Well, well, well...guess what I just found? Yep, a blog that I started over a year ago, with the intent of doing something, and what happens? I forget all about it. Obviously, this means that I was not really all that keen on starting a blog after all. Or, in case I was, I must have lacked the motivation to actually write about anything that came to mind. Whatever the case, I started it, and now that I've been reminded it exists, I may as well make the best of things.
To start things off, it is currently the eve of Christmas Eve, or in the English language, "Sunday the 23rd". Specifically, it's night, and I was just getting ready for bed. However, I felt it necessary to at the very least try to write about something, and I may have such a thing in mind...
The written medium is one that I enjoy, if not because it is pretty easy to interpret and acknowledge. While I don't write often, I find myself enjoying the times I do, and for me enjoyment is crucial. However, as good as I may be at writing, I feel that I would probably have just as much or more fun doing a video blog. You know the kind of stuff that's on YouTube? Yeah...it would probably be like that, only without the low quality that happens on most. The problem, I feel, is that once I start such a project, say a daily vlog, it would become the only or main thing my YouTube channel would be known for, which is concerning. Ideally, I would like to make in depth videos on the analysis of a variety of media, such as video games, movies, cartoons, perhaps even music. Those kinds of videos would take a lot of effort, and most of all time, and that means that putting out one such video could only happen at about...once a week, once I'm back in Spring semester. This means inconsistent and irregular timed videos, when "vlogging" would be so much easier to pump out, since it would just be whatever I think and feel at the time of recording.
On one hand, I feel that vlogging would be a healthy way of expressing my thoughts, and could lead to improvement in my own public speaking skills. However, on the other hand, I feel like it might set me up to become pigeonholed in with all other vloggers, and will leave me trapped into doing just one thing, lest the collective voice of the Internet dissent at any and all change. Am I perhaps thinking too far ahead? Yes. Am I perhaps giving myself too much credit. Definitely. Am I perhaps thinking too deeply about what I should or should not do? Absolutely. Yet, I feel I must ask these questions, since they are concerns that my mind has laid bare, and if I am to make a worthwhile decision, I should at least give it the proper thought.
In any case, whatever happens, I can only do so much with crappy Windows Movie Maker. Once I get better software, I can focus on the possibility of making "good" videos, instead of just "easy" videos.
Also, I really ought to write more blog posts, as I actually feel a bit better just by typing this out. Guess I need to figure this out as well...Ah, but what is life without some challenges, right?
