Hi everyone, I have had my youtube channel for almost a year now and
during that time, I have had many different and new experiences. Aside from having to learn video editing from
scratch, work out camera angles and learn what some of the actual features are
for on my camera! There's also been a
multitude of other strange and interesting things I've had to deal with. . .
1. Faulty sd cards. Getting a big negative out of the way first,
one of the most annoying and
disappointing things that has happened to me so far is filming several videos
and thinking yeay they're all done ready to edit, only to find (when I came to
edit) that either they hadn't recorded or the footage made me look and sound
like an alien from outer space trying to contact earth through video!! (The one above had to be deleted and
re-filmed in the end).
2. Only for a video. I've heard many youtubers talk about only
doing their makeup just to film a video or wearing a pretty top only to be
wearing comfy pj bottoms underneath.
Well yep, that's now a thing that happens when I film!
3. Bad lighting.
This is a real pain, when I plan a day to film and then it ends up being
a really dull rainy day or it gets late in the afternoon and the suns gone in
and then it's too dark to film. It's so
annoying!
4. Can't use it till I've filmed it. I recently did a large Primark haul and there were so many bits (like
the makeup brushes) that I was really wanting to use but I wasn't able to film
the video for a few weeks and so I had a massive pile of stuff sat in my room
waiting to be shown in the video and of course I wanted to show things all nice
and new and unused! This was quite a
funny new thing for me because usually when I do a haul post on here, I just
photograph things when I buy them and then add the photo when I upload the
post, so this held new challenges and a lot of patience!!
5. Inspiration is everywhere. I remember when I first started blogging, for
the first year or two I was finding inspiration and ideas all over the place
and now I'm thankfully finding the same thing happening now. The only trouble is, it also happens a lot
when I'm out shopping or looking online, I'll spot something and think ooh that
would be great to show and talk about in a video, it's making me spend money!!
6. Re-watching old favourites. One of the reasons I wanted to do youtube was
because I wanted to do a lot of the old style videos that I used to love
watching on youtube, before everything got so commercial and nearly every other
video was sponsored! I used to love all
the old tag videos that people used to do and I really
wanted to try and bring those back and do my own versions. So for inspiration, I've been re-watching my
favourite youtubers old videos from years ago and it's been really fun.
7. Music or no music. Sometimes when I watch youtube videos, I
actually get put off continuing to watch because the background music is too
load and sooo annoying and then there's other youtubers that don't have any
music but as they're really interesting to watch, they don't seem to need
it. So when I came to start uploading my
first few proper 'sit down' type videos, I really wasn't sure which to go with;
should I add a little background music but would it be annoying and put people
off. Or should I leave it and hope for
the best (because honestly I don't know if 10 minutes of me rambling on is
overly interesting). So far, I've gone
with music, I managed to find a nice subtle tune that's quite pleasant so I'm
just hoping that's ok. What do you guys
think? Please let me know in the
comments and give me your honest opinion, do you like my videos with music or
would you prefer them without?
As time goes on and I work on many other videos,
I'm sure there will be a million other new things I will encounter, so I may do
an update of this post another time but I thought this would be a fun one to do
this week. I hope you like it and don't
forget to check out my latest video 30 Random Facts About
Me, up on my channel now (and let me know about the music!)
Thanks for reading and until
next time Stay Happy ♥
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