I struggle to make a coherent sentence in my blog writing and have since I started doing it a year or two ago. To combat this issue I figured I would join the likes of Jay Smooth who runs the popular hip-hop video blog known as Ill Doctrine and become a video blogger myself. Having done it for a week or two, there’s one thing that I do know.
It ain’t easy.
When people who read blogs find an entry, they want to read it fast in a Reader’s Digest sort of way. The same thing goes for getting a camera and putting your mug up on the screen. You don’t have to look cute to do it, but you do have to say what you have to say in five minutes or less.
When I sat in front of the camera for my first entry it was a very relaxing experience. I made all of these deep, intricate pronouncements about various things. Then after I finished recording the first entry, I went into the Windows Movie Maker program to capture the video.
God, was that painful.
There were long pauses, “umming”, and me just looking blankly into the camera. I didn’t do that just one or two times. I found throughout the whole video capture that I was doing that a lot. It’s a miracle I passed any of my speech classes in my earlier college career.
My first thought was to simply upload what was captured unedited to YouTube (which I use a lot). I’ve seen other vloggers on there and not every one of them went to the extent of editing out those flubs. After all, it’s not meant to be a news report.
In saying that, I went back to Jay Smooth’s videos again – they are heavily edited.
It’s not that he’s trying to censor what he is saying. Smooth is merely trying to cut the fat out — all the pauses, the brain farts, and the excess blabbing that parades through a lot of video blogging. Remembering this, I went back into Windows Movie Maker and began to edit out a lot of my own mistakes.
Article comments
1 - Manee
Nice article.
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2 - sachin
Good tips, will try to follow those.