 Hooded Cobra Commander 788 here, back to KV, you're a so great cop here, love G.I. Jones. It's water rising! I'm excited! Ready, ready, ready, silence killed. Hey Hooded Cobra Commander 788 here and this is a special video. I was inspired by FormBX257's video about how he makes his review videos and so I wanted to do one of my own and show you my method. This may not be the best way, but this is how I make these videos and I thought you might be interested in seeing how the process works. I also wanted to give some advice to anyone thinking of doing this kind of thing, of becoming a YouTube content creator, particularly in the toy review area. Now of course I'm not the best and I certainly still have a lot to learn but over the years I have picked up a tip or two that you might find useful. It was my intention to shoot this video all in one go, starting at the beginning of a creation of a video and following it all the way through the end. Well that didn't quite work out the way that I intended to just because of my shooting schedule and things got kind of busy so I ended up shooting this video on multiple days so you'll notice like my shirt changes and things get moved around but that's because this wasn't all shot on the same day but I'm going to edit it so that it will follow the process all the way from the beginning to the end so if you watch it in that order it should work out great and you'll see how it is that I put these videos together. Right now I am in my dining room and behind me you see my lighting setup and my green screen. Now this is new, these are new lights and so this most recent video is the first video I've actually used these. I'm still playing around with them finding the ultimate, the best way to set them up but they work a lot better than my old system. My old system was just to put lights on stacks of books to elevate them high enough. That was difficult. This is easy, this is great. I like this new lighting setup, it's working out very well. Now it's not normally set up in this configuration because I moved things around so I would have space to do this but you get the idea though. I mean there are lights to illuminate the green screen there's a light to illuminate me and then there's the camera and over here you can't see it too well. There's my table where I have, that's where I'll actually review the toys against the black backdrop so that's over here, I'll show you that later. But this is the basic setup and with it set up like this I'm really ready to get started. I don't always leave it set up, sometimes I do leave it set up but I will break it down sometimes and put it away I guess when we have company but if I can I leave it set up just because it's quicker and it's ready to shoot when I walk in there I'm ready to hit record and start shooting. So with this setup I'm ready to get started but before I really even start step one of the video making process I look at my shooting schedule I look at what it is I'm supposed to do this week next week and kind of get a bigger picture of how the next few weeks are going to go because I may need to shoot some things out of order so I have to have some idea of what I'm doing in advance. So knowing what I'm going to shoot in advance means that throughout the week I have a quiet moment at work or I'm just relaxing on the couch and I'm kind of thinking about what I'm going to do to make each video special and unique and that's one of my goals is to make each video special because I don't want any viewer to think that he or she can just skip an HCC 788 video because that's just a typical hooded cobra commander video you can just skip that one but no you can't skip any videos because there are no typical videos each one of them should be special so I'm thinking about what I can put in the video to make it special maybe it will be a skit maybe I will create a new character that comes in and does some wacky things or maybe a new segment or some special effects I don't know, just something something to make every video special and make every video unique so you never know what you're going to get when you hit play and you start watching the videos anything can happen so I really want that to be something that everybody looks forward to so I really start out by giving that some thought I really try to think of something early before I even start writing out what I'm going to do now once I've decided what I'm going to review and how it's going to go what special element is going to be in it then I'm really ready to start step one and step one begins with the research every review that I do always starts here in front of my laptop and I start by doing some initial research I check the websites that you would usually check for GI Joe information yojo.com, 3djoes.com those are great sources and I start a text document and for each source that I use I start putting my citations into the text document and that will eventually be copied and pasted into the closing credits of the video so it's always important to cite your sources now I of course am claiming fair use under the copyright statute the federal copyright statute under title 17 and I think I'm pretty safely within fair use based on the federal copyright standard but there are some sources that I will check sometimes but I won't use them as direct sources sources like Joe Declassified because they are kind of picky about how the information they gathered is disseminated now I could still legally use that information and