

Artwork by Jack Evans – https://www.youtube.com/user/MoonmenUnit42

At the end of October, I’ll reach some pretty substantial milestones. On October 23rd it will be the one-year anniversary of the launch of this website; www.trilbee.com. It will have been exactly one year since I posted THIS trailer reaction to ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron‘. I was planning a November launch, but that teaser trailer forced my hand somewhat. And on October 30th, it will be the one year anniversary of me writing in-depth, written reviews on this website starting with ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles‘. It’s also thanks to the contributors at the unofficial Trilbee Wikia that I had a numbered tally of the amount of reviews I’ve been writing so I was able to acknowledge that my review of ‘Sicario‘ was my 100th review. That’s more than one review every 3 days (1 review every 3.85 days to be exact) since I started. Honestly, I thought I was doing more, but the numbers are the numbers.

First of all, thank you so much.

Thank you for making my website a viable option for me to create content for you all. I started this website so I could do more content at a faster rate and talk about the latest film releases because video content is a lot more time consuming than a written article. Thank you for regularly visiting, thank you for sharing the reviews you’ve liked around and thank you for checking out reviews of some of the smaller, less-publicised movies that I reviewed such as ‘Man Up‘, or ‘X + Y‘ and ‘Bill‘. In fact, my ventures outside of YouTube have been so successful that I branched out to further avenues of film analysis and discussion by starting a Podcast with the awesome and hard-working Sam from “Sam’s Channel“. Recording the podcast weekly has been a genuine highlight of my week and thank you folks for listening every week and providing great topics of discussion when asked. And doing the podcast has actually opened up some very awesome and potentially interesting business avenues that I can’t yet disclose.

But, the big question (for me. Maybe not for you. I dunno. You tell me) is; “Now what?”.

Well, I think it’s slightly fitting that I’m reaching all of these milestones at a big turning-point of my personal life where I’m just about to move to a city to pursue other work opportunities. Some of you may know that outside of YouTube I work as a Freelance Production Crew Member. But the region I live in doesn’t have that many media-related opportunities for me so I’m moving to MediaCityUK (where I studied, so it’s not an alien location for me) in order to take things to the next level.

I will be moving into a friend’s cupboard until I can get myself established in the region and try and build up contacts in order to try and climb up the ladder and hopefully start my own media production company one day. Obviously, that takes a lot of time but that’s my ultimate end-goal.

One piece of irony that may sound sad but I’m actually looking forward to is that when I move I will be away from family and friends meaning that my social life with be non-existent. This means I can devote as much time as I want (barring sleep, grrr) to my online content. Hopefully, you’ll see a resurgence in video content as this move to the city will be entirely motivated by work and my own self-employment. This will hopefully mean more edited video content and more reviews on the website.

Incidentally, because I will be truly independent with this move, Patreon will be more important to the sustainability of my work than ever. If you’ve ever enjoyed my work and thought about chipping in a dollar or two, NOW would be the time.

When it comes to the website, I’m eager to expand for the next 100 reviews. On-demand movies are becoming a pretty big thing now so maybe it’s time to embrace the format and start reviewing these films. ‘Beasts of No Nation‘ just came out on Netflix so that should be a fun(?) place to start. I might also just bite the bullet and dive into the back-catalogue of films I missed from earlier this year such as ‘Furious 7‘, ‘Unfriended‘, ‘It Follows‘, ‘The Duke of Burgundy‘, ‘London Road‘ etc. Not just because I get a lot of people asking what I think of those films, but I’d also like to have a more-complete library of reviews to reference when I create my year’s end videos (Top 10s and such).

I’d also like to try and bring on another writer or two in order to create more regular, non-review content such as news stories, trailer reactions, Top 10s and even editorials. However, I’ve not figured out how to make this work because I wouldn’t be able to pay these writers and I’d feel horrible if I didn’t give them some sort of payment for the work. It’s something I’ll need to figure out over the coming months.

Outside of my online work, I’ve been working on a feature-length screenplay but that’s been on the back-burner for a few months. I think with this move it’s time to dust it off and dedicate a few hours a week to getting that done, especially since I have a lot of filmmaking friends where I’ll be moving who would be more than willing to work on an ambitious project. I’ve also been sending my ‘Meatspace‘ series scripts to major TV broadcasters and Production Companies and while I can’t name any names or name any companies, the word has been incredibly promising. I’ll leave it at that.

So, thank you very much for an awesome year. Here’s to 100 more reviews!

TL;DR – 1 year of website content. 100 reviews. Moving away. More online content. Less social life (hooray?). Let’s expand to on-demand films, catch up with 2015 thanks to DVDs, maybe bring in another writer. Let’s write and make movies and TV! Also, Patreon!