Spooky month!

 I’m thisclose to being done with my 31 days of Halloween. I mean, I can almost touch the light at the end of the tunnel. This is the month that I cram 3-31/2 months of content into one month and while it’s fun, it takes a lot of work…. I’ll explain

1) research content

2) take notes

3) write script

4) narrate…. Which seems simple enough and usually it is but there are times where my mouth and brain refuse to work together.  Just this week I could NOT get one paragraph in two separate videos that I just could not get to come out…. After I’d gotten them done I went to see how many times I’d deleted those clips, I knew it would be a lot but I didn’t expect it to be a whopping 81 times!!!!!! TWO paragraphs!!! And the thing is, it gets worse the longer it takes. I get flustered. Crazy!

5) go listen second by second to catch a duplicate

6)go into my video app and piece together all the clips. Save that video. Go back and grab that saved video so I can edit a video with one continuous voice over.

7) go sentence by sentence so I can grab photos that are informative and relevant. It’s an average of 3-4 photos per minute - 2 minutes. So, let’s say it’s a short ten minute video, that could be 40 photos. 

8) edit the amount of time per video and how it will be presented, zoomed in, zoomed out, scanned up, scanned down etc..

9) save that video 

10) upload video to YouTube. 

11) finish the edit on YouTube.

Ten minute video can equal 2-3 hours of work. 

If it’s possible with including all relevant info I’m almost a magician at knowing when I hit the ten minute mark. It isn’t always possible though.

We made our Christmas plans a couple of months ago. We’d been planning to go to the Gay-lord but I came up with a four day Christmas extravaganza!! We will be doing that instead and as part of the idea I said that I’m gonna go balls to the walls on decorating our apartment so I’ve been buying Christmas decor for many many weeks!! I’m sure I’ll talk more about it later.

I have to go. I need to edit.

Thank you, Dear Bear, for the latest photo. 

Night guys,

Tracy