More Than Machine Series

**Franky** · 28th December 2024, 07:22

Originally Posted by saco0o

Hyundai releasing a documentary about the 2024 season
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMBC4cxsANU&t
looks interesting... but just like their good content on youtube or msport's good content... the good more than machine content... its just not F1. haha racing fans asking for all their favorite racing series to have more presence online, with content that could be attractive to non racing fans - LIKE F1 DID - to get the YOUNGSTERS onboard... but ehhhh, it simply doesnt work. wasted money imo. looks interesting tho, cant wait

The thing most seem to forget about Drive to Survive is that it became a proper hit during the pandemic. Sort of a perfect storm for them as the second season came out right before all the pandemic shit properly hit the fan, so there were 20 episodes out when live sports basically didn't exist and people were hungry for entertainment. And one can not overlook the production quality, which has been very high since the beginning. Production quality is important as it can mask some short comings.

I haven't watched the last episode of More Than Machine, honestly can't say that I properly watched since the second episode. It's just missing the quality to attract the attention and some segments didn't have a lot of value. It's harsh but it feels like a cheap TV production.

And the Hyundai documentary trailer felt very amateurish. Not sure I'll get to watching their documentary itself as just don't have so much free time.

Don't take me wrong, it's great that content is being produced. But it's a shame that it isn't being produced at higher quality.

**wyler** · 28th December 2024, 10:15

it really depends on what you define as quality...

**WRCStan** · 28th December 2024, 11:43

Originally Posted by Franky

And the Hyundai documentary trailer felt very amateurish. Not sure I'll get to watching their documentary itself as just don't have so much free time.

Don't take me wrong, it's great that content is being produced. But it's a shame that it isn't being produced at higher quality.

This is why I made the point when people were saying "WRC just needs a DTS" that they wouldn't get what they were wishing for.

Same with the people who were begging for more/better use of social media - they probably left social media themselves by now because it's a dying medium.

I'm not knocking any of this content, only the folk who said it's the kind of thing that'll save the sport. These kind of documentaries are for the already converted IMO.

**saco0o** · 28th December 2024, 18:20

Originally Posted by WRCStan

These kind of documentaries are for the already converted IMO.

YES... unless you are f1, nba, uefa champions, or some of these TOP LEAGUES on the planet, with gazilions of dolars and huge industries behind them putting giant efforts to produce this type of modern content (reality showISH).
it didnt worked for motogp, v8sc, formulae, extreme-e, these wrc attempts, endurogp... its not the right direction imo.

rallycross in america tried to invest in social media over these last 2 years but jesus christ it is SO ANNOYING having 30 short clips with bad modern music per day on your feed. i left social media and that influenced me haha i hate social media 'random content' just for the sake of doing it.

**Franky** · 29th December 2024, 13:03

Originally Posted by WRCStan

This is why I made the point when people were saying "WRC just needs a DTS" that they wouldn't get what they were wishing for.

Same with the people who were begging for more/better use of social media - they probably left social media themselves by now because it's a dying medium.

I'm not knocking any of this content, only the folk who said it's the kind of thing that'll save the sport. These kind of documentaries are for the already converted IMO.

The genre isn't the easiest in the first place. F1 races are covered by so many cameras that you sort of only need to follow the guys out of the car. In rallying when something happens, at best you have the helicopter filming from above as there aren't too many road side cameras. But for the drama you need to be there when it happens. The filming process on rallies is exhausting as you are playing constant catch up as you need to be at the next spot before the crew gets there. So you need proper dedication to do it. And in F1 it also helps that there's 20 guys racing, in WRC we have about 9.

I'm not sure that social media is a dying medium, it has become very fragmented market and platforms are pushing a lot of stuff that you aren't following really. It's a difficult era to promote as you need to be everywhere and mediums/platforms differ from each other, so you can't just spam the same identical stuff everywhere.

Documentary/reality series itself won't save anything but it can boost. Estonian media referenced rallit.fi article with Millener about their docu series and about the Youtube vs Netflix. And here I am coming back to dying medium. I know it differs between countries as the industry is not in an identical situation right now, but traditional TV (the big channels) has still a very big influencing power. So can't rule out the old mediums yet.