It's Storytime!
It's Kira time! Our daughter Kira, worked on ASIII as a Producer's assistant and post-production coordinator. She also had a walk-on in one scene of the movie. She is trying to get herself out there and build some face and name recognition. Here is a debut video on her new You Tube Channel. New videos weekly. (Like her mother, she cusses like a sailor, so if you don't like that kind of thing...)
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1. have a subject that you're going to talk about - note that I didn't say have a subject that you're essentially NOT talking about. "I don't keep my resolutions" takes 30 seconds to say, and you're done.
2. don't BOUNCE! If you're going to bring the camera in tight, when you bounce, half of your face is gone. It's very distracting. The nice lady who does the weather on your local tv show spent a long time learning how not to move all over.
and I know your mama said you cuss like a sailor, but you do it unconsciously. You should be aware of every word that you say when you're on camera and the product of your work is going to go public. I don't care if you cuss, but I do care that you're doing it for a reason, not as a pause-filling-word. If you really and truly and thoughtfully don't care a bit that there are people who see your video and turn it off after the first "fuckin'", that is a position to take. Please take it consciously.
3. Listen to what you said and the end, and keep the "30 days" guy in mind. You know, that guy who ate nothing but McDonalds for 30 days, and kept a video diary which he turned into a movie. He went on to do several tv shows: be one of those guys who shows up at the Labor Store and works hourly, if there is work. He also lived as a Muslim, with a Muslim family, for 30 days. It was fascinating! He had a subject and he told people a lot about it that they didn't know.
AND that's what you said at the end: I want to do exciting, interesting things that no one ever thought of before. Well, I'm not sure you can do the "no one ever thought of before", and I think a month is too long at the You Tube stage, but what are things you have never done? What are the exciting and interesting things? How do people get to do them? Like a flower shop - what do you have to do to get a job at a flower shop and keep it? What are the jobs that people do that no one ever thinks of doing, or even investigating? If I don't know them, and you don't know them, and your parents don't know them, there's a reason.
In fact, here's your first assignment: spend a chunk of time,like 5 hours, a day,[yes I did say that! It's WORK!] watching YouTube. What kind s of videos do you see? Which ones do people like [from their comments]? Which ones have a narrow audience? Categorize them: home décor, makeup [natural and character], "my band sang....", like that. It might make a moderately interesting video report , AND you would find 28 "holes" that have no reports or discussion. If no one is talking about it, why? Is that an area which you can exploit in some way?
and finally, good on you for trying this instead of bitching about it.
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P.S. well, you ASKED.