GuuzakaTube 01.31.17
A
batch of new
videos on the very last day of the month, first month of the 2017 New
Year. How's it been going for me? Quite great! I've been pleased with
the increasing views on some of my videos, and now that I've gotten
my hands on the mobile Instagram application
a few weeks ago, I've been able to use it to further advertise my
videos and get them out there for
greater exposure.
Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and I guess Snapchat, are the 4 major
pillars that most hugely successful channels have, though some may be
missing one, or the other, or a couple here and there. And
course, some will have additional sites such as Tumblr, Deviant Art,
Pinterest, Flickr, their own website, and many others.
In my case, I don't use Facebook or Snapchat, but instead use a
Twitter, Instagram and Blogger combination, which is slightly odd,
but hey, it's what I like! I use my YouTube Twitter account
to
perform
the
namesake function of tweeting
mainly
about my videos,
as well as other opinionated things here
and there.
Instagram, I use largely for the same purpose, but focus more on
pictures and quotes. The
fact that it doesn't have a word limit, makes it great for hashtags
and extensive texts. Not sure where Blogger stands in the popularity
rank, but I use it because I have a vast, imaginative mind, and
because I like to type and can sometimes go into such lengthy details
about things, making it an ideal platform to use. Then there's the
fact that like YouTube, it is also a Google product, so this makes
things more integrated with services like signing in and such.
Alright, now for the videos I've recently done: Barron
Trump [Discussion and Commentary],
Saint
Margaret's Public School,
Saint
Margaret's Parkette
and Random
Evening Morningside Stroll - DEER SURPRISE!!! Let's
discuss it!
Boy
oh boy! Since
the conception of the idea, to the very finishing of this video, I
had so much fun and giggles with this video! The
wild, radical, narration speaks
volumes about that! I don't care how corny, lame, and cheesy it came
off, but making this video was just so wild and enjoyable! Well,
audio editing and syncing, not so much, but even then, that wasn't
all that bad either, since I've discovered better and quicker tricks
to make the process less of a headache. So! What inspired me to make
this silly, yet actually sad video? Truth is, there were two factors.
The first is the video I did on the musician Leo Pellegrino.
When I saw the ever increasing views and profits coming out of that
quirky video, I was like “Wow! I definitely gotta do another
'Discussion & Commentary' video at some point” Seriously, the
video has even performed better than my Alfa Romeo Stelvio which to
date, still has more views than it, but probably won't for much
longer if the Leo video continues at it's current slow, but steady
growth rate. So after getting the positive motivation from that, I
began to see a lot of news and buzz about another Trump, who wasn't
Donald, not Melania, not Ivanka or the others, but a
10-year old one named Barron! I read the articles, ideas exploded and
then boom! The
idea of discussing Barron came quickly and I strived to hop on it and
create it as fast as I can to keep it fresh and relevant. Of
course, I
kept the quality and corn factor high as well. I know that I say it
was the autism allegations in the video itself that made me want to
do this, but the real
reason before discovering that was what I've mentioned here about
the successful Leo video.
Another thing that wasn't easy, was getting the improv during the
ending slide right, but after many attempts, it worked it. I am
overall very satisfied with this
video, but because I've typed this before the video was released to
YouTube, I have yet to see how well it will perform, but I'm feeling
optimistic about it.
