90-second videos: Pop-up Heart, Bat, Santa, Beach Chair, Cake, Snowman
November 29, 2011
I got my Christmas present early - a new video camera with HD quality! Yay!
In honor of the new studio and the new camera, I'm trying a new format to my videos as well. Here are the major changes:
- Music! I scoured through a ton of selections at JewelBeat looking for just the right uptempo "theme music" to use at the beginning and ends of my videos. My family can often be heard singing a "na-na-na" version of it around the house. The official name of the track is "Source of Inspiration", which seemed like a good omen.
- My face! OK, so those of you who have watched my video tutorials know that I don't show my face. It's always just my hands/arms and a voiceover. I have several reasons, which range from "no suitable backdrop", to "hair/makeup optional", to "what if someone leaves an unkind comment about my appearance and I dwell on it until it eats me up inside?" (OK, so maybe mostly that last one) However, I have been told repeatedly by people who are much more savvy at marketing than I am, that there needs to be a face with my brand, so I'm giving it a try. These videos have a short face intro and then back to the puppet hands and voiceover.
- 90 seconds(ish)! I had already figured out that my earliest videos were way too long. Who wants to slog through 5 parts to learn how to put one die together? What can I say? I was thorough! So I have already been trying to get the full tutorial videos down one part, 5-8 minutes in length. But I'd also like to start adding in some of these "taste of" or "alternate use for this die" videos and am attempting to keep them around a minute and a half. These videos will assume that you're somewhat familiar with the die and/or willing to watch a longer video to learn all the assembly steps in greater detail. Keeping the length so short forces me to hit only the most important parts and it also means I can shoot and edit them in less time. It should make for more frequent videos. I would LOVE some feedback on this.
Ado over.
Here are six 90-second(ish) video tutorials. I've started a gallery at Scrapbook.com to make it easier to link supplies. Instead of linking them all on my blog, I will include a direct link to the gallery upload at Scrapbook.com, where I've used their (very easy!) supply finder to link up all the supplies.
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For this last one, I filmed the creation of the birthday card I made for Gretchen to celebrate her 40th.
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So what do you think? Do you get enough instruction with these super-quick tutorials? I am flexible. I could change to a 2-minute format for future videos and add in an extra step or two. Thoughts?