INTERVIEWER: Does your family understand what you do? JACKLYN: Yeah! You know,
they actually do! My grandma's like the first like on a lot of videos.
She shares them with the entire extended family.
So I would say not only are they really supportive, but they actually understand the YouTube thing!
JD: What's going on everyone! It's Jacklyn here from Nothing but tech.
Hope you are all doing well! Welcome back to another video.
INT: Hey Jacklyn, Dallas.
JD: Hey! INT: How's it going?
JD: Good, how are you? INT: Good!
INT: Do you mind if we ask you twenty one questions? JD: Sure, let's do it.
I'm recording an AirPods Pro review. Let's do it! INT: Awesome.
So, what exactly do you call what you do?
I make tech reviews on YouTube.
INT: What are you working on right now?
A review of Apple's latest headphones AirPods Pro.
JD [to her camera]: So, the case it's pretty similar to the regular AirPods case.
Except it's flipped horizontally.
INT: What's your go-to camera and lens? JD: Uh, Sony a7 III with a 24-70.
INT: What was your first job?
When I was 8 years old, I started a "company" with my best friend, and we made bracelets. It was not a success
JD [to her camera]: Okay, so when you actually open up the case,
the headphones sit a little differently which makes them slightly harder to get out.
INT: What got you into this type of video creating?
JD: I was always really interested in technology,
but a lot of friends--and more specifically my grandma--would ask me for tech help.
And I would shoot her over short like how-to videos of me doing whatever the problem was.
She found them helpful. She would share them with like her card friends, who found them helpful.
Uh, and from there I just started posting similar stuff on YouTube!
INT: So who got you into video creating?
JD: I was watching a lot of different people but I would say like the three core people would be
Marques Brownlee (MKBHD), Casey Neistat, and TLD Jonathan Morrison were 3 big inspirations.
JD [to her camera]: Okay, so the battery life it's also pretty good!
It's actually surprisingly good, considering that they have active noise cancellation.
INT: Where did you learn to edit?
I just learned by doing it a lot.
So, I started out with iMovie.
And then I got a 30 day free trial Final Cut Pro, and I watched a ton of the YouTube videos on it.
And it's been history ever since! and I've used it for the past five years.
INT: Do you shoot any other type of photo video?
JD: So everything that I shoot for my youtube channel is around technology, but not just review videos
So anything tech-based. So, I recently spoke at a conference
called Web Summit in Portugal, which was a tech conference.
And I made like a vlog about going to the conference
So anything that's related to tech is game.
INT: Do you have any upcoming projects?
Yeah, actually yesterday Samsung sent me an invite to Unpacked, which is taking place in San Francisco. So that's next month
It's gonna be like their new phones. Super excited for that.
In terms of charging these it's a lightning port.
So if you have USB type-c, I'm sorry, but it's gonna work really well if you have an iPhone.
INT: What's your favorite part of your work?
I get to do so many cool things like public speaking and creating clothing and stuff,
but at the end of the day
The thing that I'm constantly thinking about is what the next topic of the next video is gonna be.
INT: So what's your least favorite?
The actual tedious part of making the video. So getting up to like move the camera a millimeter, a bummer every time.
[to her camera] Okay, in terms of actually opening it up. It has a really nice mechanism
So this kind of pops open. Really satisfying.
INT: So let's switch it up a little bit.
What are some five tips for somebody who's inspired by you?
JD: Okay, I would say five tips
You want to start a YouTube channel in 2020? Let's do it.
First thing is actually starting the channel off, that's number one
Second thing is figuring out what type of content you're gonna be
interested in making because it's cool to find a niche.
The third thing is creating that content and then making it searchable.
So figuring out trending topics and then making it niche-specific.
The fourth tip I would say is collaborate with a lot of people.
That's one of the best ways to grow your channel and also stay sane when you're trying to post a ton of videos.
And then the fifth thing I would say is just enjoy it
I find that the people that become successful on YouTube are not the people that go into it thinking
Hey, I want to make this a business
INT: What you do for fun aside from your video work?
JD: I either go out with friends or I play basketball.
INT: What's your favorite food of all time? JD: It's gotta be pizza.
INT: What's your favorite youtube series?
Hot ones. It's like an interview show, but they eat
progressively hotter wings. It's just so fun to watch. I would definitely say that.
INT: If you could only use one, would you rather YouTube or Instagram?
JD: YouTube 100%
INT: If you weren't a video creator, what would you be?
JD: My realistic answer would be like something in advertising and like related to technology.
But something that's kind of like out of left field, but I wanted to do when I was like really young
is anything in like music production. I think that that would be really cool.
Okay
[to her camera] What about when you're using these headphones, how do they feel like in your ear?
Well there definitely is an adjustment period versus regular AirPods because they go in your ear.
but you get used to them, they're pretty comfortable
INT: What's the best piece of advice you received?
JD: Storytelling is a key to making any video a good video
I think there's a huge focus on gear and making sure that your videos look pretty and that's important
But if the story's not there, no one's gonna really enjoy it.
INT: That's one thing that makes your job easier
JD: Having a network of people that also create content
so one of the things that I didn't realize when I started was how
much of a community there is in the tech space.
But getting to talk to people at all the events and kind of bounce ideas off of them
has been one of the best parts of this job.
INT: Does your family understand what you do?
Yeah, you know what?
They actually do! My grandma's like the first like on a lot of videos
She shares them with the entire extended family
So I would say not only are they really supportive, but they actually understand the YouTube thing.
INT: Have you ever been starstruck? JD: Yes.
I met Casey Nesitat like two years ago
And he was one of the main reasons why I started my channel
And just meeting him in person and becoming friends with him has been like definitely a highlight of my career
INT: Has meeting him changed your life
Yeah
I mean aside from like just
Getting to be friends as one of the people that I think create some of the best videos on the platform
It's also enabled my audience to grow a lot
So he actually featured me in a vlog
And I'd like the subscribers that I gained overnight was kind of unreal.
Since then is I've been like building upon itself. It's been awesome. He's a great guy.
INT: Any comments for the haters
Keep commenting. It actually really helps.
Any constructive feedback. You could be nice about it, but tell me what I'm doing wrong.
I feel like a lot of people are against
negative comments but I think that they're one of the things that really
brings you that next level. Finding out that your lighting is bad or that you could be doing a better job editing.
I think that's really useful information
INT: Who should we interview next?
JD: Gotta interview Cody Wanner. He's like best. Maybe you should do that right now
I gotta finish this video got to go tomorrow.
INT: All right. Thanks so much. JD: Thank you
Okay