Just A Quick Chat

[@AndreSjoberg]

Nononononono - feels a little bit like you’re loosing focus and drive man, can’t have none of that! The photo walk was cool, maybe switch it up and set some specific goals for each walk, like «make a 10 or 20 sec slo-mo b-roll-sequence», «document 10 cool or strange or weird buildings in each nearby town or community and upload them to google maps», «get 10 pictures of cool cars from a low angle» and «20 sec b-roll from back alleys» - nothing big, just small manageable goals, doesn’t really matter if if you *exactly* 10 pictures or 20 seconds, but the point of the exercise is the process and having purpose and something to work towards, doing stuff like that for 20-30 minutes, then a small talking head segment on how it’s going, then try to get some more shots or footage. Suddenly you have bits and pieces and can do a small «presentation» video of a nearby town, or an area - things to get brain going and ideas flowing, and them switching it up in terms of how the gear is working out, things you’re discovering. But most important of all: find or make up a purpose for the small trips, make small challenges where the goal isn’t to «clear» the challenge but get «something» - small, big, silly, weird, doesn’t matter, 5-10 pictures of still life fire hydrants or electrical wires and boxes on buildings and poles, trashcans, anything goes :) «Jeg har trua» as we say in norwegian, «you can do this» :)

[@BrownieBits450]

I think what is happening... at least with the vlog itself is that I am focusing too much on the other video, and letting the vlog be whatever... so the focus loss is there. I love these ideas though. I have this weekend to get focus back to the vlog and making 2 good videos a week. I like to think of the Photo Walk videos as a peaceful series where I dont have anything but just ambiance and photos, but the vlog that accompanies those can absolutely be more interesting. I think my first step is to not force both videos to happen the same day. That way I can focus entirely on one, then a different day I can focus on video 2. That might also pull the stress of a deadline way down! This is a great poke in the gut though! Thank you! I appreciate it!

[@AndreSjoberg]

@@BrownieBits450 Sounds like a good plan :) The photo walk was great, just following along enjoying the scenery, seeing some photos being snapped, worked great :) Small idea for the followup vlog, if the photo walk had some kind of mission, is to do the followup vlog focused on the mission, maybe a mix of talking head «about the mission», then using some footage from the photo walk while doing a voice over explaining a bit about «the mission» and how whatever we’re seeing is related to the mission or your thinking (retrospectively) on why you chose this or that shot, and any other thoughts related to gear, lense choice for the pics this would both be informative and force one to think about what worked and maybe didn’t work, maybe seeing and thinking about a picture taken after the fact triggers new ideas for angles or maybe other focal lengths, different setups with items in the foreground, details that might inspire a close up shot, that sort of thing :) It might also work well with the «not doing both on the same day» idea you mention, doing sort of a «review» of yourself and the photowalk - i bit more work, but it might pay off in terms of two strong videos pr trip :) I often find that the first time I go somewhere I take a bunch of shots, and when I look through them afterwards I get all these ideas for new ways of shooting them, down below, high up, closer, further away, through things I suddenly notice in the shot, and doing that as exercises I tjukk might work both for content as well as growing as a photographer/videographer forcing oneself to evaluate and reiterate on subjects and objects and locations :)