Hi guys, Melissa, still trying out my new vlog format here.
Just sort of the more "on the run," casual vlog that I'm going to shoot with my iPhone
from time to time, but I thought what I'd do today is sort of show you guys how I go
about filming, um, the CloudMom vlogs that I film on my own in Marielle's nursery.
And hopefully for those of you who are interested in vlogging or in shooting video, this maybe
can be helpful in some way in terms of the process, um, that I follow.
So anyway, bear with me because the production quality is going to be a bit lacking as I
sort of struggle with orienting this camera towards the things I want to tell you guys
about.
But just to start, and I'm going to turn off my light now so that there's no glare, but
the first thing that I do is I set up my Nikon camera.
Hold on one second I'm going to turn off my light, because I don't want it to glare.
And here is the Nikon camera that I use.
I've been really, really happy with it.
Um, Tiago, who has helped me film my videos on baby carriers and strollers and a lot of
the baby's first year videos, helped me find this camera.
I actually have a 5200, and I'm so, so, so happy with it.
It's been wonderful.
This is the little, um, screen here, which I use.
And I'm going to show you guys something.
It's sort of shows me my set up and that's very helpful.
And then I have this light, which has really worked out very, very well.
Um, I'll give you guys the brand name because people have asked me this before.
You can get this on Amazon actually.
It's called Photoflex.com.
So that's worked out really, really well.
So I've been really happy with it.
And anyway, so I set up my light, I set up my video camera.
And then what I do is, um, I get some outfits ready.
Now when I first started working on CloudMom, one of the ideas was going to be to film every
morning, with a more sort of news-related type story.
But basically, I realized that this was just going to be way too stressful for me to do
on a daily basis, because there's so much time involved with getting the video ready,
with figuring out what you're going to say.
Then with editing it, with uploading it, and just to be under that pressure to do that
as I was trying to get the kids to school or trying to do the other things I needed
to do during the day.
It just was too much for me.
So what I started to do was to film a couple vlogs at a time.
Sometimes two, sometimes four, excuse me, sometimes I'm I'll film so so many as like
8 or 10 even.
And that gives me time to edit them, to think about them, to write them, to upload them,
to get an image ready for Facebook and for the site and social media and all the other
aspects to sort of trying to promote my, you know, new little brand.
So anyway, as part of that I get some shirts ready.
I'm going to show you guys what I do.
I just sort of put them here on my, sorry the light is not so good, I put them here
on my, uh, nursing chair there.
You can see I've got my little scripts ready.
Um, I have a couple pairs of earrings ready that I'm going to wear.
These are shirts that I have really loved, and many of them you probably recognize, and
you've seen in more than one of my videos.
Um, I have things like this from Express that are just colorful.
I have quite a few things from Old Navy that's been one of my staples.
I'll show you guys one of the shirts I just adore.
It's a chartreuse color, and I just love it.
And this is just so comfortable and so light and not too light under the incredible heat
of that production light that you see behind the camera.
So anyway, I get all this ready.
I do the set up.
And I do, as I was showing you guys here, and I actually have to get these scripts organized.
I do write scripts for the shows because I don't have a teleprompter and I want to sort
of have a sense, or just think about before, you know what are the things that I really
want to try to say.
And it doesn't always come out to perfectly match the script, but it just provides me
with sort of a guide so that I hopefully am giving good information and remembering the
things that I went through, so that I'm not just like rambling and rambling on and on
and on and on.
So anyway, and then also when I do a text version of the show for my site and for YouTube,
I sort of have that as a guide.
So anyway that's a little bit of the process of how I film the CloudMom vlogs.
For other vloggers, if anyone's watching this, please weigh in with what you guys do to film
at home.
What are the tricks that you follow, and how often do you film?
I'd love to hear about it.
And for the rest of you guys, thank you so much for watching my videos.
Thank you so, so much for the supportive comments that many of you guys have given, on YouTube
especially.
I really, really appreciate it.
It's been such a joy, and oh yeah!
There's something else that I wanted to say.
Actually there's my hand.
And this is sort of about the process of filming video, which I think is so interesting.
You know, at, in one way you're sort of on your own, alone, just talking to this camera.
So it feels kind of weird.
But in another way, you start to sort of almost develop this relationship with the people
with whom you're trying to communicate.
And you're talking about things that are so near and dear to your own heart that it can
actually be kind of a pretty intimate experience.
And I love filming my vlogs, because I love going back into the world of "babydom" and
thinking about all those precious years when my guys were really, really little.
And I love thinking about the things that sort of made it workable and easier and trying
to share those.
And I love answering questions.
So if you do have questions for me, please, please keep them coming.
You can comment on YouTube, you can write into my site, you can message me on Facebook
although I'm a little bit behind on Facebook.
But I'll try to catch up.
And anyway, I will do my best to answer them.
So anyway, thank you so much again for watching.
And I will see you soon on CloudMom.