**As a Photographer, I Use This Camera for Photography and Video**

I want to clarify that I did not buy this camera specifically for my YouTube channel. As a photographer, I use this camera for photography purposes, and it so happens that it has a great video feature, which I utilize for videos. I don't think you need any fancy equipment to make amazing videos; as long as you have a decent camera and good lighting, the quality of your video can be amazing. For example, filming by a window with good natural light can create an incredible visual effect.

I also want to emphasize that everyone is different, and what works for me may not work for others. If you're watching this, please don't take away from my message that you need to buy this camera; any camera will do just fine. With the advancements in technology today, you can make amazing videos with anything.

**Scripting Videos and Using iMovie**

I usually script my videos or use an outline, but 70% of the time, I don't follow a script at all. I'm a bit of a freewheeler, and that's just me. I'd say 30% of the time, I do use an outline, but even then, I often deviate from it. My videos are usually spontaneous and raw.

When it comes to editing my videos, I use iMovie. It's free, and I've gotten quite comfortable with its features over the years. The new iMovie update that came with Mavericks is a significant improvement over the old version. It's more user-friendly, and I love the added features. I can feel like I'm doing more with it now.

**Windows Movie Maker and Final Cut Pro**

If you're using a PC, Windows Movie Maker might be an option for you. However, I have to admit that I hate using it. It's just too much of a pain in the butt. If you want to use it, great; but if not, there are plenty of other options available. Final Cut Pro and Vegas are two examples of professional video editing software, but they're definitely not necessary for creating amazing videos.

**Unedited Videos and Scaling**

My unedited videos can range from 5 minutes to a full hour long. Sometimes, I'll film something and then scale it down to fit the intended length of my review videos. It's usually not too bad, but there are times when I need to trim them down even further.

**Filing Videos and Pre-Filming**

I'm one of those people who pre-films their videos regularly. I like to have a plan in place and know what I want to cover before I start filming. It's just my nature, but you don't have to be like that if you don't want to. Just do what works best for you.

**The Time it Takes to Set Up and Upload**

Setting up my equipment takes me around 10-15 minutes, which is the most time-consuming part of the process. However, when I'm uploading the video, that's a whole different story. If I were to upload the video straight away without editing, it would take me around 2-3 hours.