it would still legally be fair use but as a professional courtesy I don't use them as a direct source however sometimes I'll use them as a secondary source not to go see if I can find other direct sources that I can use but it always starts with gathering information and I get as much as I can right at the beginning and of course remember to put all my sources in a text file this review will be for the terror drone the firebat and the AVAC action figure and that's quite a bit to cover so what I do is I create a word document that will contain my notes for the review this one will be broken up into three main sections the terror drone, the firebat and the AVAC figure and of course each of those will have sub sections so with all vehicles I like to look at the parts and the features with all figures I like to look at the sculpt, design and color and the accessories and the file card so there will be sections for each of those and I just start filling each of those sections with information as I'm making my notes I always have a few objects in the vicinity definitely within arms reach including if I'm reviewing a figure I want to have the figure right there so I can move it around I can look at it close up see if I notice anything odd or interesting about it if I'm reviewing a vehicle I want the vehicle to be handy so I can move it around make sure I know how it works and make sure that I know what all the parts are before I review it so all those things have to be handy so I can actually look at it and see it and make notes about it and of course I'll have the file card if I'm looking at a figure I don't always have the blueprints for vehicles but when I do I try to have those handy so I can use those for reference and the reason I have those is if I see anything that looks like it might have been influenced by the real world I will look it up and try to learn more about it also I usually have a stack of comic books around me because I do try to look up the media appearances for each item that I review and so sometimes I haven't read these comic books since they first came out so I'll try to read through them really quickly so that I know what's in them so I have all that reference material and I put all that information into the notes and then once my notes are complete then what I used to do is print them out I've got dozens of these printed out notes here it's usually, I don't know, three pages maybe four pages at the most and it's really a little more than an outline I don't work from a script I just have notes but I do follow these notes pretty closely now I'm not doing this anymore now I am putting my notes on a tablet so I'll be reading them from a tablet rather than printed paper that's something new that I'm doing but it seems to be working out pretty well it's at this stage that errors can start to creep in usually they are errors of omission if I'm pressed for time I just don't have an opportunity to look at all of the sources that I'd like to look at I don't necessarily have time to look up all of the real world influences that I would like to look up but sometimes that's just, I just don't have enough time but I always do my best sometimes errors will creep in for instance, if I end up transcribing information into the notes incorrectly well hopefully I catch that before I start shooting but I don't always but with the notes ready then I need to start setting up so that I can shoot the video I am set up here to record this is my basic setup for reviewing an action figure I have the AVAC figure here ready to review of course it's a little different because I'm also reviewing the pterodrome so I have the pterodrome in the background normally I would just have a plain background behind the action figure but this is the basic setup I've got my bendy lamps here for light I've got my black poster board I've got black in the background now I use this black I started using a black background with my review of snow job I had been using a white background like everybody else but I wanted more of a contrast with the white action figure so I started using black and I've kind of stuck with that I don't use a light box that's something that maybe I will eventually do but I don't do that right now now the black is kind of a style choice it's unique I don't know of any other reviewers who use a black background so when the video comes up you immediately know that it's mine so it's served me pretty well and I'll probably stick with that these bendy lights are very important because the lighting has to be adjusted a lot as I move the camera around and choose different camera angles the lighting has to adjust for the different angles that I'm shooting the video so sometimes I'll need the lighting up here sometimes I might need the lighting right in the guy's face or maybe out of the background or even like behind the figure pointing at the camera so these lights get moved around a lot and it just depends on what is needed for each individual shot of the video I have some important things that are just off camera here first of all I have my notes and because of my notes I know that as I'm talking about the AVAC I'm going to be referencing a couple other figures so I have Wild Weasel I know that I will reference Wild Weasel I also know I will reference Ripcord so I have both of them just standing just off camera so when it comes time to talk about them I can slide them in front of the camera and we can talk about them and then they can slide back off