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we're talking about online video now you been doing online video for a long
time I actually watch video an old video with you I think you're wearing a hat talking about
texting
oh god no that’s like the first one i think the worst video what year was that first video that you uploaded that might’ve been 2009 ok
ok so so you've been in this five-plus years six years what kind of in your
story with online video like what first kind of got you into it and what got you started
it and what's been your progression ok so it is a really interesting start
I was a senior in high school and i got sick with chicken pox brand and I never
had obviously and I got chicken pox I was out of school for two weeks I had
nothing to do I couldn't leave the house and I was on YouTube one day and a
couple videos caught my eye and I realised that there are certain people
who had like consistently put out videos that was like a thing and from ever
since then I watched them and I watched people do like live streams on something
that was called blogtv at the time that's now younow
yeah and I got into it that way I started doing that ok that's awesome so
you saw that it was happening and then you started with your rashnu channel
and it was it's it's been it's been a progression what's been a progression
content there well that because I started way back in the day like the
main thing then was comedy and comedy skits I started doing that
bunch of friends talked me into it my best friend Eric actually is one in
which really was like hey you should really do it
yeah and so i started doing did those for a while and those actually got me
involved in music
so kind of move a little bit towards music and then I took some time off
kinda re gathered and try to figure out a way to like get back into it and then I
start moving into the lifestyle like male fashion and things like that it's
just it was completely different completely revamps to starting over pretty
much that's awesome but did you find that that kind of works and that's a
cool thing about kind of online video and YouTube especially is that you can
grow with it and adapt definitely and I think that's that's honestly like the
best part of it is that allows you do that it allows you to start one way and turn it
something else and then if you don't like those or you have a new interest
you can just take that on and people will be involved in it and love it too
that's awesome and recently you started of vlog and so when did that start and
how’s that been going I started doing daily vlogs in March of this year and it was a
really difficult thing to do actually because I never watched vlogs before so
not only had I not watched them I was being thrown into doing them daily and
it took a little while to get used to it and figure out like how to express
myself without like coming up cheessy or just are not like going down about again
‘cause it was every day so like it's hard to find a way to like be interesting every
single day without like being fake and so after about a month or two about two
months I finally got really comfortable with it and I just really enjoy it's
actually become a really big part of my day that's awesome so let's talk about your
tips because you've you've learned probably through trial and error too
and probably have some things just about editing about you know vlogging in
general like you said said I loved that of that being authentic what are some maybe would you
say the biggest mistakes people make with vlogging that you kind of overcame
maybe you see other people doing that could improve their videos if they stop
doing those ok for vlogging I think personally I think for vlogging you can't really make
mistakes I think that's a part of it is that no real mistake to it
other than I would honestly say making sure like when you're vlogging is not
shaking and all over the place like the one thing I don't like about vlogs and I started watch
them a little bit now ever since
I started and the only times I watched vlogs or something and kind of get bothered it’s when
someone has a camera and they're just kind of shaking everywhere I don’t want to get motion sick i get what you are saying is as watched me whip
where they’re just shaky right yeah other than that i feel like it's really hard to make mistakes and blogging other
than trying too hard like some people will go out of their way like you don't
have to go out of your way unless unless you're like funforLouie and your
going out and doing adventures every single day
yeah most people don't want to do that most people can't do that so I'm just
being yourself is like a really big part of it I know so cliche everyone says
that but when it comes to vlogging that's really big part makes people want
to grow with you they want to see you start any place and they wanna see where you
go
and you can't grow with someone if they're not be authentic that's really good so
authenticity and talk about your workflow because you have something
that's kind of unique you have two people in your vlogs two contents
sometimes coming from two places and so you're committed seven days a week what
are your tips to get your editing schedule getting the stuff you had any
like stories where it was hard to get the footage and stuff like that happen Oh man
and what have you learned along the way well you said there's two people doing it and
we're coming together and make one video every single day and since it’s 7 days a week 24
hours a day sometimes you get bumps in the road trying to figure that we've had
days where we've had blog footage failed to send five or six times a day there's
one day were Mia at about 7 p.m. drove from LA all way to her mom's house
in Corona just got upland yeah I mean she drove a solid at that time there was a lot of
traffic is like a solid three hour drive just to go in upland make sure got up
that day we had days where very recently while she's on tour trying to send
footage and just not being able to get it down four five six times that day and
not getting in till about like 6 p.m. Pacific time on the East Coast and so
which for her at like 9 p.m. she spent her entire day doing it up until showtime
and then after Showtime resending it and so we've had plenty days like that is
just working into everything these days
routine so when there's bumps in the road now you've done it for so long it's
just you find where it's your day and you put it up
so when it comes to now video editing and have you got into some rhythms or
some things like you do to save time when it comes to that what program
to use Final Cut Pro X ‘cause i use my Mac it's really helpful and there's just so much I can do for
like for customization of different edits and things but mostly there's a couple
big things I do every single videos specially for the daily blogs everyday and there's a few
things that routine and obviously we have our the date and the time that like
its golden era beginning of every blog tells you what date is it has like a
