Hey great person of the almighty internet,
I started making some leagues videos for fun but my most recent one (above) got quite a few dislikes. My only goal is to make some entertaining videos for you guys. Be as harsh as you want.
I'm open to any advise such as voice recording, better clips and webcam if you think they will improve my videos... No I wont go shirtless, even though i'm pretty damn sexy ;)
Ill check back here!
I wouldn't personally have disliked it, wouldn't have liked it either though. There were points where you weren't centered on yourself, so it wasn't clear where the focus was. The speeding up kind of took away from the momentum/awesomeness of the plays, as did the flashing transition effect. It awkwardly stuttered at some points too- that could've been my youtube, but I'm pretty sure that was your end. The song was okay, but I'm not sure it added much other than "it's not silent". For me anyway.
Overall, I feel that you could've more skillfully edited to emphasize your cool plays. ^^
I think that you could make a voice recording along with the music. The only downside to this is that if you try waaay to hard to be funny, people won't like it. Thought you know, you could always acknowledge these type of things and be like. "I'm trying to hard with these videos? Well I must be constipated because I don't give a shit." Some people like that you make fun of yourself too, but that's just my opinion. (Sorry if this is all over the place, I was really short on time to type something that made sense)
I'll be honest hear, its not as bad as you seem to think it is by how you typed in the post. It's some good plays, good editing, and so forth. Other than possible better video quality (that actually might be a problem on my end) the videos are fine and flow nicely. The problem is, and why your probably not getting popular, because there are so many others doing the exact same thing. The reason you see a lot of montage and league highlight youtubers being famous today is because they did it when it wasnt popular at all, and was a new thing.
Think of it this way, your a small fish living in the sea. You see that there are larger fish, that seem to be fed well, so you wonder why. You find out they went to a new coral reef, so you follow along. But, as you are following, there are thousands of other fish following too, all near identical in size to you. They all seem to be swimming in the same direction, maybe at different paces, but never as fast as the big fish. There are also sharks, who taunt the small fish and tell them they are not as good as the big fish. When you arrive, theres no food because they big fish had eaten it a while ago. So, you decide to swim away, and stumble upon a new reef. This one has tons of food, shelter, and other things. Now you are a big fish, and everyone starts following you.
Everyone is making montages with plays, using the usually EDM background track and drops here and there. You might make it a little far, but you wont ever make it as far as big name youtubers. Sit back and watch some other videos, youll start to see a pattern. If you want to climb youtube, do something different. You dont have to switch immediately though, wait to build a fanbase and take the time to think about it. Think about what no one has done yet, or just something that hasnt come to light. You videos arent bad, it just takes time and a little bit of thinking to eventually decide what you want your channel to be.
Problems with the video: -Most of the time, the energy of the video didn't match the energy of the audio -There is very significant popping / audio quality loss. It's as if theres an entire range of frequencies missing. -Weird choice of font (I think that's helvetica or arial?), not well suited for title text. Consider something more loose / stylish, and also consider overlapping end text with footage (could be blurred) to be less separate from the video.
Really though, those are minor things. SlayerTay6 already made the point about how this is something so many people are doing, and you really have to find a way to put your own spin on it to get noticed. That's not really something other people can help you with, you kinda just gotta keep trying things and experiment till you find something that works.
Wow, seriously guys, didn't expect so much and such great advice from everyone of you. Thank you.
Since its quite a lot of text I would like to address everything in one go:
Many of you mentioned the quality of the video and audio - You are very correct on this. Software kept crashing and i had to convert everything which was detrimental to the quality. I have a fix for this.
Music - I would love to use some metal/rock music in my videos instead but its difficult with copyright on youtube. I have considered making my own music on guitar or asking my brothers band to create some tracks to fit my videos. Ill start experimenting with this.
Font - Thanks, ill take more time to look into this next video.
Voice recording - I agree this is very hard to pull of successfully. Maybe something I could try at a later stage.
Video editing - Im stil a newbie in this, i'm just switching to a different software with more options so it will get better. Also making it obvious where the things are happening is a very good point.
One out of many - This is probably the strongest point. I actually have some ideas to make my videos different and editing a storyline into them in a particular style. Ill try something completely new for my next video!
Own reflection
I'll still check back here so continue to bash my video and let me know what else I can change ;)