so I try to have all this set up before I get started so that it can just flow and so when it's time when we're talking about AVAC and it's time to talk about Wild Weasel then Wild Weasel just slides in and we go and so I really try to prepare before I start shooting as much as possible there's one part of this set up that you're not seeing and that is the camera and the tripod and the reason you don't see it is because the camera is on the tripod and it's shooting me right now but I'll make sure to drop in a picture so you can see where the camera is in relation to the rest of this stuff the camera that I'm using is a Samsung HMX F90 it is not a high-end camera at all that's one of the things I'd like to do in the hopefully the near future for this channel is to get some better video equipment but for the time being this camera served its purpose and you know it's served its purpose valiantly for more than a year now I don't have a camera at all and I'm very happy to have it so anyway I always work behind the camera sitting in this chair directly behind the camera reaching around to manipulate the object that's on camera now some reviewers do it differently and I think it's a mistake it can be a little difficult and cumbersome to kind of embrace the camera and reach around and move things around that can be a little bit difficult but the other alternative that a lot of reviewers go for is to reach in from the side because there's a lot more space from the side and you can reach things a lot better but there's a problem with that and let me show you what that is I have the camera set up more or less where it would be for the review and I'm sitting behind the camera and I'm reaching around and of course I'm going to show you the articulation on AVAC and all of that and so yes I do have to reach around the camera and it is kind of a long stretch sometimes but there's nothing between the camera and the figure to obscure the view now I've moved around to the side of the camera and I'm going to do what some reviewers do and I think it's a mistake and that is reach around from the side now I'm over here and so now I'm going to reach in and I'm going to manipulate the figure and I'm going to show you the articulation right now all you can see right now is my great big fat hairy arm so this is what happens a lot when you reach in from the side and it's a mistake that a lot of reviewers make I think and really I just think that it's tempting to do that it's easier you can reach it better but a lot of times your viewers are looking at this and that's not what they're tuning in to see they're tuning in to see this another mistake some reviewers make and it's a bit of a pet peeve of mine is when they discover something new what they're reviewing as they're reviewing it and this is a result of them not really looking at what they're reviewing before the camera rolls so you know they'll be reviewing the thing and okay it does this and it's got the missiles on it and then you're playing around with it and they're like oh hey that comes off I didn't know that comes off well why didn't you know that comes off did you not check before you started you should check if this ever if you are a reviewer and this ever happens to you stop the camera right there and then take a look at the thing that you just discovered about what you're reviewing learn something about it and then roll the camera again so you can talk competently about it even though I'm working from notes and I know pretty much what I'm going to say before I get started sometimes it takes a lot of tries just to say it some things are easy to write but difficult to say the words just don't flow out and so many times it takes 5, 10 or sometimes more than a dozen tries just to get the words out and to get through each segment of a review and that's been my biggest struggle in doing these videos it's just the many mistakes that I make of course I cut all those out and I only use the best take of whatever segment that I'm doing but that's why it takes for basically just like a 10 or 11 minute section of video it takes more than an hour sometimes more than 2 hours just to get all of that done just to show you how much I struggle with this here is an unedited clip from my review of Leatherneck I think this vest is a bit I think this vest is a little too slim I think this vest is a little too slim when I had this kid I think this vest is a little too slim I think this vest is a little too slim I think this vest is a little too I think this vest is a little too slim when I had this figure as a kid I thought this was just part of his shirt but this is intended to be a vest I think it I think this vest is a little too slim I think this vest is a little too slim I think this vest is a little too slim I think this vest is a little too slim I think this vest is a little too slim I think this vest is a little too slim I think this vest is a little too slim I think this vest is a little too slim when I had this figure as a kid I thought this was just part of his shirt But this is intended to be a vest if it were a bit bulkier I think it would have worked a little better for example the 1986 cobra viper also wearing a vest. It's a bit a bit I Think this vest is a little I think this vest is a little too slim when I was a I Think this vest is a little too slim when I had this figure as a kid I thought this was just part of his shirt, but this is intended to be a vest If it had been a little bulkier, I think it would