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...)
I saw her when someone posted the "Check Your Privilege" video, which I did not care for.
I would add one small point the thing about finding a libertarian partner. Find someone who has actually been near the Federal poverty line and interacted with programs aimed at helping the poor. She/he's more likely to be critical of gov't interventions.
Kira, I recommend to you a woman who does makeup tutorials? lessons? demonstrations? all of the above, I think - on YouTube. Sorry, I don't remember the number after her name and I don't have her address, but if you search "panacea" and "makeup", you will find her. You'll know you have the right person if you're watching a young British woman who ends her time with "zoom-zoom".
I found her after she had been adding her videos for a while, so I'm not sure exactly how she started, but YouTube videos turned into a book deal for which there were huge promotion parties, her own makeup line, and I'm not sure what else. I learned a lot from her about makeup [and remember, I did theatre for a hundred years?] and also about how to structure a video. She has a wonderful rapport with her audience - you can tell my the comments. She holds contests and responds to requests; she does street makeup and also effects/party/Hallowe'en looks.
You could do much worse than to watch her for a time - makeup and how someone successful does a video, 2 results for 1 viewing.
Give her a try.
regards,
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The splices made it feel like someone post-edited something she said to make her say something different.
I found the bombastic nature of it un-natural, but almost all broadcast personalities do this. I think in broadcasting/acting you can't just talk normal. You have a to have at least some William Shatner in your voice.
Once Dan Carlin, who does two popular podcast shows that I love, played a tape of him when he was a kid. He sounded bombastic even then.
Your audio quality ROCKS! Whatever you did there - don't mess with it - you have a *really* good voice (better than most youtube entries IMO), and however you did it stick with it. Your lighting is informal but good as well! (what are you using for your audio gear?)
Best - you have a really natural presence on the camera... a friendly, personable presence that is damned hard to "fake" - even some pros can't pull this off, and you did.
Just a comment - this from when I taught videography back in the "stone age" of the 1970's - Headspace! You can do "emphasis shots" where you go closer (which is cool, and adds interest and visual appeal to the vid)), but you want to retain what I call "base neutral" - ie 0:36, 1:40-1:51, 1:54, 2:09 et al. - or as I used to say, centered armpits to 2/3 of a forehead above your hair - for your base material.
Another trick - take it or leave it - since you are breaking this up, you can also gaff out your camera locations, and do an "angle-on" shot - where it looks like you have a second camera, dollied and angled from the first (if you have good background from that shot) and go between the 2 - like the pro documentary thing, where you have a "camera shift" and turn to face it. Kind of like the facial Close-ups, they add interest and motion to the vid. It takes practice, but I think you could probably pull it off without a thought.
Whatever you do - keep it up! You have the talent and the voice, you have a good camera presence, and what you're doing is awesome - I wish you both success and fortune!
Susanne
She certainly has enough personality. Actually, enough for several young women. If she uses the Tube as a journal. it might make an interesting movie sometime in the future, especially if she achieves her goal.
Here's a bit of technical advice: Don't get so close to the camera. Closeness or use of wide angle distorts facial features making noses and lips appear bigger than they are. If your camera isn't a phone and/or has a telephoto lens, use that, move back from the camera until your head and shoulders fill the frame. That type of set-up gives facial features a better appearance.
Textbook stuff from a former photographer.
Avoid frowning; you're too young to have those deep parallel furrows between the eyes.
Don't wave that index finger around; makes you look like Sarah Palin.
Have something meaningful to say, not just a teenage scatterbrain string of inanities.
Make people want to come back and see you again, maybe even view the same episode more than once because it's worth their time as an objective value, not just because you're someone special's daughter.
Don't be offended or defensive about sincere criticisms. Be your own worst critic. Watch for improvements week by week. You can do it!
Public speaking is a learnable skill. Observe how the likeable people do it--Tina Faye? Jodie Foster? Helen Hunt? Rachel Maddow? -- and make it your own. Develop your own personal signature style.
Have a reason for everything you say and do and make it look natural. Even improv needs creative integrity.
Reconsider the F word. It stands for sexual intercourse, a magnificent aspect of life and love, the way to procreate humanity. Does it really need to be sullied as a curse word and something dirty just because it is our strongest animal drive? See if you can create a new word to take its place.
You don't need to go to the gym at 5AM every morning. Anytime will do, and you can even film an episode or two there, on ideas that occur to you while energetically occupied. Creative contemplation is helped by an increased heart rate.
Good luck. We'll be watching.
There is a double standard on women cursing, that makes it all that more interesting when done well. I have a potty-mouth so bad that both of my kids adopted a "never like dad" response, and curse not at all Clearly great parenting on my part ;)
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