Hi my name is Adrian bliss and I am I guess the YouTuber and a filmmaker from London.
What got you into uploading videos on YouTube? I've watched your videos in the future.
Are used to make lots of stuff and not load it anywhere and that was the first thing that
I thought it would be fun to see what other people thought of it. Because yeah it was
just a bit of fun and it was something for me to learn how to use after affects better.
And it just felt like a fun way to do it.
I made a short film just after I left school about a jam making competition and then before
that just at school it was kind of something that me and my friends did when we went round
each other's houses we make something, like a trailer for a film or an advert whatever.
What was your decision around is not going to film school? And do you feel you need from
school in order to create films?
I don't think you need film School work to create films. But there's definitely been
times where I thought I really should've gone to film school.
I remember me and my friend were making a music video and there was this simple thing
like the crossing the line rule and we had this complicated set up with couldn't figure
out how to do it and we both just sat there and thought "we should have gone to film school
because then we know how to do this" but my decision kind of came about to defer from
school because I was going to make a short film and I had a few different ideas that
I wanted to try out and then before I could really think about going I got a job in London
at a production company made specifically for online video, ever since then I guess
I've just been deferring.
Do you think you will ever go back? I don't think so. I'm not saying that I've
learnt all the stuff you learn at film school cause I definitely haven't and there's stuff
I've missed but by making stuff and is having to do it on your name and having to figure
out I've had like crushing low points and really high points and I feel like I learnt
a lot more from that than I would've if someone had told me in a lecture.
Would you explain how you met Greg? The first time I met Greg I was helping my
friend Jack interview people for this studio he wants to set up and Greg came in to be
interviewed as an editor and yeah he was really cool, that's where I first met him. Jack hired
him and then we ended up moving in together so that that's how it all started. What is
the meaning of Greg's character? Well to be honest the way it started was just that's
great see in our house here with sits in the corner of the sofa and I just sat down and
down to this thing and he was in the first one and I thought it be funny to have someone
there the whole time someone to look back at, even though he doesn't say anything to
bounce stuff off him. And then slowly evolved that people really liked, because it was a
real time thing I was putting the video is out every day, and it is the people really
like to Greg and then he became an integral part of the story and then in Vlune even more
so. I guess the meaning of his character kind of became a bit more clear in that. Like he
says in the end of the series the journalist on TV. I was meaning is that his silence is
so much more appealing and interesting and admirable then all of these other people talking
like Beth for example thats to polar opposite's and the one that you really like is Greg.
That was a long rambling answer to that question. No it wasn't. I could be wrong but what I
was wondering whether Greg was character was closer to your own personal character?
Erm? Yeah I guess you could say that I don't say much normally so yeah I could be a little
bit of that.
Who wrote the script with you in Vlogvember and Vlune?
There wasn't a script. I planned out at the start of the day what would happen on the
video and I knew before we left the general are ark but we never actually write a script.
There are sometimes notes on what we'd say that because people like Beth and Lewis he
plays the Journalist are so good at improvising it was much more fun and I thought light we
got much better stuff when we just played around in improvised stuff. But yeah is pretty
much all made up on the day. I'm not sure what it would've been like if I'd scripted
it? but I think it's better that I didn't! I think?
Greggs character is a bit of an introvert. How would you display yourself online and
get noticed as an introvert? If you wanted to?
The strange thing is mate do YouTubers and Vloggers are introverts. The ones that started
originally I guess cause they were sat in their rooms filming themselves, and now suddenly
lots of them our Internet in the world where they expected to be extroverts. Erm I guess
my advice would be that, for me anyway it's much more interesting, to not know about someone,
and I really enjoy people enjoying the mystery of Greg not knowing what he sounds like, not
knowing what he's thinking, for me that's a lot more interesting and I like those traits
and people.
And do you think you can be authentic as well as being silent on the web?
Yeah because I think Greg is pretty authentic, even to what Greg's like in real life.
What do you do when you lose motivation and how do you get it back?
Wanna know the answer to this as well because I lose motivation a lot. I find that I'm either
don't feel that motivated or I'm doing something and there is no choice when I was in the middle
of Vlune, there was no choice but to keep doing it and Carry on. So I found for me the
best thing to do is drop myself into something and not really give myself a choice.
What attributes do you think it takes to achieve success in the field that you're passionate
about?
Just all the usual things like a talent on that field and being good at it, and having
enough motivation to keep trying. But not missed placed motivation, kind of realising
the kind of things that you did that and pursuing those. Another thing I'd say it would be that
you have to not be able to imagine yourself doing anything else because then you have
no option but to strive for success in that field, and even if it never happens, you won't
know then it never happened because you just do it in till you die.
Do you know when parents say things like you need a backup plan? Yeah.
Would you say forget the backup plan and go forward? I wouldn't like to say a blanket
that is advised that but, I mean I don't have a backup plan, erm, and it's going okay at
the moment, I might need one in future. Even if you spend your whole life trying to do
something, if you can't imagine yourself doing anything else, and you've explored other things,
then you might as well. Because I don't think anyone even the most successful people in
my opinion anyway, I don't think they think of themselves as successful and its all done,
I think that everyone even if you find success you always want to achieve more.
Is there anything in the industry that you know now that you wish you'd known before
you'd started out? In the starting out stages, the thing that
I wish I'd known before is that I don't have to make stuff complicated, to try and to keep
everything as simple as possible.