have worked better for example The 1986 cobra viper also wearing a vest his vest is a little bulkier and it looks a bit more like a vest Painful isn't it? Well, this is another way that errors can creep into the video Because when I've tried to say the same thing Dozen times a dozen tries to get this one phrase or line out of my mouth and on the camera Sometimes I just say it wrong I'm too focused on trying to get this one part of it Right that I don't realize that I get this other part of it wrong And it's just it's just a mistake of just repeating the same thing over and then just not repeating it the right way And so that happens that's happened on a multiple occasions And of course you guys never hesitate to point that out in the comments. Thank you I call this section of the video the core review now That's the part of the review where we're actually looking at the object that's being reviewed It's essentially everything I do behind the camera and of course after that I'll make sure to get some still photos of the comic book I'll use those I'll get some pictures of the accessories and anything else that I want to look at close up So I get all those still photos And then after all that's done the videos only about halfway done There's still plenty of shooting to do I've got to do the part of the video that I do in front of the camera With the core review done it's time to do the wrap around that's the beginning and the end that kind of bookends the review and Also, I like to do special things I like to put special things in the video sometimes a skit or something like that And depending on my schedule is determines, you know, when that's done. Sometimes I do that before I do the intro Sometimes I do it after sometimes it can be days or even weeks apart. It just depends on the schedule And if my wife is going to be in the video, then it depends on her schedule So the way that works, you know, if Susan is going to be in the video We're going to do a skit or something like that Then if it's going to be something simple and I can just explain what I have in mind And then we rehearse it a few times and then, you know, hit record and hope that it all comes out But if it's going to be something bigger that's going to require lines to memorize Then I'll write out a script and we'll print it off and then we'll rehearse it with the script Until we are comfortable, you know doing it on camera. So that's kind of how that works And there there are some ideas some skits that we have done that for one reason or another Just didn't work out either they ended up not being funny or the camera angle ended up being just wrong And you couldn't see what you needed to see for a sight gag or something like that And you know, if you can't see a sight gag, then it kind of doesn't work. It's pointless And unfortunately because I'm on kind of a tight schedule most of the time If I don't discover that a skit is not working until the editing process It's too late to reshoot it I just don't have time to go back and retry it and see if I can fix it. It's just too late So there are some ideas that have just had to go into the bin of you know ideas that just didn't work out so Once any special things are done skits and things like that special effects and such Once that's all done then I'm definitely ready to do the wrap around so at this point I have already done the core review and I've already done any skits or extra special stuff that I plan to do for the video And it is time to do the part in which I appear in front of the camera talking to you fine people So this is the space. This is my new fancy green screen. Now. I don't have the lighting turned on I wanted to see kind of like the just the ambient light and see more of the room And so this is the space that I have to work with I Mark my spot on the floor usually with a figure stand or sometimes with tape But you know, I have to mark my spot So I appear in the same spot on camera every time I turn the camera on And then I have certain things that I routinely go through I have a standard introduction And then I have notes about what specifically I want to say Now sometimes I run into mistakes. I make mistakes in which I you know, don't read the notes properly Sometimes I'm in a hurry. Sometimes I skip parts of the notes Or sometimes I want to change it on the fly and so that can take sometimes Several takes to get it all done. I'm trying to keep these segments where it's me just talking to the camera To a minimum I'm trying to shorten those now I know that you guys are here to see the toys not to see me I'm trying to keep that in mind, but at the same time. I want to be a host I want to introduce the things that are being reviewed and I want to express my opinion and That brings me to something important and that is my opinion I always express an opinion about what I'm reviewing You don't have to agree with that opinion, but I always stayed one not everybody does But I do and I try to do that every time because I Look at these views reviews as a type of art criticism and for criticism Criticism requires taking a position Not just looking at a thing and describing it but taking a position and forming an opinion about it And that's what I try to do and I really feel like that's what a reviewer should do I mean anybody can just point a camera at something But you know it takes a little bit more effort to think about it to analyze it and to form an opinion That you can express that is clear and fair And so I really