I must admit, I am a regular viewer, subscriber and general fan of some of the most popular YouTube vloggers, Charlieissocoollike, nerimon and communitychannel to name a few (well half really). I love their styles and personalities, plus the stuff they talk about is easy to relate to. And I know I am a bit emotionally attached sometimes (see Emotional Endings post) but they seem like the kind of people who I would like in real life.
This makes me wish I was part of that community. One major obstacle, or three, is that I am shy, socially awkward and kind of paranoid about peoples’ opinions, which means I doubt I will ever be a real YouTuber. I am too scared to talk to myself, never mind filming it and posting it on the internet. Why do you think I have a blog? Anyway, I have recently started posting some videos of everyday things in slow motion with my new high-speed camera. Needless to say they are haphazard, poor quality and very little known. But I still want to do something noticeable.
Being a fan of Charlie and Alex Day, who both play songs in the form of Chameleon Circuit and solo singles, I have been kind of inspired to try to write songs. The fact that I play guitar (5 years but not very good) and piano (a few months) helps, but even so I have trouble. Looking at the chords for some of the songs that spurred me on, they are mostly very simple and I am able to play them fine; even doing harmonies and melodies isn’t too much hassle. But the problems come in two forms: vocals and layering. I cannot seem to write song lyrics without being unbelievably cheesy. Plus I get the feeling that if I could layer some tracks together, like a beat, chords, bass line and melody it would sound all but finished. The way I really want to do this is split screen video, but even just audio would be fine. The problem is that I don’t have the recording equipment to get more than one decent line; I have a digital camera which has pretty poor sound, as does my webcam. There is a digital recorder, but I don’t have the drivers to plug it into my PC and it can only play back one thing at a time. So I find myself unable to record and/or listen to more than one part of my so-called song.
This is why I want a Macbook Pro- for iMovie, Garage Band, and just generally because my laptop is awful and freezes constantly. If you are rich, can I please have £1200 for one? Thanks.
/self-indulged moan>
Food for Thought 