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Blog 9: A little different11/30/2022 This week I truly didn’t do much except play Minecraft. I also kinda didn’t do very well in editing but I am thinking of changing my way of gathering video footage and editing. I will explain what I am thinking of in a bit. This week I decided instead of going back to Payday I would play Minecraft with my friend Lukas who is in Brazil. I decided to do Minecraft because Lukas randomly messaged me asking if I wanted to play Minecraft so I took advantage of this to record. We went onto a server and started playing mini-games and attempting to create an actually good video. Now after we finished recording I went right to bed and didn’t think about the video until the morning. When I woke up I procrastinated and didn’t start editing the video, I didn’t even start that day. It took me until the next afternoon to start editing the video because I procrastinated so much. Due to my being very lazy I just edited down the video length and didn’t really add any extra edits. I am not happy with this video and I feel really bad because it should’ve been good and I feel like I let Lukas down. Now, about my idea on how to change how I get footage and edit my video. I have come up with the oh-so-glorious idea, “What if I just stopped the footage and put what I had onto my SSD card?”. This very obvious idea didn’t strike me until now for some reason and I feel quite stupid for not thinking of it. That was the footage part so what about the editing? Well, I am now going to be able to record a bunch of footage and cut only the funny parts out of that footage to make much better videos. It will come at the cost of more time but I don’t care as I want to make a video that I am truly proud of. Overall this week was very uneventful but my obvious revelation could be a pretty good turn for the best. I hope that the next video will be much better than the last few because I have a clear goal in mind.
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Blog 8: Spooky and Scary11/22/2022 This week I decided to put a little more work into my videos because I wasn’t happy with the types of edits that I was making. I also got a friend of mine to create a thumbnail in photoshop which turned out to be a very good idea. This week the boys and I decided to play a different game than we’d been playing before. This game is “Inside the Backrooms” which is a horror game so there is screaming, cursing, and a few soiled pantaloons. We decided to play it because my friend Will (he also was the one who made the thumbnail) got his game working so we went to play it. I decided to record because I thought it would make great content. While playing the game it turned out that it was in fact scary and I quickly realized that editing out every slip of the mouth would literally be impossible. So I put a disclaimer at the beginning of the video that there would be cursing and scary moments. We were able to play for about 40 minutes until one of the boys had to go so we didn’t get very far. Even though we didn’t get very far we still had fun and I’d say it turned out to be a good video. After that, a few of my friends stayed on the call for a bit and created the glorious thumbnail which would be used for the video. After this I was tired so I went to bed. The next morning I procrastinated for about 3 hours before finally getting out of bed and editing the video. While editing the video I decided to spend more time on editing the video seeing as I had some more time than the last time I was editing. I put a lot more effort into the editing of this video than any others and I’m hoping to do more editing in the future. I think this video turned out to be one of the best so far but I am hoping to do better. Anyway next week it will most likely be more Payday but who knows, we could do more Backrooms shenanigans. Like and Subscribe please as I am certain there will be another video out this week. No seriously please I like fake internet points
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Blog 7: Tragedy11/15/2022 This week I was working on a great new video which would’ve been very entertaining. In the process of recording that video, there was a hiccup which I will get into later in this blog.
So on Wednesday after school, my friend Green and I got together to record a video of Payday. At first, it was just us, and honestly, we weren’t getting much out of the recording. Eventually, a bunch of people joined the call and the recording was looking up. While I and Green were playing Payday my friend Adam joined the call and informed us that he had just finished tanning a hide and would give us a step-by-step on how. Adam then went on to tell us in excruciating detail how you tan a hide for like 5 minutes and while he was talking absolutely no one else was speaking. After he finished the explanation on tanning he went on to tell us how to skin a squirrel and after that how to skin a deer. It was entertaining and I could’ve made a pretty good video from it.
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Blog 6: New video finally11/2/2022 This week I was able to test out this editing software that I found. With some delays and a few hiccups, I was able to get a video out and posted. I think that the video turned out ok if not a little lengthy. The editing software which I have now is VSDC which does its job but it has some quirks. In the other software cutting a clip is very simple and the button is easily found. In VSDC I had to go into a tab that was all the way at the top with a button called “Editor”. Because of this, I had to reference the video guide which I had opened in a google tab while editing. After that issue, I spent about an hour editing the video mostly just cutting out downtime and loading screens. I was going to do more but I needed to do something so I went to save what I had done and exited the tab. Unfortunately, I didn’t press the button which actually would save the video so all of my progress was deleted. So I had to then spend another hour getting back to where I was and in the end. I didn’t add any fun edits because it was 8 o'clock (I started around 5) and it takes 2 hours to post a video on YouTube. So I was up until 10 at night uploading the video to YouTube. I should also mention that I am showing all of my friends the videos so in the comments you likely will see my friends. Another thing is that I created a thumbnail that isn’t completely awful, the last two were on purpose. In the video, we were “doing the funny breaking bad” so I decided to put Walter White with Dallas’ mask. Anyways, please watch the new video I spent a lot of time creating it and it was fun I still suffered a lot creating it. |