What Types of Videos are we Creating?

[nelsonic]

⚠️ Disclaimer: this might not be for you (and that's "OK"!)

If you are the type of person who feels that "all the music has already been made", or how could anyone possibly come up with anything new after centuries of music and a "finite number of notes" on the guitar/piano/etc. ... then you probably shouldn't read this.

If you have a fixed mindset about anything (money, relationships, ideas, abilities, skills), work on that first. And if after you have developed an abundance/growth mindset, you feel like you have something to share, come back and join me/us in creating content that is meaningful to you.

Make Art 🎨

My objective with making videos is nothing more than making "art".

https://youtu.be/rdUeq09cGJ0

I very much agree with Seth Godin's sentiment in this video. In my youth, I was against "art for art's sake" because I didn't see the point. But I've since realised that Art very much has a purpose: happiness!

My Plan: Tell the Story That I Want to Watch 🍿

My plan is to tell the story that I will watch back when I am old(er) and no longer able to run around.

Over the next 5 years (at least) my/our plan is to create a lot of videos on a wide range of subjects. I'm 100% aware that there are already thousands of channels for each type of video listed below. In the same way that there were already thousands of people making Art long before Basquiat or Banksy made their first scribble. Everywhere around the world there are people creating new content each day because they are driven to make it for themselves. Each day there are 350,000 babies born in the world. Most of the people having children want to have them. (sadly there are still many kids born to people who don't want them, but that's a whole other topic, let's focus on the billions of people who do want to kids). If you feel there are "already enough people" in the world you won't understand the people who are still procreating. What most non-creators don't get about creators is that they do it for first and foremostly for themselves. And that's exactly why I have opened this issue.

If the list below feels "overwhelming", pick one type of video that you would enjoy making and start thinking about that.

Types of Videos 🎥

• [ ] Coding Tutorials and Screencasts: https://github.com/dwyl/video/issues/32 - I'm not planning to make "mass market" tutorials (e.g: "Learn React in 27 seconds" 🙄) because that has been done to death. My plan is to make specific lessons for people who want to make things.
• [ ] Book reviews e.g: https://youtu.be/NjR9lz-R1xk ...
• [ ] DIY Projects - mostly making practical/useful things for @home e.g: https://github.com/dwyl/video/issues/26#issuecomment-442933537
  • [ ] Furniture - make a chair, table, bed, wardrobe, sofa, etc. from scratch.
  • [ ] Lighting - making/installing circadian-friendly lights
• [ ] Gardening - growing your own food (and companion plants)
• [ ] Food recipes and healthy eating. Yes, there are already hundreds of channels for cooking videos and thousands (if not millions) of recipe/cooking videos. We don't need to "compete" with any of these. Our purpose is to capture how to make our "Top 30 Delicious Vegan Recipes" such that we make the effort to find the food that we love eating that is healthy for us and the people we love.
• [ ] Exercise? (body weight exercise for "zero excuses" fitness/strength).
• [ ] "Behind The Scenes" (or "Making Of") videos where appropriate to show the process of making the videos. We should capture and categorise the "B-Roll" so that we build up a bank of shots showing our setup.
• [ ] Travel (where appropriate) https://youtu.be/WxfZkMm3wcg
• [ ] What story do you want to tell...? (add your type of video here...)

We have a list of channels that have great content and/or production value: https://github.com/dwyl/video/issues/26 If there is a YT channel you love, add it to the list.

[iteles]

I would add 'Good Habits' to this list. I'd like to have a category for all those little things in life we would like to incorporate, but maybe need a little help with how: asking good questions, sleep routines/challenges, time blocking and things of the sort.

[nelsonic]

A good example of a wide range of tech videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/sweska/videos?sort=p Sayanee Basu https://github.com/sayanee content is seriously underrated (IMO). Sayanee released most of their content as Podcast/Vimeo where I think it was more popular than YT.