My first vlog
Vlogging in public is weird. Even when you know that people don't really care about you, you need to overcome this mental barrier to actually hit record. I did a small X video from my car as a test and then shot my first vlog from the Prague airport on my leave to Bangkok. The video got 131 views, 1 positive comment and my channel 6 subscribers. I tried to shoot some video footage from my trip but haven't really published anything else. So, what went wrong?
1. New channel
So the first problem was starting a fresh new channel. Since I have never vlogged I thought I would create a new channel for it. My original channel had only 52 subscribers I was fine starting at 0, but there was one more problem. What I haven't realised was that the new channel would need to be confirmed again for me to include custom thumbnails. And unfortunately I couldn't fixed it when abroad. It just didn't crossed my mind that if I uploaded thumbnails to my first channel I wouldn't be able to do it with a new one, despite my account being the same.
2. iPhone
I wanted to start vlogging with minimal gear which meant reusing my phone for this purpose. So I bought a gimbal, learned some basics on how to use it, and off I went. This is clever in theory because iPhone has a great camera and the sync with iCloud makes things really straight-forward. The problem was I couldn't easily switch horizontal to vertical, switch front to back camera, and I couldn't use my phone while shooting. Putting the phone on the gimbal with the audio receiver also wasn't fun.
3. Gimbal
I think I messed up my gimbal although I am not aware of when. The phone with audio receiver barely balanced but I noticed in my later shorts that no matter what I do it tilts to the side. I tried to recalibrate it but to no vein. I can still probably use it with a smaller camera or my phone in vertical mode, but the standard horizontal mode is just not 100% straight and it bothers me.
Fin
So there you have it. I will try to make another blog soon with a new camera. And I'll post again on my channel. There is no point in having many channels for me anyways as I don't even know what I'll end up publishing.
