How to make good vlogs that people will want to watch.
1. Video should be decent (cellphone camera) audio should be great (AirPods or Bluetooth mic)
2. Stick to one subject, don’t ramble too much. Topic should be authentic relatable.
3. Be concise, 3-5 mins max.
4. Edit out pauses, boring bits, words that don’t serve you in a phone based editing app like CapCut etc…
5. Add captions. Many people like to watch with the sound off. You can do this in CapCut or the captions app.
Bonus points: cool location, activity or dynamic movement while talking so people have something to visually look at in addition to the ideas being discussed.
Ultra bonus points: the visuals should be a metaphor for the topic or ideas being discussed. I.e. you’re I a gym while discussing consistency, you’re walking on a path while talking about life paths etc… get creative.
If you do one or two of these in each video you will have a good vlog that people like. If you do all of these you will have a great vlog that people look forward to.
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hodl in da house! 👀
On nostr? Yes I would say I am the foremost vlogging expert on this platform lol 😂
Top less women in the background help.
A time tested strategy
Good points. Thank you for breaking it down 🫡
View quoted note →Interesting perspective thx for sharing 🤙🏼💜🫂
Great advice. Now I got to find a subject worth vlogging about!
No one can make vlogs like you do.
Super glad I can code, seems like too much work to vlog
Different brain types. I can vlog as easily as you can code lol 😂
vibe-logging
In my experience it’s best to just go with whatever you’re thinking about naturally. Don’t force it.
This is good advise on an advertising driven normie platform like Twitter / Insta / TikTok etc.
On Nostr, be genuine, do what your heart wants. Attention is not the currency, authentic connection is.
Or just play #DSB three times...
If rap videos taught us anything…
You forgot the banging intro/outro combo.
Bonus points lol
When I was in film school our professor told us that before you can break the rules you have to know what the rules are and why you are breaking them.
If you do each of these and fall down at the end of every vlog, you will have the best vlog ever made.
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Extra extra bonus have a theme song and a cartoon with a rocket.
Thank you for the advice 🙏🏽
I want to start making vlogs! What app or software have you found to be the best?
Or pump up the sound and put this motherfucker on;
Everything you listed are rules that are a consequence of the advertising model, isn't it? Video as a medium is older than social networks, I would guess your professor was referring to rules about film making in general (FWIW, I've heard that quote as well).
Nostr is a fundamentally different kind of network. There are no central arbiters, or hidden incentives. No one makes money of off its users.
6. Stop thinking and just go do it.
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Please use HODL's rules to tear my latest v-lawg to shreds.
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Is CapCut FOSS?
Not sure what people are waiting for. Just Vlog it.
Not following a recipe.
I do my own thing.
Creating different ways of content.
If anybody will see it, love it or hate it. I will keep doing my thing.
@HODL you do make great vlogs. I'll give you that! Keep it up man
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View quoted note →Not particularly. This kind of format is just a natural outcrop of the sheer amount of content available to people in the Information Age. There’s so many things the audience could watch, why your video? You have to make it easy and compelling for them. That said you always have free rein to do whatever the hell you want, I’m just suggesting you know what you’re doing before you do that. Like in film school I watched many films that were allegeldy “avant garde” which in reality were just a bad unwatchable mess.
People are attracted to clarity, and structure helps to bring clarity, and what you're suggesting is basically, bring structure (and quality).
Doubtful
Your phone + CapCut is the easiest/best
Right. You don’t have to do it but just like in filmmaking we have all these rules which are a film language that have been developed over 100 years and if you break them without knowing you’ve broken them the audience will be confused. There’s a lot of freedom within that structure though. Basically the entire history of cinema has been largely within it.
Haha fuck no it isn’t.
Any FOSS mobile video editors you know of?
Nope.
I don't disagree with all your points, just some, 2 & 3 specifically. Both are related to attention, to some extent also the "bonus" remark. I don't think people need to rely on hooks or other unrelated elements in their content for people to be interested on a platform where the dynamics of advertising is absent. Here quality of the content is what matters most. So that should dictate length, detail, or style (which is also why I really liked your "ultra bonus" remark).
Maybe I should have led with that, and been more precise with my words in my original comment.
Great advice but man is CapCut expensive 😵💫
They have a free version
I think where we 100% agree is that nostr enables new forms of content.
Novelty and Other Stuff Transmitted over Relays
Yeah, doesn’t do auto captioning though. Veed is a cheaper alternative I think
This is probably because people in the industry over time noticed what worked and didn't work with people, and chose to respect it. In other words, they noticed the nature of the reality of people and how they receive information and submitted to it rather than trying to engage in some massive Pygmalion project.
It does I use it for auto captions
Oh nvm I’m using the paid one. Got it.
Great advice ❤️ but capcut.....i only can put links to my text, but no videoupload
And where, which group, do we post crafted content to?
Right now, from my 2.5 day old perspective, it seems my only options are just click 'post' and then it's up to the four winds if anyone even sees the damm thing?
I mean how is that different from other social media platforms lol
Understand the frustration - I think the best way to consistently build up a following/audience on NOSTR is to follow a good number of people, cruise trending/most zapped feeds, and reply guy a lot.
Obvs not an expert, but even the largest/most engaged with accounts here are still just a fraction of what you might get on another platform - we are after all, still early.
