How to become a popular video blogger

Five years ago, you could go outside, spit into the crowd and be sure to hit the photographer. Time goes by, life changes. Now if you do the same, you will definitely get into the blogger. Maybe even a photoblogger, but given the latest trends, it will most likely be a video blogger.

What makes people go into the field of video blogging? At first, it may be interests or a passion for some topic - a person understands that he understands this, and seeks to share his experience with others. Then the money. The income of the most popular blogger on YouTube, the PewDiePie letsplayer, is estimated by the SocialBlade agency to be between $1 and $18 million per year.

We decided to figure out what a person should do in order to at least begin to approach such results. So, if you suddenly decided to connect your life with video blogging, where to start?

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Come up with

Before you open your YouTube channel, decide what you are going to talk about. "Obviously," you say. But it's not just a matter of choosing a topic. Think about what new things you can give your audience, how reliable the information you share is, whether it will be interesting to look at you. It is best to think over a couple of pilot issues — write a script and try to shoot.

Do not forget that video blogging is a show and there are already enough "showmen" on Russian YouTube without you. With the opening of a new channel, the author tries to bring something new to blogging. If you want the videos to be successful and gain hundreds, thousands, and then (why not?) and millions of views, find your "trick" — how your channel will differ from dozens of the same.

Plan ahead

At first it seems that the work of a blogger is, in principle, a simple thing. You write, shoot, post — what's complicated here? In fact, depending on the topic of the channels, it takes from one to several days, and sometimes weeks, to work on one video (if we are talking about traveling, for example). You can't make good video content in an hour, and you can't rely on chance.

If you don't like running around with the "center of the universe" on fire, and you want stable traffic from the channel, you need to think over the final plan in advance. Outline an approximate topic and frequency of issues. Plus, it's good if you have several issues in stock — no one is immune from force majeure.

Take good equipment

In fact, it also all depends on the topic of your channel. If the beauty of the picture is important to you, then do not skimp on this point. You can talk about traveling, visit the most beautiful places in this world, but if the video quality is low, no one will appreciate your efforts.

In general, do not think that a good camera = an expensive camera. The same GoPro is not the only action camera on the market worthy of attention - there are a number of other models that are much more profitable for beginners to purchase. We shot the materials for this post on YI 4K Action Camera. This technique is more suitable for those who are going to talk about travel or sports. It is compact, together with a tripod weighs no more than 200 grams. The amount of memory depends on the microSD you choose. When we were preparing the visual part, we realized that for modern action cameras, a simple video recording function is not enough. I sometimes want to make freeze frames, and the opportunity to shoot a beautiful timelapse beckons terribly. All this was found. However, it took a long time to get used to the viewing angle of 160 ° (but people, tall buildings and large objects were placed in the frame). Pay attention to the quality of the resulting material. Before choosing a technique, look on the Internet or on the store's website for video samples taken on the model you like. Our "test subject" promised a 4K video. I didn't let you down.

Learn to speak

As soon as you think about becoming a good video blogger, the next thought should be: "Do I know how to speak normally?" If not, please solve this problem first. The Runet is littered with tongue-tied people who take pictures of themselves on camera, and, unfortunately, their audience has no complaints about them. It is not necessary to feed a cohort of bloggers whose speech is bleeding from their ears.

Have you decided to seriously engage in blogging? Take a couple of lessons in public speaking or acting, read about the style of your native language — a person who speaks correctly and clearly is hundreds of times more pleasant to look at than endless "uh-uh" and "calls".