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HODL 4mo ago 💬 53

How to make good vlogs that people will want to watch.

1. Video should be decent (cellphone camera) audio should be great (AirPods or Bluetooth mic)

2. Stick to one subject, don’t ramble too much. Topic should be authentic relatable.

3. Be concise, 3-5 mins max.

4. Edit out pauses, boring bits, words that don’t serve you in a phone based editing app like CapCut etc…

5. Add captions. Many people like to watch with the sound off. You can do this in CapCut or the captions app.

Bonus points: cool location, activity or dynamic movement while talking so people have something to visually look at in addition to the ideas being discussed.

Ultra bonus points: the visuals should be a metaphor for the topic or ideas being discussed. I.e. you’re I a gym while discussing consistency, you’re walking on a path while talking about life paths etc… get creative.

If you do one or two of these in each video you will have a good vlog that people like. If you do all of these you will have a great vlog that people look forward to.

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You sound like a vlog expert.

On nostr? Yes I would say I am the foremost vlogging expert on this platform lol 😂

hodl in da house! 👀

noobslayer69 4mo ago

Top less women in the background help.

A time tested strategy

Real Hard Money Pod⚡️🟠 and 873 others 4mo ago

If rap videos taught us anything…

Sunflower 4mo ago

Good points. Thank you for breaking it down 🫡

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Achilles 4mo ago

Interesting perspective thx for sharing 🤙🏼💜🫂

Great advice. Now I got to find a subject worth vlogging about!

In my experience it’s best to just go with whatever you’re thinking about naturally. Don’t force it.

Benking 4mo ago

No one can make vlogs like you do.

UNCLE ROCKSTAR 4mo ago

Super glad I can code, seems like too much work to vlog

Different brain types. I can vlog as easily as you can code lol 😂

ChadF and 33 others 4mo ago

vibe-logging

once_aphysicist 4mo ago

This is good advise on an advertising driven normie platform like Twitter / Insta / TikTok etc.

On Nostr, be genuine, do what your heart wants. Attention is not the currency, authentic connection is.

When I was in film school our professor told us that before you can break the rules you have to know what the rules are and why you are breaking them.

once_aphysicist 4mo ago

Everything you listed are rules that are a consequence of the advertising model, isn't it? Video as a medium is older than social networks, I would guess your professor was referring to rules about film making in general (FWIW, I've heard that quote as well).

Nostr is a fundamentally different kind of network. There are no central arbiters, or hidden incentives. No one makes money of off its users.

Not particularly. This kind of format is just a natural outcrop of the sheer amount of content available to people in the Information Age. There’s so many things the audience could watch, why your video? You have to make it easy and compelling for them. That said you always have free rein to do whatever the hell you want, I’m just suggesting you know what you’re doing before you do that. Like in film school I watched many films that were allegeldy “avant garde” which in reality were just a bad unwatchable mess.

FikaTimeBooks.com 4mo ago

People are attracted to clarity, and structure helps to bring clarity, and what you're suggesting is basically, bring structure (and quality).

Right. You don’t have to do it but just like in filmmaking we have all these rules which are a film language that have been developed over 100 years and if you break them without knowing you’ve broken them the audience will be confused. There’s a lot of freedom within that structure though. Basically the entire history of cinema has been largely within it.

FikaTimeBooks.com 4mo ago

This is probably because people in the industry over time noticed what worked and didn't work with people, and chose to respect it. In other words, they noticed the nature of the reality of people and how they receive information and submitted to it rather than trying to engage in some massive Pygmalion project.

once_aphysicist 4mo ago

I don't disagree with all your points, just some, 2 & 3 specifically. Both are related to attention, to some extent also the "bonus" remark. I don't think people need to rely on hooks or other unrelated elements in their content for people to be interested on a platform where the dynamics of advertising is absent. Here quality of the content is what matters most. So that should dictate length, detail, or style (which is also why I really liked your "ultra bonus" remark).

Maybe I should have led with that, and been more precise with my words in my original comment.

I think where we 100% agree is that nostr enables new forms of content.

SuiGenerisJohn 4mo ago

Novelty and Other Stuff Transmitted over Relays

Max Trotter 4mo ago

Or just play #DSB three times...https://youtu.be/VcjzHMhBtf0

Nick Yam 4mo ago

You forgot the banging intro/outro combo.

Bonus points lol

awayslice 4mo ago 💬 1

If you do each of these and fall down at the end of every vlog, you will have the best vlog ever made.

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The Daniel 🖖 4mo ago

HODL, the Vlog Whisperer.

Extra extra bonus have a theme song and a cartoon with a rocket.

Real Hard Money Pod⚡️🟠 and 873 others 4mo ago

Thank you for the advice 🙏🏽

Vitamin E 4mo ago

I want to start making vlogs! What app or software have you found to be the best?

Your phone + CapCut is the easiest/best

satstacker 4mo ago

Or pump up the sound and put this motherfucker on; https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VxwxQloOct0

Ben Justman🍷 4mo ago 💬 2

6. Stop thinking and just go do it.

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Oshi (推し) 4mo ago

Very helpful info here 🫡

Leviticus Mathew 4mo ago 💬 2

Please use HODL's rules to tear my latest v-lawg to shreds.

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https://blossom.primal.net/1d437b2c4f6e6e48c12f4e82ad9e78a0beac8da4858812b9818f10ac19273183.mp4

average_bitcoiner 4mo ago

Is CapCut FOSS?

Doubtful

Sparrow 4mo ago

Haha fuck no it isn’t.

Any FOSS mobile video editors you know of?

average_bitcoiner 4mo ago

Nope.

Not sure what people are waiting for. Just Vlog it.

Great advice but man is CapCut expensive 😵‍💫

They have a free version

Yeah, doesn’t do auto captioning though. Veed is a cheaper alternative I think

It does I use it for auto captions

Oh nvm I’m using the paid one. Got it.

unsilencedsarah 4mo ago

Great advice ❤️ but capcut.....i only can put links to my text, but no videoupload

Tone Bone 4mo ago

And where, which group, do we post crafted content to?

Right now, from my 2.5 day old perspective, it seems my only options are just click 'post' and then it's up to the four winds if anyone even sees the damm thing?

I mean how is that different from other social media platforms lol

Mot₿C Podcast 4mo ago

Understand the frustration - I think the best way to consistently build up a following/audience on NOSTR is to follow a good number of people, cruise trending/most zapped feeds, and reply guy a lot.

Obvs not an expert, but even the largest/most engaged with accounts here are still just a fraction of what you might get on another platform - we are after all, still early.