ARE YOU PREPARED? Planning Ahead For Efficiency - #DunnaVlog 31
what's up people it's a beautiful Thursday afternoon and
I don't know really how to say this this is something that's gonna be a bit new
for the vlog but today is not a particularly exciting day most of the
time because I'm a weekly vlogger I get to kind of pick and choose which day I
decide to make a video on and I'll kind of look at my schedule for the week and
I'll pick the day that has something exciting going on and I'll do that day
and I'll shoot a bunch of video on that day and I'll edit it up throughout the
week and you know my life looks super exciting but there are six other days
that happen during that week and not all the time is there something exciting
going on during those days this week I'm a little bit behind on things we just
got back from holidays if you watch the last two videos you'll know that very
cool holiday but now we're back and we're trying to get back in the swing of
things I'm sure everyone's experienced that when you go on holidays coming back
is super tough and you got a lot of catch-up to play so we're kind of in
that phase right now we're trying to start some new things as well and I'm
just a little bit behind right now so I haven't been focused on making sure that
I'm looking at my schedule ahead of time and planning what I'm gonna do for the
videos so today is not a particularly exciting day but there are things going
on this morning we woke up we went for our morning walk and we started to talk
about all the things that are on our to-do list that we've kind of just been
putting off until they really need to get done because there are so many more
other important things that needed to get done quicker so today was kind of
the day when we would take care of a bunch of those things we got dentists
appointments booked we took care of some of our like tax papers that we wanted to
organize but the thing that I want to talk about today is something that I'm
trying to new to me in certain aspects of my life
and it's something that I preach very heavily in other aspects of my life and
that is prep work so when I get a client in the studio and they come to me and
ask me how does the process work of recording let's say they're new to the
studio that kind of thing I'll tell them at some point that the prep work that we
do the pre-production is one of the most important things that you can take care
of planning the scheduling planning how many instruments were gonna need
planning if we need extra players to play those instruments how long is it
going to take to edit how long is mixing gonna take who's gonna be mastering it
all of these things you start to think about before you ever hit the record
button now I find as a human and maybe this is just me but I'm pretty sure
there's other people out there who feel this too I feel like we want to just
jump into the meat of whatever we're doing so I'm talking about like if you
were to start a recording project you want to just jump in and start playing
but that pre-production phase can save you so much time later on and so much of
the headache of trying to figure things out as you go if you plan all of that
ahead of time then you don't have to worry about it as it comes up you know
this is one of those things in life that's a lot easier said than done
because we want to follow our intuition and just jump right into things and
we're excited about it so we want to get to the part that's the fun part you know
the pre-production part isn't exactly the most fun thing in the world but it's
something that we can apply to many parts of our lives and this is where
I've come to today is that I'm constantly preaching this as something
that I use in my recording studio as a professional I can see it I take a
step back from a project and unable to see that that pre-production phase is
super important and can help us get through the rest of the project super
easy but when I take that concept and try to apply it to parts of my own life
I seem to struggle a lot so there are some things that I'm putting in place
right now that are going to hopefully help me to get a little bit closer to
where I want to be in a little bit more organized and a little bit more
prepared for things so that the time that I do have to spend on things like let's
say the videos or recordings of my own or even just something as simple as
making sure that all my daily chores are done that everything is more organized
and that it gets done more quickly and efficiently I feel like I keep talking
about efficiency and a lot of my vlogs and that's because it's something that's
very important to me it's not something that I claim to be an expert on
necessarily but it's something that's very important in my life and coming up
on fall right now I want to make sure that I'm ready to set new goals and that
I'm ready to take on new experiences and if I'm not being efficient all of those
things are going to suffer because of it so one of the things that I've done to
try and increase my efficiency is I got a new notebook
now as of right now this is basically just a plain notebook but something that
I'm trying is this kind of fad thing called bullet journaling and the idea is
that you buy a plain notebook and you kind of turn it into your day-timer and
your notebook and everything kind of all in one I'm not gonna get too deep into
what bullet journaling is right now maybe I'll save that for another video
and I'll show you guys how I decided to do it I'll leave a link in the
description for the main kind of bullet journaling the guy who invented it he
has a video explaining just kind of the basics of what you can do so I'll leave
that down in the description and you can check it out afterwards but this is kind
of step number one for me to try and become more efficient and to become more
organized going forward with what I'm doing and what I've already done I'd
like to have kind of a log of what I've accomplished I'd like to be able to put
my goals somewhere I'd like to be able to keep track of my food and my exercise
