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Advice on Livestream - Should I do it? (Patreon)

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2014-02-27 19:14:18
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2026-06
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I have been trying to figure out fun ways to promote this new comic and a friend of mine suggested Livestream again. You see, when I was working on reMIND 2, I did a Livestream of my computer screen each weekday morning for an hour when I was coloring pages and it was very motivational for me to keep working because I knew people were watching. Anyways, I was thinking of trying it again for Sithrah. I'm just not sure what the best approach would be and maybe you can help me decide, Here's what I'm thinking.I can realistically start Livestreaming (or maybe another platform?) between the hours of 6AM and 7AM (PST) on weekday mornings. It would either be my monitor as I'm coloring, sketching or fixing things or it would be my art desk as I'm inking depending on what I need to do that morning. I would like to make this free to anyone who wants to watch it live whether they are a patron or not (because this helps me get more exposure). But perhaps the recorded archives will only be for patrons?I could make a new pledge option for $5, or something, where that pledge level could ask me any questions and I would try to answer one or two questions each morning at the start of my Livestreaming broadcast. Does any of this sound like a good plan to anyone? Would you be interested in this if I offered it?The reason I'm asking is because it would be a big commitment for me because of scheduling and stuff. I'd like to know your thoughts though. Maybe there is a better way to do it that I am not aware of. Any suggestions are welcome. :)Thanks again for your excellent support in my first month of Sithrah and Patreon!Jason

Comments

Braxton Harrison

I think the idea is good except for the "one or two questions". For me, one or two questions would only be useful if you could foresee the future (HA!)– Otherwise I would want to have a conversation, because answers typically lead to more questions. In your situation, I think it may be better to open a door for a conversation with a time cap instead. – Good luck!

Jason Brubaker
>>26511

Oh I see, so you think that people will want to ask me questions based on what I'm doing live instead of general questions that someone would just send me ahead of time? I just don't want to cut into the hour of work too much. If I can figure out a way to do this all without it becoming a bunch of extra work and management then that would be best. That's the hardest part. :)

Jeremy Melloul

Yeah. If it's general questions another issue might be that the backers asking the question may not be able to actually attend the livestream and hear their questions answered. I think I would prefer (as would other backers) a level where you did a Google Hangout once a month for maybe an hour or two and answered question / chatted there, or maybe showed off some art you were working on.

Jason Brubaker
>>26519

Great advice. I'll mull this over too. I can definitely see doing a Google+ Hangout for higher level backers. I'll see what I can come up with that I'm comfortable committing to. Do you have any interest in seeing live or archived footage of me working on art? I'm trying to see if I should even try the livestream as I'm working thing again. Thanks for your thoughts.

Tom Dell'Aringa

Jason, as a supporter I'd like the option to be able to see the recorded versions, since I wouldn't have free time available when you draw live. So maybe that's a good solution for Patrons. I'm not sure if LiveStream is the best solution, although it does seem really robust. But I believe you now have to pay for an account to save videos, right? I don't believe it was cheap, either! As a creator too, I wonder what other options are available (for both of us!) But I always like seeing other artists work.

Tom Dell'Aringa
>>26521

How do the Google+ Hangouts work for live drawing? LiveStream is $49/month for basic if you want to archive your work and allow people to watch with no account - yikes, that is steep.

Jason Brubaker
>>26521

Google+ Hangout OnAir is the live part. It broadcasts live to everyone with a link and then automatically sends the finished video to your Youtube channel as an archive. $49 a month is pretty steep. Hmmmm. More research.

Tom Dell'Aringa
>>26521

Yeah, I'd hate to have you foot that kind of bill - and it looks like UStream is even more expensive. Let us know what you find out.

Jeremy Melloul
>>26519

Hm. Live footage of you working on art would only be interesting to me if accompanied with a discussion, but I don't know if it might slow you down too much. Archived footage would pretty much be the same thing. If you shortened the archived content and talked us through your process, explaining what you were doing (i.e. speeding up at parts and slowing down to show what you're talking about) that could be very interesting.

Jason Brubaker
>>26519

Yeah, that would be a ton of work to put together footage like that. I generally can't work and talk very well so it would have to be either one or the other. I talked to one of the guys at Patreon and he suggested me just doing a live hangout with backers to talk and answer questions once a month. I might start off with something like that to see how it goes.

Jeremy Melloul
>>26519

Yeah. I definitely recognize it would be more work, which is why I suggested the hangout first. I think it's a great idea and just generally better. You get as much (if not more value) as a viewer out of those 1 or 2 hours than you would in an 8 hour stream ;)

Joe Greathead

Trending with some of the other answers here I think the archived footage would be a plus. I agree with Jeremy that any questions or conversation that occur might be more based in real-time since it's a "live" stream and all. In my experience some people like to just show up and say "hi" while others might ask a random question with the expectation in both cases being that you're paying attention to the chat at least intermittently. Would talking to those in chat, even occasionally, distract you from working too much to make this a productive hour? I wouldn't expect anyone to put on a full Q&A while working, but even just listening to you talk while working adds a lot of value to the stream, in my opinion.

Matthew Sample II
>>26511

Perhaps you could have a family member read the questions out loud, then you could answer them. Or perhaps you can find some way to get your computer to read the questions out loud. :O

L.J.

Any type of livecast would be wonderful from my perspective (also a fan of makingcomics.com), just not wanting it to be overly taxing on you. Overall, fans would take to it well. Promote the patreon sithrah site at the comicon big time - which you are undoubtedly doing.

L.J.

I like the patron archive concept too.