Bloggin’ In A ‘Bucks!

Hey reader! Yes you! would you like some coffee? Well, a Caramel Chappioblahblah, I honestly can’t say it let alone spell it. It tastes smashing! I have recently gotten into coffee much more ever since I decided to try drinking it late at night to keep me awake for editing purposes and theoretical purposes and now I’m in love with it. Its texture, its taste, its….zing.

Sitting in Starbucks writing this blog.

Anyway! Yes I am in Starbucks, bet you got that from my fancy wording in the title, but moving straight onto the vlogs, I’ve been in a terrible state all week, this illness hurts me, but I should be doing a lazyvlog later on when I get home. Why am I out and about if I’m I’ll you possibly ask? Because I’ve had appointments to attend annoyingly. But prepare for a lazyvlog upload later on though and then prepare for another lazyvlog tomorrow night as I’m out at a bands first gig so that should be enjoyable.

Is “lazyvlog” actually a vlogging style? I got the style from Toby Turner, otherwise known as, “Tobuscus” but then I searched for it in YouTube hoping to find more vloggers to watch, but then it was just a sea off Tobuscus videos. So I don’t know whether he actually invented the term or not. Oh well, I like all the styles!

I do realize I didn’t do a blog post for the DOGGY RESPECT vlog, but I’m that weak, typing hurts my poor delicate man hands. Were yu really going to make me do a blog post knowing it would leave me crying in agony? WERE YOU!? I’m just joking, I adore you, I wouldn’t expect anything less.

In other vlog related news, my views have been getting higher very slowly, so thank you to you all who are subscribing or sharing the videos about. You doing that shows me that you enjoyed my video, which means my desire to entertain you is going successfully! That is all I want to do, is entertain you. I’ve always loved entertaining people, I enjoy hearing people laugh with you, it’s a beautiful expression to witness or know you’re inducing upon someone. If that makes sense.

Awww, my coffees cold.

Well, I’m just about done here I believe.
So, the plan is to do a vlog later and tomorrow…

(Update: The vlog was completed!)

Now that just leaves tomorrow night’s.
So until then,
Into Oblivion!

TIMES SQUARE NEW YORK!

Oh dear, you’re spinning around in circular directions? What’s wrong with you? You’ll break something.

Well, as you can most likely see I’m packing for a trip, a trip I’m attending with the rest of my media group, a trip to New York. I’m looking forward to it, I’ve always wanted to visit America! I like it. Although it is a shame I’m only going for a five days. The other year the group that went ended up staying for two weeks due to the Icelandic volcano that erupted, so they managed to at least get some fun times, whereas I predict that our group shall just have to work…unless we set a schedule which gives us more fun times and less filming times! But yes, my plan is to not sleep. I’m good at choosing to stay awake, and I want to be able to experience Times Square during the day and during the night for several days.

Ahh this Sonic the Hedgehog thing? This is just a hat. The guys at a GAME store kindly let me have one as they would have just thrown them out or something. Gotta love Sonic, but also, Steam was having a Sonic the Hedgehog game sale over the weekend, I almost purchased some but I’m trying to save my money until I head over to Telford for the MCM Expo and also for New York.

Me in the Sonic hat.

Oh yes, some proper bonus content for this Blog of the Vlogs!
I’ve come up with some fantastic ideas for the secret band feature vlog recently! One of them involves pyrotechnics. I’m not even kidding. Although they aren’t in the way you’re probably thinking about. Also trying to decide on whether to do the whole thing on my white backdrop or just to do it like I did with Vlogmas, with the living room behind me. I’m leaning more towards the white backdrop to be honest with you. Drop a comment down in the YouTube channel if want and let me know what you think about the background idea.

As I said, well, as I said and messed up what I was trying to say, I’ll do another vlog in a few days, most likely Wednesday when I’m getting a voiceover artist to record me some audio stuff. Oh yes. It’s a plan.

Until then,
Into oblivion!

MANY TAPES!

Yeah, this vlog was finally good enough to upload. I did about three in the past two days and none of them turned out good enough, mostly because I tried filming them on my phone to see if that works so that I don’t have to lug a small camera around. But clearly it didn’t work so I just gave up and didn’t bother uploading them. Plus I’ve been super busy with college related stuff and production company related stuff.