ticking sound that goes with it it’s like a typewriter sound I make sure he doesn't like a
little template and then the music so every morning every every morning every
afternoon when I'm doing the video clip it just before from the previous day and
save that and I'll just dragged those over that saves so much extra time finding
the same audio clips the same text and same sizing and then the next thing is
the outro just making sure i saved the outro every single day and throw on the
thumbnail from the previous day for that gotcha and there definitely days where I’d
mess those up and people will make sure to let me know that I forgot to change that totally totally and what
do you guys shoot with do you guys shoot with the same camera yeah we each have a Canon G7x I guess
I feel like everyone on YouTube has that for vlogging it is pretty popular yeah that's awesome now talking
about your Lifestyle channel now I saw you go out the other day what kind of gear
do you bring out and what kind of work flow to come up with an idea for that
like do you seasonally obviously fashion but what are your idea like do you have a journal I mean
what do you do to come up with ideas I definitely have a notebook where I write down all my ideas I keep notes
on my phone on my phone i usually keep like my rough ideas like oh I wanna do a fall outfits
video which is gonna be the one coming up I write that down on my phone keep
that idea and then go home and I'll put that in the notebook and then I'll
slowly plant that
out yeah and then when I go out and shoot I usually use we use a Canon 70d
but right now I don't have because it’s on tour with Mia so I have the 60D and I was using
that with a fisheye for this video so it’s actually a lot of fun give it a whole new look whole new style
that's pretty much what I do I'll come up with ideas like that I’ll see stuff up I
see like one of my friends do a video think it'd be like oh that's a great idea and I'll find a
way to like not just use that same idea but like make it my own because even
though I do a lot of lifestyle fashion is that like a lot of people do I try
and pull out my only have like comedy twist to it because I came up with us
started with comedy how do I keep a light-hearted I don't take it too
seriously so on your lifestyle channel you come up with some cool music and
people are always looking for music for their videos what are some of your tips
like in places where you find that stuff music is probably the most difficult
parts about any YouTube video for anyone
top-to-bottom that is like the biggest question all the time
a lot of people they'll go through to you to audio library and i got really
lucky with it I know that even like the top YouTube were still use that audio
library even for like momentarily in like two different clips but then you
obviously if I like the solid song to go through and that's really difficult I
personally I find niche like youtube music channels that have like specific music
that isn't copyrighted it's not anyone's personal property that can be used and
that's that's really difficult route to go but again I am trying to make things
a little different than everyone else
the popular music that everyone else uses I i find that music ‘cause that’s music that I like
and that's what I actually listened to right right that but for finding it
really difficult and trying to tell people still steer away from the top 40s
I know that's what everyone wants to hear and wants to see but that's all you can do
yourself in some pretty nasty messes yeah it's hard yeah you're just trying
to find something easier so I know that you said this is your secret before the
video influencers audience would you say like one site that like you keep on the
DL ok one channel that check pretty often that I am able to find some good
music on is called to sound station
ok it’s like a soft EDM sound oh cool so it’s not like dubstep it’s not gonna blast your ears but but it’s gonna have a
slowed like mellow groove vibe to it is pretty cool I love that so if we can get any
extras out of Alex will put him in the show notes and description because those
underground sites be special that people love that so cool well now we're in the
lightning round I'm excited do an interpretive dance of what you think the
Lightning looks like 3 2 1 talking or texting texting the person you trust
most with the secret my dad last thing you grabbed out of the fridge coke last song you had on
repite on whatever device probably something Tupac
what's song living to die rap it rap it I can’t rap it sing it sing the chorus to live and die in LA is the place to be
coffee or tea neither I'm at a blank coke ok favorite nickname for yourself by Sonic
where you that My sister when i was younger do you still go by it she called me that actually sometimes would people know about Sonic well as public
now you heard it here is a video influencers exclusive NYC or LA LA why I like how sprawled out and
Laid back it is
likely cat or dog down biggest pet peeve that we have bad breath so oh no the
interviewer it was a subtle jab favorite holiday howling
snack snack Reese's Cups Harry Potter or The Hunger Games Harry Potter
Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber Taylor Swift
favorite YouTube channel right now that you're watching daily vlogs LA beast
LA beast daily vlogs he use to do all the eating challenges like the crazy stuff like eating cactuses he just
started doing daily vlogs and they’re hilarious boom lighting road so lastly what what's coming up for you
a kind of projects what's on the passions of things that you have people
can expect to see from me right now actually I wanted to a lot more
collaborative ideas with some of my friends are also youtubers so I want
actually kinda stepped back and do some challenge videos I haven't done I’ve done a couple
here and there but I really wanna get some of my friends more involved in
these himself with people to get everything has been so me yeah i really
wanna try and like ad some extra dynamic I thought challenge is always fun people
enjoy those figure might as well put something there that I can do some friends and hopefully some
different ones like come up with some newer challenges too and not necessarily like the same ones
you always see yeah that's awesome and then lastly just so everybody knows of
course will put in the show notes below but what are were can people find you and
where you most active social media wise right now actually snatch and I've been
pretty busy on snapchat Instagram as well I mean everyone does there and then
actually Twitter I’ve actually been all over twitter I haven’t been a huge twitter person until the last couple of months I’m in love with it you’re twitter game is strong and
then two YouTube channels
obviously the to YouTube channels I'll the Lifestyle channel which is rashnu
and then my daily vlogs with is Alex and Mia thanks so much for checking
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