Write 31 Days- Day 27 Yes, I ditched you

I'm not proud of it, but sometimes you do what you gotta' do.

Yesterday, I decided I had to make a tutorial video for a new feature that YouTube is rolling out called End Screens. These are the links and buttons (we call them annotations) that appear at the end of a video. I didn't want to make a simple "this does this, that does that" so I decided to show the steps on how I set up the last 20 seconds of each shoot to accommodate the YouTube features.

So I had to make a sample video segment which included using Adobe Photoshop for the graphic element, audio recording software to capture the voice-over, Adobe Premiere Pro to edit the video and the YouTube End Screen editor to test and plan the video capture to follow. I then used OBS software to capture the on-screen action and an audio recorder to get the narration of me doing what I had just tested but now to show and teach the process. Finally, I had to edit me doing all of that and finally add THAT video showing you how to do what I had just done.

It took most of the day and WELL into the night.

I was creative, I just didn't share it until the day after.

So here you go:

PLANNING YOUR END SCREEN

Write 31 Days- Day 15 Creativity in the mundane

Sometimes creativity is disguised in the mundane. Mind-numbingly mundane at times.

Take editing video for example. While I am known to some as having a wit about myself and a sporadically humorous presence, having to look at my face-made-for-radio can, at times, become a bit tedious. So it becomes a challenge (read as problem solving) to pare my rambling as I discuss fixing instruments or  the finer points of utilizing light and equipment (a little side project called the Content Creator Series).

And when I'm just blabbing away (like I usually do) I tend to say "um" quite a bit or have the occasional "what was I going to do?" senior moment. Those aren't very exciting so I try to edit those out.

a typical production train wreck in the process of being
tamed for public consumption 

Throw in an additional camera and now I have to choose which view of my face-for-radio you get to see. Music also plays a part in many segments as it helps convey my confidence, terror, or ambivalence at the situation at hand. It isn't something I often consciously think of as creative because I do it so much and I get into a groove, but sitting down and having to write about it makes me see it for what it is.

Creativity in the guitar shop (or the editing room).