On and off this week I spent quite a bit of time trying to put together first, an intro video and later a book review and a book haul for the youtube channel I started in conjunction with this project. I want so badly to post something, anything, to find an excuse to play with this medium that's so new to me and which inspires so many new ways of looking at things. Unfortunately this is proving more difficult than expected, which I did expect I just wasn't quite expecting there to be quite this big of a learning curve. I'm not looking for something perfect. Perfect would be boring because it would require cutting out all the quirky little things I know other people love, even if I don't. But I wanted something that at least had the following:
1. Decent lighting (the lighting in my room is horrible)
2. A backdrop that doesn't consist of piles of stuff or stacks of boxes
3. Decent sound quality/me not mumbling continuously so people can understand me
I'm still working on solutions for combinations of these issues, so far I've discovered that although my webcam is lower quality than the video from my camera it has two advantages, notably, it comes with built in adjustable lighting (from my laptop screen), and I can see myself while recording which means I don't film an entire video with a hanger seemingly stuck out of the side of my head. Unfortunately the sound recording from my webcam is cruddy (although it doesn't pick up background noise like the wind and the heat kicking on), so it's not a total win win.
I'm still planning on getting a video posted this weekend (Sunday eta: ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh) even if it means posting something I'm not totally happy with, but I may still torture myself with some fiddling since I would really love to use my camera in all its shiny newness. And if all else fails, I can work on the mumbling and the overexcited rush of words that comes along with me geeking out. It's still January, there's eleven and a half more months before I have to decide whether or not this whole youtube/booktubing thing is for me.
1. Decent lighting (the lighting in my room is horrible)
2. A backdrop that doesn't consist of piles of stuff or stacks of boxes
3. Decent sound quality/me not mumbling continuously so people can understand me
I'm still working on solutions for combinations of these issues, so far I've discovered that although my webcam is lower quality than the video from my camera it has two advantages, notably, it comes with built in adjustable lighting (from my laptop screen), and I can see myself while recording which means I don't film an entire video with a hanger seemingly stuck out of the side of my head. Unfortunately the sound recording from my webcam is cruddy (although it doesn't pick up background noise like the wind and the heat kicking on), so it's not a total win win.
I'm still planning on getting a video posted this weekend (Sunday eta: ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh) even if it means posting something I'm not totally happy with, but I may still torture myself with some fiddling since I would really love to use my camera in all its shiny newness. And if all else fails, I can work on the mumbling and the overexcited rush of words that comes along with me geeking out. It's still January, there's eleven and a half more months before I have to decide whether or not this whole youtube/booktubing thing is for me.
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