Reflection On Video

        During my journey I came across a lot of problems and kinks that I had to solve, I was expecting to have problems that I would need to solve, but this time it was very unexpected. For example the weatherman incident, I didn't expect to get wet and have my equipment ruined while shooting the video, unfortunately, Nor did I expect to have a fight with Adobe support over an auto-renew that was paid but didn't renew my software, it's a new experience, but hopefully now that I've experienced these things I can prepare for them the next time they come across me. The script itself wasn't terrible, it was okay for the 5th time actually making a script, and usually when I do these types of projects as an editor, I usually ask for a couple things, Footage, and style of editing they want me to implement, and a list of their own ideas that they want me to implement in some way. I only had my own script, and I didn't know what way I wanted it edited in, I had a couple of ideas but they weren't fitting to the video when I put it into action. The thing is I'm normally an editor, and this is basically a new experience for me to have to make a script, and work on it then and there. The original footage was about an hour long and most of it was me struggling to read my script, zoning out, voice-impersonating characters into the mic because I'd just forgotten what to do, and singing the national anthem, New album coming out soon.

        Sitting in front of a camera is not my standard day-to-day thing, I wanted to make the video exciting and exhilarating, but instead, because I'm not used to the camera, we got a very dull result of me just doing stuff, I guess that's something that fixes it's self with time as I do more camera work. Adding on to that It's an introduction video about me, I personally don't like introducing myself for about 15 minutes, then making a video about it, and then rewatching and editing it, not my top 10. So that's just something I'll always be dull about, I don't really want to that's the thing, I'll say something about the past, but I'm not going to sit you down for 15 minutes and tell you my life story of the pain and suffering, the bloodshed I've had to go through to get here, I just won't. My lighting setup was not good either, the natural sunlight would have been a lot better than my 1 industrial Light, and a Lamp, just was not good enough because there was obvious shadow within the video of the green screen, I tried messing with the settings to get rid of it, but it was just too conflicting with my other stuff, Keep in mind I'm using another software I'm not familiar with, aka Filmora Wondershare, I've used it like one time to record a Minecraft video in 2016, but because I'm so cool I was able to remove the watermark with some sneaky editing tactics to avoid the watermark algorithm. So after I started editing I noticed a crucial thing "This video sucks" is what I said, I don't know how but I just noticed it, so I went and revised the script again, and I don't think the change affected it too much based on story and plot. After I changed the script and re-recorded, no surprise, it still sucked, why? Well, you're in luck because I happened to know why I suck, I'm talking about myself, I suck at that, and I'm recording a video where I'm physically in the frame, you can see me talk, and you can see my terribly messy hair, I'm just not comfortable in this type of situation, I just started talking like I'm just telling you this for no absolute reason, I just started talking and you're a hostage.

        There's not really any emotion because I'm on camera and I don't want to do something wrong and ruin the video or embarrass myself, there's a lot of thinking that goes through your head during that moment, but as I said before, I guess it's just something you get accustomed to over time. My editing style for this video wasn't really any, because usually somebody tells me how they want it and I just grant that, so I didn't know what to do, I just went through the video and made some funny little cuts, did what basically needed to be done, I spent an hour looking for the best footage and cut all the other footage out. Mainly I just made the video look goofy, so you'll focus away from the fact that I'm just a funny guy who doesn't know what he's doing into merging the two of randomness and me talking, but not too lost that you forget what's happening. The thing is I've done great videos before, I was able to script, record, and edit the videos, but the actual span of getting the right footage and emotion took about a week, and another week just to edit a sub 10-minute video, and was actually pretty successful, this video was from 2021 and is long gone now with my older channel because I took it down for some personal reasons. If you watch the video and mix the theme of my editing and mix it with my talking, it makes me look like a clown and I think that's pretty funny just calling myself a clown throughout the video. The video itself is made not as quality but as a post meant to be kind of comical because no amount of 10/10 confetti editing can solve my terrible acting on-camera skills, the truth is the truth, and it doesn't hurt.

        My Plans for my next video are just to improve on what I had done wrong, there are probably a lot of mistakes missing from this explanatory little blog, but I'll do some self-improvement by myself and get cool. I'll probably start posting a lot of other videos just to practice my on-camera skills, and to get rid of the dullness in my voice, but to also practice scripting skills, and self-editing videos. An old type of video I did was me just talking over something for example, I used to make guides on some older stuff I found interesting because there was a group of people who also found it interesting, and I just stuck to making content dedicated to that topic, I sometimes had a voice over on something, or me just having a arial desk view of the item and my showing how to dismantle, fix and mod it.

That is all for today thanks for reading this blog is a little longer than some others, but thanks, and Peace.

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