think that's an important part of what I do So after standing between the camera and the green screen for a while and talking and introducing the video and Expressing my opinion about everything and probably making several mistakes along the way It's done, you know everything that's supposed to be recorded on the camera is recorded It's all there So now it's time to put it all together into a final video that you can actually watch and that is the editing process I'm back in front of my laptop and it is time to edit the video I have pulled all of the files from the camera and put them on the laptop I'll also gathered any images that I want to use in the video Either photographs I've taken myself or images that I've pulled from the internet always with sources cited And it's time to put those all together and to a finished video that you can see Now the video editing software that I'm using is movie studio platinum 13.0 It is not, you know a top-end video editing program, but it's not free And it's it does really more than I need it to do. It's it does quite a bit And I've you've been using it for a few years. I've gotten pretty efficient at it I've learned a few tricks that I can do with it And I'm still learning more that I can do with this Editing program and so it's worked very well for me. It pretty much does everything that I that I need to do So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to turn the camera around so you can see the screen and I'll show you What this looks like from my perspective, okay? Now we are looking at my laptop screen and it starts of course with this folder This is my Leatherneck folder in my reviews folder So this is going to have all of the files I need for Leatherneck and within the Leatherneck folder I have two other folders I have Leatherneck raw video and Leatherneck uploads and the raw video folder is the video that comes straight from the camera These are all the clips unedited That I've recorded on the video camera and here you can kind of see the order in which I shot them There's you know starts out with Leatherneck here. We go down. We see there. I'm looking at the file card And here is me in front of the green screen and that's just kind of how these look once I first pull them off of the camera And then this other folder here Leatherneck uploads These are the files that will actually be uploaded to YouTube. These are the finished. That's the finished video Right there Leatherneck review. That's the finished video review and then Leatherneck thumb This thumbnail image is the thumbnail image that you will see when you see it on in your subscription feed on YouTube so these are all ready to go and those will be uploaded Now just loose in the Leatherneck folder I have all these images that I'm going to use within the video just loose there I don't create a separate folder for those that just kind of just in there with the Leatherneck general stuff And then also there are two documents in this Leatherneck Leatherneck folder There is the Leatherneck review notes a word document and pull that up really quick and this has All of my notes that I'm going to follow for the review So, you know, that's everything that I want to say in the video Got it all broken down there And so that stays in that folder and then there's one other document here It says Leatherneck review info and this is just a text document and this Really is just things that I'm going to need to copy and paste into the video It has you know the Facebook and the Twitter and the patrons and then we have information and sources here then we have All of our sources for all the different images and other elements that I have used in this review video All the research that I did it's all right here I try to keep this updated as I go so that I will have a citation for everything that I use And then we have my disclaimer here at the bottom and so this is really important This is just kind of some basic information that I will need to go forward with the review So with all of these I Drag all of these files over to the editing software Right over here and this is like I said movie studio platinum 13.0 and this is just kind of how it looks When I'm ready to start editing of course this video is already completely edited, but I'm going to show you how this works Here is the preview screen now here are the Files that I brought over the media files that I will be using in the video and you can see there are some images there Some comic book images the file card And then we have the video clips from the camera And those are all ready to be dragged down here to the timeline Now that has to be done in a certain way in order for it to turn out just right and I want to show this to you They kind of expand this a little bit now the green screen is something that I've been doing for a while now And so there's a particular way to do that now here is me drag this over here easy so you can see it now there's the The advertisement for die-cast enterprise There is the introduction. This is the old introduction. I have a new one now, but it still works in basically the same way It's you know one that something that's pre-shot, and I drop it in there And then I have this I don't know if you can see this this Crossfade right here where it fades from the introduction to The video of me in front of the green screen now the way the green screen works is there is a video effect in here a chroma here and I use the green screen effect to essentially key out the