The NBA Storyteller process is face to face with destiny!

After two years of doing the Algorithm 2-step, many more years of discovering what success in a process may feel like, finally I figured out I should ignore all sound advice on how to grow a Youtube channel and just make the darn thing I love. So what do I love? I love complicated, well researched, thoroughly thought-out, extended features on very specific relatively irrelevant seemingly unimportant heavily weighty topics. And that's how we got to the 12 films in 2019 approach.



In case you don't know, for the year of 2019 we (just me at this point) will be producing 1 film(documentary) a month. Each one will be anywhere from 40-60min (or more) and a complete submersion into a topic(with a bunch of slightly related side-notes). But with this approach and timing, I know I'm sacrificing a lot of temporary security. "security," or better yet, "regularity" that includes average weekly ad revenue and traditional subscriber growth. So that's where this first real significant goal comes in.



Now, $1650 is not the cost to make a full documentary. Writing, researching, shooting, editing and scoring one of these things, can really add up. But what this goal does is guarantee that I will be able to dedicate time to this project exclusively. instead of packing all my NBA storytelling time into my spare minutes (and the ungodly witching hours) I can finally bring my production into the light of day for a week or maybe two. And during that dedicated time I will actually be able to look my loving (yet skeptical) wife, and my lil (completely supportive yet clueless)boys right in the eyes and say:

"I'm passing on that editing gig for that cheesy ass financial advisors marketing video, and instead I'm making a basketball video for the kind people of the internet."



Ok, so...what I do know is:

As the months continue, I will want to allocate more and more time to this, and maybe even dedicate some resources to improving the production in other technical ways (also I do need to get on a few planes and buses to track down some folks named Leroy) And that means I'll probably push the monthly goal up to a representative number at some point. But my hope is that after demonstrating what we can do here, over the next few months, the views will come pouring in, the corporate sponsors will come-a-knocking and i might get a second shot at selling out (see the bleacher report post) and maybe that all results in scaling back the $ goal here, or maybe it means bringing on help, human help. Either way, this is a very unique time. I am essentially a crew of one, and my only limitation is time. But with you, you crazy/caring/considerate hoops and storytelling loving looney bins (aka my team, aka the hoard of grandmas) you, you can make this audacious goal, this proposed project an actual successful process.