Hello!! Welcome to the part 2 of my video:
"Almost 8 years on YouTube"
In the first part I talked a little about my beginning in this website
and in part 2 I will talk about the genre of videos I meanwhile started making
That's it and I hope you'll like it
So months after I've put my first video
I uploaded my first song cover, you can see it here
As singing is something I like to do
I started uploading song covers
and YouTube is a great place to receive criticism and tips on how to improve
and... I think that I've improved a little since then
So... I think that it was, is a positive experience
Back then in the odottemita and song cover's world
there were a lot of tumblrs and pages that did gossiping
about the youtube dancers and people that did song covers
Actually I never was very featured
in those sites
but I was not really very active on YouTube
I had school
YouTube is a hobby
so of course I concentrated more in my studies
and in things from my private life
but that made me not to have a big audience
because I could put a video each month
but then only 9 months later I would put another
People in YouTube prefer someone that,
and it's understandable
They prefer someone that puts videos more frequently, and in a certain period of time:
There are youtubers that all the fridays upload a video,
every saturday they put a video out
and it makes sense, it makes more sense
in my case you never know if I will upload something again
if I will ever put something out again
It's always a surprise
Some years later I started having an interest in other type of videos
and there was a time where I loved watching vlogs
It was a thing I loved to do back then
I would go on YouTube, search "vlogs" and then watch other people's lives
and I also wanted to make vlogs but the thing was
my life wasn't that interesting to make weekly vlogs
so when I went to an anime event I decided to make one
It was this video:
Right here
It was in an event back in 2014
I uploaded my first vlog
and I was super happy
because it was something I really wanted to do
then meanwhile I went back to the song and dance covers but
as I don't have much time to learn the dances
and to train the songs
because of my life schedule
I couldn't put as many videos as I liked
and then it came a time where I was a little...
thinking on how can I build a public to my channel, how...
What's my goal with YouTube
Do I want to keep doing this?
and in October of 2016
maybe a little more early
I started to be aware that there were people doing reactions of Hello!Project MVs
I knew that kpop reaction videos existed
because I watched some channels
and since there wasn't many people doing that
The people that inspired me to...
Don't fall
I started watching reaction channels
because I knew kpop reaction channels
and I even followed some
but from Hello!Project I didn't know almost nothing
The channels that
gave me inspiration to start doing reactions were actually
Vince's channel and Chiima's channel
Watching their videos made me think "I want to do this too"
since in the world of jpop
Hello!Project was the agency I liked the most
and I thought that it could be a way of practicing my japanese since
I am learning japanese but I don't have no one to practice, to talk in japanese with
so as a way of
practicing I started to make H!P reactions in japanese
So in October 2016 I decided to film my first reaction
Back then I even thought of only doing that video
because I never imagined that it would have the attention it had
so
I uploaded the video
and I received a lot of comments
it had a lot of views
and I was happy, of course. One gets happy when they notice that people are liking the content they are making
and
I started making more reactions
but when you have more attention
it's both for the good side and the bad side
so I got a lot of positive comments and some negative
and
I also go some criticism
and I understand where it comes from but it also made me more
anxious while recording videos because
I am not fluent in japanese, I am just learning
and it's obvious that I will commit mistakes
and I am really thankful that people correct me in the comments
and that they give me tips on how to improve
but there was a time where
making videos in japanese made me very nervous
I would record the video
and I would be thinking "Is this correct?" "I wonder if this is not correct"
"This is not right" "Ok, this is ok"
Then I would start the editing and be "Argh I made a mistake here"
"I can't upload this" "I don't want to upload this"
so I started
to
"hate"
"hate" is not really the word
but putting out reactions made me very anxious
and then people kept asking me
"Why don't you make a reaction of this?", "Why don't you make a reaction of that?"
"I miss your videos"
and I felt awful because I wanted to record but I had that hurdle in my mind
always thinking...
"It won't turn out well..."
"This is not good..."
I don't want to upload something that isn't good because
I am a perfectionist
and I get anxious if things aren't...
I mean not perfect but... how I want them to be
It's impossible to reach perfection...
nothing is perfect but
I... I like to have things right
I like to do things correctly
and knowing that they wouldn't be
made me not want to put videos out
In my last reactions, I remember that I would record them
then edit them
and I...
I would put the video
and wouldn't even care to check the comments
because it wasn't something that made me happy anymore
It wasn't something that I wanted to do because of all that stress attached
I like to record those videos but
back then in the middle of that whole stress I didn't feel like recording
this is a hobby, it's for me to have fun
so why am I "suffering" so much with this?
It didn't make any sense
So I decided to make a pause, because in the last months
even since last year
it was a very complicated time in my life so I didn't even have the
peace of mind
to record videos
Reactions are also a type of videos that
need to be made in the moment
The problem with reactions is that they are videos where you have to film, edit and put online very fast
you have to put the video out while it is still fresh
so that you can have attention in your reactions from the public
because if it's a thing that is not so recent, it won't have as much attention
so you won't have as many views
and for me
editing a thing so fast was a problem
I would record in japanese
and then I usually make a lot of cuts in the video
editing, putting the video, the background music and then uploading to YouTube
but I also had to write subtitles
as my japanese isn't perfect
I usually put subtitles in japanese so that I can be understood better
then I would also add subtitles in english and in portuguese
because I wanted to reach a bigger public
that couldn't understand japanese but that they would be able to understand with the subtitles in either english or portuguese
For instance, if I had a free day
I would record the video in the morning
edit and then in the afternoon
after waiting for the video to render and for it to upload into YouTube
I would be the rest of the afternoon until night putting the subtitles
making subtitles
is a thing that takes a lot of time
and it's tiring too
and doing that everytime a music video came out was tiring for me
It doesn't mean that I will stop making those videos
because after doing this pause
I feel with strenght to do that type of thing again but
maybe not as fast as I used to
I want to take things with more calm
and not being in that rush
doing all the editing
because
it was really tiring
and going through all that trouble and then not being proud of the video is a little...
it's not good... it's just making for making
Part 2 ends here
I will upload part 3 soon
It will be the conclusion of this little series
Thank you and until the next video!!
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