Into to Digital Media, Mission 2 - YouTubing

Planning:

The first thing I had to do was choose a topic I would like to do and have an interest in. So to do this for each topic we had to go to a certain part of the room. So I went to a part of the room where there was a group of six people who wanted to do the same topic. This was very convenient because that made sure there was enough people for only two groups. After that I had to form a group with class mates I had not yet worked with. So when I had formed my group that had a total of 3 people.

After that we had to plan out every step.

These included steps such as: Asking what target audience or community was our channel aimed at, create the channel, plan out the type of video each of us would make, make the video, upload the video, create the PowerPoint check analytics at different times and then present it to the class group.

So when we first created the channel, we had to ask ourselves what community was this channel aimed at. We decide compilations because in doing that we each choose a different types of compilations. This would also stop us from using the same video clips as each other. I, myself, chose fast workers compilations, while the other two chose fail compilations and beauty compilations. Then we had to create a channel which meant creating a new email on Gmail because if we didn't the analytics and recommended videos would have been very biased.

So to make a new channel we had to come up with a good memorable name that told the people who we were. So the name we finally agreed upon was "Community Compilations". This was a fitting title because we made different types of compilations but for a community that enjoyed watching compilations. So to start off I watched a few videos from a few different compilation channels just to get a feel for them and understand what made the videos successful and what kept the viewers watching a full eight minute video considering our brains are hardwired with a short attention span.

To create the video I used a software called 'Final Cut Pro'. This was an easy enough to use and it came pre-installed on my laptop. It was a very useful software as you just had to drop the video into the timeline and then use could do anything to the clips. Cut parts out of it, add music, add graphics, split and merge clips together and then finally preview and export it to any social media (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube). It basically had everything you need to create a good quality video for YouTube. The uploading stage was very simple though. You just export the final edited version of the video to YouTube. After this you are asked to give the video a title and description while the video renders. Then YouTube goes through the video to inspect if it breaks or disobeys one of the guidelines. Then you upload the video and check the analytics every two days at least to see if the channel grows at all.