GuuzakaTube
2017-04-13
You
know? I think that calling this entry the Stevenson-Thornton
Rossland Catholic Buildings Trip,
probably would have been a much cooler sounder title, but alas! I
went for the usual upload date theme. I
was glad it was sunny that day, as it allowed for some beautiful
photography and videos! Let's discuss them.
The
first building I filmed that day. Now, as you'll know from the entry
and video and did for the schools south of Stevenson and Rossland, is
that I did contemplate on getting Paul Dwyer that day, but decided it
against for various reasons related to battery life and weather. This
time around, it
worked well in my favour, as it was much sunnier and a little warmer.
And because I didn't waste time or energy from filming earlier
things, it allowed me to explore other buildings along the
Stevenson-Thornton Rossland strip. How was
Paul Dwyer particularly? Quite interesting. I enjoyed the front area
and some of the paintings at the sides. The fields happened to be
occupied for some event I have no idea about, so I wasn't able to
freely wander about and capture them. Well, there was actually no
hard rule in place, but I'm sure y'all know my stance on this by now
so I ain't gonna bore ya. All in all, it felt like a fairly large
place to walk around, but nothing super large or exciting. Definitely
wasn't boring either, so don't be under that impression when I
say that it wasn't terribly exciting. Hilariously (or sadly?) when I
Googled this school, there were some people or sites saying that this
school was
pretty bad. The current Google reviews and what not, now paint a more
positive impression, but you want to know what's my verdict? No idea!
Why? Because I know nothing about this place! Ke ke ke ke ke ke! Now
let's discuss the building
I found further west of this place.
Even
though I planned it before I going there, I actually almost forgot
about its existence, until I passed it and remembered that I was
supposed to film this place! Wow! That's how “random” it is!
Well, random to many, but the staff that actually work there. Because
of the fact that it's a building that most won't bat an eye on,
that's
what made it interesting to film. It's
fairly small, so walking around it did not take very long. And
because it's small, there wasn't very much to see and do, thus
rendering
me without having much to say about it, aside from some of the pretty
marques I saw on it. Unlike the video of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints where
I put a slide advising people not to listen to the ending
composition, I did not do this for this video, but because it
suffered from the same problem, I'll discuss the issue and some
possible solutions here. You see, both the outro and intro for this
particular synth creates a
buzzy, rattling sound when recorded too loudly. In fact, a lot of the
synths on the old
keyboard suffer from that problem, so you
might be wondering: why record it so loudly in the first place?
Because the music will sound weak and muffled if I don't. At the same
time, recording too loudly also causes problems, so what's the
solution? Refrain from using certain electronic voices? No. A
possible, untested solution for this problem is to record the music
with my Blue Snowball. “What?! No wonder
your audio sounds so bad, you dummy! What were you recording your
music with for your past several videos?!” you must be wondering.
An application from my smartphone. I know. It's just that it's so
much quicker and easier to just mount the phone on the keyboard and
record, and also makes it more flexible to move it around to various
rooms, which is why I recorded it like this in the first place.
Problem is, it's proven to sacrifice audio quality for most voices.
Oh,
and not only that, but the application sometimes records a random
static or pop sound, that you don't know is there until you listen to
it. Joy..... So you know what? As much as I like the flexibility,
ease and speed of putting everything away after, I don't think it's
worth the tradeoff for quality. As I've mentioned back in November 2016
I believe, during the brand change, quality
was something that I wanted to strive to continually
improve. I ought to live up to my word and take the compositions as
serious as the videos themselves. I know most of this entry under the
Durham Catholic District School Board Building hasn't been about the
building itself, but I had to come clean about the outro music, and
make my intentions clear,
that
I've
acknowledged
this issue myself,
first,
without having another commenter, troll or what not, tell me about
how distorted or weird the loud synth music sounds. I've also
highlighted a possible solution and how I plan to execute it for
potentially better music quality.
The
3rd
building I filmed that day. Upon reaching the grounds, I decided to
walk around the building to check for “things” before filming it.
