Recently I have planned, recorded and published a video about myself to my YouTube channel. The video can be seen below.
During the creation of this video I had to think about many things including but not limited to. Content, scripting, positioning, video capture, audio capture, lighting and editing. The combination of all of these allowed me to create a short succinct video that explained a little bit about who I am and what I am interested in.
The content I included in this video was my age, my studies, my current hobbies as well as my biggest past hobbies. I also decided to talk about what my life looks like a bit at the moment with my travelling and friends living across the world in Austria. I also decided at the end to link my social media in the description to unify my personality in the video with my online personality across social medias.
Whilst writing a brief script for the video I used notepad to jot down key things I wanted to mention to have an idea in my head of how the video will be structured. This worked well for me as I then did not “read off of a script” rather just use it as a prompt. This allowing me a higher level of authenticity throughout the video.
Positioning was not too complex for this video but it was still something I was consciously thinking about. I used the rule of thirds to position myself slightly off centre in frame and also so my eyes were in line with the top third. This allowing the audience to easily focus on what I was trying to deliver.
Video capture and audio capture was about choosing the right device to use. I decided for quality reasons I would record in 1080p using my webcam. This I thought would be a better decision than my iPhone for this recording because I am experienced with the webcam due to other videos I have made. For audio I used a mic hanging from a stand that you can see slightly in the shot of the video. This is a high quality audio recording device that limits the popping sounds that can be heard whilst recording on my phone for example. These decisions allowing me to have the highest quality audio and video possible for this video for what I have available.
For lighting I decided to use one of my side monitors in my setup to light my face. This is because I do not have any bright lights to light my face at the moment. For lighting the background I decided to use just the light of my room and some natural light. This giving the video a nice setting and allowing the audience to see me clearly.
Lastly I did some light editing to improve the entertainment value of the video. This including looking for any glitches in the recording as well as inserting some photos I had taken and positioning them correctly in the frame.
The challenges I faced in the creation of this video were limited because as a hobby I make gaming videos for YouTube quite often. But this was the first video I recorded that the main content was just a video of myself talking. As normally I have a game that I am playing as the main feature. I was a bit nervous recording this but overcame it by planning more and also practising before I recorded.
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