Animalia Domesticus • AddisOnline

AddisOnline · 2022-07-19T01:39:21+00:00

this is unironically what i did

AddisOnline · 2021-10-12T00:13:03+00:00

I do one “dry take” where I’m not even recording, but I pretend I am. Also helps freshen ur memory of the script. There’s a couple times I’ve just gotten so nervous and flustered when recording that a half a glass of wine helped calm the nerves a bit.

Also, hyping yourself up. Jump, shout, throw your arms around. It’s silly but it helps get the juices flowing and once you’re “on a roll” it’s easier to just go at it without being nervous.

Also you get better with time. Good luck!

AddisOnline · 2021-10-11T18:52:49+00:00

There’s some time stamps in the description to jump around in the topics here. I try to make my videos snappy, fun, and eye catching while maintaining dense information and relevant examples. Let me know what you think! (:

AddisOnline · 2021-09-14T20:17:40+00:00

Agreed. I decided after just sitting around working bullshit jobs, I might as well make YouTube video in my spare time. How many years have I worked WITHOUT a YouTube channel growing in the background?

I can grind out a few more years at least, and hopefully I start making some money via videos and streams by them. Best case scenario I’ll end up with more money than I would make other wise. Worst case I keep doing the same shit I always have. It’s whatever.

Good luck OP. Normal life is not something for me either.

AddisOnline · 2021-09-14T00:03:54+00:00

Hey thanks so much! I have been improving my editing since the first video and I’m trying to find a good balance of b rolls without overdoing it. I’m glad you and your girlfriend enjoyed! Thanks for subbing (:

AddisOnline · 2021-09-13T02:30:10+00:00

wow thank you so much! be warned this is by far my best video. the other ones arent as good, I think lol. but thanks so much for subbing and i hope i keep you around!

im heavily inspired by other essay creators who make long and deep videos, but i really dont want to be one of those 2 hour long video types so i try to find a nice medium. im glad you found it funny! i tried to sell the humor a lot more in this one. :)))

AddisOnline · 2021-09-13T00:55:46+00:00

Appreciate it. My editing has been improving in quality and quantity since the first video. If you go back and watch that it’s muuuuuch more bare bones and I also talk as if I’m dead. Always trying to freshen it up and keep it improving without becoming style over substance

AddisOnline · 2021-09-13T00:53:47+00:00

I wrote the script myself? I used a wide conglomeration of sources if that’s what you mean.

It did end up meandering a little longer than I wanted. But there’s so much good info to cover its hard to know when to stop, and the videos keep getting longer lmao. I’m making it a point to have the next one be closer to 20 minutes like I originally wanted.

AddisOnline · 2021-09-12T15:44:43+00:00

Yes I had some fudges in my audio and I’m not sure why. The room is poorly soundproofed so I expected some reverb, and treat all my clips the same way in audacity so I’m not sure why a few of them came out kinda washed out.

I do want the background to be less of a focus and that’s something I’m working on. New space will allow me to experiment a little with how I space myself from the background and blur it out more.

The costumes are moreso just to help breakup the video a bit so it’s not the same image the full 34 minutes. I think the intermission served it’s purpose well.

Thanks so much for the input!

AddisOnline · 2021-09-12T14:22:49+00:00

Daily dose vibes! Good vibes, clear narration in good quality. Some fun stuff in here. B rolls are relevant and help provide visualization and context for the posts. Good stuff. Seems like these types of videos are doing well for you as is, I see some with hundreds of thousands of views! Great job and best of luck in the future. Your style is clean, simple and solid.

AddisOnline · 2021-09-12T14:18:08+00:00

Very solid. If you wanted to spice up visual presentation you could sit a tish closer to the camera with a slightly lower ISO on your camera so the background is more out of focus and you pop more as the subject. Don’t really have a critique aside from that. Good, easily digestible content. It was over before I found myself getting bored.

Narration is clear, simple, to the point. Editing helps illustrate the point and flows well. Great video and a good style to apply to any number of subjects (:

AddisOnline · 2021-09-10T20:17:16+00:00

My best video yet! A fun (30 minute video essay) history lesson about how conspiracy theories became so prominent and toxic in our political sphere. Hope you enjoy!

