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@daisys-discography
Just a quick update, for some reason our channel has been taken down. Unfortunatley, this means no one can view our videos anymore. I have requested for it to be appealed and check over as I do not believe we went against any guidelines of YouTube and I’m very confused to why our channel was removed.
Overall with this project, I think we did a good job. We faced many problems (like finding a space to film in, losing some of our music, having issues rendering the videos, etc.) and yet we managed to find a way around these issues on our own and still get what we wanted to be done.
Even though things could have gone better (if we didn’t have background noise, if we didn’t lose quality in the videos, if the game audio wasn’t as loud, etc,), we did well with the circumstances we were in and I’m still very happy with our project.
I would love to continue with this project by making more series and maybe some new things like streaming. I really enjoyed editing the videos and would really like to get into it more. I would love to be able to learn more about editing and get better at it. I think I will definitely be looking into getting a better editing software when I have the money. I also have so many more ideas and visions for the music for certain games, like Hellblade and God of War.
I do think we did slack a little in social media, we could’ve done a better job at posting more things, like behind the scenes, but I think our first time doing something like this it all just seemed too much to think about posting about it. At the time of filming and doing the project, we were very focused on doing it and making sure it all went well, rather than taking a step back and appreciating how cool the things we were doing are and then sharing that onto social media. If we do continue and make more series, I will definitely try to step back and take photos and videos of the things we are doing (behind the scenes) and share them onto our Instagram account. I do think as we continue we should then think about different platforms to have accounts on. For this project, we thought that Instagram was the best platform to have an account on, as we felt that it was more used by people compared to Facebook and Twitter. Though we should have had a tiktok account as that seems to be the better platform nowadays, but we only really had photos to share and TikTok is mainly video based.
I’m glad we made it a 5 episode series as we had a lot more footage than we had planned. The 1st Minecraft episode was an hour long in itself (before editing) which was the longest video. If we had more episodes, I feel like we would have been overwhelmed with the amount of work we would’ve had to do and I think it would’ve been too much work to be able to complete. At first, 5 episodes felt like it wasn’t enough but now after doing all the work, it was definitely enough.
I think the videos are entertaining, I tried my best to cut out pauses and where nothing much was happening, but in some parts we had to obviously leave some of this in for context of certain conversations or for what was happening. I’m happy we didn’t follow a script, we had a bit of a script for an intro but more episodes we filmed, the more we just made it up on the spot. As for the rest, I’m happy it wasn’t scripted as the videos show us being us and having a fun time with each other playing and talking about games. Nothing seems forced or scripted and it seems a lot better.
I did notice, when editing, that I wouldn’t always respond to what Ayisha was saying. I think this may just be the way my brain works within multitasking as I’m not very good at it, but I did feel like I may have come across as rude for not responding at times. I will try to work on this but I might not be able to solve the issue but just reduce the issue. I was trying to play the games, talk, plan in my head what to do next, listen to what ayisha was saying and check that everything is still running smoothly. It was a lot to multitask for me but it’s something I want to improve on if I’m going to continue doing things like this.
The process We originally wanted to make a podcast as well as videos on youtube that have some gameplay with music we created in the backgr
Just updated this google docs of our process, explaining our technical issues and the process of solving these issues
Episode 5 (our final episode) is now on our YouTube channel
Episode 4 is out now on our YouTube channel. We continue playing Minecraft
Episode 3 is up on our YouTube channel
Episode 2 of our 1st series is up on YouTube
The first episode of our series is now up on YouTube. It has lost a bit of quality due to technical issues but this is the best we can make it for now.
Technical issues
Unfortunatley we ran into some issues when trying to render the videos on DaVinci and so it has delayed the upload of the videos onto YouTube, unsure of how to upload the videos as I’m not entirely certain that we can get the edited videos off of DaVinci. We are currently in the middle of contacting people on what to do and how to solve the issues that we are facing
The process We originally wanted to make a podcast as well as videos on youtube that have some gameplay with music we created in the backgr
The link attatched is the place that we write about the process. We have kept updating it when we have done something new and it means we can edit anything that we've already talked about that we may have made changes to.