**Behind-the-Scenes Tag and Thanks**

I want to thank you for reading with Zoe, who tagged me for this behind-the-scenes look at my YouTube channel. It was exciting to do this, and I hope you guys learned more about what goes on behind the scenes of my channel. If you'd like to create a similar video, feel free to leave a link in the comments below, and don't forget that you can use YouTube's comment feature to respond directly with your questions or comments.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entoday is going to be all about behind the scenes where you get to learn about how I film and how I get inspiration for my videos and how I do all the things I do for these videos everyone today yes is another tag today's tag is the behind the scenes tag and I know was co-created I only know one of the co-creators and that is Reed By Zoe who I just found out about her Channel and she is so freaking adorable she's she's just I don't know she's so cute I love her so I will leave her link down below definitely go subscribe to her I think she is awesome and she tagged me in her videos so I thought you know let's do this now I have created another video strictly about this behind the scenes which you can click right here to go visit but these are just some questions that maybe I haven't talked about or maybe I haven't said enough I don't know but let's get on to the questions about behind the scenes question number one is where do you find inspiration for your videos and they come through a myriad of places like is from you guys a lot of you guys will suggest for videos for me to do and sometimes I just come up with random ideas I don't know how my brain works into these things but I just get Inspirations I mean book's pretty much what what it is you talk about books so you can get inspiration just from books you can get you can create a whole slew of videos just from Harry Potter whether it be costumes whether it be talking about the characters in a video whether it be talking about the um inde depthness indepth of a third book about it you know you can get so much inspiration strictly from books when you're on book so there's just so many ways you can get inspiration just even being out and about and listening to music helps me get inspiration watching movies helps me get inspiration like there's so many ways to get inspiration question number two is do you have a Word document SL notebook SL Etc dedicated to video ideas I do not have a notebook dedicated video ideas but I do keep like a page or two in my notebook now this is something I do myself because I am a very organized very meticulous type of person with list and stuff that's just who I am so every single year I buy a new notebook for myself and I write so many things in this notebook like this is my notebook of 2013 and it used to be like this much full but I've worked out so many pages of just random stuff that now like super thin if you can see I write like things of my household bills things to do grocery list my photography stuff in here I have music ideas I have so many like lists of things I want like this is just all of my stuff in here right here is a list of videos to do and I cross the mount and stuff like that and yeah and then I also like if I have other other Inspirations for ideas like here are some top 10 list for some of the videos to do for top 10 so I've written my Buffy episodes I've written some other future ones that I've thought up yeah and then I have some other things so I do keep my ideas in a notebook because if I don't I will forget them and it would not be good three is how do you prep for a video the tag video I do always print out the questions or I have it on my iPhone now for reviews I usually do not write out um a script or anything like that I don't usually write out scripts a lot honestly but for sometimes when I have reviews where I have a whole bunch to say I do like to type some stuff out because if not it would be a freaking 20 minute video of me just going BL like I need to have some sort of cohesive thoughts um other stuff I do script out my new release Tuesdays for this week why because that just has to be scripted out and that I really don't script out a lot of stuff usually what you see is just me talking to you like natural like you know it's like oneon-one kind of stuff like right now I didn't prep for this at all how long does it take you to prepare for your appearance for a video it depends the state of myir like today I woke up and I straightened it and I put makeup on it took me maybe like 45 minutes like not too shabby not too not too bad that's usually what I'd say I've never taken more than an hour I will say to get ready for Rudy because that just baffles me but whatever what time of day do you film I usually film anywhere from morning to afternoon I that's just what I do usually six is show slash tell where you film show this before in my behind the scenes video but you know whatever we'll do it again I film in my living room now these bookshelves are in my living room so I have this kind of Nook like area to call this my book Nook or like my just reading Nook and I film right in here um how I film is a whole complicated mess it's ridiculous I will show you right now what's going on right now I'm going to I'm about to take you to my iPhone so you can see what it looks like when I do film this is my camera as you can see it is hooked up to this wire and this wire leads to this monitor right here hello and that monitor plugs in over there and I use this to focus because this does not focus so this is where I film and this is how I film number seven is natural lighting or Studio lighting I mean I I'm right literally a window is right here like I'm touching the window so I use natural line because I love the Sun as a photograph I'm also a natural light shooter I just know how to work that best now the sun is a little tricky guy and sometimes the videos will go and it just makes me crazy but you're the sun I I mean the sun's the Sun and I still love the Sun and you're a great light son good job what type of camera do you film with now I'm not going to tell you that you need this camera I'm not going to tell you anything like that I use a Canon 5D Mark I now yes that is a DSLR camera and yes it is goose a lot of money I will tell you this I did not buy this camera for this Channel at all I'm a photographer so this is the camera I use for photography happens to have a great video feature which I use so that is what I use I will say you don't need any fancy equipment I say as long as you have like just any type of camera and you have great light lighting to me as far will make the quality of your video amazing like if you film by a window and you have great lighting not that it blows you out but if you just have really good light I think that makes a video that is just