LOTS OF TAPES! All these are a collection off nearly every tape I’ve used in the past five years. Quite a lot, I’ve finally stacked them up now so they aren’t littered over my bed like they are in the video. But wait a second…you’re in my room reader…why? GET OUT! Actually no, you can stay, you seem like a nice person. Just mind your head on the ceiling fan. Okay? Cool.

Well, Wednesday went well, turned up to the venue and waited for the camera operators to turn up ready to be trained by myself and Alex. They did pretty well actually. Obviously some areas need improvements, but live music filming is a tough gig, so it’s understandable that they’d be a bit shy and nervous about the whole situation. Alex and I have been doing this for three years now. Oh god, that reminds me, I did a vlog with Mini Matt, my small ginger friend but the footage became corrupt so I couldn’t even use that…guh, it was so annoying.

Hehehe, secrets reader, I’m keeping secrets from you. Although it is cool that a band asked me to do them a vlog for them. I’d say that is pretty cool anyway. So keep your eyes on this space for that! I’ve also decided to move away from the whole, “Update:”/”Vlog:” things for the title of my videos because…it just seems silly now I’ve had a long hard think about it. Thinking about doing some of the cartoon vlog stuff in the next few weeks too providing I have enough time to actually do that.

Also, please oh PLEASE go and sign the petition to urge President Obama, or Mr. Long Legged Mac Daddy to veto the bill and end the maddness. http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/veto_sopa/?akid=1149.1739966.g9P_M-&rd=1&t=2

Hopefully we will win, but we won’t know until the 28th January…

So until then,
Into oblivion!

Blogging In A Lesson!

Hello again reader!

Well, I’m currently in a theory lesson, and learning about the art of film editing. Montage editing to be precise. Did you know that the whole montage style was developed by Russians? Well there’s a fact for you. I have to say, I’m on the ball today! I don’t know what’s wrong with me, I must have woken up on the right side of the bed…despite the fact there’s only way way to roll out of bed.

I went to have a trim this morning with my I-Stubble and ended up cutting my top lip, I can still taste my own blood. Yum. Got another Wii controller today so I can actually play multi-player games, with myself mostly to be honest. Mario Kart would be awesome to play with both hands during a split screen event.

Starting from next week, I’m going to be a busy man, more of this Battle of the Bands filming will be occurring and then I’ve got a few gigs to attend. One being Cause For Concerns, my friends…kind of industrial metal band check them out if you’re a fan of that of music over at their Facebook page.

I will also be carrying my 3D glasses around with me, more so that I can throw them on ready for when I’m going to do a vlog. I promise! …Well that was lovely. Just got shown a Russian film clip featuring a cow getting it’s throat cut open whilst still alive, and then cutting back and forth between a gunfight. It was pretty gruesome to say the least.

The next vlog shall be whenever! But it won’t be too long! Oh, which reminds me, I got asked by a great band to feature them in a vlog in about a month, so that is something I’m looking forward too!

But until then,
Into oblivion!

Update: LONGEST VLOG EVER!

Okay, I lied. It wasn’t the longest vlog ever…but it was the longest vlog I’ve done to date! Honestly, nearly nine minutes! It’s jaw dropping!

Well, it was slightly awkward doing a vlog in front off my Mother and sister, but it turned out pretty good I thought! It’s that whole “embarrassing” mindset that gets to you when you do things that aren’t socially acceptable, like eating a burger from a bin, people look and stare and judge. But I’m getting past all the “God this is embarrassing!” stuff and just going there, just doing it. It’s awesome. So yeah, I stated it was my sisters birthday, which in fact was WRONG! Her birthday was yesterday, but because it was a pretty bad day for her I decided to make her a better day by going out and getting a Nintendo Wii! That was the basic backstory for the shopping trip really.

I even made jelly with pineapple pieces inside, which is tasty. I would have worn my 3D glasses, but they weren’t with me, so starting from now…I will be bringing the 3D glasses back. You know it needs to be done reader! It does. Still need to get round to recording part of the feature vlog, I haven’t done that at all yet…blame work. Not only have I got quite a bit off college work on my back, but I’m also organizing the filming at Coxs Yard as I’ve mentioned before, training up the year below me and all that.

I realized that the Blog of the Vlogs tends to have the video uploaded first, then the blog will be online later in the day, so there’s advice for you. If you want to check out the blogs you’ll have to wait for a few hours after the videos uploaded. ALSO! I finally figured out the issue with my audio on the update vlogs, because before the audio would pan to the right ear on headphones for some reason, but I finally figured it out to be equal and in stereo rather than mono. I am a technical God.

