The difficulties and struggles faced when making our first video and how we are trying to fix them/製造youtube 片的難處, 與我們怎樣去解決.
English
My friend @drewbixcube and I are creating our youtube shows about investing in cryptocurrency. It was called The Crypto Docs since both of us are PhD candidates who are obsessed with cryptocurrency. I also posted two videos on my channel before. it was a lot harder than I thought.
Language skill
I made my first two videos in Cantonese. For those who don't know, Cantonese is the language we speak here in Hong Kong. Even using my first language, the flow was really bad. I would stop and start over again if I felt that there was something I didn't do so well. For example, I would stop if I noticed I used too many unnecessary filler words such as "la", "le" and "ah" at the end of sentences. It took me three days to make a video of 4 minutes just to explain how to use a simple portfolio re-balance that I found on steemit. I just admire how TV host or HK youtuber speak so well and so entertaining for 15-30 minutes straight. This is definitely something I need to practice a lot.
Sound quality
We tried to film the show in a study room, the study room was located outside a school canteen. The room was pretty quiet when we filmed it, but apparently the camera caught a lot of noise and our speech was not clear enough. Drew showed the clips that we filmed to his friends and he said they couldn't understand what we were saying.
Solutions that we found
Divide the video into many sections
Now , when i am making my video, I would divided it into many small sections. Each section would take around 30 seconds. Then I combined them all together. I can therefore make sure I made no mistakes in the video. It wouldn't take long to re-film a section if I spot any flaw.
film with our laptop
We couldn't afford an expensive camera yet since both of us are students. However, we found the sound recorded on my laptop actually sound a lot better than camera. We are considering to buy a small microphone to better record our voice.
team work
Drew apparently knows how to make the video more appealing than I do. I let him do the editing and I work on adding Chinese subtitles and doing research.
Please stay tuned for our first youtube video The Cryptto Docs, and please follow Drew at @drewbixcube
Finally, a picture of us talking about Steemit from our failed recording
My youtube channel:
中文
我跟我的朋友@drewbixcube 打算開一個youtube 節目 叫The Crypto Doc. 我們兩個在讀博士, 彼此都十分熱愛數字幣. 我自己也在個人頻道 發存了兩段片. 當中遇到了很多的困難想跟大家分享.
語言問題
我的兩段影片是用廣東話拍的, 儘管用的是我的母語拍, 影片的流暢度亦十分參差. 我會從頭再錄一篇如果影片有輕微的出錯. 比如說廣東話中很多啦, 呢, 啊 等等都是我覺得不需要的. 我花了三天的時間錄了一段4分鐘的影片. 這讓我很欣賞電視的主持人和香港的youtuber 能錄了10 幾20分鐘不等,而且生動有趣.
音質
我們嘗試在一個學習房間裡面拍過一段片. 該學習房間在一個學校食堂外面. 錄的時候是安靜的, 但顯然地相機收到很多雜音, 我們的聲音也不清楚. Drew 把影片給他的朋友看, 他們說聽不清我們再說什麼.
解決方法
把影片分段
我自己在錄影時會把影片分為很多小段. 每一個小段大大概30 秒左右. 在最後再把他們combine 在一起. 我可以保證全段影片不會有太大問題. 那怕中有一小後有缺陷時,也不用花太長時間從頭再來.
用筆電來錄製
我們還是學生所以還買不起一個好的camera. 我們發現用camera 來錄的話會更清楚. 我們再考慮買一個小的
麥克風來錄音.
團隊分工
Drew 比我更懂得怎樣如何讓影片更生動, 所以我讓他做editing 而我在影片上加字和進行資料搜集.
敬請期待我和Drew 的youtube 節目The Crypto Docs. 請follow @drewbixcube
最後附上一張我和Drew 在上次失敗的影片中討論steemit
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