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Andrew (Television Executive)
@ajroach42@retro.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

I love the toy work I'm doing right now, and it seems pretty likely that it's going to pay my bills (and the bills for several other members of our community) for a while.

People like what we're doing, and we're in demand. We're meeting with clients tonight. We're meeting with clients on Saturday. We're emailing clients every twenty minutes.

It's good! And it is absolutely part of the same #CommunityMedia movement that led me to create #NETV.

But it's only part of the #communityMedia thing. We need the media. I need to figure out a way to make the production and distribution of independent media financially viable in small batches.
Andrew (Television Executive)
@ajroach42@retro.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

I usually discourage drive by replies from folks who don't have the full context of the work I'm doing, because dealing with a lot of "well have you tried X" posts when X was either 100% not applicable or the first thing we tried, but in this case I'm going to make an exception.

If you have any ideas on things we could do to increase the revenue of our tiny television station, tell me about them.

Right now, we have a patreon style subscription through our website, an actual patreon (for me personally, but all proceeds go to the network), paid advertising on our channel, and some merch.

Between all of that, we cover about 1 weeks operating expenses a month. We need to increase that significantly to break even, and even more significantly to expand the ways that I want to.
Andrew (Television Executive)
@ajroach42@retro.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

I love the toy work I'm doing right now, and it seems pretty likely that it's going to pay my bills (and the bills for several other members of our community) for a while.

People like what we're doing, and we're in demand. We're meeting with clients tonight. We're meeting with clients on Saturday. We're emailing clients every twenty minutes.

It's good! And it is absolutely part of the same #CommunityMedia movement that led me to create #NETV.

But it's only part of the #communityMedia thing. We need the media. I need to figure out a way to make the production and distribution of independent media financially viable in small batches.
Andrew (Television Executive)
@ajroach42@retro.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

We've also got a new economics explainer video up. This one is about #enshittification and the mechanisms by which the current economy is collapsing.

Here's a trailer: https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/bgRiLM9HuwTf8PZ9dSrJxp

and a short clip about bubbles: https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/4J5bgYBtPYZthmNNMfBKmX

and the full episode: https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/83McEYqJpCqn1UmWXqGWq2

@newellijaytelevision
Andrew (Television Executive)
@ajroach42@retro.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

As I've mentioned previously, we produce all of these shows for #netv / @newellijaytelevision / @video at the Ellijay Makerspace using 10+ year old cameras and open source software.

All our editing happens in @kdenlive Our videos are distributed through @peertube and our cable network is powered by #ffplayout and #ffmpeg.

We're a #floss shop, running a weird little experimental cable network out of the north GA mountains. We release between 1 and 10 new original videos per month, plus some syndicated stuff from folks like Working Class Music and Captain Isotope and Mr. Lobo.
Andrew (Television Executive)
@ajroach42@retro.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

One day in the near future, I'm going to swing by the makerspace and grab my "agile" modulator and bring it down to the cafe.

We have half a dozen TVs at the cafe that could be running the #NETV Livestream we're it not for the struggles inherent in wiring up cable to a big old weird shaped building with a bunch of free floating TVs.

But the agile modulator plus a small antenna pushes a strong enough "bleed" signal that I should be able to get every television with an analog tuner in the place running the same video source with little additional effort.
Andrew (Television Executive)
@ajroach42@retro.social  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago

There's a third #skypirate film in this proto- #steampunk trilogy called The Arial Anarchists, but it has been lost for around 100 years.

It's based on a book, though. The book is called Hartmann, the Anarchist; Or, The Doom of the Great City by E. Douglas Fawcett

That's on PG and Librevox. I haven't read it. I might not ever read it. Who knows?

But if you wanted to watch a 115 year old science fiction film about sky pirates... well, go watch The Pirates of 1920, it's a much better movie than The Airship Destroyer.

But if you wanted to watch a Second 115 year old film about #skypirates... Go watch The Aerial Submarine, it's a much better film than The Airship Destroyer.

But if you wanted to watch a THIRD 115 year old film about #airship pirates... well, The Airship Destroyer is now available.
Andrew (Television Executive)
@ajroach42@retro.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago

All of those and a few others to boot are on #NETV and available for free from a few other sources.

They're fun!

If you're interested in dipping your toes in the water of early skypirate scifi movies, you could do worse (well, no. You really couldn't. Pretty much everything else is lost, so these are both the best and the worst that exists!)

Really, though, what you want to see is Filibus. 1915, cross dressing lesbian (bisexual?) sky pirate heist flick. It's great. I should finish scoring it.