Practicum 4 - New ideas

After trying to make a personal webpage that emulates a celebrity's in visual and "selling yourself" ideology and failing, I decided to go a new direction with it. I took the concept of selling my abilities and applied it to something unique I do. I have a passion for film and TV, especially TV, and I went into that vat of possibilities to come up with something that still related to TV, to me, but was for a niche audience. As I previously discussed with "Shit My Dad Says," personal homepages may also be able to thrive on random assortments of information found interesting by a specific group.

I am quite obsessive when it comes to television shows and for some reason find interest in maintaining statistical type information, such as who the main cast is and during what seasons (or even episodes). My main activity is compiling episode counts for character, aka which cast members were in which episodes, and consequently, who missed episodes. I like seeing the variety month-to-month and year-to-year, who really represents the show as a whole, and who's getting screwed over in terms of airtime. I total the information to get overall series totals, season totals, actor totals, etc. It's a very odd habit I have yet to let go of and have found multiple people online that do the same thing for various shows. I've changed the website to feature the stats I have on the shows I've kept track of. I've also reached out to the people that work on shows I don't watch to get use of their stats. I want to make an conglomeration of episode count stats, hyperlinking to all of the collections through representative pictures of the show. I figure the best way to get attention to a website about myself is to show the world what I do that not many others do. No one that doesn't know me is going to check out a random website about me that features biographical information or even my "credentials" for work in the media field. Anyone that looked was linked from my Facebook or Twitter and that didn't help expand my views from outside my social group. I could've worked to promote a website about my desire to work in the field if I had more knowledge on website formation, but it wasn't plausible in this scenario.

I plan to open up my website for requests for show episode counts that I don't follow or have showcased. I don't really plan on following through with them necessarily at this point in time since I don't know if this type of website is something I'd consider keeping or expanding, but I want to see if people will be interactive with the website. Who knows, maybe someone somewhere will pay for assembling information about episode counts, either some random fan with money to spare or a network may see the value in keeping track of the information. However, the issue right now is time, and I don't have time to assemble new sets of information for no reward at this point.