Halfway!!
So this week did not go as planned… We had planned to vlog a week/day in our lives, but that did not happen. I think everyone is tired and ready for spring break, so we lacked the motivation to come up with ideas. This week was stressful and difficult for all of us, so unfortunately, we won’t be able to post a vlog this week. It would be nice if we could vlog during spring break, but I’m (Clara) going to the beach and won’t be back til Sunday. Emily and Gracie could do something if they wanted to, but we agreed we all need to be in the video. Since we won’t post this week, it’ll mean we are behind. We plan to fix this by filming a vlog the week we get back (week 7) and the week after that (week 8). If we do this, we will be back on track to reach our goal of 6 videos. Another reason we weren’t able to vlog was we were more focused on the design challenge. It was super fun and we loved making a commercial for biggie bags, but it did somewhat intrude on our Genius Hour day, and we weren’t able to have a full day to work on our project because lets be honest we barley did anything today because it’s Friday and we’re all dead :). Something we definitely need to do over spring break is brainstorm vlog ideas. We have some ideas and collabs cooking, but we’re not 100 percent sure how to execute them because none of us can drive. We want to collab with Munch and Crunch even though they’re goofy and literally are praying on our downfall. I really hope we can work this idea out because I think it would produce a super funny vlog. Pray for us that we will get back on track after spring break :)
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Week 5!!
This week we lowkey did not do much. We all knew we had to be productive but we just couldn’t. We think our next vlog will be a “week in our lives” or something like that. This way we can film at school and we don’t have to meet outside of school (are we sick of each other??). This week on Genius Hour Day, Mr. Barker played our vlog on the big screen, and it was a little awkward because the three of us were laughing at OUR OWN jokes and no one else was, but it's okay they just don’t get how funny we are. Emily was able to pull up our channel's stats so we could see how our channel is growing. As of right now, our first vlog has
The growth we have achieved just from week 2 to week 4 is pretty incredible. We have 80 more views on our second vlog than our first vlog, and we’re very excited to see this number grow even more. I have some screenshots from our YouTube Studio that I will input that show our stats even more in-depth. These screenshots show our total number of views (which has gone up since we took this screenshot), our total watch time, and also our returning and new viewers. As I said before, we think we are going to vlog a “week in our lives” this week. We’re not sure how this is going to go, but we’ll figure it out. We don’t know how we’re going to make it entertaining. Many YouTubers that we watch film these kinds of videos, so maybe we can get inspiration from them. Next week is the halfway mark!! Stay tuned for our third vlog! Our second vlog is up!!
On Saturday, we all met at my house (Clara) and filmed our second vlog. We cooked pasta salad, but with a twist. Gracie was deaf, Emily was blind, and Clara was mute. It was difficult, but it was so funny, and I think the vlog turned out hilarious. We also slapped each other with tortillas and yapped (we played Would You Rather?). We had to stop filming after this because Gracie's phone was about to die and it was becoming radioactive, but after we yapped, we went for a walk and rode in the Can-Am. So far, our video has 20 views and 7 likes. It was only posted two hours ago, so that is not too bad. We also gained one subscriber. I think that this vlog turned out better than our first vlog, but I am a little worried it will not do as well as our last one. I think our second vlog is funnier, but I know some people do not have the same humor as us, so we will see. As for the technological part, I think we improved. Emily added some editing aspects that were not in our first video. For example, she figured out how to add music to the background, and that added to the humor element of our video. There are definitely some things we still need to work on. For example, while we are sitting and yapping, it is kind of hard to hear what we are saying. It can easily be fixed by turning up the volume, but that is somewhat annoying. We have talked about getting a microphone, but we are all broke and we don't have jobs. We could all chip in and buy a cheap microphone, but it almost doesn't seem practical considering we probably won't continue to vlog after we finish our Genius Hour Project. We will probably discuss this further this week on Wednesday. I think our fourth week of Genius Hour was very much a success, and I can't wait to plan our next video! You can watch our new vlog under the contact page. Go watch it right now or else... Stay tuned for next week when we plan our third vlog!! This week, since it’s an off week, we didn’t really do much. We sort of made a plan for our video next week, but then we just watched NINA. We also played around with different microphones and audio quality. If we want to improve our videos, we should probably invest in a microphone of some kind. But we are all broke and don’t have jobs, so we’ll see.
This week, we got lots of feedback on our video. Most people liked it and thought it was funny. People did leave hate comments, but that is just because they are jealous :). We found that many people didn’t watch our video all the way through. We think this is because the clips got longer, and some boring parts didn’t get edited out because Emily “got tired of editing.” We hope to make this better for our next video. Maybe the three of us can take turns editing so one person doesn’t get tired of doing it. We also want to try and make the video quality better. We talked with Mr. Barker about different ways to achieve this. For our next video, we think we will be doing something with cooking. That’s the only idea we have right now, but maybe we can add something to keep it interesting. We plan on doing it Friday night at my (Clara’s) house. Hopefully, there will be no schedule conflicts. We are not sure what we will be cooking yet, but it will probably be some kind of dessert because we like sweet treats. I don’t want to reveal too much, but we are thinking about adding a twist to the cooking part to make it more fun. It’s been nice to relax and not worry about freeing up time to get together and make a video, but I am excited for our next video because I think we have a good idea, and I can’t wait for people to see it. Our first vlog has been uploaded! If you haven't watched it yet, go watch it right now. As of right now, our video has 30 views and 8 likes. We think that this is a good start. We hope to see these numbers grow as we post more videos.
Our first vlog is basically us volunteering to pick up trash in the school parking lot for STEM Ambassadors, making slime ( Gracie had never made slime before :) ), and getting lost in the woods. While we were making slime, we set the camera up, and we filmed us yapping and making slime for 35 minutes. We obviously cut most of this out. I personally (Clara), had so much fun filming this. It just felt like we were just hanging out; the only difference is that we filmed it. I thought it was going to be this hard process of filming everything, figuring out what to film, and editing, but it really wasn’t too hard. I can’t wait to make more videos! I think for our first video, it turned out really well. It is funny and entertaining and I’m excited to hear what people think about it. Maybe this week on Genius Hour day, we can go around and interview people and ask them what they like about our video and what could be better. We could also ask them what kind of videos they want to see. Since we decided to only make one video every 2 weeks, this week is our off week. This will be our opportunity to make a plan for what new things we are going to try. I think we might do cooking for our next video, and maybe bring a special guest. Maybe since we aren’t going to post this week, we could meet in FLEX time and film something to add to our next vlog; to keep it interesting. Stay tuned for week 4 when we post our second vlog!!! |
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