While I admire your ambition, my initial impression of your aspirations would be that it sounds very unrealistic. I say this because to create a programme to the quality of even some of the lesser known television channels takes a really long time, involves many professionals and costs a lot of money - sometimes I'm amazed at how long organisations like the BBC spend making a single documentary. Of course, there are ways of dramatically lowering the cost of producing something, though it still takes a lot of time and patience to edit footage you collect. Even if you spend time filming something, you'll probably have found yourself filming most of the day and end up with very little footage that you can use when edited down. Then remember, this is for one episode, for one programme. If you are hoping to broadcast for four hours this would involve a LOT of time and effort spent making programmes. You also have to consider that realistically, very few people are actually going to be watching your content live, which may then make you question why you are doing it all!
However, it's not all bad news! Many aspiring people looking to get their content seen are doing it on sites like YouTube. It can be an effective way to get your content seen by many people. You may want to set a challenge for yourself to decide on a realistic time period (maybe a couple of months) to make a programme / documentary about a topic that you and others would be interested in and then set about recording any footage (you may want to look at stock footage to include aswell). This is just one idea (there are many other things you could do) but by allowing yourself enough time to properly produce a TV programme or documentary and then uploading it to a site like YouTube and getting friends or using social media to spread the word may be a way for you to really do something that you'll see a return on your time and effort on. It would be a big task and would involve a lot of time but it may be a route to take if you are looking to make programmes.
My intention of posting this was certainly not to dampen your hopes or ambitions of making programmes, but simply would be my advise to you if your aim is to make programmes or video content and get other people to see and appreciate them. If your main focus on not really on the content and more on the idea of producing the 'visual identity' and brand for a channel then my advise is really not relevant and I apologise!
While not really relevant to the mocks you created, I hope this helps in a more general sense when it comes to your ambitions of launching an online television channel. Best of luck!
Following on from Newsroom24, I'd rather see some slick, well produced production that took a day or two to film and a day or two to edit. There are no end of really good short films, well made mini-productions all over YouTube to aim for technical wise but admittedly we all have to start with the crappy webcams built into laptops and save up for a GoPro to get that professional look. If you look at Tom Scott's channel for example, his first video (two drums and a cymbal fall off a cliff) is a mushy domestic camcorder affair and all his current videos are either iPhone or GoPro quality and look really professional and well edited and made.
It will be better to have one well produced episode of something than 12 half-arsed rushed shows. But yes the idea you have that you can churn out five hours a night of stuff and knock the content up during the previous weekend - let's put it this way, using Tom Scott again - there's a video on his channel about greenscreen and that was a 4minute video that took two afternoons (he says) to put together. So a day for 4 minutes of video - you do the maths as to how much time you need to put in.
Following on, I feel you may have some of the same issues as some of the local That's and Made channels. The aspiration and desire is totally there and I can tell but being able to execute this on (what I presume) is a very low budget I can see issues with. I realise it might not be what you'd want to do, but as suggested with many of the local channels it might be easier to do repeated rolling news than trying to make dramas or documentaries. I've been on a shoot before where we were there all day and the end result was a 6 minute segment that was broadcast.
I don't want to put you off and I admire your aspiration as I said but honestly make sure you have a life if you go ahead with it. I seem to remember you're about 14-15 too? Concentrate on your GCSEs because trust me those new 9-1 exams are just awful! Good luck with Slash anyway, I look forward to seeing your evolutions.
The font you use throughout makes it look like it hasn't rendered properly or I'm watching TV at 140p... You clearly want to improve it though so keep going with it and playing with designs so you get better at what you're doing, and even though the concept sounds unrealistic but I'd like to see you prove me wrong. I just can't see one person making programming of a decent quality, doing the design work for everything and then doing the broadcasting and managing of a channel.
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