green and make the image but make the green Transparent so you will see whatever is behind it and this line right here is what's going to be behind it Now see here. I've got my hcc 788 logo and so that's going to be what's behind me in front of The green screen see there Now I have a few presets For the green screen because you have to make some adjustments to get it just right And I have some on here where you know if I've got the settings just the way I want them And they look look pretty good. I will save that setting so I can use it again without having to you know Redo it every time so there we have me in front of the green screen here The image that's behind me here, and of course, this is the audio. That's me talking and Here you can see there's a transition It transitions here at this point it crossfades from the hooded cober commander 788 logo to the leather neck File card and so that's kind of how that works once I'm done talking on the camera Then it's time to do the core review It's time to actually get to the review and so we have this crossfade here And then we have the first clip of the review itself So we can see leather neck there now the this first clip is up here The next clip is down at this level It just it just works better if I do the crossfade up at this level rather than down at this level I've played around with it. I've experimented with it and it just works better that way You just have to trust me on that but it's okay for this These clips down here to be at that level me shrink this down so you can see better These clips can be down here because I'm not using the green screen anymore So, you know, there's nothing behind that so these can be right here right next to the audio clip And now we do have to have to do something a little special with the audio When I am In front of the camera. I'm a little farther away from the microphone So I need to increase the volume a little bit in order for you to be able to hear and understand me clearly When I'm behind the camera, I'm closer to the microphone. So I drop the volume down a little bit So I have a separate volume a separate audio Layers here one with a slightly louder volume one was a slightly lower volume And I do my best to you know mix those well so they come out pretty much even I'm not always successful on that But you know, I do try to get them to have about the same volume level Whether I'm in front of or behind the camera and so now let me shrink down some of these layers here So you can kind of get an idea of how many layers we're working with here when I am doing the core review I have to drop in a few things like some images There I got this image here. So there's that and it's you know, it's of the level above The video clip so it's going to be on top and then let's see. What's this? This is the grenade launcher for For leather neck. So that's on this level above. So it's going to be on top. It's going to be on the top layer So every time I drop something in that's what I'm doing So there's there are some other images that we're using and of course I can adjust where they go Using this feature If I can get it to pop up Yeah, see this and I can move this around See and it will position it wherever I want it to be on the screen So there's that and that's basically I just keep doing that until the Video is done. I have collapsed each of the layers and I've compressed the whole length of the video So you can see the entire edited video here and one single shot from beginning to end and all of the layers now This is a pretty simple video Most of them tend to be a bit more complicated than this Because they have special effects or skits or other special things that require Several more layers and just a lot more moving parts This is a pretty basic video and you can see pretty much the whole thing here There's the core review all through there a few images here and there Here is that's me in front of the green screen there That's me in front of the green screen there this long bar up here at the top That is the bug that goes in the corner of the screen the little hcc 788 that goes in the bottom corner I usually do that last wait till everything's Edited because that's going to run through the entire length of the video So once it's done then I can drop that in at the top level So that it it is where it's supposed to be and it doesn't get covered up by anything And that's pretty much it now some of the mistakes that creep in at this stage Or like if a clip gets forgotten like I miss a clip and I don't include it that has happened a number of occasions That's very annoying Sometimes I won't catch it until I'm actually done editing And sometimes it's too late to fix it So I hopefully if everything goes the way it's supposed to it's all in there It's all in the proper order. I haven't made any major flubs, but there it is That is the edited video and it is ready to render to render the video I go up here to make movie and Save to my hard drive. There is the title Leatherneck review I am saving it in the Leatherneck uploads folder and that's a WMV Video type and I just click next and to start rendering now I've already rendered this so I'm not gonna do this right now, but if I wanted to render it I would click next And then it would for the a video of this length on this laptop It takes about two hours to render So the render time is kind of important because if I discover that I've made a mistake After I've rendered it then it's gonna take a minimum of two hours in