hello friend and welcome to day 11 of the 30 day no film school challenge today i am going to vlog
my day and talk about what vlogging actually means now i know you're probably thinking do i
actually wake up looking this fabulous well yeah pretty much to be honest with you though it isn't
exactly morning now i've already been awake for some time but i do have to go to work right now so
let's go so welcome to my workplace that's very humble just like myself
although i think by calling myself humble i become less humble anyway for those of you
who don't know i'm not a professional video maker i don't make money from doing this i make money
from this i teach english online and actually i've got a class now so i'll speak to you later
okay obviously i wasn't actually teaching then i don't wear my whale unicorn shirt to work i wear
a red polo shirt it's very nice now you may be wondering if this is my classroom where's
my youtube studio well all we need to do is push this table round voila bring the stall over voila
and then bam i've got a whole new youtube studio going on can i just say like hello could i be any
more of a youtuber right now i've got like fake desk plants and a really cool spinning globe like
pretty much nailed it also if you're thinking how is the light so fabulous it's because i
live in this loft and i've got like these awesome skylights so yeah i mean this house is just made
for like youtube filming anyway it's meant to be a vlog so let's go for a walk outside in the cloudy
cloudy north of england all right so i'm just out in this sort of uh field nearby where i'm staying
i'm actually staying in like a kind of village uh somewhere near leeds
and yeah i don't really do much each day other than work and do a bit of this youtube stuff
but i do try to go for a walk when i can i've just moved here so this is the first time that i am
walking in this village and i just found this place on
google maps so what exactly is vlogging well from my understanding it's essentially
just documenting your day as you go about your day but also not just like oh i'm having breakfast
i'm having lunch i took a shower i'm doing my homework or whatever it's more about telling
an actual story so for example on this vlog i'm outside now for my daily walk and i've told you a
little bit about my routine but i'm also actually providing some sort of story i'm talking about
vlogging and what that means now for today's challenge i also meant to pay attention to
my video settings by composition and so on so right now i am using the rule of thirds
and i have some nice leading lines behind me so hopefully that means something to someone
so i think vlogging shouldn't just be about documenting your day but it should also
be about telling a story about your day now one thing that a lot of people are kind of
uncomfortable with including myself is vlogging in public so right now i am out in public but
as you can see i'm just in an empty field there's no one really here
and if people do come i do kind of get a little bit nervous but at the same time it's 2020.
like everyone has seen someone on youtube everyone knows what a vlogger is so you shouldn't really be
bothered by other people for me i'm actually quite used to vlogging because i have a whole other
channel based around travel vlogs in indonesia which is where i usually live not this cold
cloudy england but in those travel vlogs i speak indonesian so if anything that makes me even
more uncomfortable when i'm in indonesia speak in indonesian as my foreign language and people look
at me like who's that crazy white girl speaking in indonesian talking to a camera by herself at
least i thought that's what would happen but actually it didn't it had the kind of opposite
effect and people at least indonesian people were really impressed with my vlogging abilities and
my ability to speak indonesian just think about it really like what is the worst thing that could
happen from vlogging someone might make a comment but who cares you're never going to see them again
they're probably a loser and if someone tells you not to film in a certain place then you just stop
filming and put the camera down it really doesn't matter people just aren't that bothered about you
they're too busy wrapped up in their own lives to be bothered about someone talking to a camera
also another benefit of vlogging is that it kind of gets you
to actually do something with your day especially during these times during lockdown
if i wasn't making this vlog today maybe i wouldn't have gone out for this walk
and i would have just had a boring day so that's essentially another benefit
so some tips i've learned along the way when i've been vlogging is that if you're doing something
like this and and walking either try to be able to see what's behind you so you can see if anyone's
gonna come and run up on you or something like that and also just try and have a look out around
where you are walking so you don't go falling off the edge of a cliff or tripping over something
which i have done many many times so overall just go out vlog document your day but also have
something to say have a story to tell or something to show a beginning middle and end just like any
other sort of mini film all right so i am back from my lovely walk in the yorkshire countryside
i have lost some of my daylight because it's almost nighttime but i just wanted to show you
really quickly what i used to vlog on i made another video where i briefly showed this but
this is my uh xi'un chayun smooth 4 gimbal so i just pop my phone in here and then like i walk
around and it stabilizes it makes it super smooth i also use my external microphone i made another
video about that and i have this um i don't know what it's called like a microphone clamp
and i've seen you can buy something else like a cold shoe ring or something to connect
this to the gimbal but i'm cheap so i've just used an elastic hairband and attached it on there it
works perfectly fine i don't need to spend 10 or 20 pounds on a thingamajig to attach to this
when i might change this and get a new one so it just seems like this is an easy solution for me
i also have the infamous dead cat which stops the wind noise when i'm speaking and so i just
walk around like this looking a bit silly but who cares nobody cares i hope you enjoyed today's vlog
and maybe learn a thing or two about vlogging and just having confidence when you're out there i'm
not an expert though i keep saying this i am just a beginner filmmaker youtuber whatever you want
to call it so take my advice with a pinch of salt or with a roast dinner or whatever the saying is
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knows who will watch this video as always thank you for watching and i will see you next time bye