[Captions by Y Translator] Every YouTuber wants to learn how to make good content.
And the easiest way to do
that is by studying other successful creators
and seeing how they do it.
I had the opportunity to sit
down with the legendary Christopher Mast from Legion
of Weirdos and get some serious advice
in a few great stories from a guy
who's been a YouTube Creator
since the very beginning of YouTube.
Be sure to stay tuned to the very end
because Christopher is going to give some tips and advice
that you can start using today
to improve your videos and get your channel to grow faster.
So without further Ado may I introduce the amazing
the incredible the...
Christopher, what's the word I'm looking for?
Palatable. the palatable Christopher Mast
You're watching Legion of weirdos.
We get your party conversation education.
I'm explainer Entertainer Christopher and I mispronounce
things as a side gig.
So Christopher,
how long have you been a YouTube Creator?
I've been a YouTube Creator twice actually started
with the OG group back
in 2006 when I first started making videos,
it was just Basically upload whatever I felt
like I literally had a video
where I just ate a dog biscuit for the whole video.
There was another video where I had like some cheesy music
and I shaved a nipple. I'd worked with a puppet for a while,
but it didn't matter back then
because everybody was doing that in 2007-2008.
It wasn't like you have these organized networks.
There are a few of the original YouTubers
that are still around but the only one
that's just constantly putting stuff out there and showing
that they're in it
for the long haul is Philip DeFranco.
I actually used to like hang out with that guy
and knew him personally back in the way old days.
I was 40 and he was 20.
In fact, it was a little joke for a little while.
I said I'd say, you know,
he's young enough to be my son and he'd say in a comments
"Hey Dad", you know.
Part of Christopher's success is his ability to engage
the people he's talking to I didn't even know
that he was poking fun at me
and my other channel Extreme food reviews
until I saw this in the edit.
Yeah.
There was some point at one of the at the Canada Meetup
where I kind of I was
kind of a d*ck and upset a few people including him,
but I think I think we're good now,
but he was big from the start
when I first met him he had 40,000 subscribers
and that's when 40,000 subscribers was huge.
How big were you with that time? At that time
I had about 1800 but that's all you needed back then
for people to know who you are.
That was like, oh my God,
you know Jim Jones and Jones Town only
had like that many followers.
How long do you feel it took you
before you got to the point where you felt like,
this is me.
This is my thing.
I have this now.
I don't think I'm there yet.
It's it's constantly evolving.
I look back at myself from just a year ago.
It's just I'm cringing the whole time and I'm positive
that in a year when I
look back at the stuff I'm making right now.
It will be equally cringy for me.
So It's constantly developing.
How important is the pace of your videos to you
but also to your viewers?
I like to keep the pace fairly rapid fire
because as Brian G Johnson has mentioned.
This is ADHD TV.
I've been working harder to get right
into the video even faster.
I've gotten rid of all
my little fancy intro graphics and stuff like that.
And then I try to keep my sentences moving too
without too many pauses in between you see the joke
and you're still kind of laughing at the first one
before the next one comes up or the Absurd thing
like a reaction from an animal
or something weird like that will like come to me
as I'm editing it's like,
oh I'm going to make a cow act startled.
It's just a feeling
that that's where the the art for me is in the editing.
That's where I tell the stories.
And what tricks do you use
during filming to make the editing process faster?
This time I'm a little more organized in
that I actually have a set backdrop.
I have professional lights.
My camera settings are always on point,
and I actually think out Content
and script it at the beginning of the take I do a clap
so they can line up the video with the audio.
I'm recording audio
and the camera but I use the audio off of this.
So I'll line the audio track for this up with the audio track
from the camera and then delete the camera's audio.
Now, how do you film all of your footage for editing?
Do you film it all at once
or do you film it in smaller portions
and then put it all together?
I prefer to do one take and have just one file.
Although my camera is such that if you go over 15 minutes,
it breaks it into two files,
but they fit end to end like it's one file.
What editing tricks do you use to keep the pace
of your video up?
I recently talked about L cuts and J Cuts,
but I've seen your stuff and it moves really fast.
How do you accomplish that?
How do you get that look?
First of all,
When I cut up my one take into several little Clips,
I make sure
that I start exactly where the audio starts
and then wait
until the audio ends in clip it right at the end of the audio.
So each piece has audio from beginning to end,
there's no pause at the beginning and then
when I assemble them in the assembly edit,
as a word tails off you can start to say off
and I don't have to finish the F for you to understand
I'm saying off I could say off and then right at that point.
I will lay the other clip on
so that the audio starts right there
and it flows so much better.
Take your Aston Martin video
for an example the pace of that was so fast.
The humor was fantastic
that was sort of to me the prime example
of what a legion of weirdos video feels like.
Yeah, first of all the whole video spawned
on the idea that a lot of YouTube commenters,
you know, the Grammar Nazis and the factards
"Well, actually *blah blah blah*" I usually kind of ignore
that but I got so many comments on this particular video
that just popped up and got popular after a year
where I mispronounced Austin Martin and
which is Aston Martin.
I didn't say Austin Martin.
They all seem to think I said
that funny enough I mispronounced Porsche
in that video and a lot of people missed that
I made a video on that later.
So with the Aston Martin thing
what I did was make a video to kind of
point out the absurdity of telling someone
that you don't know and have never met
that they're mispronouncing a word.
That's why I cut them together rapid pace.
So you could hear Aston Austin Aston Austin,
"Aston, Austin, Aston, Austin, Aston ahhh...
Jaguar?
Aston Austin, Aston, Austin".
And how did you come up with that bit about
how to pronounce Ford part
of what I like to talk about is content isn't just
how you edit
but it's the ideas you use in there to bring in bits
of Comedy to break up the story to take viewers by surprise
and really hit them with things
that really engage them.
How did you come up with that?
With the Ford thing?
It's funny.
I actually sort of came up with it spur of the moment
because a lot of people
that complained about the Aston Martin video were Brits,
I imitated a few Brits I know an...
Ford, Am I pronouncing that right?
Ford Ford Ford, you know,
what's the biggest piece of advice
that you would give to a new YouTube Creator someone
who's just started out and it's just started figuring out
how to put video together and upload onto YouTube?
Jump Right to
what you're talking about.
Don't worry about making flashy little intros,
worry about your presentation and how you're talking.
Get to the point.
I see so many people
the first 15 seconds of the video they say
"In this video,
I'm going to talk about this lamp cord
and why this lamp cord is important right after this"
and then I'm watching this 30-second intro
and then they come back from their 30-second intro
and they say
"Hi! I'm so-and-so" although you already know
that because you've clicked on my video.
"And today we're going to talk about this lamp cord
and why it's important" well you already freaking told me
that now I'm a minute and a half in the video
and I don't have any content.
Don't do that.
If you look at a lot of the bigger YouTubers
They don't do intros they get right to the content
because that's what people are tuning in for.
Christopher, tell everybody
where we can find you on YouTube.
I know you've got more than one channel
and I know you're on more than one platform
let the people know where we can find you.
We have the Legion of weirdos Channel,
which is the main Channel.
We also have one that we're rebooting
that was dormant for a long time called
"stuff we use"
so it's not a guy at a desk unboxing something and telling
you every Speck and showing you every little piece of plastic
that's in the Box.
We actually use it and show you how it works for our family.
I also have a Hot Wheels Channel
that I don't really mention a lot in the other videos,
but if you're a Hot Wheels collector, I'm there.
It's called "Mini Models"
Christopher Mast ladies and gentlemen,
thank you so much Christopher.
It's been a pleasure having you.
I appreciate your time.
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