order to fix it So I try to do it right the first time from my YouTube account I select the upload button and that will bring me to this screen and I will either click there and Select the file or I will drag the video file over here to begin uploading it and from there I will type in the title of the video. I will upload the thumbnail image I will copy all of the information in the text document and paste it In the additional information box for the video And then I will schedule the video to publish at a particular time for these videos It is Sunday at four o'clock my time local time And so then I just walk away once it's done uploading YouTube will publish the video at the time that's selected and I don't have to do anything Now hopefully if everything goes right it will all be done a couple days in advance So if I do discover something is wrong I will hopefully maybe have an opportunity to fix it sometimes though There just isn't enough time to fix a mistake if it's discovered after it's uploaded. I have fixed a few things I have caught a few errors before you guys ever saw it But a lot of the time if the mistake if I the mistake is discovered at this stage It's probably too late to fix it And so I pretty much just have to live with it So you have a video that is completely shot and rendered and upload and ready for people to see on YouTube You're ready to get a million fans and get tons of hits and have your video go viral and be seen by millions of people You're all set So now what happens I'm gonna turn this around go get back in front of the camera So I can talk a little bit about what's next because even though the video is done This is not the end of the process After editing the video and uploading the video I wanted to take a few minutes to address anyone who is new to Making videos for YouTube or who is thinking about doing this kind of thing I wanted to make a few suggestions Maybe you could avoid some of the mistakes that I made and maybe learn a few lessons that I had to learn the hard way So you have a video up on YouTube. You are ready to be a YouTube star So what is next what's next? Are you going to make another video? When are you gonna make another video? Now that will depend on your schedule and your resources There are some video makers who upload videos once a day like a video every day to me That is too much The ideal frequency for me has been one per week Well with maybe a little something extra thrown in here and there But the main reviews once a week and that has been really That's working really well for me for a number of reasons for one thing doing a video every day Or even like multiple times a week would I wouldn't be able to make each video special I would have to really cut back on the production value to do videos that frequently So I mean even doing videos once a week with the main videos once a week Even that can run me tight on time getting it getting it all done But if I were to do a video once a day Even if I cut back on the production value and just did really basic Videos just me with a camera. It was no special effects or anything like that I'm still not sure I could keep up with a video per day in your Enthusiasm it is tempting to put out as much as possible as quickly as possible But I think you will find if you space them out more you will be more free to Think about what you're doing To to plan what you're gonna do to Experiment and experimentation is important because nobody starts out being great at this all of us have more to learn and so Experimenting is important and failing is important. You will fail sometimes Some things that you try even if it seems like a great idea will just not work out But you still have to try you have to try and be willing to fail to learn and so spacing the videos out a bit more allows you to experiment to fail sometimes to Take the lessons that you learn from those experiments and apply them to the next video So you're always continually getting better even if your first video comes out exactly the way you want it to I mean you plan out everything you have the best equipment everything comes out exactly the way you planned When you look back at that video three years later, you're gonna think it's total crap Why did people even watch that? I can do so much better now, but that's what experience does that and that takes time That takes experimentation and that takes a willing willingness to learn and grow Subscribers let's talk about subscribers. That's important. How do you get subscribers? You will accumulate some subscribers simply by virtue of Sticking around and just not going away continually producing content and some people will find you that way And you'll get a few subscribers that way But you know if you have a product that you feel is Worthy of people watching Then you should try to promote it and you should promote it in places where it's permitted In Facebook groups if it's allowed On the forums of whatever fan base you're trying to reach Make sure that it's okay that you promote your stuff there But get your stuff out in front of your audience so they can find you and I really believe that You know whatever kind of content you create and whatever your style is your audience will find you if If you're out there now, it's an open question about how big your audience will be But really even like a niche audience can be big enough to really make this worth while But they've got to be able to find you so always try to make Content that you won't think