{"id":87,"date":"2012-05-01T06:21:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T10:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thatsps.com\/blog\/?p=87"},"modified":"2022-05-20T12:49:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T16:49:58","slug":"advice-for-starting-a-vlog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatsps.com\/blog\/advice-for-starting-a-vlog\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice for starting a Vlog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was asked by <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/117292829729669149440\/posts\" target=\"_blank\">Chuck on Google+<\/a> if I had any advice for starting a vlog for those who are slow to get started. And it turns out that I do. If you&#8217;re thinking about making a vlog (or any other type of video). Here&#8217;s my advice. I hope it&#8217;s helpful for you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I found this video to be a great motivator for me. He really nails on the head what I think a lot of people go through (if not everybody) as beginners.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PbC4gqZGPSY\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"background: url('\/blog\/wp-content\/themes\/inove\/img\/icons.gif') no-repeat scroll 0pt -560px transparent; list-style: none outside none; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 22px; text-align: justify;\"><strong>Do it because you enjoy\/want to do it<\/strong>. If it feels like a job, or you&#8217;re making something for an &#8220;audience&#8221;. It&#8217;s just not worth it. I know I talk to an &#8220;audience&#8221; a bit in my videos, but I really do enjoy watching what I&#8217;ve made myself (as well as making them)<\/li>\n<li style=\"background: url('\/blog\/wp-content\/themes\/inove\/img\/icons.gif') no-repeat scroll 0pt -560px transparent; list-style: none outside none; margin-top: 15px; padding-left: 22px; text-align: justify;\"><strong>Just do it<\/strong>. Take out your camera and start filming. Once you&#8217;ve got some film, find a video editor that matches your price range, and cut it together. There&#8217;s lots of them out there and they range from free to bloody expensive. Expensive doesn&#8217;t mean better either. Just try and find one that works for you. I use Final Cut Pro X, and though I know a LOT of people hate it, but it works well for me. You&#8217;ll learn as you go, and find what does and doesn&#8217;t work well for you. But your first video will not likely never be &#8220;perfect&#8221;, and the best way to find out what to do is to start doing it. I found originally that setting myself to a set schedule helped force me to put content out. It forced me to consider them &#8220;good enough&#8221;, and then move on to the next thing. I&#8217;m putting out less content now, and putting more time into each one, but I also have a personal goal of &#8220;once a month&#8221; so that I don&#8217;t end up putting it off indefinitely.<\/li>\n<li style=\"background: url('\/blog\/wp-content\/themes\/inove\/img\/icons.gif') no-repeat scroll 0pt -560px transparent; list-style: none outside none; margin-top: 15px; padding-left: 22px; text-align: justify;\"><strong>Find someone who can give you brutally honest feedback<\/strong>. The people who you know (friends and\/or family) are likely the people who are going to watch your videos first. They&#8217;ll say things like &#8220;that&#8217;s good&#8221; or &#8220;I really like this&#8221;, but they will rarely have the heart to tell you the things that they don&#8217;t like for fear of sounding nitpicky or negative. The single biggest factor for me improving my videos was finding a friend who was able to tell me everything they didn&#8217;t like about my videos. It can be hard to hear, especially after you&#8217;ve put a lot of effort into them, but they&#8217;re often right. And if that person thinks it, you know that people who watch your videos that don&#8217;t know you will probably think it as well, but rather than tell you, they&#8217;ll just leave quietly.<\/li>\n<li style=\"background: url('\/blog\/wp-content\/themes\/inove\/img\/icons.gif') no-repeat scroll 0pt -560px transparent; list-style: none outside none; margin-top: 15px; padding-left: 22px; text-align: justify;\"><strong>Be flexible<\/strong>. Start with an idea, but don&#8217;t let that idea keep you from growing or changing. I started by challenging a friend to do weekly videos. Now I make nerdy crafts. It evolves, and I hope over time will continue to evolve. I like to try new things to see if they work. If they do, great. If they don&#8217;t, let them go. As long as you&#8217;re happy with what you&#8217;re making, that&#8217;s all that matters.<\/li>\n<li style=\"background: url('\/blog\/wp-content\/themes\/inove\/img\/icons.gif') no-repeat scroll 0pt -560px transparent; list-style: none outside none; margin-top: 15px; padding-left: 22px; text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0470598883\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=httpyoutube06-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0470598883\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ws.assoc-amazon.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ASIN=0470598883&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=httpyoutube06-20&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><strong>Read as much as you can<\/strong>. Read everything from &#8220;how-to&#8221; articles online to marketing books. Nalts has an interesting one about viral marketing, and what that really means on YouTube. It&#8217;s a bit dated, but a good read none the less. Making the video is half the battle. Getting people to actually want to watch them is the other half, and there&#8217;s no &#8220;easy&#8221; way to do that.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you haven&#8217;t done so already, I&#8217;d highly recommend watching the vlogbrothers vlogs. The final motivator to get me to actually put my videos online was their channel. I started watching them from the very beginning. They were super low tech. They didn&#8217;t really know what they were doing. They didn&#8217;t have much in the way of editing, or polish and they weren&#8217;t doing it for the crazy fan base they have now. It was just 2 brothers with an idea of talking to each other over videos every day for a year, and the commitment to actually do it. I figured if they could do that, there was no reason I couldn&#8217;t do the same thing (not their idea, but just the actual doing it)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I hope that something in here&#8217;s enough to get you up and going on that thing you&#8217;ve got floating in your head as just an idea now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was asked by Chuck on Google+ if I had any advice for starting a vlog for those who are &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thatsps.com\/blog\/advice-for-starting-a-vlog\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[109],"tags":[111,22,121,112,116,117,115,15,118,114,119,120,110,20,21,113,90],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.9 - 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