Hi everyone. So today I wanted to let you all know how I film my videos. So I've
been doing this for almost two years now and I've really kind of struggled and
grappled with how I film my videos, how I do my thumbnails, how I do my editing and
all of that. But recently I've come to the perfect formula that's not quite
perfect, but perfect enough to suffice for me and today I'm going to share that
with y'all. One thing you should note is that ever since I started, I actually haven't
changed anything, like, invested in anything new. Also, this is not an advice
video. This is just about how I make my videos and you can take advice from that,
you can learn from that - that's kind of why I'm doing this video - but I don't
want you all to feel like I think I have, like, you know, the perfect way of filming.
Anyway so the first thing I want to start off with is my camera. As I said I
film with my phone. Before I used to film with a Samsung Galaxy S4 now I film with
a Samsung Galaxy A7, I think it's called. The phone has a really good quality
camera and I cannot complain about it. You don't really need to have like a
DSLR camera to start a YouTube channel - most people start on their iPads and
their this and their that and what-have-you. So you're probably wondering, "Okay, you
film with your phone. How the hell do you hold up your phone?" When I first started
I just used to stack a bunch of books up and I used to prop my phone on to
something, but now I use a selfie stick a cup and a sock. So basically I got this
long cup from SeaWorld and I stuffed a sock in it to give this selfie stick
stability. And I just prop my phone on to that and then I usually put up a chair
and a stool and I just rest the tripod contraption on to that and that's how I
set up my camera. So the tricky thing about phones is that they don't have a
viewfinder so you might want to film with this selfie camera, but as we all
know this selfie camera is not as good quality as the one in the back of the
phone. So what I actually do to make sure that I am NOT out of angle is I use a
mirror. And I adjust the mirror in the back of me like that, so that I can just
make sure that I am in the shot and that when I'm holding up a book it's not, like,
you know, out of shot or anything like that.
Let's move on to lighting. Now, my main lighting source is the thing that makes
the will go around see the brightness in this guy that we all know: I'm not
talking about Beyonce. I'm talking about the Sun. So basically I open out all of
my windows in my room and that provides the
perfect lighting for me. But, I also have three other light sources that I use. The
first is my phone camera flashlight. I also use a lamp that I rest on my bed
and then my room light is always on. I actually film at night sometimes and
when I film at night I do the same setup but I just don't have the sunlight
in the background. But, it still looks good it just doesn't look as like great
without the sunlight. Moving on to audio. Now there's nothing much I can
say about audio other than I don't really have a microphone or anything. I
just kind of project my voice and I'm fortunate enough to have a phone where
the microphone is good enough to pick up my voice sufficiently. And the only other
advice I have is to just take off your fan, take off your television in the
background, maybe do it on a quiet day when nobody's around. The next thing is
of course editing so for editing I actually use Windows Movie Maker which
is just the easiest thing for me to use. But I mean, editing with Movie Maker is
kind of like cutting a piece of steak... with another piece of steak. It gets a
bit rough sometime so to speak but it's free... and I'm cheap. I also recently
downloaded Lightworks and I don't know how to use it. I know I could go on
online and do a tutorial but... it just looks really hard. Whenever I have to do
overlays I would finish editing my video on Movie Maker and then I would put it
into Lightworks so that I could put the overlays and because moviemaker doesn't
allow you to put in overlays. In terms of editing my thumbnails, recently, as you
can tell, my thumbnails have become quite extra. I use two softwares to edit my
thumbnail. I edit it a little bit on PicMonkey and then I save it and then I
edit it again with all the colors and the fancy backgrounds and all of that.
And then I go on another software called GIMP, where I cut out the outline of the
regular picture and then I paste that onto the edited picture, so that it looks
kind of like cool and all of the imagery is in the back of me. And
the final thing I have to talk about is probably one of the most difficult
things when it comes to making videos and that is finding yourself in front of
the camera. When I first started filming my videos I was, what we call in Trinidad,
a MOOK. I could not, it was just difficult it was
just weird speaking to a camera and I'm sure everybody probably has this
experience, when you first start filming your videos it's like: why am I talking
to this inanimate object? what if somebody hears
me? what if somebody laughs at me? And that process is just something that you
will go through and just have to get used to, it unless you're like a natural in
front of the camera. The only advice I could give when it comes to speaking in
front of the camera is first of all being yourself. When you first join
YouTube or whatever particular YouTube community you're a part of, you're going to
see other people; you're going to see some people are really like cool and
extra and extravagant some people might be a bit more laid-back more chill more
discussional. And you might want to emulate all of those things, I've
definitely tried that before in the past I've seen anymore the extravagant, the
hyperactive booktubers and then the more kind of academic, sit down and use big
words kind of booktubers. But eventually I found the perfect formula for that and
that is just being me in front of the camera. So another thing that people are
concerned about is rambling too much or going off point or not really
finding the words for what you want to say. The main advice I can give for that is
have an idea of what you want to say, whether that be scripting out your video,
I know not all people like to that - I don't like to do that - but you could
script out your video, you can make notes about just a general idea of what you
want to say. But most importantly really think about your videos before I kind of
rehearse my videos in my mind, oftentimes, before I make them and that really helps
me to prioritize what I have to say and condense it into something that is
effective enough for my audience. And again this is just something that you
will have to just work on with practice, it's not something that's just going to
happen right away. So if you watched this video I hope it prompts you to either
maybe use some of these tactics to help you out in your video making. Or, maybe it
prompted you to join the booktube community or the YouTube community in
general, and if it did I am very happy for you and thank you so much for
watching this video. In the comments down below I would love to
hear all of your like tips and tricks on how you film videos or how you might
want to go about filming videos if you start a channel. Other than that, again
thank you for watching I hope you have a lovely lovely day and until next time
Insha Allah, keep reading.
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