me personally not everyone is different so if you're taking away from this you need to buy this camera no no no you can use any camera you want just work with what you got I mean you can make amazing videos on anything nowadays like anything number n is do you ever script your videos SLG go off of outline I just talked about that kind of sort of I'd say 70% no 30% yes 70% of the time I don't I'm just freewheeling so yeah number 10 if you edit your videos what program do you use and I use good old iMovie and another thing you do not need any type of expensive stuff now I will say this I use I used to use the old iMovie before I just recently in this past month got the Mac update Mavericks and that came with like a whole new iMovie and I will tell you this the the new iMovie is a lot more professional than the old iMovie and I think they changed some things and they added some features and it does take time to get used to but I will say I love the new iMovie way better than the old iMovie that like I can feel like I can do a lot more with it it's very it just I think it just changed for awesome for the better I love the new iMovie and it's still free I think if not it can't be that expensive so iMovie is perfect now I will say if you use PC you can use Windows Movie Maker but I hate Windows Movie Maker that is just me I've used it for far too many years and it's just a pain in my butt but if you want to use it great it's free whatever you want to do you don't need to get Final Cut Pro or Vegas or anything like that you can just work with what you got but if you want to use those stuff that's cool too 11 how long are your unedited videos Before You scale them down it depends usually they're not too too bad I will say my review videos are the most sometimes I will go into my review videos and they're like 15 minutes long and I'm like I need to scale this down to 10 minutes but sometimes I can't even do that so they're usually not more than 5 minutes longer than my intended edit videos I will say that so that's pretty good how many times do you try to film per week I usually try to take one day out of the whole week just to film and yeah and that goes on to question 13 is how often do you pre-film videos and I am constantly pre-filming videos just because that is who I am I'm a very organized person I like to have my videos up on a certain day just because that's who I am don't take away from this that that's how you need to do it this is just who I am so like right now I'm filming this on a Tuesday and it's probably going to be I probably film this a week before it's going up and I how long will a typical video take from you setting up your equipment to uploading oh good setting up for my equipment that's probably the most time it takes it takes me a good 10 to 15 minutes to set all this stuff up and get ready for it now to uploading if I were to strictly take this video right upstairs to upload it to YouTube and stuff I will see it takes a good two to three maybe hours because I like editing that's just me I like adding text I like adding pictures I like doing all that stuff that's just the editor me I love doing that so roughly around that usually like right now I don't have to rush because I pre-filmed this video so I can take my time on it so that was behind the scenes tag so thank you so much to reading with Zoe for tagging me I was excited to do this hopefully you guys learn more about my behind the scenes and all that kind of stuff and if you guys want to do this video feel free to do it and leave me a link down below cuz I think you can do that now with YouTube comments I think anyway I'll talk to you guys later have a great a your day byetoday is going to be all about behind the scenes where you get to learn about how I film and how I get inspiration for my videos and how I do all the things I do for these videos everyone today yes is another tag today's tag is the behind the scenes tag and I know was co-created I only know one of the co-creators and that is Reed By Zoe who I just found out about her Channel and she is so freaking adorable she's she's just I don't know she's so cute I love her so I will leave her link down below definitely go subscribe to her I think she is awesome and she tagged me in her videos so I thought you know let's do this now I have created another video strictly about this behind the scenes which you can click right here to go visit but these are just some questions that maybe I haven't talked about or maybe I haven't said enough I don't know but let's get on to the questions about behind the scenes question number one is where do you find inspiration for your videos and they come through a myriad of places like is from you guys a lot of you guys will suggest for videos for me to do and sometimes I just come up with random ideas I don't know how my brain works into these things but I just get Inspirations I mean book's pretty much what what it is you talk about books so you can get inspiration just from books you can get you can create a whole slew of videos just from Harry Potter whether it be costumes whether it be talking about the characters in a video whether it be talking about the um inde depthness indepth of a third book about it you know you can get so much inspiration strictly from books when you're on book so there's just so many ways you can get inspiration just even being out and about and listening to music helps me get inspiration watching movies helps me get inspiration like there's so many ways to get inspiration question number two is do you have a Word document SL notebook SL Etc dedicated to video ideas I do not have a notebook dedicated video ideas but I do keep like a page or two in my notebook now this is something I do myself because I am a very organized very meticulous type of person with list and stuff that's just who I am so every single year I buy a new notebook for myself and I write so many things in this notebook like this is my notebook of 2013 and it used to be like this much full but I've worked out so many pages of just random stuff that now like super thin if you can see I write like things of my household bills things to do grocery list my photography stuff in here I have music ideas I have so many like lists of things I want like this is just all of my stuff in here right here is a list of videos to do and I cross the mount and stuff like that and yeah and then I also like if I have other other Inspirations for ideas like here are some top 10 list for some of the videos to do for top 10 so I've written my Buffy episodes I've written some other future ones that I've thought up yeah and then I have some other things so I do keep my ideas in a notebook because if I don't I will forget them and it would not be good three is how do you prep for a video the tag video I do always print out the questions or I have