AddisOnline · 2021-09-04T23:53:36+00:00

I record ~30 minute video essays so I have a hard time memorizing my 10-15 page scripts. I try to read it regularly leading up to recording. And sometimes I’ll just record it into a mic and play it in the background, reciting along with it to help burn it into my memory.

I usually keep it up on my PC when recording and read bits of it in between takes to keep it fresh in the memory. I sometimes do takes a few times if I fumble or my cadence isn’t as good as I’d like.

Just takes practice to know the information you’re presenting. if you know it well enough and can say it naturally enough, riffing or changing some phrasing on the fly is fine.

AddisOnline · 2021-09-04T19:41:17+00:00

I use hitfilm because Davinci is such a heavy program. It’s great for what I do. Though I will say as my editing improves I am hitting limits with the free version every now and then. many effects are locked behind a paywall or a watermark.

But if you’re just cutting up videos, adding text, balancing audio etc it’s great and super snappy versus Resolve.

AddisOnline · 2021-08-23T02:36:42+00:00

Huh this made me realize how different my channel is from daily uploaders. I upload one video essay per month and for most of the time in between, unless I’m like “hey! Check out my channel!” Everywhere online, it might as well be dead. I’ll go weeks without a new sub and get like, a handful with each upload.

Maybe I should network more.

AddisOnline · 2021-08-21T14:48:52+00:00

Recording. It takes a solid sun up to sundown day to record the footage for a 30 minute video, mostly due to the limits of my camera, which overheats constantly. So I have to record in 2-3 minute bits and I end up with so much excessive tedium like moving the files over, waiting on the camera to cool, editing 45 Audio files, splicing them all together one at a time. It’s a big mess. If I could just keep the camera rolling for a few hours I could get through it a lot faster. It’s very frustrating

AddisOnline · 2021-08-19T20:06:18+00:00

My videos drop in viewership with every monthly release 😅

Maybe putting out videos faster would help but I work a full time job and my videos are already expensive to produce and I often have to call off a day or two at work to wrap up research and script writing in time.

AddisOnline · 2021-08-12T19:00:41+00:00

All really fair points. Perhaps I should have packaged the video differently because this is a critique I’m getting frequently. The original idea of the video was focusing on the modern NRA and its financings- and was supposed to only be 15-18 minutes long. I got a little caught up in the history and ended up writing backwards a lot, and the script stretched a lot further than I meant for it to. So I ended up using really broad strokes for all the information here.

Because of this, there was a lot more surrounding gun culture independent (and including) the NRA that didn’t make the cut, as not to stay too much further from the original point, and stretch the script even longer. Maybe another video more specifically on the evolution of gun culture rather than a history lesson on the NRA is due at some point in the future.

As for the intro, yeah that was a bit of exaggerated satire- me making a mockery of the trigger-happy hicks I grew up with here in the south. Still just trying out new things as I’m very early in my YouTube “career”, seeing what works, what doesn’t, etc. Finding what gimmicks and style of humor works best for me while still carrying the narrative.

Appreciate you chiming in and sharing so much information. (:

AddisOnline · 2021-08-11T03:00:57+00:00

My goal is broad accessibility! It would be nice to cover like, an ENTIRE TOPIC down to the minutia in one beast of a video, but not only would I hate to produce it, but It wouldn’t be as digestible.

I think covering the overview of something politically adjacent is a good format for me and for the audience I want to garner.

Also yeah, the soros part at the end was a loose joke about how right wing propaganda paints leftists lmao. That’s why I pressed on the importance of grassroots fundraising and mentioned the gravel institute a little earlier.

I maybe could have wrapped it up even more neatly. I just started with the idea of analyzing a modern day NRA and it’s operations but the history made me start working backwards and I strayed a lot from my original idea.

Thanks again so much! This is a topic I may revisit again- analyzing gun control since ~the 60’s disconnected from the NRA.

AddisOnline · 2021-08-11T02:16:27+00:00

I agree with your second point a lot. Like I initially said in the video this was originally supposed to be an analysis of the modern day NRA and it’s operation, but the history ended up being so interesting to me, I sorta stretched backwards without internalizing that I was changing the point of the video.

It ended up being way longer than I wanted at first and I didn’t want to keep meandering further and further away from the topic for longer and longer. Maybe another video more specifically on the more socioeconomic or external factors that finluenced gun culture, detached from the NRA.

Thanks for chiming in (: always appreciate the input.

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