When a Video Idea isn't Working...

Oscar J Stones said:
I think it depends on how you view your channel. I've always seen mine as a collection of things I enjoy making and watching, and if people want to watch it they can. So I wouldn't upload anything that I didn't like.
But if you make content more for others than yourself I can see how "what other people think of it" can be something you base your uploads on.
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Yeah. I want there to be an educational aspect to my channel. There's a huge need for one like mine on YouTube. I feel like I can really appeal to a lot of people in this niche. It's not really for me, because I already know about the things I want to share with other people.

I think my problem here is that I'm just not very comfortable in front of a camera. In the video I'm not smiling and I don't appear excited about what I'm talking about, even though it's my favorite subject in the world. So I seem very boring. I am trying to figure out how I can film this so that it is not just me talking to a camera for five minutes.
 
Tina Grace said:
What do you do? I have filmed this video and it's mostly edited at this point but I just don't like it. I don't like where I filmed it, I don't like how I went about the topic... but I don't know how to make it better. It's a video about a current event kind of thing that I am trying to explain my point of view on as a professional in the field. My last videos have been fun to film, edit, and post, and this one is just... meh. I like the subject matter, I am passionate about it, but am not happy with how it is coming out. The video is boring, plain and simple.

What do you do in this situation? Scrap it? Re-film? Push it aside for another time?
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I think you should record it all over again. If there are some parts you like in the video keep it and add it to your new version.
 
I usually refilm about about 95% of my videos that don't work out the first time around because I feel that with enough tweaking and calibrating the final product will come out how I want it. The only time I scrap is when I genuinely feel that this isn't what I want and that's a point where we as creators, need to be honest with ourselves :)
 
In the case of my "reviews," I'm never prepared for the glory that comes out when I'm using my greenscreen and trying to add some pretty dumb special effects. The half-@$$edness of it is a beautiful thing that I can never adequately plan or prepare for.
 
ChrisLegend said:
I usually refilm about about 95% of my videos that don't work out the first time around because I feel that with enough tweaking and calibrating the final product will come out how I want it. The only time I scrap is when I genuinely feel that this isn't what I want and that's a point where we as creators, need to be honest with ourselves :)
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I totally agree! I do want to refilm, but I will probably end up pushing it way down the list. I don't know how to make it interesting to others just yet. So that's pretty discouraging.
 
Olivea-Sea said:
I've had this so many times LOL makeup is trial and error so I've canned so many vids :p It's just part of the learning curve!
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Idk HOW beauty gurus do it... I have fun filming while doing stuff, sitting in front of a camera and talking isn't something I'm comfortable with yet! I definitely need more practice!
 
Tina Grace said:
Idk HOW beauty gurus do it... I have fun filming while doing stuff, sitting in front of a camera and talking isn't something I'm comfortable with yet! I definitely need more practice!
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haha! well we just do... fail and do again :P I had get used to talking as wel but I got more comfortable when I was getting comments and I actually had the feeling I was talking to someone instead of the cam!
 
I (unfortunately) have had this happen to a good few of my videos. I think they're fantastic at the time and then I get to the editing phase and it's all wrong. A few that I was ok with got edited and put up on my channel, but for the majority of the time if I don't like something I put it in a folder marked "unused videos" and I either try it again if I really loved the concept or I scrap the idea all together.
I don't believe in posting something that I think is bad, because if I don't like it why would anyone else like it? Especially if I know I can do it better.
 
MintApocalypse said:
I (unfortunately) have had this happen to a good few of my videos. I think they're fantastic at the time and then I get to the editing phase and it's all wrong. A few that I was ok with got edited and put up on my channel, but for the majority of the time if I don't like something I put it in a folder marked "unused videos" and I either try it again if I really loved the concept or I scrap the idea all together.
I don't believe in posting something that I think is bad, because if I don't like it why would anyone else like it? Especially if I know I can do it better.
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It's hard to say what other people will like though. One of the major reasons I don't like scrapping content is because I've seen some horrible stuff get millions of views. I do keep to a standard for my own videos though. None of em are perfect, but if I liked all 200+ of them enough to upload em.
 
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