It was the night before the release of our first video, and all through the house; not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. We were nervous! We were excited! After years on hiatus from both of our individual channels, Lauren and I couldn’t wait to see how our partnered YouTube channel would develop. Long story short: Get Grilled’s debut was a success. Now with over 5.5K channel views, and almost 800 subscribers, we see the future and potential for our platform.
In the prototyping stage, we made tangible physical models of the problem solutions generated in the ideation stage. Whilst ideating, planning ideas for videos, scrapping them, starting them, in the midst of all the FEFO chaos – we decided to create a ‘grassroots’, personal introductory video and follow up video. We made our channel, uploaded two videos and it went live. Our first video, “Get Grilled – Episode 1: Deep and Meaningful and Seagulls,” established Lauren and I as a comedic, banter-orientated duo, with an average of ten of pop culture references a minute. In our second video, “Get Grilled – Episode 2: Bloody Issues,” – we delve deeper on the theme of ‘Womanhood’ and serious issues affecting women. This episode, we talk about ending the stigma of periods, the issue of toxic masculinity, and the importance of abortion rights (lightly).
With encouragement and advice (suggesting fixes) from our audience, the comments they provide help us to diagnose problems such as quality of production, including the fundamental YouTube standards of lighting, sound and setting. By being able to recognise these issues, we could make an active effort in the next episode to improve the quality. In Episode 2, filming resides in a studio (Innovation Campus) with industry level lighting, a professional black backdrop and higher internal sound quality (lack of wind and seagulls squawking as seen in Episode 1).
The prototyping stage offered Lauren and I a distinct avenue of experimentation within the form of YouTube film and comedy. We have learnt and are learning to build early and build often – which the latter we note as essential to getting consistency and trust with an audience. Where we have lacked in building often, we note that building for engagement has been successful, with the loud interaction we receive on Get Grilled affiliated social medias. To engage with our audience in a resourceful way, we have reused memes and photos for our satirical Instagram page.
While Lauren and I will not be getting attached to our DA and greater YouTube series beyond our enrolment in 114, I note that we do appreciate the extensive feedback we have gathered through YouTube commenting and Instagram/Twitter interactions. We look forward to creating more for Get Grilled after 114, and growing our audience with good-hearted comedy, whilst also addressing real issues.
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