Lost Videos

***The Lost Videos*** are a collection of videos uploaded from 6 September 2019 to 1 May 2020. A significant majority of the videos were film reviews, with Astile's main inspiration coming from I Hate Everything, YourMovieSucksDOTOrg, Chris Stuckmann and ralphthemoviemaker. After believing that the job was best left done to the professionals and finding a sudden motivation to follow his true passion (filmmaking and acting), almost every single video produced and released during the 7 month period was privatised, although they weren't deleted, keeping them in existence, but unseen to all except Astile himself, taking away thousands of views for the sake of rebranding (a decision he does not regret). They were later changed from private to unlisted so that a selected few friends with links could still watch them.

## Motivation

The mass privatisation was motivated by a few factors. **The first and most important reason** was Astile's desire to rebrand the channel and follow his true passion in filmmaking and acting, with hopes of someone seeing his material and becoming interested in his talents. **The second and warmest reason** was IHE leaving a comment on a video he made, which convinced him that people are mainly there for things he has to offer, as opposed to his commentary on things that already exist. **The third reason** was general dissatisfaction with the videos. Despite being proud of the work he put into them, Astile was mostly unsatisfied, particularly with videos he half assed to get out in short amounts of time. Minor errors overlooked would prove beyond frustrating due to his self-diagnosed OCD, and the videos not being as good as they could've been or having things in them when realising something long after publishing proved irritating. **The fourth** was being unable to form his own unique personality from the commentary. Despite in fact he was being himself most of the time, Astile found himself borrowing from some of his favourite YouTubers too heavily, which he found embarrassing. **The fifth reason** was the fact that, despite being a hobby, the work Astile put into it made it felt like some kind of second job he wasn't even getting paid for. **The sixth, final and second most important reason** was the tiring work that went into the videos which not many people were even watching that often. Although the occasional video would randomly attract noticeable views (most notably the *Cats* and *Cuck* reviews), most barely exceeded 30 views, and the editing process was long, boring and often times frustrating, particularly for the final review for *The Platform*, with the newly installed homemade mini-studio Astile's mother built with Focusrite seeming promising at first, but proving needlessly complicated to manage (or perhaps Astile was just dumb). The anger brought on from making the review, as well as the accidental deletion of several specially made editing files, was what ultimately encouraged a hiatus that became a permanent cancellation of any potential future reviews. After leaving the videos for a while, Astile finally decided to revoke their public status.

## Archive Status

None of the videos Astile creates are held on his laptop. When the videos are completed, they are either published straight away or processed and scheduled to release on a specific day at a specific time, remaining private for the time. Once a video has been made public, all video files and the complete edit are junked. The main reason is to save storage and not to look back on past work too frequently. Effectively, the only remaining copies of any published videos are the digital releases themselves, available to download from the YouTube Workshop should a situation call for it. Some personal projects are kept stored on the laptop and are also process onto YouTube - on private or unlisted - for friends' viewing purposed.

Of the sixty-nine originally privatised videos, only five have been made available for public viewing again; the other sixty-four remain unlisted.

## Movie Review

***Movie Review*** was your average movie review, as to be expected from the channel regularly. They had either simple editing or no editing at all, were to the point and varied in quality, mostly due to them all being filmed/recorded on a laptop. Only four of the forty-seven videos are publicly available; forty-three remain unlisted.

## Spooktacular October Dark Movie Special Month Review

***The Spooktacular October Dark Movie Special Month*** was a mini-series of seven videos, with each of the films being particularly scary, creepy or unnerving, making them perfect for October/Halloween viewing. The series consisted of six regular reviews and one series review of the *Psycho* franchise (which included the original film and it's three sequels, the backdoor pilot TV movie *Bates Motel*, and the infamous 1998 remake). Originally, it was going to be an annual thing with each month ending with a horror movie franchise review, but these plans have been abandoned. None of the seven videos are publicly available.

## More in One Review

***More in One*** was a type of quickie review that involved two or more short and sweet movie reviews in the same video. Some of them were *vs*, where two similar films are talked about (usually an original and a reboot of some kind) and it is decided at the end which one is the superior movie. None of the six videos are publicly available.

## Series Review

***Series Review*** was a special type of video where an entire series of films all connected were reviewed in the same video. Only three were produced, revolving around *Psycho*, *Madagascar* (including the Penguins movie) and all five *Home Alone*. None of the three videos are publicly available.

## Video Review

***Video Review*** was a one-off where it was decided calling *Ratatoing* a movie was insulting to the art form, so it was referred to as what it in fact is; a simple video. This made the actual review somewhat of a humorous paradox, as it was a video talking about a video, but still being reviewed as if it was a movie in a movie review video. The *Video Review* is publicly unavailable.

## List

***List*** videos were planned to be yearly reviews talking about all the movies Astile saw the previous year. Only one was ever produced and is publicly available.

## Update

***Update*** videos were spontaneously made videos to update active viewers of the channel. Only one was produced and is publicly unavailable, although this is common practice for most update videos and more are likely to be made and subsequently unlisted when deemed obsolete.

## Rant

***Rant*** videos were slightly embarrassing expressions of Astile's personal thoughts on what was being talked/ranted about. Two individuals (an unnamed YouTuber 'kid' and ImAllexx) were subject to rants, mainly because of the frustration they brought onto Astile's mind. He has since mostly gotten over them, but still looks down on their questionable behaviour. Neither of the two videos are publicly available.

## Cancelled Videos

None of these made it beyond the concept stage. No audio recordings or visual edits were ever created for these potential videos, although some Letterboxd reviews could count as scripts. They are the following;

* The Pixar Catalogue (Series Review)
* Halloween (Series Review)
* Texas Chainsaw (Series Review)
* The Maltese Falcon (Movie Review)
* Videodrome (Movie Review)
* The Brood (Movie Review)
* Stranger Than Fiction (Movie Review)
* The Tarantino Collection (Director Review)
* Society (Movie Review)
* Venom (Movie Review)
* Spider-Man Movies (Series Review)
* The Truman Show (Movie Review)
* Dollars Trilogy + Yojimbo Controversy (Series Review)
* Mandy (Movie Review)
* Dumb and Dumber Trilogy (Series Review)
* Naked Lunch (Movie Review)
* The Kubrick Collection (Director Review)
* The Lynch Collection (Director Review)
* Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Movie Review)