Do Not Lose Your Head Over It, Could Be Anywhere, US, ‘07, artistic view.
An official date on my YouTube page clearly states that a year passed since I joined a YouTube site. Actually, although technically true, I did not submit anything for the first 2-3 months and recently I did take over a 2 month break from video making, but not from commenting and rating. So, it is a little bit less than a year. Is there a single word that would characterize this first year? I believe it would be – SLOW. Yes, I expected things to move much faster judging by the initial meteoric rise of some YouTube "stars", since then shinning a bit dimmer. Things are changing, for the better or for the worse? Not sure. Time will tell.
Things that used to bother me and still bother, that have not been resolved on YouTube: quality of video and audio on YouTube compared to my originals. HD format is still not supported, and audio is pretty bad. They both get you when you are shooting in HD and composing music for the videos, as I do. I must say that I am not convinced things are radically going to improve. Other video sharing sites offer those features, but with a very tiny crowd to watch. Basically there is no solution at this moment!
I managed to get over 150 subscribers, several I kind of know well. Over 400 subscriptions, some of them quite good. I dropped some of the subscriptions, those that became boring, and making essentially the same kind of videos over and over again. Some things are changing independent of my work, probably due to the very random nature of submitting videos by users, and rather difficult way to find good and interesting videos from a huge number of submissions. How many good videos can you find using "Search" button? And those recommended by others may not be of interest to me!
Still plan to make videos, perhaps one every two weeks. I do plan to improve my music composing skills. The first song is hovering over my head, with some theme ideas, can I maybe find somebody to sing it? Perhaps a YouTube member?
Reading now: 101 Songwriting Wrongs And How To Right Them by Pat and Pete Luboff, ISBN-10: 1-58297-480-2.
Listening to: CD that came with Melody, How To Write Great Tunes by Rikky Rooksby, ISBN: 0-879308-19-2.
Just clicked on my name on YouTube page. The error message says: User Vatsek Not Found! Great, you must have seen several similar messages on your pages as well. Happy 1st to me!
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