Help me!! I am going to make YouTube videos soon (I know what to call myself) but I don't know what to do! I am going to get a new computer in a while, and i am playing PC games! I am still in high school and I want people to actually see me! What should I play? is minecraft getting old for YouTube? should i play skyrim? Scribblenauts? Worms clan wars? I am so exited that I dont know what to do! PLZ HELP
If you play Minecraft stand apart from the rest. Don't call your subs army or anything. Be funny, and just be yourself. Talk like you are talking to a good friend. Don't play hunger games, find a Mini-game not everybody knows about. Just find a way to be different, if you can be funny and do something new you will get recognized.
Wow... thank you! I am so PUMPED for this! (I cannot see what is wrong with survival games though ;P) can you suggest a good recording and editing system?!!? Also I don't care what people think. I just want to make videos! The reason I want to is because I made a single parody of 'Harry Potter' that sadly never got released to YouTube (Hairy Feeter). Any way I am going to take this dissapointment and carry on! (Fire burns in eyes) I AM SO PSYCHED!!
You can play any games. As long as you're fun to watch (entertaining). I suggest you to play the game you like the more, which it'll make it more easier for you, when you record. You see, you don't make videos about games you like the less, because you're not fully into into, you know what I mean...
Record plays about Minecraft. Also before making videos 'study' your audience. Which type of audience will watch your videos? It all depends on the videos you make. I personally like PvP. Ergo, I like watching Let's Plays about PvP servers, especially Factions.
I hope I helped you, there's tons more of tips, which you can find on Youtube tutorials that teach you how to 'Youtube'.
Like other people have been saying, stand out from the rest, no one wants to see a copycat they want to see something different and unique. I don't think Minecraft is getting old for YouTube, to be honest, I think it's one of the most popular games to be playing right now and could possibly increase your subs!
Also make sure to speak up and talk clearly and don't be afraid to add some sense of humour!
Wow... thank you! I am so PUMPED for this! (I cannot see what is wrong with survival games though ;P) can you suggest a good recording and editing system?!!? Also I don't care what people think. I just want to make videos! The reason I want to is because I made a single parody of 'Harry Potter' that sadly never got released to YouTube (Hairy Feeter). Any way I am going to take this dissapointment and carry on! (Fire burns in eyes) I AM SO PSYCHED!!
I worded my post bad. All I'm saying is do new stuff. If you do hunger games people might not watch. Because people that are already famous do hunger games. (Look around Youtube A LOT of little kids act like sky when they play) You can do them, just do new stuff too. Be yourself, don't pretend to be Sky or Captain Sparklez and so on. But if all you do is hunger games, bleh it gets sooo boring.
Make some tutorials, it'll benefit others much more than just "let's plays" where you run around in circles and scream like a retard. Don't TELL people, SHOW them new things that could help them so much that you'd get plenty of subscribers.
Don't TELL people, SHOW them new things that could help them so much that you'd get plenty of subscribers.
“Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.” - Mark Twain
I can't tell you how much it bothers me when people in Minecraft videos spend several minutes staring at a patch of grass explaining what they're going to be doing in detail. The video description is a great place to put background information for your video if you need to.
A few other tips for tutorials:
- Being a college student (last semester coming up, woo), sometimes I want to skim through a tutorial at times when having the volume on would be problematic (i.e. in class). It's really helpful to have the important information appear on screen as text (either edited into the video itself or as a little unobtrusive pop up window).
- If you're making introductory tutorials for Minecraft, showing off new features, or showing how to do something in a mod, try to keep important crafting recipes onscreen for at least a second or two.
- If you're doing a modding tutorial (or anything involving large amounts of text), increase your text size. My eyes aren't getting any younger.
As for ideas for videos in general, look at what's out there, and try to find something different and interesting to do. However, if your heart is really set on making a video about a particular thing, don't let originality become an issue. After all, as C.S. Lewis once said, "Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."
