How do you come up with your video ideas?

[JakeyBlueEyes]

What do u guys do to come up with ideas? what stages do you pass through? how long? E.T.C...

For me Most of my ideas come from when i am sleeping and when im watching other vids. I Write them up in a word document and when i need ideas i just look through it and pick out the ones i need/want.

Keep a notepad or something to jot ideas down if any comes to your head throughout the day and if all else fails do a video on crazy moments in your life or your opinions on stuff or any advice you have to a particular thing

 

[TheHealthyCow]

I got a 48x36 in. marker board in my room. I have a bad pacing habit when I am thinking or in my head. I use the board to write down my general thoughts. ideas, or as a agenda. (So now I don't have to sit down or anything and can do it while pacing). I don't just use it for Youtube but it works great.. Just now if I could follow through with some of the ideas I have written down. xD

 

[SherlockCupid]

I tend to keep a notepad with at all times then ideas will flow and I jot them down. Most of the time my ideas come from a stimulating conversation.

 

[darkstarmedia]

What I do is a write up a few rough ideas that I already have and gather information from friends via Facebook to see what's more popular, as a kind of guideline.
With my photography series, I'm currently going through the alphabet, so I look up several terms, pick the best three and write up a script. I'm working on Episode D right now!

 

[Trevgauntlet]

I look up a video on YouTube of a rare video game, if anyone shows a physical copy and it's not on YouTube, I'll post a video of the actual game itself and give a brief description of it. Afterwards, I show some gameplay footage and how it actually plays vice using emulators. As of recently, I've been posting straight up gameplay footage because I have night classes in order to avoid falling behind. I do plan on making a comeback as soon as I graduate.

With other videos, such as rants or skits, it just happens on the fly.

 

[iGM]

I keep a notepad on me all the time, in case I need to write something down. Besides that I usually just note things down in a notepad (and make a backup).

 

[PureHater]

Usually i wake up at 2am with a stupid thought and im like,
iv'e gotta do this $#@$#@$

 

[TranquilGeo]

I make myself come up with 25 ideas on Saturdays. The first 20 or so are quite terrible but by the time I get over 20 ideas, usually, my creative process has awakened. Usually, the last few are the best, but not always. So I go through the list again and increase the font size of the ones I like. It's the same method a lot of really good writers use, by writing a few pages to warm up the brain and then delete those pages and start over.

 

[PrettyKeli]

I get my ideas from my Analytics. Best place to get them from if you ask me ^_^

 

[xingcat]

Since I do three uploads per week on three different subjects (growing long hair, 3 Ingredient Recipes, and George, the Self Esteem Cat), I'm pretty structured in what I have to think about. The hair videos are now almost entirely requests from viewers who have questions that I can research and try my best to answer. The recipes are easy...I have a long list of recipes I can make, and my partner and I think about what the theme around that recipe will be (for instance, this week and next will be recipes appropriate for Thanksgiving). The self-esteem cat can be challenging, but what I've been doing is really digging into the subject of self esteem, self-help, psychology, and figure out what gets in the way of people reaching their potential, then we write up a basic, silly outline of how that could translate into our odd world of animal puppets, and we improv a story.

Ideas are the easiest part of creating, I think. The more difficult aspect for me is making those ideas into something that other people will want to watch.