{"id":997,"date":"2018-06-09T16:42:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T23:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/?p=997"},"modified":"2018-06-09T16:42:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T23:42:19","slug":"vlog-1-my-writers-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/?p=997","title":{"rendered":"VLOG #1 &#8211; My Writer&#8217;s Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve made a VLOG!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EhASuDHZduM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My respect for people that do this sort of thing regularly has increased by an order of magnitude.\u00a0 This was not easy.<\/p>\n<p>As I state in the video, I wanted to celebrate my 1,000 Twitter follower milestone by creating my first VLOG.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve thought about doing it for years but didn&#8217;t really see much point in it.\u00a0 I&#8217;m much more eloquent in text.\u00a0 However, after some friends posted videos of their own, they encouraged me to do this.\u00a0 Now, for better or worse, it is done.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s stuttering in the video because I tried editing out most of the &#8220;uhms.&#8221; I didn&#8217;t eliminate all of them, but to put this into perspective, I recorded about 5:40 worth of video and edited it down to 5:13.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a lot of awkward pauses.<\/p>\n<p>I made the decision to make the VLOG about a week and a half ago.\u00a0 Since then, I downloaded some software, recorded some test footage, and finally wrote my &#8220;script.&#8221; When I woke up this morning, I decided today would be the best day to make the recording.\u00a0 With beautiful, cool weather to support my decision, it just made sense to go outside and find a quiet place with natural lighting.<\/p>\n<p>The weather behaved, but the rest of the world conspired against me.\u00a0 I walked to the sleepy little park in my neighborhood thinking that I&#8217;d find a bench and record the raw footage there.\u00a0 As soon as I opened my laptop, a truck turned the corner and rumbled down the street hauling a cement mixer.\u00a0 It parked less than 100 feet from where I planned on doing the recording.\u00a0 The mixer churned and growled like bottled thunder.\u00a0 Then one of my neighbors started drilling.\u00a0 When a handful of friendly dog walkers showed up and started chatting at and around me, I decided I&#8217;d move on.<\/p>\n<p>I visited two other parks before walking home and making the recording in my backyard.\u00a0 I think it worked out.\u00a0 If I do another one, I&#8217;ll start at home.\u00a0 Maybe I&#8217;ll put up something to block some of the wind noise.<\/p>\n<p>Chris lent me his fancy Snowball microphone which helped improve the &#8220;production value.&#8221; After a couple of hours spent editing and migrating the files to a place where I could upload to YouTube, I feel like it is finally finished and I can relax.\u00a0 Maybe even get back to writing.<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoyed this, let me know and I&#8217;ll see about making another!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve made a VLOG! 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