GuuzakaTube
04/07/17
April
showers bring May flowers? For
those of us in Southern Ontario, we've been particularly seeing a lot
of rain lately, so could April really be living up
to the phrase? Or will it soon turn into a drought? Let's hope that
it'll just be “normal” as in not too dry, nor
ridiculously wet! Anyways, let's discuss the 4 recent videos I shot
between Whitby and Oshawa below!
While
I've seen Raccoons many times before, I don't think I can ever recall
catching one in a downtown, urban environment. I caught this sly,
green eye-glowing raccoon when I was in downtown Oshawa that night.
It was actually trying to reach into some garbage bin
of the sort,
but I wasn't able to catch that part on
camera. I really wish I did! I should have pulled out my camera when
I was 4 meters away from the animal, so that I could catch it during
the act
before it fled into the tree! Now I'm sure y'all obviously
know this, but the reason why its eyes were actually glowing green,
was because I had the camera light on while I was filming. I wanted
to attempt filming it with the light off, but when hardly anything
was showing, I had no choice but to put it on. Wow! Quite the funny,
unexpected event this was! You know what else was unusual? The fact
that
this video was only 61 seconds long… Yeah, you know when last I
uploaded such a short video? Roughly 53 videos ago, when I uploaded
Caristrap Street Capture Fail,
which according to YouTube was three months ago from the time that I
write this entry. Even then, the only reason why that video was so
short, was because the phone's battery and internals were too cold to
keep going after already filming 2 other videos in Bowmanville that
day. Had it not been for that, the video would've been over 10
minutes to include a proper exploration of Caristrap Street. Even
though the reason behind the 10 minute scheme is probably really
obvious by now, I'll discuss it in
more details
after talking about the three schools below.
Oh
my goodness! I have not realized that I spelt “Institute” as
“Institue”! Oh no! Not good! Good thing many people didn't notice
yet! Anyways, typos aside, it's time discuss Anderson's affairs with
Sinclair ----------- KIDDING! Though as you'll know from reading the
video description, I did have intentions to film Anderson a week
after doing Sinclair, but went
to the Stevenson & Rossland area instead of immediately tackling
Anderson. Why? Because of a change of plans. But now it's here! So
how did I find this place? Well, my experience was frustrating at
first, because the darn phone rebooted about 31 seconds after
filming, so I attempted to perform soft resets, and when those didn't
work, I pulled the battery? Can't remember if I actually did that or
not, but I do remember impatiently waiting for Old Man BlackBerry to
wake up and get running. Not fun! Anyway, this school was a
large, fairly interesting place to walk around. When I saw the Home
of The Raiders sign and some cars in the parking lot, it caused me to
ponder about a certain wing of the building. Turns out, that the
“Raiders” were nothing more than just the school's sport team.
That's it. It wasn't a
separate building dedicated to something more, as I cluelessly
thought. But as I often say, 99% of the schools that I film, I know
squat about, so laugh out loud as you please!
It
was close to Anderson, so I “had to” film it. Still curious about
what the CE stands for, and wasn't successful when trying to Google
it. Oh well. I left a poll in the I-Circle with a list of suggestions
that are probably all wrong, but if you do happen to know his full
name, leave a comment here or on the video in the hyperlink above.
Why do I care about that? Because it feels satisfying to know the
full name of a place that you are about film, so you can mention it
on camera like a nerd, like how I did with Robert Samuel McLaughlin Collegiate and Vocational Institute.
Yes, I know. I can be unnecessarily excessive sometimes, but
whatch'ya gonna do?! Poo? Change your surname to Roo? Anyways, I
found this school to be average, bending more so towards the boring
side. Sorry, but it wasn't terribly interesting, though those random
tires were definitely a questionable thing worth mentioning.
Because
Theresa also happened to be within the Anderson & Crawforth area,
I filmed it too. Not
a terribly exciting place either, but chasing the geese was a lot of
fun! I did something similar up at Hebron,
and was delighted to see geese show up here, too! Another thing that
was particularly funny were the No
Gulfing signs.
