About videos

This is a post that I am writing after days (literally days! More than one day!) of frustration in trying to upload a video to YouTube. I will say this now- every problem that I have encountered has been entirely my fault.

Basically, I left in a five second clip of me saying 'this also applies to other people' that made absolutley no sense without the rest of the sentence that I had remembered to cut, so hence I took it out and started converting and uploading the file from scratch. It's probably going to be another hour before it uploads.

I like making videos. I really do. It's a flping pain in the ass as well, though. I now have a video making corner that I keep tidy in order to give the impression that my bedroom is also tidy, but before that I would have to tidy about half of my bedroom before making a video.

Also- clothes and hair and makeup, sometimes? I feel like I should be wearing either a bra or a massive jumper, my hair should look nice/clean (or else wear a hat) and my face should look like a face that someone would want to watch in a video. Not in an extreme way, but I normally wear some concealer (this was not an option yesterday as my sister STOLE MY CONCEALER AND WENT TO SCOTLAND) to avoid things like this video where I have a spot on my chin that looks super shiny and annoying. Ugh.

Then there's the talking bit. I'm not good at talking for the most part, and I always joke that if I posted an outtakes video everyone would simultaneously laugh at and pity me. For every sentence that I say, there are normally three or four takes of it, which makes editing a long and horrible process, and means that my videos are quite jumpy and the intonation of my speech often sounds really off.

Eye contact is also an odd one. I film on a camera on which the screen is on the back of the camera (like most?), so sometimes I position a small mirror behind it so I can see that I'm in the frame. The disadvantage to this is that often I look at the mirror (or above the camera) instead of looking into the camera lens, so that's not the best in terms of how the video turns out.

My current video is still converting now. Luckily I've got the thumbnail and description ready, so all I need to do is set it to upload while I have a shower and breakfast, and my new video should be available on my YouTube channel (Orla Blue) shortly after I am ready to begin the day!

So, so long! And thanks for reading a random self-criticism of my video making skills (well deserved, to be honest- I'm lucky to get here before someone else does). Hope that you enjoyed this instance of nonsense, and follow me on things for more like this!

-Orla Blue