A day to celebrate (for me personally).  My Lego youtube page reached over 1,000,000 views.  Mostly due to the High Speed Passenger Train Video.  https://www.youtube.com/user/allnewbricks

Your work is great, congrats on the accomplishment!

Congrats buddy. Keep the camera rolling

I like especially the photo there showing a scene from hoth.

Did you take it yourself?

Congrats buddy. Keep the camera rolling

Nothing new on my radar right now.  Hoping to get a jump on The Lonely Mountain.  Just having crossed paths with it yet.  My goal is to do one set each week.  I may have to settle for some mixels.

Edited September 19, 201411 yr by ufema

Nothing new on my radar right now. Hoping to get a jump on The Lonely Mountain. Just having crossed paths with it yet. My goal is to do one set each week. I may have to settle for some mixels.

mixels are cool

I like especially the photo there showing a scene from hoth.

Did you take it yourself?

I got the photo from this photographer.  I wrote him a note and he graciously gave me permission to use it.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/avanaut/

Edited September 19, 201411 yr by ufema

Very nice videos, better than a lot of the other build videos out there.     

I got the photo from this photographer.  I wrote him a note and he graciously gave me permission to use it.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/avanaut/

That photog has some amazing work.

Congrats on the 1,000,000 views by the way.

Why was that one video so popular compared to the others?

Why was that one video so popular compared to the others?

Not sure.  Viewers started sharing and it went like wild fire.

Congrats on the 1,000,000 views! I enjoy watching your videos. They are top quality and are fun to watch.

Subbed. Congrats on your successes!

Why was that one video so popular compared to the others?

He did like Fight Club and inserted a frame of porn.

 

Congrats on the successful Youtube page, the videos are well done.

Very nice videos, better than a lot of the other build videos out there.     

Thank you.  I'm slowly trying to turn this thing into some decent money.  Any constructive criticism?

I wouldn't want you to change a thing. More is always better but I guess you need to have a life :/ Maybe some seasonal sets for the up coming holidays 

These are mesmerizing! Very professional, and that's coming from a filmmaker/video producer myself. 

 

If you really want to grow this into a self-sustaining channel, my one suggestion would be to use music and rhythm more to your advantage. Right now the pieces come in rat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat which is cool, but fatiguing on the senses, and the music has a sameness throughout that doesn't necessarily match the set that we're watching. I found myself scrubbing ahead to other parts of the video just to see what else was going on, and any given moment was pretty much the same as any other given moment. Like Lego-building itself, it can get a little monotonous.

 

I'd find some royalty-free music that matches the tone of the set itself and then mix up the speed at which your pieces appear to go along with the music. Some ragtime to go with a train set, crashing nautical anthem for a big boat, something out of Fantasia for a Friends build, etc.

 

As an example, say you were building the SSD and wanted to use the Imperial March (yeah, I know you should stay away from copyrighted music, but I'm just picking something everyone is familiar with.) The opening BUM-BUM-BUM could show some of the big plates appearing in staccato fashion, then the bah-diddle-diddle part has little pieces zipping in to go with the quick strings.

 

Just a suggestion. It's cool as it is now, but really making it into performance will kick it up to the next level. Either way, nice work!

Did you do the train as soon as it came out?

Congrats! You make awesome videos, keep doing them!

You deserve it.

i remember your very first videos, when it took some days to have about 50 visitors. ^^ Internet is crazyness. Great job.

These are mesmerizing! Very professional, and that's coming from a filmmaker/video producer myself. 

 

If you really want to grow this into a self-sustaining channel, my one suggestion would be to use music and rhythm more to your advantage. Right now the pieces come in rat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat-a-tat which is cool, but fatiguing on the senses, and the music has a sameness throughout that doesn't necessarily match the set that we're watching. I found myself scrubbing ahead to other parts of the video just to see what else was going on, and any given moment was pretty much the same as any other given moment. Like Lego-building itself, it can get a little monotonous.

 

I'd find some royalty-free music that matches the tone of the set itself and then mix up the speed at which your pieces appear to go along with the music. Some ragtime to go with a train set, crashing nautical anthem for a big boat, something out of Fantasia for a Friends build, etc.

 

As an example, say you were building the SSD and wanted to use the Imperial March (yeah, I know you should stay away from copyrighted music, but I'm just picking something everyone is familiar with.) The opening BUM-BUM-BUM could show some of the big plates appearing in staccato fashion, then the bah-diddle-diddle part has little pieces zipping in to go with the quick strings.

 

Just a suggestion. It's cool as it is now, but really making it into performance will kick it up to the next level. Either way, nice work!

Thank you so much for the advice.  I'm thinking of going full time with this if the numbers are what they need to be by January.  It's then I'll be able to put more creative thought into everything you just said.  I was actually thinking of doing that for the upcoming pirate sets (having the opening logo and music match with the theme).

Did you do the train as soon as it came out?

I did the Cargo Train early, but the High Speed Train around the same week.

Well done, ufema! Speaking of royalty free music, I remember this website of Freeplay Music that I found years ago and it's still around with a YouTube channel to boot. Perhaps something to peruse someday if not for a little inspiration at the least. I have a number of their tracks saved to my computer.

Congrats! Your works are great!