We made an instagram for this project. I set this up a while back, same with the YouTube channel. It took a while to get a logo on them and we had a few issues that I talk about in the google slides. I made a post with our logo, a few hours before the upload of a whole series. I should have used hashtags so that it’s more likely to come up for people.
I do wish that we posted more on here, we could have done sneak peaks of our videos and behind the scenes, but it was all a little hectic getting it done with our other assignments going on. If we only had this project to focus on, I think we could have done a better job.
Ready Steady Game Logo
This is a powerpoint on our logo. The logo took a while to make and decide on as we originally wanted to see if we could get someone to design it, but with students having a lot of assignments due we couldn't find anyone with the time to create one. Therefore, we had to use websites to find a design we liked.
Podcast rough script Each episode at some point (doesn’t matter where) we should explain that there is 2 versions - 1 being just audio and
This is a link to our rough script we wrote for the original idea (the podcast) as well as ideas of what to talk about.
In our YouTube series, we did use bits of this script but we didn't want a full script because we didn't want to sound like it was scripted. We wanted just a free flow and relaxed setting, rather than us worrying and stressing on remembering what to say or reading the script correctly.
We wanted to talk about a lot of games, when actually planning out and doing the YouTube series, we realised we can't talk about that many games, and that a lot of the games we wanted to talk about would have to be saved for if we want to continue with this series. This series is a volume 1/season 1/series 1, whereas if we continue with it after we would call is volume 2/season 2/series 2.
The source link below is my project pitch that I came up with for Ayisha's and I's original idea for our project. Once we pitched this to our lecturer, we had a some suggestions to develop our idea. The worry was that we are two musicians that are talking about games. This may make people not want to watch as if someone wants to hear about a game, they are more likely to go to a streamer/gamer as they have more experience and that's part of their identity. Whereas, we're musicians. However, they're are plenty of people that have different kinds of jobs/careers that also play games on the side, and will talk and stream and there's plenty of people who are interested in their content. With this being said, we wanted to take the advice on board but also didn't want to change the whole project as this is something we really do love and are really interested and determined to do.
So, we eventually decided to cut it down and just make a more laid back YouTube series. Basically like the same vibe as 'Cold Ones' in the way that it's like a series, but we wanted it to be suitible for a wider audience (meaning the younger audience as well) so we would need to make sure it is age approriate (no swearing) - like Roman Atwood in the sense it's a family friendly channel that's suitible for the younger audience too.
We thought this would be easier as making a podcast, we wanted to make a version that's just audio, as well as a version that has a video with it. Making just a mini YouTube series means that we can just upload on YouTube and focus on just the video. We are both very interested in this kind of stuff, so we have in mind that we may want to continue with this and make more things like it, and so we are almost making this YouTube series like a tester series on how it will go and whether we enjoy it enough to want to continue with it.
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Reflection
There are a few things that I would like to do differently next time. I wished we would have experimented with different microphones, just to see what it would sound like (even if we don’t use the recording with that microphone). I would also set up another one or two microphones for the guitar facing the fret board to pick up the sound from that angle and get more of the fretboard sounds. For the vocals, I would have liked to maybe use another microphone, using some kind of recording technique (like placing two mics on top of the other, or placing two microphones side by side). I would also have them being two different microphones so that we could experiment with the different sounds and so that I could layer the vocals (and even the guitar) with it. I would also next time, use a pop shield as we didn’t and that caused for the recording of the vocals to sound slightly distant as Sophie was not singing close to the mic in fear that she would cause the mic to pick up the pops and clicks of her words.
When recording, Dan stopped recording a little too early as the guitar was still ringing out, and so it was cut a little too short. However, when mixing I faded the audio out so that it didn’t sound like it was cut short. Next time I will make sure to let whoever is in the control room to let the guitar ring out, so the song can have a more natural end.
I would also record more, like percussion or something, to help fill out the track more as I found it quite limiting as the song is an acoustic, live kind of song and there’s only so much you can do with a song like that without making it sound unnatural or changing the sound completely. I would like to try to challenge myself more when mixing by trying more effects.
Above are photos of the EQ for the intro to make it have the telephone effect. I cut out the lower frequencies and some of the higher frequencies, but tightened the frequencies near 2k Hz as after playing around with it, this was the closest I could get to making it sound like it was through a telephone.