and all sorts of things so I'm figuring that out and I'll keep you guys posted
on how that's going part of what I'm doing with that right
now is I'd like to be able to put out more video content and one of the things
that I've always wanted to do is do more tips and tricks videos tutorial videos
on music and photos and videography maybe even on social media and how I use
those platforms so I've started to brainstorm some of the ideas that I want
to do tutorial videos for but actually shooting the tutorial
videos is proving to be a little bit more difficult than I thought I thought
I would just set up a camera and I would talk into it and then I get some b-roll
and I'd be able to kind of make it up all off-the-cuff but it's really not
going that way twice now I've tried to shoot videos one was about Instagram
stories and one was about the camera that I use and I do still plan on doing
those videos but I tried to do it very off the cuff and just set up a camera
and start talking and unfortunately neither of the videos are turning out
how I had hoped they would and I feel like it's because I didn't plan them I
didn't really think about what I wanted to say I just thought you know what I
know a lot about Instagram stories I'll just start talking at the camera and the
video will make itself and that really just isn't how it worked and it ended up
taking me way longer than I wanted it to if I would have thought it out before
and planned everything I could have just banged it off really quickly so part of
today and part of my not so exciting day is planning and I think like I said this
is something that we can all take into different aspects of our lives so
whether you're planning a project or whether you're planning a wedding or
whether you're planning just what you're gonna do at work that day if you just
sit down for a couple of minutes and try and either write it out or at least put
it in your phone or even just kind of think it through once first and think of
all the things that you need to do to accomplish the goal that you've set out
to do it'll make actually doing that way simpler and I don't know if this is just
you know divine intervention or what but I also got an email from the YouTube
creator courses last night on a course that they're doing right now that is
about pre-production and planning projects and writing scripts and those
kinds of things so I started that this morning and that was just kind of a bit
of a kick in the butt to get things moving
after I finished working on that course I started to actually write up a bit of
an outline for myself because I'd like to do lots of these tutorial videos but
I wanted there to be kind of a structure to it so in order to make things easier
for myself doing these tutorials I made myself a sheet and all I have to do is
fill in the blanks on this so at the top there's going to
an intro sentence so I'm going to say my name say with the tutorials about and
then I'm going to do a more detailed version of what we're going to be
learning today and then four or five steps on how to do it or what the tips
are and then on the right hand side there's like a spot where I can put in
all the b-roll that I want to get and then at the bottom there's like a
conclusion paragraph so all I have to do really is take all these little holes
that I've left for myself and fill them in should be pretty easy I'm really
looking forward to working in that way from now on because I feel like I'll be
able to get closer to where I want with these tutorial videos without trying to
do it off-the-cuff and having to check my phone and I'm writing the script
halfway through because I'm having trouble remembering things if I just
have it all there beforehand and if I sit down and write four or five of them
all at a time it should be pretty easy to also shoot four or five of them at a
time and then I can be putting out more content to help the other creators who
watch my videos and people who are interested in the things that I do and
maybe want to learn how I do them I get a lot of questions about things like my
video editing and audio work all of the photography that I've done that's up on
my Instagram now and people are asking me these questions of how I've
accomplished these things and I'm self-taught with most of that stuff with
the exception of the audio stuff and I have college diplomas in the photo and
the video stuff is all just self-taught I learned off of people like Peter
McKinnon and travel feels and DSLR video shooter and I just do a lot of research
on YouTube and online so I'd like to be able to take all of that knowledge that
I've accumulated from YouTube and from the rest of the internet and squash it
into little tutorials that I can then share with you if you're interested or
you know other creators that I know are watching the channel so there's really
not too much to show of the vlog today normally I'd grab my camera and I'd say
hey I just woke up and here's the exciting thing that we're doing today
and then I would film all of it and throw it all together with cinematic
sequences and fancy things like that really today is just about working it's
about preparing for what's gonna happen tomorrow and it's about hopefully
getting a little bit closer to these goals that I'm gonna be setting for
myself come fall which is only a couple of
weeks away now the leaves are already starting to turn yellow so if you're
interested in some of these tips and tricks videos or tutorial videos make
sure in the comments to let me know what you want to see if you've seen something
in one of my previous videos that you have a question about make sure to let
me know so that I can throw it on my list of tutorials to make I know a lot
of people ask me about color grading about the editing I've got some stuff
lined up for that a lot of people ask me what gear I use so I've gotten some
videos lined up for that I just have to make these things and today is about
planning them so make sure you let me know if there's something you want to
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