Might have to do a vlog tomorrow,
Maybe not, who knows?
Until then reader,
Into oblivion!

Update: I WANNA GO HOME!

This was a vlog out of boredom, it didn’t really hold much meaning but then again, do they ever? Well, actually this vlog did have a bit of meaning, I recently got a friend back into tweeting more but in return I had to mention her in a vlog, the deal has been done! Oh, and I sang!

I really wasn’t in the best mindset when I did this really, as I think you may know as I mentioned it enough times, I was cold, aching and sleep deprived. Two days off not sleeping well does that. In fact I couldn’t even remember what I had been filming once i stopped recording, the only things I could remember were being laughed at…I assume and the light turning off. Other than that, I just waited around in the windy cold. Not fun. The filming went well though, some people were impressed with our equipment and some people just probably saw us getting in the way.

So not much really happened, I apologize for the boringness.
Until the next one,
Into oblivion!

Update: A VLOG VLOGGING A VLOGGER!?

This update was a long time coming really, ever since I started doing vlogs I got Mathew Neve, the guy also doing a vlog in this vlog, into vlogging. That’s a mouthful isn’t it? We came up with the idea to do our vlogs together at some point and this is basically the outcome. However his style is more quick cutting, whereas I’m more into the lazyvlog idea and then doing the quick cutting vlogs for other times. We are both still vloggers though, so style doesn’t matter, as long as we at least entertain an audience! Or in my case, you, just you viewer.\

This was my first time doing a vlog in a crowded public area too so I was quite nervous about the situation, but it turned out not to be as bad as I thought. To clarify on what I was saying though about the filming, basically I have filmed an annual Battle of the Bands event for the past three years at least and I’m doing it again this year. I was going to be filming the event on this night and we were just hanging around passing time until the place opened for us to get set up.

As you could also see…just, my screen has broken! So there I was, essentially walking around looking like I was just holding a closed camera turned off and talking to it. I think it turned out better than I thought though! I was expecting to come home, capture the footage and find myself not even in shot. There were also a lot off people on the streets, which we nearly walked into as you saw, ahh it was fun. There was a part where we mentioned about “MySCR” and “That Local Show”, MySCR was a local radio station where Mat, Alex and I had our own radio show called “That Local Show”. This was about three years ago now, and me and Mat came up with the idea to have a conversation with a pigeon live on air. As you’d imagine, the idea was disapproved but it never stopped our love for it.

Until the next,
Into oblivion!

Holiday Terminated.

It’s been four weeks since I broke up from college and during those weeks I’ve done vlog’s, gone out with people more and re-opened my inner geek. The thing I haven’t done? College work. This is all rather normal for a student. We’ll procrastinate for weeks, even months, that is what we’re good at. But what we’re really good at? Completing thousand word essays the day before the deadline. There’s even a handful of students out there who as a rare species, are capable of completing an essay a few hours before the hand-in lesson. We’re an incredible species and you know it. Some of you more mature viewers may look at us and think we’re lazy and incompetent, take me for example! To my family I may look like I’m doing nothing, I may look like I’m just sat on the computer browsing the internet, playing games, animating title sequences and such. The truth is, I’m broadening my mind, I’m running a blog and even a vlog now. I’m modern…and I’m a bit lazy yes. Well, I finished the first draft of my two essays yesterday and they’re due in tomorrow so I’m relived to say the least.

This Christmas holiday that has just passed has been a pretty decent one, especially as I’ve decided to do a vlog now and stick at it. The vlog opened my geeky side and confidence far more than they has been opened in years. I’ve always hid my geeky side away due to seeing how some people are treated for it, but upon attending the Telford MCM expo last year and making friends with the right people I started to open myself up a little bit more, but never fully. Since and before doing the vlog I watched other vloggers such as, “Tobuscus”, “VleurDeVlog”, “Alli” and others be content with who they are and people love them for it, it was a boost in confidence and certainly inspirational. Since Vlogmas I’ve become more and more proud of myself and comfortable with myself. It’s a weird feeling, but it’s a nice one.

