How do you come up with your video ideas?

My video ideas always come to me when I am in the most inconvenient situation, I think 'I'll remember that' then when I go to film I draw a blank!.
Or, sometimes I will just turn the camera on and wing it.. actually I do that all the time.
I usually have a very vague idea of what my video is about and just start talking. I really should write things down more. I carry a notepad around with me and everything. Never use it tho.
 
A tip of advice is that when you come up with a funny thought, write it down/record it. If you laugh while writing a videos script, that's a good thing. Whenever I think of something funny or the overall idea of a video (message), I keep it, because I can always add on to it.

The average person laughs about 40 times a day, so don't stress and overthink about video ideas, because something will come to mind. It's just a matter of time.

Hope this helped. :D
 
I typically think of my best youtube ideas when I try to go to sleep at night... and then I just kind of lay there for hours thinking about more things/scenes/dialogue I could add to that idea.......... and in the end I'm not able to sleep, so I end up writing my ideas down on my phone or on paper.

Unfortunately they're not always as funny/interesting when I read them in the morning :\
But hey, it's a learning process, and I'm still pretty new to this :p
 
I don't even think about it, they just appear to me. I just write ideas down in my Notes section on my phone. I could be on the go when an idea strikes, I could wake up during the night "Great Scott I've got it!" creativity strikes at any time :)
 
As my videos are mostly guitar cover songs of TV and movie themes.... I normally get my ideas by watching a lot of movies and assessing whether it can be done on the guitar :D its fun fun fun
 
when i do math, i get the best ideas, it's so boring there that i can think about youtube.

K no, just kidding. But i get my ideas anywhere :)
 
This might sound funny but i think of three random things then try to create a story works really freaking good imo lol
 
I usually think of my ideas when I'm trying too go to bed, and then they usually grow into something really funny, and I tell myself to write them down, but then I tell myself I'm too tired to do write it, and that I should wait until the morning, and then I wake up, and everything but the Main Idea is gone... I need to stop doing that...
 
Sitting in school I say something... Laughter ensues followed by "I hate you Kieran your jokes are so bad"... TO YOUTUBE IDEA! Other ideas come from previous desires or just spontaneous ideas haha
 
For me, I have two methods.

For comedy skits, I will think of an idea that actually made me laugh out loud. Then I will research the internet (mainly YouTube) to see if anyone has already done my idea, and if they have, see if there is a way I can change it to still be original (although usually I will toss the idea and find a new one.) If original, I will come up with a plot for the skit, then write the script for it.

For more serious ideas like the webseries we are working on now, I will think of an idea that I like, check for originality, and then I will research as much as I can about anything related to this idea be it space, medieval, aliens, etc. I will then come up with names for my characters by either thinking of a word that best describes them, looking through a thesaurus, and then altering that word to be original and sound cool (or at least fit the character.) If there are a lot of characters, this can be one of the most tedious tasks for me since I seem to never be happy with names. After all this, I will begin writing general ideas down of the story (very rough at first) and then the more I think of it the more I refine the story to what I want. NOTE: Especially with webseries or longer stories, I feel it is important to be able to answer any questions you can come up with about your story. This way you will find holes in your story of things that do not make sense very quickly. If I can strongly answer all of my questions, then I will finally share my story with a friend, and then answer all of their questions until I have a solid story ready for an audience.

Hope that helped. :)
 
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