A Day in the Life

Instead of writing a script for a video I was thinking about, we ended up filming “a day in the life” kind of video. We have not done a day in the life on our channel yet. It is tough to film a video like this with two little kiddos. Trevor gets under Heidi’s skin many times a day. This makes her cry which makes for pathetic audio. This means that we will need to do a voice over for some of those parts or add some music.

This afternoon, I was feeling disenfranchised with how the filming day was going. I was feeling like we could do better, tell a better story, get better angles, get better audio, etc. If we’d film a video in a studio or at night when the kiddos are sleeping, we could get way better results.

Also, while Lydia was reviewing a scene on camera that she had just shot, the audio would not play. Turns out, the mic was plugged into the headphone port instead of the audio port. This means, we got poor audio for more than half the video.

A couple of positives about today:

• I filmed myself getting out of bed for the first time. Some of these clips are not very impressive, but can now be improved upon in the future. I find myself critiquing every scene. Usually, there is something that can be improved upon.

• It’ll be fun to watch the “day in the life” video in the future, say, 5, 10, 15 years down the road.

YouTube Studio is telling me that I’ve found my groove. This is based on more that 2,000 hours of watch time. I feel like I am still constantly looking for that groove where the next 5 or 10 videos flow in succession, versus me always trying to decide what to create next.

It’s 11:03 p.m., and I must needs be off to bed. Good night!