Regarding the geekiness though, I’m a retro lover, and not one of those people that pretends to know all the classics back in the 90′s because of the badly done remakes, i actually grew up with them. I remember hours off playing Pong, Paperboy, Bubble Bobble and Pokemon. Watching Doug, Recess, and god knows what else. Reading the Beano, Dandy, Marvel comics, DC Comics and other fantastic comics. I loved everything really. And after a while, when I went to primary school I started hiding myself away, and I have done ever since. Until last month that is.

This has been quite a mellow blog post really hasn’t it? Ahh it’s fine, it gives you an insight into who I am I suppose! In other brighter news though, I’m attending the Telford MCM expo again this year in February and will be doing a vlog down there and taking photos of the cosplayers…I also intend on blowing £100 on apparel. I need to do another vlog, possibly tomorrow whilst I’m at college, I just hope that the surrounding students don’t go to stupid just because there is a camera around. Oh! also, I highly doubt that the UK is going to get any snow this year as it’s warming up…why is it warming up!? Chill! Chill nature! Bring us snow, I want snow!

Urgh! until the next blog!
Into Oblivion!

(Update: Just opened the camcorder to check the battery level…the LCD screen decided to break…so now I need to get a camcorder…URGH!)

Update: SNEAKY SNEAK PEAK PROMOTION

What is this room!? Who threw me in it!?

Yes, this is another sneak peak…except this time round it is the final style seeing as the other sneak peak video was a draft. This showed a few examples of the text that would be coming. A mix of comic fonts and retro game fonts adds to the geeky factor, which is the direction that I’m heading…I’m essentially broadcasting my geekiness to the world. That is now a word. Sadly there were a few audio issues but I really don’t want to try spending ages sorting them out.

The actual idea for the feature vlog is going to be an episode every now and then focusing on geeky subjects, so perhaps discussion about comics, games or events for example. They’ll hopefully be funny enough to keep an audience constantly coming in and allow them to leave successfully entertained and geekified. That is also now a word. There will also be a “Featured YouTube User” which will link the viewer, you, to the featured users channel. I think the concept it good, and I’m confident that getting it out there will be successful, I just hope that is works as well as I’m envisioning. I’m actually putting a lot off effort into this feature, for example, this video took me at least four hours to edit all the titles and sort the audio out. DEDICATION.

I’m quite proud of this whole vlogging scenario though as this is something I’m sticking at because I want to get somewhere rather than trying it out or being put down about it and then throwing it aside after a short while because I think that one persons opinion echoes the rest of the worlds. They’ll be people who like it, they’ll be people who won’t. The people who do like it, I’m all yours!

I think I’m going to spend the weekend doing my essay’s now and then do another Update vlog next week sometime.

Until then,
Into Oblivion!

Update: BEHIND THE SCENES!

I woke up this morning, and as I lay in bed staring up at the ceiling I thought to myself, “Urgh, let’s get this over and done with” I headed downstairs and began setting up for the three vlog’s I needed to create. I wasn’t thinking like that because I don’t enjoy it, I was thinking like that because I know it’s distracting me from my college work massively. I’ve got two 1,500 word essay to do and so far I only manage to write a sentence before closing the program and then continuing browsing the wondrous wide web for hours.

This vlog was done to show you what my set up looks like for the feature because I know some people out there enjoy knowing how some productions look and are set up. In the video you can see the white screen leaning against the wall, that’s pretty much how it is…yeah. To be more detailed though, the screen is rested on top of a sofa and then a small chest of drawers and then it leans against the wall at a funny angle. There is an S.A.D light which acts as my florescent backlight and then the daylight coming through the patio door is my key light. It’s basically a set up for a shoestring budget really isn’t it?

There are two cameras shown in this video as well, and for those geeks out there, the HDSLR shown is a Nikon D3100 which is used for recording the HD vlogs. When I sit down you can see the one I use for the “update” videos such as this one, this is a Sony Handycam DCR-SR35. It was good…years ago when I first got it, but now it’s starting to play up a bit…as that random part of the video shows where some type of interference occurred. You also saw a comic book style cover on the Mac’s screen, this is an animated title for the actual feature.

There was another video uploaded before this one was uploaded, this was a quick promotion for a friend who is a graphic designer, and I thought I’d help her out by spreading her website on YouTube opening her audience up a bit. I think this is the quickest I’ve ever spoke in a vlog to date! Points to me!

Until the next post!
Into Oblivion!