MegaBoringGuy
Biggest Painted On Muscles You've Ever Seen, Baby
What kind of question is this? I don't know anybody who thinks "I've got 5 mins to watch a video, I think I'll watch a decent one instead of a great one".
Quantity or Quality?
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Shawn Parrotte
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I think its better to start off with quantity. Yes, they might suck. But by doing it you get better. Its a process thing. You'll get better at speaking at the camera, editing, creating content, etc... If you focus *too* much on quality when you aren't ready, I think you'll suffer because you wont get feedback at the same rate. And you'll understand your own process less.
If you haven't heard this story yet then its a good one:
"The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the "quantity" group: fifty pound of pots rated an "A", forty pounds a "B", and so on. Those being graded on "quality", however, needed to produce only one pot - albeit a perfect one - to get an "A".
Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the "quantity" group was busily churning out piles of work - and learning from their mistakes - the "quality" group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay."
If you haven't heard this story yet then its a good one:
"The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the "quantity" group: fifty pound of pots rated an "A", forty pounds a "B", and so on. Those being graded on "quality", however, needed to produce only one pot - albeit a perfect one - to get an "A".
Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the "quantity" group was busily churning out piles of work - and learning from their mistakes - the "quality" group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay."
Heresrichieee
Mentally Unstable.
Quality for sure
Catie WahWah
I've Got It
That's such a great story, and I totally agree! It reminds me of the old 10,000 hours theory, spoken about a little old band you may have heard of called... The Beatles...:
By the time the Beatles arrived in America, and sparked that "sudden" Beatlemania, they had racked up over 10,000 hours of live performances across Europe. That's not even including the hours they spent rehearsing! I think sometimes holding onto a video for too long can make it worse - you start doubting yourself and delay releasing it. If you set yourself reasonable deadlines and always focus on improvement it's just logical that it'll help
There is a channel I subscribe to called 2Veritasium that made a really good video on the whole quality vs. quantity issue – here is a link to it; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fjE1A80w2s&list=UU2LZO6swZ9SLUEOks3WnsfA
It’s a good watch.
It’s a good watch.
TheCampingZombie
I've Got It
I'm going with quality man.
DeathJohnson
YTtalk Mad
You need a mix of both to succeed in general. If you make 10 terrible videos a day, you probably won't have much success, but if you make a great video but only get to release one a year, you won't get too far either.
Overall, from a starter perspective, I'd recommend quantity, because starting off, you won't really know too much about how to make things a better quality. Whereas when you're working with quantity, you'll be able to see the kind of mistakes you're making, and you can work to fix them, and you'll also naturally be improving your quality through practice.
It also depends on the kind of channel you have, some channels can get away with a video every month or so, while some kinds of channels need uploads almost on a daily basis to work out well.
Overall, from a starter perspective, I'd recommend quantity, because starting off, you won't really know too much about how to make things a better quality. Whereas when you're working with quantity, you'll be able to see the kind of mistakes you're making, and you can work to fix them, and you'll also naturally be improving your quality through practice.
It also depends on the kind of channel you have, some channels can get away with a video every month or so, while some kinds of channels need uploads almost on a daily basis to work out well.
