After quite a bit of back and forth in my mind, I think I'm going to have to bite the bullet and subscribe to Epidemic Sound so I can have some great music in my YouTube clips. As I want each video to be over 10 minutes long, I'll need two or three songs in each video. Epidemic Sound has heaps of great tunes, I have been listening to lots of the tracks just as background music whilst writing posts for this blog and I'm really enjoying it (I'm doing it right now 😄)
The way I look at it is that I already pay about $17 a month for a family Spotify account, that covers four of us for however much music we want to listen to and create and download playlists. Epidemic Sound is $15 a month for me to be able to publish videos with their music in it, that covers up to 500,000 channel views a month. When you do the math it's a pretty good deal. I plan on putting out a video every week for 20 weeks, that's four videos a month. I'd need to be getting more than 125,000 views a week, with each video having 2 tracks in it of say 3 minutes a track.
6 minutes of music per video x 125,000 veiws = 750,000 minutes of music or over 520 days of non-stop music being consumed a week (if everyone watches to the end of the video). $15 per month to cover off over 5 and half years worth of non-stop music (520 days of music per video x 4 videos a month), I think that's pretty reasonable. I haven't told my wife yet, I'm hoping that once I put together some footage I can show here just how must of a difference that good music will make and she'll hopefully agree.
There is some decent royalty free music out there that you don't have to pay for, but you always run the risk of the artist changing their mind at a later date and you'll either lose monetisation from the video(s) that contain their work, have to remove the video completely from YouTube, or, re-edit the video with new music. I've probably halved my beer consumption so that alone would pay for the music subscription. 🍺🎵🤣
I mentioned previously that I had a list of locations that I'd like to try and visit to film at, this week I've been working on how the video should run. I've looked at similar videos that I've enjoyed and tried to put together a run sheet on how I'd like the video to be produced. I think this will help me with making sure I get all the shots I want and have enough useful content to actually make decent videos. I plan to take the run sheet with me and work my way through it. I've included reminders to myself to check things like storage space left on the SD cards and when a good time might be to charge the battery bank. I think if I'm armed with a plan before I leave home, then it's likely to be a successful trip. I plan on doing something off the bike in each video too, whether that is going fishing, walking up a mountain or visiting some waterfalls, just something other than riding and setting up camp.
I plan on doing two or three night trips, but the first one or two will only be single nights so I can get the feel for it and find out just how long it takes to set things up properly. I am a little worried about setting the camera up on the side of the road to capture a ride by, I'm worried that someone else will see the camera and stop and steal it when my back is turned.
The run sheet should also help me in post-production as I'll know what order things are in on the storage cards and how I wanted to put them together in the final video.
It's a long post today, I'm almost done, I promise.
Finally, I've being playing with a program called Audacity which is an amazing piece of free software. It's great at editing and refining audio, I managed to tidy up and remove a lot of the background noise from the audio that I captured using the bluetooth headset, unfortunately the voice quality is still really bad, it's good for a phone conversation but not good enough for what I want to use it for. I'm not holding any great hopes for the $2 lapel mic that is coming, I'm thinking that it will also produce quite tinny sounding voice but you never know. The audio that my phone captures from the built in mic is pretty good but I don't really want to hold it like a microphone in my videos either and it won't really work if I'm not close to it. To get a mic that connects to my phone and has decent reviews I'd be looking at around $25, that would be for a BOYA BY-M1 after that it would probably be a RODE Smartlav for over $100 and they keep going up. I don't want anything too expensive as I'll probably break it fairly often.
Bomber.
Ok, I'm done.
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