If you're worried about Minecraft videos being overdone, go ahead and make Minecraft videos anyway, but don't just do Minecraft. Find some other games to do videos of as well (always go for ones you enjoy playing, unless you want to go the Angry Video Game Nerd / Spoony Experiment route), or heck, make videos of real life, or animated videos if you're decent at cartooning.
Sometimes putting arbitrary restrictions on your gameplay in playthroughs of games you're well versed in can make it more entertaining as well. For example, try playing through Scribblenauts only using really wacky objects to solve puzzles (You're thirsty? Here, have this glacier...). Or make some really weird character on Skyrim (I remember there being one video of a guy who made a character built around fighting with just his fists)...
And lastly, if you're making a video of a game with a decent multiplayer element, and you have some friends who play as well, consider letting them join in the fun if your computer can handle it and they don't hog the spotlight or derail the video. People like seeing friendly interaction, especially with a little mischief or competition thrown in. Look at how successful the MindCrack guys have become.
Cool, I want to make my own survival games as well. I will have to get it up next year or so, and I will be original. I AM still in high school but have a job, so I'll have to make do until then. Anyway, the bad news - I need an editing system!! Good news - I am PUMPED! I need the pricetag of these editing and recording systems. I am not telling anyone what my big plans are . I also have a friend to help me with downlowding mods and maps and stuff cause I just don't know how to with buckets and jars (wut). Yep, I am a noob at downloading. Anyways plz stay cool and plz help. THANK YOU!
Record plays about Minecraft. Also before making videos 'study' your audience. Which type of audience will watch your videos? It all depends on the videos you make. I personally like PvP. Ergo, I like watching Let's Plays about PvP servers, especially Factions.
I hope I helped you, there's tons more of tips, which you can find on Youtube tutorials that teach you how to 'Youtube'.
http://rules.mcf.li/
Also make sure to speak up and talk clearly and don't be afraid to add some sense of humour!
Good luck!
My fan fiction of the game: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1957118-programmer-my-first-fan-fiction/#entry24096758
Can you please stop typing in that 1 size text?ITS LIKE ME TYPINGIN ALL CAPS,it gets anouying!!!!
“Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.” - Mark Twain
I can't tell you how much it bothers me when people in Minecraft videos spend several minutes staring at a patch of grass explaining what they're going to be doing in detail. The video description is a great place to put background information for your video if you need to.
A few other tips for tutorials:
- Being a college student (last semester coming up, woo), sometimes I want to skim through a tutorial at times when having the volume on would be problematic (i.e. in class). It's really helpful to have the important information appear on screen as text (either edited into the video itself or as a little unobtrusive pop up window).
- If you're making introductory tutorials for Minecraft, showing off new features, or showing how to do something in a mod, try to keep important crafting recipes onscreen for at least a second or two.
- If you're doing a modding tutorial (or anything involving large amounts of text), increase your text size. My eyes aren't getting any younger.
As for ideas for videos in general, look at what's out there, and try to find something different and interesting to do. However, if your heart is really set on making a video about a particular thing, don't let originality become an issue. After all, as C.S. Lewis once said, "Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."
If you're worried about Minecraft videos being overdone, go ahead and make Minecraft videos anyway, but don't just do Minecraft. Find some other games to do videos of as well (always go for ones you enjoy playing, unless you want to go the Angry Video Game Nerd / Spoony Experiment route), or heck, make videos of real life, or animated videos if you're decent at cartooning.
Sometimes putting arbitrary restrictions on your gameplay in playthroughs of games you're well versed in can make it more entertaining as well. For example, try playing through Scribblenauts only using really wacky objects to solve puzzles (You're thirsty? Here, have this glacier...). Or make some really weird character on Skyrim (I remember there being one video of a guy who made a character built around fighting with just his fists)...
And lastly, if you're making a video of a game with a decent multiplayer element, and you have some friends who play as well, consider letting them join in the fun if your computer can handle it and they don't hog the spotlight or derail the video. People like seeing friendly interaction, especially with a little mischief or competition thrown in. Look at how successful the MindCrack guys have become.
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