Did I not write something yesterday? I was sure I did somehow. Absolutely convinced. But apparently I did not. My apologies. Oh well, let's catch up, then!
I've been enjoying making videos way more than I thought I ever would, so at the urging of my wife, I've taken a "next step" and invested in a couple of bits and pieces to allow me to do a bit more. Specifically, I've bought a lavalier mic, which allows me to record pieces to camera without having to block out my face with my large podcast mic and boom arm, and a mount for the tripod we have that allows me to put my phone into it. My phone records pretty good quality video footage aside from the sound quality, so combining it with the lavalier mic means I can appear "on camera" a bit more. Which will be nice. Hopefully.
To be honest, the reason I haven't looked into this a bit sooner is because I'm kind of nervous about it! I'm not a big fan of the way I look and as soon as you put yourself "out there" on a video, you invite anyone to come along and say mean things to you.
But then I thought about it: I used to feel that way about my voice, but in a couple of years of making videos now (and several years of making podcasts prior to that) I've actually come to quite like my voice, and I've even had a few compliments from people about it. That has helped give me a bit of confidence — so much so that I now make a whole bunch of videos each week without even thinking about the sound of my voice being "embarrassing". Perhaps appearing on camera will be the same way after a while.
Only one way to find out then: to do it! You'll be seeing the first of these tomorrow on this week's episode of Sunday Driving, and I'll be tweaking and fiddling around with the format and layout a bit over the course of a few other videos very soon. It's not a huge amount more faff to get the room set up to record me as well as the game, so I may as well experiment a bit and see how things go. If it doesn't work or if my visage shatters too many phone screens, I can always just slink back into the darkness again.
Anyway. That's that. That's what I've spent at least part of today doing. For what else I spent today doing… well, you'll have to wait for the next post, coming very soon!
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