I did have intentions to start filming from the front again, but
couldn't bother and didn't want to potentially look silly, even
though no one was probably watching. Or were they? Were you
watching me? I hope not... then again, considering that this church
is directly north of a neighbouring area called Thornton Place, which
I believe may be a retirement community or maybe a condo or
something, it's possible that there may have been curious onlookers
watching from their windows.... how
creepy...
Anyways! It was a tall, pretty building to walk around, and the
particular shot of the steeple and sunshine was simply stunning! The
outward
church
organ song
I made at the end
of the video? Not stunning, but since I've already explained
everything under the DCDSB's entry, I get to spare the details here.
The
4th
and final building I filmed that day. The building was a little
larger than I anticipated it to be, and so were the surrounding
fields, which allowed for extra wandering and chatting that many
would find to be oh-so-cleverly-boring! Thankfully, I put a warning
slide at the 3:21 mark to make it easier for people to decide if they
want to continue watching the “joyful” tour around the fields. I
find it hilarious that both The
Salvation Army Oshawa Church
and The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
were both clearly closed that day, but both also happened to have a
lonely minivan parked somewhere on
the property? Coincidence? What could be the purpose of those lonely
minivans that day? Were they abandoned? Does somebody secretly sleep
in those churches to watch over them? Were they
additional spying tools?! Who knows! Lot's of crazy things can be
assumed about those minivans, but in all likeliness,
it's probably just – I
don't know actually... I was going to say that it was probably just a
temporary visitor visiting another
site in the area, but why would
they choose to park at a church, as
opposed to directly parking on the premise that they're visiting?
Again, who knows for sure, so let's just conclude this entry by
saying that the
Salvation
Army crown
was
a cool subject for photography, though it's main purpose is to
represent King Jesus, and not just sit there as a fabulous work of
art.
So
it's
that time of the year again: Good
Friday and Easter weekend!
I don't have anything special planned for Easter itself, but
depending on how it goes with the weather, I did plan to get a number
of outdoor videos done, since I'll be able to take “advantage”.
How many? We'll have to see. I'd rather underpromise and overdeliver,
than to overpromise and underdeliver. That commentary though...
haven't done anywhere as much as I'd like to for it this week. I had
intentions to get it done by Thursday and type this entry up on
Friday instead, but when I clearly saw how far it was from
completion, I knew that it would've been a great idea to just upload
the videos I filmed from last weekend, and post them and this blog on
social media, before the newer videos come. I know, I know. As I told
myself from an admonishment that I'd anticipate from you guys in
last
week's April 06, 2017 Uploads,
“If you really wanted to get late commentaries done in a timely
manner, you'd halt production of
your outdoor videos
till your
commentary is
done, and get your schedule together!” Yet,
I refuse to do just that. My excuse
reason? “True, but an efficient schedule would allow both to
happen, so let's aim for that!” Alright, so let's be honest and
real here: have I actually been doing that? No. Why? Because I've
been slack as hell. There, I said it, and now need to proceed with
the proper corrective course of actions to ensure that this does not
happen next or week – better yet, ever again! Ok, that's a bit of a
stretch, but seriously, this tardiness needs
to be burned with FIRE!!!!
Wait,
did I
write an explanation to an anticipated question about what's so
special or important about these commentary videos, and why I keep
talking and beating myself up over
them? No, I don't think I have,
but let's just keep it simple and say that they're good for the
channel, and keep up with the theme of gaming, commentaries,
and
the outdoors. At the very moment I typed this sentence, I decided to
take a look at my page without hitting the load more bar, to see the
categories of videos: 21 outdoor videos, 8 games and just 1
commentary out of the 30 most recent displayed. WOW! That's clearly
quite imbalanced,
wouldn't you say? The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 & Note 8: Commentary and Discussion dating
back to 4 weeks ago, was the last time I've done a good, proper,
complete commentary video. For the games, I've already mentioned many
times that they're not a huge priority, but that doesn’t mean that
I'm going to drastically halt production of them either. What
do I want? I want to get one commentary done a week, alongside the
numerous outdoor videos that I do, and if possible, a game or two
tossed in. It may sound like a pressurizing, burdening task I'm
putting on myself, but rest assured, it isn't. Efficiency
and consistency is key.
Not just saying that in regards to YouTube, but also for things
pertained to life in general.