Why? I've never seen such a sign before, so I was amused and very
curious about the reasons
behind the presence of these signs. Could there
have been an issue in the past? If so, why Teresa? It's not like the
fields are big enough for such a sport anyway, so it seems kind of
random and silly to choose such a lot to play golf in.
Oh, and there's also the risk of the damaging the school itself, as
well as knocking your golf balls out into the Midway Nissan
dealership
or either Dundas or Crawforth. Simply put: playing golf on school
property just doesn't make any sense. Those
rocks near the front were nice and colourful, but was it a little
memorial? Or was it just a colourful work of art? Who knows.
With
the weather in Southern Ontario finally getting noticeably warmer,
filming more places
in-depth should get even easier, since the risk of devices
shutting off from the biting cold decreases, and the absence of snow,
slush, and other cold related annoyances will also go away. Of
course, I'm also seeing these tick related and pollen articles
popping up already, warning people about the drawbacks of spring
coming so soon, but whatever! I'm just freakin' glad to feel some
warmer weather man! We'll blow the pollen away and destroy the Lyme
disease-injecting
ticks! Well, don't
actually destroy ticks you see biting you. There are many guides about this online, so I won't go into details, aside from telling
you
that you're supposed to pull them off gently with tweezers and then
disinfect the area when the tick is removed. So! I mentioned
something about 10 minute videos on YouTube earlier, and you're
wondering what's special about 10
minute videos?
Well, most familiar with YouTube will already know, but if you don't,
10 minute videos earn you more money, because you get to place an
unlimited number of ads in the insertion mark. Now as you can
imagine, a lot of people had concerns about video quality going
downhill out of fear that it'll cause people to ramble unnecessarily,
fill their videos with blank spaces, or that 10 minutes is simply too
long. Some
of these concerns are legitimate and understandable, but let's not
forget the fact that it's possible for a 2 minute video to perform
far better than
a 10 minute video. Of
course, an equally awesome 10 minute video will generate more revenue
for a YouTube partner than
their 2 minute video.
That's just the way it goes. There's a lot more I could say about the
issues, complications and positives with this 10 minute thing, but it
would make this entry too long for something that's better suited as
a separate topic, or even a commentary video. Speaking of that, I was
supposed to be working on automotive commentary video, but still
haven't got much done on it. I know. I've been doing so many other
things. Will it be on the channel by next week? I honestly don't
know. Because it's nowhere near complete, it probably wouldn't end up
on the channel till either the 14th,
15th
or 17th,
all
of which are guessed dates. Now I know what you might be thinking:
“If you truly wanted to get it done in a timely manner, you'd stop
filming and editing other videos that keep slowing down
'late' commentaries” True, but an efficient schedule would allow
both to happen, so let's aim for that! As for gaming videos, none for
next week. For now, just enjoy the 8
games from the Great
Sunday Marathon
back
in March, if you need to have your BlackBerry 10 gaming fix.
Because
a good number of
the videos on GuuzakaTube
focus on the outdoors, commentary and gaming, it has actually
benefited my channel in terms of coverage.
For the outdoors, I'll
confess
that I sometimes
wander out into fields or nearby roads, chat under a tree or
something, or compose longer outros to
meet threshold. That aside, it's taught me to cover and explore
places and their surroundings more thoroughly. The same can be said
for the other categories. For commentaries, it has taught me to
better research and understand the things I want to talk about, to
make the discussions more
entertaining/educational/stupid/bizarre/crazy/insert emotion not
mentioned here! For games, it's a no-brainer: more gameplay coverage
to showcase the game and levels better! DUH! So for channels that
specialize in categories that can benefit from this, it's not a big
deal if you know what you're doing. For people like independent
animators, it's unfavourable, because you should know that good
animations take a very long time to make. Making a quality, 10-minute
animation by yourself or a small group of people regularly is
impossible. For channels that don't benefit from this, all I can say
is one thing: make sure that you make videos that are super good to
make up for it! Well, I guess that applies for everyone really, but
them especially!
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