Best Posts in Thread: The Media Team and why it's failed

So I've been noticing a lot of media applications lately, and they all keep making similar mistakes. @Kling said I can't make constructive threads, so here's a discussion thread;

why has our media team failed?

Topic - Topic is super important! Possibly the most important aspect of a youtube video is topic.
As you can see from the attached screenshot, nearly half of the Meepcraft youtube channel's videos are just trailers for various spawns and events. While this type of content is cleanly edited, these videos are simply not entertaining. Production Quality isn't everything. The content needs value too.

Similar to Topic is Clips Chosen - In the more recent videos on the channel, there have been videos showing the parkour, towny, and even the spawn events. The spawn event videos are cool, and really show off the arch team's builds, but don't shed any light on the actual events. It would be neat to know what is happening on the server. After all, other servers have good architects too. However, the parkour trailer was the most disappointing of all. Showing only 3 courses, in an awkward 3rd person manner, this trailer certainly did not live up to its potential.

Ways (in my opinion) the Parkour/Towny trailers failed/succeeded.

- the towny one showed off the new spawn (the central point of the video) very well.
- the parkour one completely failed to show the excitement of parkour. A good way to improve may have been add a couple seconds of first-person footage from an experienced player like Creepers or Alex.
- the videos were well edited
- the parkour song choice seemed out of place. I'm not saying a filthy drum'n'bass track would've fit better, but maybe something a little faster-paced?
- this is off topic but the creative contest video was great

Finally, variety - While replay mod, third-person montages of different areas look the most professional, they don't always show the theme. For spawn trailers and the creative contests, this type of view looks great, but in parkour and the events, it would have been nice to see a little bit of clean, F1'd, first-person gameplay. Maybe even add some real in-game audio and turn down the music.

TLDR - the videos are well-edited, and look great, however, they lack variety and aren't very entertaining to watch. Also huge apology to pmx for bashing all his videos :V

anything I missed?

 

Something big you’ve missed:

Medias when I was a staff member weren’t allowed to control or have a big say on what goes on our media accounts. I’m not sure if things have changed, but I don’t understand why they wouldn’t be allowed to do that from the start. As their title suggests, they should be doing anything that relates to our media accounts as nothing should hold them back. I know there is the big issue of trust, but when it comes down to wanting people who post videos once in a blue moon and wanting people who serve our medias good by keeping them active, we need the standard to be for the latter. That being said, I’m not trying to bash any medias, but as it stands the position is relatively loose and restrictive at the same time. Videos that medias need to make aren’t made actively but on the flip side of the coin youtube is their only platform as well.

All in all this begs the question of whether the staff team needs to take another look at what medias do so that they can better benefit the server.

--- Double Post Merged, May 27, 2018, Original Post Date: May 27, 2018 ---

I think more people would be encouraged to apply for the media team if what they saw them do entailed more variety.