On 21/3/21, Juan Buhler, discombobulated, unleashed: >The one thing I know, and especially for Youtube, is that the way to learn >and improve is to just do it. It's super interesting to watch the first few >videos of any youtuber whose craft you respect--you often can see how they >got better over time.
Can't disagree with that. Pretty much, what I say to anyone making videos, no matter how short or simple, is to tell a story. If you've never made a video before in your life, but can sit around a table with friends, and tell a story - you can make good videos. Technical ability helps, sure, but certainly not essential. Even a 30 second shot from a phone (vertically!) can tell a great story and be compulsive viewing. Yet some professional half hour documentaries are so bad that I switch off within 5 minutes. I would rather sit through an engaging film abut something I'm not interested in, than bang my head trying to like an awful film about something I love doing. Even your lens review has a good story - from the outset the viewer wants to know what you think - 'is this going to be a good lens or a bad lens'?? The simplest story in the world. And if the images and sound are engaging then we'll watch and wait til the end to find out. Job done! The hardest films to make are the short ones. I recently made a half hour about a historic sailing ship. As part of the deal, the ship operators were to get a 5 minute 'short' advertorial. That was not easy! But do-able. The result is on this page, at right: <https://www.dauntseys.org/life-at-dauntseys/jolie-brise?fbclid=IwAR1HyJq_PTQAsqvJ7-3bGBUj7261U5xribfnKFd6t5Xo1c2nBWwyCU6Zr6s> So keep going. Presenter-led pieces are fine - but be confident about your abilities. The voice is fine - buy a modest lapel mic (a small mic that clips onto a shirt lapel) and plug it into the recording camera. Attach to collar of T shirt and run wire down inside shirt. Your voice will transform and the room echo will be gone. Practice and embrace the good things and work on the bad. Get someone else to listen and critique - never critique yourself. It's about how the rest of the world sees you, not how you sees you :-) Good luck! -- Cheers Cotty -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
