Evelyn: Imitate me.
Doyin: Imitate you?
Be me, as me in the videos.
Stuff like that? [laughs]
Hey Youtube world it's me Evelyn.
That's how I start the video.
Doyin: Oh. Hey Youtube world it's me, Doyin.
Evelyn: And she is uhhhm,
in Austin, because we are filming
Doyin: Austin While Black
Evelyn: And what is that?
Doyin: Our web series?
[laughing] Evelyn: Can you say with a period and not a question mark ?
Doyin: Austin While Black is our web series on Black Austinites.
We work next to the Dedrick Hamilton house,
which is the first home built by a freed slave in Travis County.
The house was restored by the city of Austin in 2013,
to serve as a historic landmark.
Evelyn: Now we're no Issa Rae [making faces]
Doyin: Nobody was saying that. [laughs]
Evelyn: Three things,
that you should know before
you start making your web series. Doyin: Three things.
Know your goal!
That goes for who you want to see the web series, what you want the web series to be about and also
like, where the web series is going to grow, if you want it to grow.
[laughs]
Number 2.
If someone asks you,
where the new episode at, [laughs]
internalize that as, ohhhh this is someone who wants to see my content. Doyin: Yeah, it's good!
Evelyn: When someone says, " Where your next episode at? I'm like. Why? Who cares? I'm busy. I have a job.
[laughs]
Ehhhh but that's not - they didn't mean it like that!
Evelyn: We're learning how long it takes...
Doyin: Yeah!
Evelyn: To do things. Doyin: Yeah
Doyin: Don't look at the dates between when we posted our videos. [laughs]
Doyin: Don't do that.
Doyin: It's not as like just , jump in , jump out as I guess,
I kind of assumed it would be at the beginning.
Evelyn: The third thing that we have learned, that you should know before
you start a web series.
[laughs] People will burn you and it will just leave
a wound. [laughs]
Doyin: People are fickle and you can't trust them and you can't - just kidding --
Evelyn: Go with the flow.
Doyin: Ohh God, Yes! Be Flexible.
Evelyn: We started out, I was like. Okay, we gonna have 4 episodes a month, we gonna have one a week
Doyin: Ohh my God you really did [laughs]
Evelyn: Here we are what - three months later [laughs]
with one and a half episodes.
Doyin: Cause you're working with people
and you're asking them to tell them about themselves and
not everybody is prepped to do that. Evelyn: Mhhh
Doyin: And, it definitely takes some of our skill also to draw the story
Evelyn: Yeah! Doyin: out of people. You know those journalism skills
Doyin: UT Comm School, you did me wrong.
Evelyn: Ohh speaking of to make you watch another video,
you know how I saw... I told you. You know who I saw
Uhmmm the other day? I was driving to work and I saw, if you remember , I think it was last year's Veda,
where I told the story of the professor who almost didn't let me graduate.
[African Accent] Oh my God, I don't what I'm going to do.
I'm not going to graduate on time. I'm going to bring dishonor to
family. Ohh my.
Evelyn: Mmmmm hhhh I saw him on yesterday. Doyin: Ahaaa
Evelyn: and he was standing there, waiting for the train.
Doyin: Mhhh hhh Evelyn: I almost about run him over
Evelyn: you can watch that video, it will be in this little annotation thing.
Doyin: Why can't I remember the 3 things...?
Evelyn: [laughs] This is probably like lowkey the most difficult thing I've ever done? High key?
Evelyn: I can't really think of anything that was as frustrating as this.
Doyin: It's just. ... It's so easy to look at the end product
can be like. Uhhh yes. You did this and she just did this
I can do that too. And then you get there and you're like [fumbles with a camera] [laughs]
You know. Go for it and learn as you go, cause that's exactly what we're doing,
we just kinda jumped into this head first, and
we're here but we're here.
Evelyn: And we can can't leave cause we done told the internet that we was out here.
So now we can't bow out gracefully, we got to keep posting stuff.
Hopefully those tips helped you out.
In the comments below what do you want them to tell us ?
Doyin: Do you have a project that you have in mind that you like, "I could do this!"
And even if it might be difficult at first you probably can do it,
so what is that?
Yeah! Take those baby steps.
Evelyn: We believe in you. Doyin: Mhhh
Evelyn: And we will see you...
Doyin: See you on the internet somewhere .
[laughs]
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