HOW TO GET OVER WRITERS BLOCK! | NEW VIDEO!!

A short tutorial on how to get over writers block! Enjoy!

Just a little something on the side | BLOG EXCLUSIVE VIDEO

Okay, so if you do follow this blog, you probably know that I make videos on a regular basis. Mostly comedy or drama videos, but I think you may also want to know about another thing I do.

Acting. 

Now you have seen in quite a few of my videos in the past I have acted in a lot of them. This isn't only because of lack of actors, but also because I love acting. 

Since I was a little kid, I loved playing pretend and that evolved into me loving to act. 

Because of this, I have been in many theatre productions and most recently a short film called Sacrifice.

This is something I love about Youtube. I love both acting, writing, directing and editing and I have been able to do all these roles for different productions. Sometimes this can be a bad thing as you would be distracted while in different roles, but the fact I get the chance to do all of them is pretty brilliant :-D.

Anyway, recently I have been auditioning for a lot of voice acting roles online and I thought I might as well share with you a clip I put together from one of the auditions. I hope you enjoy :-D

Disclaimer: This isn't what voice acting mainly consists of. It also consists of grunting in random intervals between sentences that state the obvious :-p.

Hope you enjoy!

MOUNT EVEREST FAIL!! | NEW VIDEO!!

NEW VIDEO! MOUNT EVEREST FAIL! 

Watch as two climbers make it up mount everest in record time, but a small mistake causes a life threatening disaster in an EPIC FAIL! 

Sleep deprivation | SLEEPING IN | NEW VIDEO

NEW VIDEO!!


Okay, so I know this isn't really a funny video but I feel its a bit relevant right now.

At this moment in time I have been quite deprived of sleep. I'm not complaining or anything because I'm actually in a very good position at the moment, however I have ended up taking on so much that I have been having unwanted sleep intervals during the day.
This won't interrupt any schedules or anything, but I thought I should just give a little bit of advice.

YOU NEED SLEEP! 

Sleep is needed for your body to function, no matter how annoying it is. Honestly, I could do so much if I spent the time I would asleep doing other things but we can't do that. Staying up late often and only gaining a few hours of sleep will not allow your brain to function correctly and will not only affect your work, it will affect your social life as well.
You won't be able to react to things like you usually would.
I won't go on forever, but I'll say even though I have been making great strides recently, falling asleep in the middle of the day isn't what you would call "productive".

Anyway, hope you enjoyed the video. See you next post :-D

AMERICAN GOVERNMENT SHUTS DOWN!! | NEW VIDEO!!

A new video has been released on the American Government shutdown that happened recently. Take a look!

THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT HAS SHUT DOWN! What is going to happen now?

Okay, so as some may know, around the end of September 2013, the American government shut down due to a disagreement between the mainly on the budget plan that would be put into affect. Most of this budgeting focus' on ObamaCare. 

I won't explain it all here, but for anyone who is interested in the whole thing, here is a video that will explain it:

MAKING A CUSTOM THUMBNAIL!! | YOUTUBE CONSULTATION ADVICE!!

LET US CONTINUE IN OUR YOUTUBE ADVICE!!!

Previous article: http://profkranc.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/youtube-consultation-advice-make-it.html

INTRODUCTION! 

When you are fishing through the massive amount of videos on a Youtube search, you see so much random stuff on there that it kind of turns you off. But then you see a professional looking thumbnail attached to a video that you think this video must be good! 

When you go down a Youtube search, the thing that people look at is the thumbnail. If they see something that peaks their interest, they will take their time to look at it. It is during these precious seconds you need to sell your content.

The video thumbnail is a window into what the video is, so Youtube gives you a choice of three different frames from the video to choose what will essentially be the billboard of your video trying to bring viewers in.

Now if it is the case that this frame that Youtube has picked for you isn't good enough for you to try and bring in views, then its time for a change. This is where you bring out the custom thumbnail. 

If you have entered yourself into the Youtube partner program (as its kinda free to enter now), you can edit the thumbnail. 

You do this by following these steps.

INSTRUCTIONS!

1. While logged in, go to your video:

You should see it in this kind of format because you are the uploader of this video.

2. Go to info and settings.

You do this by clicking to the pencil button. This button is the first on your left below the video.

You will now be on the info and settings window. This is were you can edit all the information attached to your video. This is also where you can edit you channel thumbnail. The page should look like this:

Now this video has already been edited to have a custom thumbnail, but I will guide you from here to get your custom thumbnail.

3. Click custom thumbnail.

Now if you have joined the Youtube partner program, below the three thumbnail options that Youtube has provided you there should be a button just like this:

Here is a picture of another video with this button, just in case you weren't sure, here is a highlighted screen from another video:

I don't know why I didn't just use this video before hand, but whatever. We are doing this :-D.

4. Select what you want your custom thumbnail to be. 

Once you have clicked this button, it will bring up a window for you to select what you want your thumbnail to be. 

Now if you can, make your thumbnail as big as you can without going past the 2MB image size mark. This is so that even if the page is stretched, your thumbnail won't lose quality.

I would advise customising your thumbnail rather than just taking a frame you like from the video. If you edit it, add titles and other special effects it will stand out more among the rest.
Here is an example:

What would you rather click on? I would click on the one at the top, as it looks very professional and it seems like the guy has put quite a bit of effort into it. The more professional it looks, the more trust you will instil in the viewer that it is good and you know what you are doing. I will leave the design of your thumbnail up to you :-).

Now to see the final result:

Your video will have changed from something like this:

To this:

It seems much better and will most likely gain you more views than if you just left it to Youtube's thumbnail system.

Hope this little post helped. I think in order to make the Consultation posts easier to take in, I'm going to post them shorter like this one. So instead of just being confronted with a wall of text, you can look through it quickly with having to seep through the boring stuff.

I know its a bit of shameless self promoting, but I have some other social media pages if you want to check them out :-D

Social Networking = Procrastination. SO PROCRASTINATE WITH ME!

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/ProfKranc

TWITTER: https://twitter.com/profkranc

YOUTUBE:  http://www.youtube.com/user/profkranc

I'll catch you on the next post!

Oh, and by the way.......

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RANDOM VIDEO TIME!!!