There was a meme going around the internets a while back, it was the one where you videoed yourself saying bunch of words so that all of your blogging friends could hear your voice and your accent. Neato! I am vain. I like to hear the sound of my own voice. I wanted a part of it and so I set out to record my video.
Now when I say I am going to prepare you to vlog, I don’t mean I am going to tell you how to organize your content. This isn’t about cue cards or tips for memorization. This is about getting your shit hole of a house and your bleary-eyed sweatpantsed self ready for photo booth.
As you may have surmised, when I initially set out to record my video there was a problem.
Problem: This place is a mess!
The Easy Fix : The Scootch
Just take the mess and scootch everything out of frame.
You aren’t really cleaning anything. You are just moving it to one side.
But look!
To the internet your house looks clean.
This area doesn’t matter at all. The people in your computer cannot see it so you can stash all of your crap up here: laundry baskets, purses, coffee cups, hoodies, cats – really whatever junk you have lying around.
Now it is time to clean yourself up.
A little makeup should do the trick.
Much better.
Even if you do have a gigantic hand.
The perspective in that shot is so weird! It looks like my camera is roughly the same size as my head and my hand is ENORMOUS. I am so glad I have chosen to put it on the internet. Another sound decision.
Now you are ready to go.
Note: If you take pictures of your computer and you have post it notes with your passwords all over the front of it, I’d recommend just taking the sticky notes down so you don’t have to blur or crop them out of every photo in your pictorial post. Just sayin’.
But wait.
What the hell?
Why are those books all like that? Damn kids.
NOW you are ready.
And you can go film your video enabling you to humiliate yourself in front of the entire internet.
Assuming you can figure out how to upload it to YouTube or Vimeo.
And if you are anything like me, you will get all pissed when your desktop doesn’t work and end up sitting on your floor and filming from your laptop anyway.
As they say in cryptic e-mails HTH, which upon extensive googling means happy to help.
About Goon Squad Sarah
I think you hit on the primary reasons I never do vlogs…messy house and lack of makeup. Also, I despise the sound of my own voice. I think a Stephen Hawking robot voice would be cool. Any tips on how to do that?
Twitter Name: Izzymom
*looks into robot voice*
Twitter Name: goonsquadsarah
hahahaha love it :) very important vlogging tips, i’d say!
Twitter Name: imprintbyeileen
There is WAY too much crap scootching I would have to do in order to vlog. It would be easier to relocate my computer to a tidier place.
Or not vlog.
:)
Twitter Name: amadisonmom
A yes….the scootch. It works on dirty dishes too! This is aiming low!
Twitter Name: littleanimation
My reasons I never Vlog, my camera faces my husbands corner of the office which is plastered with Star Wars Crap LMAO and i hate to watch myself talk. I have a weird lisp that I never notice unless I see myself talking and it makes me super self aware of it afterwards and I end up not uploading it LMAO.
Twitter Name: rose3694
Dude.
The beauty of Photobooth is you only have to move your CHAIR, SAR.
You’re still working too hard. Aim lower. ;)
Twitter Name: lauriewrites