Hello Viewers! Will Underwood/GamerInspector4700 here (gotta do my opening. Always.)! This week is about the mentor that I have, and what he taught me about how to grow my youtube channel! The problem is though, I don't have a mentor (GASP!). Even though I don't have a mentor, that doesn't mean that I didn't learn a thing or two from watching videos from my favorite YouTubers. I should start with what I did learn from watching.
One of the YouTubers I'm subscribed to, MandJTV Pokevids (great guy, does great pokemon videos), made a special video about how he started as a YouTuber and how the most important three things were: creativity, persistence, and quality. Creativity means making creative videos using different ideas. For example, one sub series he has is "Pokemon Talk," a talk show with two stuffed Pokemon dolls talking about any subject (it sounds stupid on paper, but it's really cool.) It also includes a bunch of comedy: Squirtle having a British accent and various guests (other Pokemon plush) as being, as Bulbasaur puts it, "One of these." It's a great show and example of creative YouTubing.
Persistence means you keep making videos even when you don't have many views or subscribers. Rome wasn't built in a day and neither was Pew Di Pie's channel. If you keep at it, you will find yourself getting more subscribers and viewers which is the goal of every YouTuber.
The last thing is Quality which means that you shouldn't give viewers bad quality videos, i.e. bad sound or footage. It also doesn't require you have to have a $300 dollar HD camera, (which I haven't done.) At least try not to give shaky footage, or film off of your phone (ironically, I DO film from my phone currently, but it's still pretty good so far).
Now, I'm going to talk about what I learned from a specific type of videos: Theory videos. I learned about these from watching MatPat from Game Theory. Let me give you a brief description of a theory video, more specifically, a GAME theory video. You take a game. Make a cool theory about it, like how Mario is a Psychopath with ASPD (anti-social personality disorder.) You research it and then go through the normal video making process (write a script, record, edit, etc...). If you were MatPat, you would say at the end of every video, "But hey! That's just a theory. A GAME theory. Thanks for watching!" Man, that is such a cool phrase. Maybe I can buy the rights for it. Someday. Or no day. (Sigh).
Well, thank you for reading, and buh-bye!
Will, you have a very good writing "voice". It is humorous and very engaging! I understand that you do not have a mento, exactly, but you did a good job telling us how you got help when you began You tubing. Thanks for the link, too!
ReplyDeleteI love how you made this and totally sounds you! If that makes sense.. Anyways, great blog. Are you going to be posting videos every Friday? Or what days?
ReplyDeleteI like that, although you don't have a mentor, you still sought out to learn something from other Youtubers and explained how to make good videos well. And of course the fact that it was fun to read is always a plus!
ReplyDeleteI like that, although you don't have a mentor, you still sought out to learn something from other Youtubers and explained how to make good videos well. And of course the fact that it was fun to read is always a plus!
ReplyDeleteIf i had to say one thing about you tube the key is to be different. The main reason some one like mattpat got popular is because he did something at the time you couldn't see anywhere else. That's not to say making theory videos is bad you just have to make them stand out, make them your own. a great thing to do is take two youtubers with around the same sub count and the same genre of video and note how different they are. A jontron review is never the same as the Nostalgia Critic one.
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