I’ve been working away this past month on my new on-line workshop that I am going to hopefully offer later this Autumn. The class so far has three videos made, and I think there will be five in total. Some of the videos are very short at around 10 minutes each. Just the right length to get the message across, and so that folks can replay them as a refresher, without having to commit too much investment in time and brain cells ;-)

The titles so far are:

‘maintaining smooth tonality whilst introducing depth and punch’

‘conveying a sense of 3D’

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‘Compositional Focus through tonal editing’.

These are all primers that are useful before stepping into the longer video about the six images I want to discuss. Work is going well, and I’m now starting to feel that it is all beginning to tie up quite nicely.

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Lastly, I have to say that producing videos is extremely slow and time consuming. If I get 10 minutes worth that is well recorded and edited done in one working day, I’m doing well. I have full absolute respect for those who produce YouTube content. The audience if fickle, easily distracted, and if they don’t post regularly, the algorithm buries them. So there is a treadmill there. It must be a lot of high pressure. I am sure that many of the 10 or 20 minute videos I watch take more than a week or two to produce.

There is also a massive learning curve in production values, storyboarding the video, recording it, and editing it. plus, you’ve got to be comfortable in front of a microphone. I’m still struggling with that one: as soon as I begin to record my voice, I almost inevitably get my words jumbled up, trip over myself, or find myself using the wrong word. So many retakes…… and after a while fatigue sets in. And the takes just get worse. So recording takes while rested, and fresh is advised.

My initial hope had been that I would now produce one video class a year. Initially I had thought about producing a portfolio class each year that covers a new set of work each time. Perhaps I might come back to that, but man, it’s very intensive, and requires a lot of planning.

I hope to have the new class ready by mid Autumn if all goes well.