Tuesday, 15 July 2014

YouTube!

My YouTube conquest continues! I have now posted two videos, one gaming and the other a sketch. The view count for the gaming video, which was Crusader Kings 2, overtook my first video and is continuing to grow at a steady rate! My sketch video seems to have had a slower start as I cannot find an appropriate platform to advertise the video. I have also gained four new subscribers, which, for me, is meteoric!

The Crusader Kings 2 video worked as a first gaming video, as the lack of action did not stress my laptop too much, and I could be more creative using the character creator. This allowed me to use a lot more humour naturally, but I'm sure upcoming videos will be even funnier.


My sketch video was on my top five pet hates, and I came about this topic from my increasing frustration with Touch ID on my iPhone 5s. It ignores me so much that I began to think about other things that annoy me, and I picked the five discussed in the video. A key idea I had for the video was the slow motion eating scene, but it didn't quite come out as I had hoped it would.
For this video, I had to wait until my housemates had moved out, which happened on the day of filming. This meant that filming didn't start until the light had dimmed and so the quality suffered slightly as a result. I knew that I would have the whole house to make videos, so I filmed large portions of the video in the kitchen. Having dispatched my tripod to my mother's house, I had to use my mic stand to hold the camera, and as my video camera ran out of battery suddenly at the start of filming, I had to use my phone, and even my iPad, to film the bulk of the video. The quality on my phone is actually superior to my camera, but my camera feels more reliable, and most importantly, has more space for videos.

Thank you so much for reading, I really hope you enjoyed this little behind-the-scenes look into my videos, which I feel I will write every week. I hope you enjoy the videos!

Wednesday, 9 July 2014

A Fresh Face

I have embarked upon my conquest of YouTube; that's right, I put my first proper video onto the site. It is a brief introduction of me and my current situation, and a declaration of my intent to publish videos every Tuesday and Friday. YouTube is something I have been interested in for a long time (I joined in 2006!) but have never had the confidence to make my own videos. Until Now.

Behold:


As stated repetitively in the video, personal videos will be uploaded on Tuesdays and gaming videos will be uploaded on Fridays, though what I failed to mention was that these will include a facecam, so you will always get a good look at my face! Tuesday videos will also include short sketches among many other things; the possibilities for Tuesdays are endless!
My humble set-up; the books act as a tripod.

The reason I picked these days was to spread the videos out so that my future subscribers (hopefully you!) would not be bombarded in close succession or left waiting for too long, and I chose to actually have a schedule simply to give viewers and myself some stability. I would have chosen Wednesday and Saturday, but as I work on weekends I felt that it was best to push it back a day to ensure I can upload consistently.

And yes, I shaved half of my beard for that thumbnail.


Please subscribe and stay tuned for my videos, and I promise that I will try my absolute hardest to bring you the best content possible! I am not particularly confident in front of the camera yet, as is evident in the videos, but I am sure that, with time, the quality will easily improve to stratospheric heights.

Thanks for watching and reading!
Robin