The idea with Gaming Talk came about as a response to me watching various other YouTube videos. The people advising on the matters of roleplay games and such were indeed very experienced and had a lot of interesting things to say, but nearly all of them had bad presentation to their videos. There was certainly a lot more room to make the viewing experience more palatable.
This was due in part to most of them using webcams with direct uploads.
I could see what needed to be addressed in a series of videos about gaming:
An ident - This gives the viewer a sense that what they are watching has been tied together with care and attention, if the intro is as such too.
Editing - You'd be surprised how much time you can knock off of a video run time just by cutting out all of those un-required moments. Then there's the fact that it directs more energy into the piece and keeps viewer attention better.
Lower run time - many of the gaming YT videos have astronomical run times of over 10 minutes, just to say simple things. People just blab on and on and on and you're searching in the middle of that for the good stuff. It came about from a sense of frustration at this that I decided I would aim for a show that delivers content in or under 5 minutes, if possible.
The rest of the idea was simply to ask questions that would further tie together the already strong youtube gaming community.
I hope you enjoy the series, something that has as usual come about less from a sense of grand vision that I must do it, but more because no one else was doing it.
Anything worth saying is worth saying well. I think that video length is not as much of an issue as you think. As long as the videos aren't all 45 minutes long. But Tim @Samwise7rpg ran a series of videos for May the 4th and they were all over 30min and each one was filled with great information and were actually highly palatable as you put it.
ReplyDeleteI agree that editing does a world of good but the fact of the matter is that not all of us have the time or tools with which to edit videos. I've made a stab at it in the past but until I can afford a better camera and a good editing program and external hard drive I'm not going to worry to much about the state of my videos.
I really like your stuff Rob. I'm going to make more videos replying to your string of gaming talk videos.
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