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League Challenge Rough Cut
Byjack
Like
- Love the energy throughout
- Love the beginning
- Love the day title cards
Work On?
- Maybe more music that is different
- Try to make it more clear that it was the first game
- Maybe make it more clear what is happened? (I’m the guy with the green highlight, screen turns dark, I’m dead)
- Maybe explain my strategies in improving in league more? (Practice tool)
- Maybe explain how league works more? (Explain mini games)
- Break up the footage or shorten it more, might be slow at times.
- Maybe explain that it was a two day challenge earlier?
Specifics
- 0:05 better grade
- 0:19 better grade, harder cutting
- 0:32 harder cutting, feels slow
- 0:53 timing feels off, out of sync with music
- 1:41 great energy but need something to transition better
- 8:30 more kinetic editing on final words
- 2:48 need to fade sound out from voice to cut off extra words
Thoughts
- Need to draw inspiration from other league youtubers who post highlights (maybe Professor Akali?)
- Take a step back, and work on something else for a bit, maybe my business idea. Need some time away to see what I want to do next clearly.
- Get specific feedback from multiple people.
Gameplan
Overall, I feel like this is an excellent rough cut, great pacing and energy but it lacks polish.
To work on the polish I will:
- Break down portions I need to work on and split them out to perfect them
- Work with my brother or someone else by my side in order to make it easier
Coaching Session 11/18 VOD Review Part 2
Byjack
Initial Reflections:
- Silence makes me feel anxious
- Flippant responses feel forced
- Would it be artificial or fake to decrease the length of the silence? I like the silences but not how long they go on.
- My hair looks goofy
- I feel annoyed by my laughing, feels nervous
- There is something comforting about this conversation
- There is something valuable here without any editing
- I do feel antsy everytime there is a long pause
- I really hate my laughter
- I really take some time to get to the point, should I cut it down?
- Urgh at the drill sargent ifs stuff I feel like it is dragging on, I’m getting bored
- I think I can just do some initial cuts and ask Brandon to approve them
Responding in the coaching mindset:
- Good! Also we can always get rid of some silence if we need to.
- Maybe there is a way to edit the flippant responses to make them more genuine
- No this is our video, we do what we want with it. Sometimes you can get the gist of the silence without keeping the entire thing
- Goofy is good!
- It’s ok to be nervous. Maybe we can reduce the laughter? Sometimes we gotta risk laughing.
- Hell yea
- Yes, the editing is just to create a curated experience
- We can reduce the silence
- We can reduce if needed
- Sometimes its ok to take a long time to get to the point. Part of the discovery feeling.
- We can entirely cut out portions we don’t like. We can cut a part out and keep trimming it until it makes sense.
- Sounds good to me. We can also ask him for parts we are really not sure about.
Explaining What Coaching is to Me Draft
Byjack
DRAFT 1
DRAFT 2
I didn’t really change very much, but since I’m trying to lean into action, I’m not going to work very hard to create something that is perfect before I put it out to people.
Coaching Session 11/18 VOD Review Part 1
Byjack
This is my reflections of the first part of the coaching session, the first 20 minutes.
- Everything up to the 10 minute mark seems really slow, should I keep that or not?
- Would my client feel comfortable posting things about him and a love interest?
- There is a sort of peace in how slow it goes but also can be antsy for the wrong person.
- Maybe I should think in the frame of “what if people understood”? Seems like a really cool mentality given that I have a great deal of material.
- I wonder if I come off try hard.
- Is it bad to edit a lot and cut a lot? What if I mess up the progression? Or be less honest?
- I love produced cuts, but are they artificial?
- Born to be this high (instrumental) sounds really nice in the background. I dunno if I am changing the experience. But I suppose that is a good thing.
- Really starts to pick up energy at the 20 minute mark
Resetting in the coaching mindset, here is my reflection on the reflections:
- We ain’t cutting shit, use the slowness as a texture
- Yea we talking about love if he’s down
- Let’s use the energy in the antsyness and also find ways to energetically cut
- If people understood, we can speak to them more clearly though clips (thinking about cutting clips into episodes and using snippets to be the intro of every episode)
- Use the tension of trying hard cut it out when it is distracting
- I want to preserve the order, but cut as much as I want to, especially cut more creatively
- There is nothing wrong with produced cuts but they take away from this coaching call in this scenario because there is so much there. Use the produced cuts to make shorts.
- Can use sound in the beginning and the end, keep the audio clean
- Nicee
The Four Types of Videos
Byjack
Video Poem
- Voice over
- Travel video footage
- Motivational
- Life theories
- Strong feeling, music, sound design
- FOCUS: Capture emotion, explain something profound
How To
- Specific technique or method
- Life hacks, tricks for learning, dealing with stress and emotions
- Short and to the point
- FOCUS: Teach something useful for life
Challenge Video
- Apply life theories to something very difficult
- Show progress and journey
- Show how I achieved what I achieved and what I learned
- FOCUS: Show a journey of pursuing the impossible through real techniques and theories
Conversation/Discussion/Reaction Video
- Adding to some sort of larger discussion
- Could be talking to people in the video about an issue, reacting to another video, or just addressing my viewers like in a live stream
- FOCUS: Discuss and argue ideas and points
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Workpost 28: Taxes & Art Therapy
Byjack
Today I feel very tired but at least better rested than normal. I really want to finish my taxes today and I also want to experiment with art therapy and exercise to help get through the stress and effort of finishing.
My initial thoughts about art therapy is that it is all about reconnecting with your body…to do flow theory or follow what you feel. Art is about touching the forms with lines and paint, music is about creating sound, dance is about moving your body.
I’m doing more research. Here is a video that talks about using art to find a safe place:
Here is another video:
Current art therapy ideas:
- Express what you feel kinesthetically
- Scribbling
- Banging on the piano
- Flow theory dance
- Free writing
- Create a safe space, express what feels safe
- Drawing
- Writing
- Music
- Repetitive motions
- Shapes
- Chords
- Motions
But how does this translate to greater art creation? How does this create a world?
Thinking about this more, art creation is about the following:
- What you want to share with others
- What you find beautiful
- What you feel wonder about
- What stories you want to tell
- What is quirky, unique, and creative
- What worlds you want to live in and provide others
I have a couple ideas of how to transition from therapeutic art to art art:
- My therapy exercise (take a problem and solve it in the story by making the main character face a problem 10x more painful)
- Express what emotions you are feeling strongly
- Capture a memory
- Start with a characters
- Start with world
- Do a fanfic
- Daydream