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Talking Vidcon and Networking on ep 4 of Media Litter Sandwich
in ep 4: I spoke about my recent trip to Vidcon. Network Network Network. I interviewed TehMonitor and got some great examples of working together and forming a community of creators.
Less Than Famous 2016
Trying out for the Less Than Famous panel at Vid Con again. If you like this please tweet this video out at Vidcon 🙂 #lessthanfamous
Google Hangout vs mac about Webcams
Last week I did a live show with my friend Boomer
We spoke about webcams working with Macs on Google Hangouts. We also went through my decently large event calendar for the year as I know it right now.
It turned into a rant:
Watch together
I decided to start a new “reaction” series. In this show I watch movies.
In the test episode we watched Zoom Academy for SuperHeroes with my nephew Bee We did not really come up with a way to sync the video with the movie (viewers will want to play at same time). our second episode I believe was better.
Our second episode I believe is a lot better. We came up with a better way to sync. I even put a “chipmonked” voice every 10 minutes or so to make sure the movie and the video is still synced. We also ditched the live hangout.
Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn
 
YouTube Sponsorships: How Creators Like You Can Fund Your Channel
Book Review On this $1 book on Sponsorships on youtube
YouTube: Entrepreneurs vs Hobbyist (Analyzing The Lean Channel)
I recently read and reviewed The Lean Channel: YouTube for Entrepreneurs by Carey Martell.
His book is aimed at people who know nothing about YouTube, marketing, and video production, but want to make money using YouTube. To me this raises some interesting questions. Martell says that YouTubers are entertainers, “your job as an entertainer is to entertain other people, not yourself”. If an “entrepreneur” is the term to describe a YouTuber whose intentions are to make money as a business, what is a YouTuber that is a hobbyist but still makes money?
This is the core of my issues with the book’s ideology. I make money off of YouTube doing things that both amuse me, and things that I would be doing anyways. I like technology and experimenting with it, but videotaping that and some of my thoughts I am able to help people. If I only focus on the type of material I have done that reaches the largest audience, it wouldn’t take long till I neglect my original intents: entertaining myself.
Of course this is just one way of thinking. Below is my review of the book. Please use the comment section on YouTube to let me know your thoughts. You can always tweet me as well.
 
Update Vlog using a new phone (Nexus 6P)
New Vlog with sorta an apartment tour showing holiday gifts using new phone Nexus 6P.
What is considered “late” on an event video? (Dave and Chuck the Freak Point 5K)
I do event videos for fun. Other than anything I make off of advertisements on YouTube I don’t make anything (I really don’t make much through the advertisements). I want to make that clear before continuing. When I do video work for a client I do am very cautious about timelines (way more than if it is a video for myself/my own YouTube).
In November I ran a Point 5K (not a 5k, but a .5k). My intentions were to run around and record people and some of the different customs or whatever is going on and do a quick event video. I know a video like this needs to be put up right away to get views. However I was getting ready to move the following week and had a lots to do.
With events, people only search for them when they are fresh on their minds (no duh, I know). It is most fresh when it just happens or (and this is where views pick up) is when it is being brought up before the next or similar event. Some of my event videos don’t get views until people are trying to figure out whether or not to go to the next one or a similar event.
Back to this Point 5K run. this video is now almost a month past the event. It is no longer newsworthy. This event was part of a radio show so there is some hope they the hosts could promote it, but that is unlikely because they have their own official video.
I am curious to see how this video does. Now I’m off to edit my Star Wars Ep 7 Premier video before that is a week old . . . .
(update 1)
Even weeks after the event the video made it to a local newspaper’s site.
http://www.thenewsherald.com/articles/2015/12/22/entertainment/doc567978de02483241971767.txt
FantastiCon, Should I start interviewing people again?
While at FantastiCon I had the opportunity to interview a few people. The obvious are the featured guests (in this case the “Comic Book Men”). I also thought about talking to an independent artist who’s daughter is also an artist (didn’t get her age but she was younger than 10). She makes her own art and sketch cards and sells them at conventions. Her father does watch the transactions, but for the most part she runs her own booth.
I used to do interviews at events. I stopped doing this because the videos were not getting many views or interaction. People are more interested in the “b-roll” style videos focusing on cosplay and other footage vs interviews with people and any commentary I have about the events.
I was also doing vlogs about events as well. Again I do not feel they were getting many views. I also feel that the vlogs can come repetitive. If I don’t have anything special to the event to say/do at events I tend to repeating the same things. If I had a second shooter and I did more talking points during the events, that would improve the vlogs. However when I am at an event the cosplay/highlights video does have priority and I do spend most of the time focused on getting footage for that. I am hoping these blogs do not become receptive for the same reasons.
Comments are welcomed, and of course feel free to browse my previous videos to see examples.
Scott (Toaden) Maiale