Heh
heh, truth be told, “West Hill Park Exploration” would have
honestly been a far more truthful title to the video, since most of
the video actually takes place in it, but alas! Saint Margaret's
Public School is the highlight (pun intended) of the video with its
orange roof. Despite taking place in such a big city, both the park
and school were quiet. Really
quiet. I
mean it was the weekend and all, but wow. It was honestly a good
thing though, because it made the exploration feel more wondrous and
peaceful, by
having the grounds all to myself. I really like that. It gives me
more breathing space and less nervousness. The portables conjoined to
the building is interesting, because it's my first time seeing
something like this. We've all seen schools with many portables, but
how often is it do you see them conjoined
to the main building? The answer to that is
likely rarely or very rarely, since they are called “portables”
after all. They
are
designed in mind to be used as temporary-ish buildings to accommodate
a school population that exceeds the original building's design
capacity. In the case of the school, it looks like they decided that
the school's population has been large and sustainable enough to
extend them into the school. Pretty interesting. You know what else
is interesting? West Hill Park. It has several playgrounds around the
place, and I even attempted to go down the slide in the earlier part
of the video, which resulted largely in failure because I kept
knocking my sunglasses or some part of me. The reason? It wasn't
designed for
adults. Enough said. You know what? I probably should've went on the
swing just for fun and giggles! Or not? That would've been too
lame.... Anyway, south east of West Hill lies another site: Saint
Margaret's Parkette! Time to discuss that!
Oh,
ho ho ho ho ho hoooooooo! So the first thing you see is the billboard
for Saint Margaret's Anglican Church, which happens to be the first
place that I explore within what they dub a “parkette”. After
wandering around the vicinity of the church, I .....................
wandered
into the graveyard, arr, or does it sound better and less scary to
say cemetery? Either way, it means the same thing. If you can recall
from the video I covered for Maranatha Church in Bowmanville,
I wanted to do that, but got cold feet over uncertain legality
concerns, but this time, I just went ahead with it and exercised
caution, discretion, courtesy and just common sense really. I have
never walked and
filmed
a graveyard at the same time, so this would be my very first time
doing it. It
was quite
an
interesting, different, yet unnerving experience.... No, it's not
because of “spirits” or the dead coming to attack
me or
nonsense like that, but was just concerned
about running into troubles.
Thankfully, nothing happened, but who knows. Maybe something could've
happened if I went at another time during actual service. Maybe I'm
being paranoid about
it,
but it was a nice tour. That's what I can tell you for certain. I've
been to graveyards that were a
bit
more scenic than this,
but St Margaret's Cemetery was still nice to
visit.
After
visiting West Hill Park, Saint Margaret's Public School, its Anglican
church grounds, its graveyard and the open space of the park itself,
I decided to film a video of me walking on
Morningside in the evening. Unfortunately, this video, as well as the
video of the Parkette, don't look as sharp or stable as I'd like them
to be. The reason? Well, the reason behind the instability is pretty
darn obvious, but for the poorish resolution, I believe that it
would've been fixed if
I had set it to night mode for the graveyard, and night mode + HDR
for the stroll video. I didn't think that it was dark enough for it,
but if there was anything to learn from a cruddy video I filmed last
year, “Night Test After Heavy Rain and Thunder” is
that you'll get better results by using night mode + HDR in a
city setting AND
by
keeping the camera still! If you have a camera without OIS and you
don't keep it still, it seriously hurts the resolution quality. The
problem is exacerbated in low light scenarios, so that's something to
keep in mind, regardless of how good your camera is. Quality and
sharpness disappointments
aside, it was a nice walk and the deer really caught me by surprise!
Oftentimes when I see these deer warning signs, I've hardly, if ever,
seen any deer so this happens to be one area where you'll actually
see the real deal. I'm no expert, but they happened to look like
white-tailed deer.
Your
mom. Giggity, kekkity, giggity, kekkity, giggity! Classical and
immature, isn't it? Man, ever since I've done that video, I can tell
ya that it left me feeling so young and immature! Ah, the good ol'
rowdy, carefree days! Gone they are, but hey. Not that I'm an ancient
man be any means (voice probably gives it away?), but anyways!
Haven't done any gaming videos last week, as my focus was heavily
geared towards getting that Barron video done quickly, as well as
planning for my outdoors videos. Still, with a little better time
management, that should have been possible, but as I said from last
time, they're very fun to make, but they
are not a
priority. So! Where will I go next? What will I
play? Who will I expose next?! Stay tuned to find out!
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