We are all familiar with vlogging. Some comical, some serious, vloggers create short YouTube videos which consist of them looking into the camera and chatting about a particular topic. One of the first viral vlogger was “lonelygirl15” who had a wildly popular vlog in 2006. She was vlog about her quirky day to day life and it was eventually revealed that all of the videos had been scripted. The scandal only added to the video popularity and proved that YouTube can create stars as well as host them.

I did not expect YouTube fame and fortune while creating this YouTube video; just a chance to practice using screencast software and premiere. I worked with a team of two other students to create this and it was much trickery than I expected. Editing clips and adding icons is a slow time consuming process. I also struggled with delivering the script. I originally wanted to write down bullet points and then deliver the lines of the cuff. This proved more difficult than I imagined and resulted in copy sentences and awkward pauses. The next step was to write the entire script word for word and read it on screen while looking into the laptop camera. This was a huge improvement but didn’t fix everything. Instead I combined bullets points and reading off of the screen to achieve the final style. It’s still needs work. How do famous youtubers make it look so easy?!

I am thankful for social media for providing an outlet to create and share. Even if it is just about social media. The wonderful thing about creation on the internet is the variety of audience members a need creation can find. Some people might enjoy our video and other may find it dull. Please let me know what you thought of the video (or Facebook graph search) in the comments.

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