have been larger numbers. With people commenting on our 'Dubstep bogeys' video:
"haha"
"truely Immense!"
"brilliant haha what's the first song played called?"
From these comments we can see that people are having positive reactions to our uploads and are enjoying the songs that we put on the channel. The dubstep bogeys video proved to be very successful and popular amongst our viewers and I am just very pleased that I decided to let it be used, as I did not want to go with that idea originally but I'm pleased that the rest of the group wanted to do it, and as it was no longer possible to go with my idea we went along with that one. I must stress that the bogeys video was created completely in my absence as I was ill on the day that it was filmed but I handed the bogeys video over to James D'Arcy to decide where to place the cameras on location, and to oversee the 'bogeys' project. After seeing it for the first time on the channel I was completely impressed with it and how it had been edited and it turned out better than I thought it would.