it on my iPhone now for reviews I usually do not write out um a script or anything like that I don't usually write out scripts a lot honestly but for sometimes when I have reviews where I have a whole bunch to say I do like to type some stuff out because if not it would be a freaking 20 minute video of me just going BL like I need to have some sort of cohesive thoughts um other stuff I do script out my new release Tuesdays for this week why because that just has to be scripted out and that I really don't script out a lot of stuff usually what you see is just me talking to you like natural like you know it's like oneon-one kind of stuff like right now I didn't prep for this at all how long does it take you to prepare for your appearance for a video it depends the state of myir like today I woke up and I straightened it and I put makeup on it took me maybe like 45 minutes like not too shabby not too not too bad that's usually what I'd say I've never taken more than an hour I will say to get ready for Rudy because that just baffles me but whatever what time of day do you film I usually film anywhere from morning to afternoon I that's just what I do usually six is show slash tell where you film show this before in my behind the scenes video but you know whatever we'll do it again I film in my living room now these bookshelves are in my living room so I have this kind of Nook like area to call this my book Nook or like my just reading Nook and I film right in here um how I film is a whole complicated mess it's ridiculous I will show you right now what's going on right now I'm going to I'm about to take you to my iPhone so you can see what it looks like when I do film this is my camera as you can see it is hooked up to this wire and this wire leads to this monitor right here hello and that monitor plugs in over there and I use this to focus because this does not focus so this is where I film and this is how I film number seven is natural lighting or Studio lighting I mean I I'm right literally a window is right here like I'm touching the window so I use natural line because I love the Sun as a photograph I'm also a natural light shooter I just know how to work that best now the sun is a little tricky guy and sometimes the videos will go and it just makes me crazy but you're the sun I I mean the sun's the Sun and I still love the Sun and you're a great light son good job what type of camera do you film with now I'm not going to tell you that you need this camera I'm not going to tell you anything like that I use a Canon 5D Mark I now yes that is a DSLR camera and yes it is goose a lot of money I will tell you this I did not buy this camera for this Channel at all I'm a photographer so this is the camera I use for photography happens to have a great video feature which I use so that is what I use I will say you don't need any fancy equipment I say as long as you have like just any type of camera and you have great light lighting to me as far will make the quality of your video amazing like if you film by a window and you have great lighting not that it blows you out but if you just have really good light I think that makes a video that is just me personally not everyone is different so if you're taking away from this you need to buy this camera no no no you can use any camera you want just work with what you got I mean you can make amazing videos on anything nowadays like anything number n is do you ever script your videos SLG go off of outline I just talked about that kind of sort of I'd say 70% no 30% yes 70% of the time I don't I'm just freewheeling so yeah number 10 if you edit your videos what program do you use and I use good old iMovie and another thing you do not need any type of expensive stuff now I will say this I use I used to use the old iMovie before I just recently in this past month got the Mac update Mavericks and that came with like a whole new iMovie and I will tell you this the the new iMovie is a lot more professional than the old iMovie and I think they changed some things and they added some features and it does take time to get used to but I will say I love the new iMovie way better than the old iMovie that like I can feel like I can do a lot more with it it's very it just I think it just changed for awesome for the better I love the new iMovie and it's still free I think if not it can't be that expensive so iMovie is perfect now I will say if you use PC you can use Windows Movie Maker but I hate Windows Movie Maker that is just me I've used it for far too many years and it's just a pain in my butt but if you want to use it great it's free whatever you want to do you don't need to get Final Cut Pro or Vegas or anything like that you can just work with what you got but if you want to use those stuff that's cool too 11 how long are your unedited videos Before You scale them down it depends usually they're not too too bad I will say my review videos are the most sometimes I will go into my review videos and they're like 15 minutes long and I'm like I need to scale this down to 10 minutes but sometimes I can't even do that so they're usually not more than 5 minutes longer than my intended edit videos I will say that so that's pretty good how many times do you try to film per week I usually try to take one day out of the whole week just to film and yeah and that goes on to question 13 is how often do you pre-film videos and I am constantly pre-filming videos just because that is who I am I'm a very organized person I like to have my videos up on a certain day just because that's who I am don't take away from this that that's how you need to do it this is just who I am so like right now I'm filming this on a Tuesday and it's probably going to be I probably film this a week before it's going up and I how long will a typical video take from you setting up your equipment to uploading oh good setting up for my equipment that's probably the most time it takes it takes me a good 10 to 15 minutes to set all this stuff up and get ready for it now to uploading if I were to strictly take this video right upstairs to upload it to YouTube and stuff I will see it takes a good two to three maybe hours because I like editing that's just me I like adding text I like adding pictures I like doing all that stuff that's just the editor me I love doing that so roughly around that usually like right now I don't have to rush because I pre-filmed this video so I can take my time on it so that was behind the scenes tag so thank you so much to reading with Zoe for tagging me I was excited to do this hopefully you guys learn more about my behind the scenes and all that kind of stuff and if you guys want to do this video feel free to do it and leave me a link down below cuz I think you can do that now with YouTube comments I think anyway I'll talk to you guys later have a great a your day bye\n"