people should see that is worthy of your viewers, you know seeing But then get it out there so people can find you Comments YouTube comments YouTube comments are notoriously nasty But but they don't have to be and so this is something that you need to prepare yourself for Because as your audience grows one thing that is inevitable is negative comments It just comes with the territory, you know, it's just it's impossible to please everyone So the more people that you reach it's just inevitable that you will reach some people who just not gonna like what you do But you know what just let that go don't worry about it It's easy to let those things get to you because those comments stand out I mean you can have a video with 50 a hundred comments on it But the that one guy that wants to be a dickhead that one stands out and it can get to you But really don't stress over it. I'd like to I don't even like to reply to those types of comments I just kind of let them go. It's a mistake to try to Correct somebody if they've made a mistake about what you're doing or they don't understand what you did and they've made Comments that are negative about it and you you want to set them straight because you know if they only understood Then they wouldn't disagree with anymore and so everything would be right and they would like you but that's a mistake It doesn't work that way. You can't fix those people There's no level of explaining that you can do that's gonna make those people get it So you have to just let it go now I have replied to some negative comments when I think it's necessary But for the most part I just leave them alone Now if you go through the comments on my videos You won't see a lot of really bad stuff because if there's somebody there and they're just trolling or they're just Insulting those people they get booted fast. They are not around for very long, but there's never a shortage of people who Want to make sure that you know everything that you're doing wrong. They'll give you a list Here's everything you did wrong in this video and you know You got to ignore that stuff That you got to just let that stuff go because I mean that guy or those people They may have never created a video in their lives. They have no idea what goes into making these They don't know and what you I think you should not do is try to please those people Because the minute you start trying to please everyone who you know is telling you oh you got to do this or you got to stop doing that You please you try to please one person first of all they they're never happy But you try to make that person happy and then you end up pissing off 15 other people who didn't want you to change anything so You just you just have to let that stuff go ignore it It's making suggestions and having constructive constructive criticism is one thing but You're in charge of your videos. You're the one who knows whether or not these suggestions are really helpful So I mean people can talk all they want You're in charge. You know what you're capable of doing You're not you know, you know what you want to produce and the kind of content you want to produce so you have to make those decisions and so Be careful if you're tempted to strike back at people who make negative comments Don't do it. It's not worth it. You're not gonna make them happy and Really, what's the point if you keep all of that in perspective and you really look at all of your comments What you will find is a lot of love There will be a lot of people who just love what you do and that's what you got to pay attention to even though The negative stands out more Pay attention to the overwhelming support that you will get from most of the people who are watching your stuff and Do it for them Do it for the people who love it. Don't do it for the people who hate it. They'll go away Of course, there will be more content because your audience will grow You'll find you'll reach more people who just ain't gonna like you But they won't be around for long and you will accumulate more and more people who love you and so Make sure you do it for them. Do it for the ones who love it. You who are watching this You are the reason I do this you are what makes this worth while There's no point in me standing in front of a camera for a couple hours just to hear myself talk I do this because of you guys those of you who have been around for a while Some of us have become friends. Some of us have become pretty tight I care about you guys and you guys make a difference in my life. So negative comments Who cares the the good far outweighs the bad by like a hundred to one And so none of that stuff is gonna get to me I care about you and the those of you who have gone on this journey with me And are gonna continue on this journey as we go forward and conquer the world. I guess that's all I have to say I'm kind of freeform here. I know this is gonna be a long video. I'm sorry about that But I wanted to take you through my process show you each step But I also wanted to to say a few things to anyone out there who's new or who wants to try this It's not like I'm a huge YouTube channel, but I have done this for a little while And so, you know, maybe I can help somebody and if you're thinking about doing this try it. It's fun So give it a shot But I guess I got to wrap this up now because now I have to start the process for the next video review I got stuff to do. So that's it for now. I hope you enjoyed this. Thanks for watching. I'll see you all next time